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DataRepublican (small r)

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🧵THREAD: Is Brooklyn, NY a Medicaid fraud hotspot?

Brooklyn, NY has a home care billing industry that defies belief.

One zip code (11232, Sunset Park) has 30,181 residents and $3.8 BILLION in Medicaid claims. That's $143,000 per man, woman, and child.

What's even stranger is that the average income is $90K, the poverty rate is below 20%, and it is one of the younger zip codes in the area.

Receipts below.👇

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.

Case study NPI 1396051694: AssistCareHome Healthcare Services at 148 39th Street Building 19, 4th Floor.

1.4 billion in claims paid per DOGE data.

Services 6000+ unique beneficiaries a month, files 20 claims per beneficiary, bills 23MM a month.

Nothing on Google Maps about this place.

1396051694,1396051694,T1019,2024-05,6295,133302,23561537.56
1396051694,1396051694,T1019,2024-07,6240,131852,23311281.66
1396051694,1396051694,T1019,2023-03,6735,147135,23138674.52
1396051694,1396051694,T1019,2023-05,6617,146639,23112662.09
1396051694,1396051694,T1019,2023-10,6571,139728,23027910.07
1396051694,1396051694,T1019,2023-08,6632,147905,22893647.71
1396051694,1396051694,T1019,2024-01,6261,130763,22572233.74

Case study NPI 1780816991: NAE EDISON LLC at 946 McDonald Ave. Very similar number of claims paid out, similar number of unique beneficiaries. 6,000+ beneficiaries monthly being serviced at a strip mall without any reviews.

1780816991,1780816991,T1019,2024-05,6405,147364,24876517.68
1780816991,1780816991,T1019,2024-07,6308,141026,24055592.07
1780816991,1780816991,T1019,2024-04,6338,140215,23651552.47
1780816991,1780816991,T1019,2024-06,6467,135892,23404942.73
1780816991,1780816991,T1019,2024-03,6180,137448,23040261.81

Case study NPI 1275657553: Heart to Heart Home Care Inc., at 395 Pearl Street. A convenience store is located there!

You see the identical pattern in claims paid out: ~6,500 unique beneficiaries a month, ~135K claims per month, over 1 billion billed.

1275657553,1275657553,T1019,2024-05,6601,143583,22564791.29
1275657553,1275657553,T1019,2024-07,6687,142653,22542376.21
1275657553,1275657553,T1019,2024-04,6545,136068,21329948.52
1275657553,1275657553,T1019,2024-03,6423,135409,21085422.98
1275657553,1275657553,T1019,2024-11,7006,136497,20928418.06
1275657553,1275657553,T1019,2024-06,6618,131782,20900255.90
1275657553,1275657553,T1019,2024-01,6249,132683,20617339.31

All three exhibited strikingly similar growth patterns. All three jumped by ~30% in October 2019.

Per OpenClaw analysis:

🔹Sept 2019: $276M → Oct 2019: $351M — a 27% jump in one month
🔹Beneficiaries: 94K → 106K (13% jump)
🔹NPIs barely changed (236 → 238) — same agencies, more billing

This was program-wide, not just these three — nationwide T1019 jumped 15% the same month ($1.18B → $1.35B).

OpenClaw concludes what likely happened: NY's minimum wage for NYC hit $15/hour on December 31, 2018 (large employers). The Medicaid reimbursement rates for home care are tied to wage parity requirements — when minimum wage goes up, Medicaid rates follow with a lag. The Oct 2019 timing aligns with rate adjustments flowing through the managed long-term care (MLTC) plans that pay these agencies.

But the rate increase alone doesn't explain a 27% jump. The other factor: CDPAP enrollment was exploding in 2019 as fiscal intermediaries aggressively recruited. This is when it went from $2.5B/year toward the $9B/year Hochul would later call "a racket." The agencies were simultaneously getting paid more per unit AND signing up more beneficiaries.

This pattern is everywhere in Brooklyn.

Case study NPI 1457562811: S&A Unified Home Care at 2729 Coney Island Ave. Serviced 3000+ unique clients monthly at its peak. Still serving almost 2000 a month.

1457562811,1457562811,T1019,2024-08,1832,45076,8448045.90
1457562811,1457562811,T1019,2024-09,1885,44519,8411232.99
1457562811,1457562811,T1019,2024-05,1822,45265,8406442.29
1457562811,1457562811,T1019,2024-11,1965,44958,8379172.36

Right across the street is NPI 1528338282, All American Home Care Agency Inc. at 2784 Coney Island Ave. That one does seem to have a shiny building at least.

1528338282,1528338282,T1019,2024-07,3416,73906,13232587.06
1528338282,1528338282,T1019,2024-05,3341,73144,12862944.39
1528338282,1528338282,T1019,2024-04,3288,69551,12209293.47
1528338282,1528338282,T1019,2024-06,3381,68053,12136241.40
1528338282,1528338282,T1019,2024-01,3160,69215,12027420.06
1528338282,1528338282,T1019,2024-03,3251,68050,11908546.50

Per OpenClaw:
NY is two-thirds of all personal care aide billing in the entire country. And the top 25 zips nationally for T1019 per capita are almost entirely NYC zip codes — with 02072 (Stoughton, MA — Tempus Unlimited HQ) and 12110 (Latham, NY — Public Partnerships HQ) at the top because those fiscal intermediaries register billing at their corporate address.

The postable stat: National median is $3/person/month. Brooklyn 11232 is $2,214. That's 738 times the national median.

Yes, I'm aware that home care agencies do not directly serve clients in those offices.

But when you see few-to-no Google Reviews, a parking garage, etc... compare to other medical administrative facilities.

It's stupefying.

https://x.com/NickelBagsArt/status/2022783171503210730

Some context on why NY stands out so much:

https://x.com/NickelBagsArt/status/2022783171503210730

OpenClaw doesn't agree that deinstitutionalization is a full explanation though:

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2022903035027189889

Likely the best explanation for it all:

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2022903035027189889

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🧵 THREAD: Shashank Joshi, a foreign think tank careerist, has a 16-year record of attacking US foreign policy... and now he's lecturing our military leadership on how to take the oath. Why does he still have a work visa?

He's an Indian national who arrived in April and is already the loudest critic of the Pentagon on social media.

The Economist's new Washington Bureau Chief — an Indian national on a visa who just arrived in April — went on a Canadian national security podcast literally titled "The Problem of America" and said this about US military operations:

"They have attacked scores of small boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean. They've killed dozens of people in a campaign that is, by most accounts, quite illegal and contrary to international law."

That's Shashank Joshi, @shashj . Defence editor turned bureau chief. Two months in the country and he's already built a 16-year paper trail calling American power "malevolent," "predatory," and "quite illegal" — while sitting on the advisory board of a UK think tank funded by the European Commission, BAE Systems, and the US State Department.

And he's now lecturing our military leadership on what it means to take the oath.

I have the receipts.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

https://x.com/shashj/status/2062117128321319393

Shashank Joshi has been in DC for two months, and is already lecturing our military officials on what their oaths mean… even though his entire record is criticizing the US military.

Who is he, exactly?

https://x.com/shashj/status/2062117128321319393

He's an Indian national. Cambridge. Enrolled in a Harvard PhD program... but his public profiles list no doctorate, suggesting he dropped out. Senior Research Fellow at RUSI, the world's oldest defence think tank. Then a stint at the Tony Blair Institute. The Economist hired him as Defence Editor in 2018. Promoted to Washington Bureau Chief, April 2026.

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May 5

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/2051513835702337702

I've been relatively quiet on the subject of right-wing influencers who defected from MAGA.

But if they are actually proposing unity with left wing populist movements, then they are proposing unity with Communists.

That is the red line for me.

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/2051513835702337702

Everyone has their opinion on the Iran war or Israel. Maybe that opinion is enough to deter them from supporting Trump. I may not agree with it, but I understand where it comes from and it's a free country.

But when that turns into allying with Communists - that's when I have to speak up.

Institutional left-wing populism IS Communism. I'm not using it as a slur as in everyone to the left is a Communist. I mean it literally.

I'm talking about PSL, CODEPINK, Singham groups. The movements on the left that are anti-globalist are overwhelmingly Marxist.

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@DataRepublican

May 4

🚨🧵 BREAKING: Former DHS Chief Miles Taylor's prank site collected death threats against the President and 4,000+ people's personal data. Then exposed them through all an open API. 🚨

Two days ago, I showed you how Miles Taylor's GTFO ICE site exposed 17,000+ people's data on an open API. That site halted sign-ups and is still "under construction."

But Taylor's organization DEFIANCE[.]org didn't just build one leaky site. They built two. On the same server.

UndoTrump[.]org — launched April 1, 2026 as an "April Fools' joke" — collects names, emails, and political messages from people signing up for fictional "Removal Parties" at government buildings. The White House Ballroom. The Kennedy Center. The DOJ. Battleships.

4,000+ signup records. 3,300+ unique people. Same vulnerability. Same API. Same zero authentication.

And this one has death threats against a sitting President in the database.

The man who was deputy chief of staff for the department that houses the Secret Service couldn't secure a sign-up form. Again.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

Here's a video of Miles himself soliciting PII in sign-ups. He implies he's not saving the user data... but he did.

Same server. Same IP address. 34.111.179.208. Google Cloud Platform. Same React 19 frontend. Same Express.js backend. Same registrar. Domains registered 13 days apart.

This wasn't two mistakes. This was one codebase deployed twice. Name.com

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@DataRepublican

May 2

🧵🚨 BREAKING: Miles Taylor: "Anonymous," former DHS Chief of Staff, Google security executive launched a website called GTFO ICE that collects your full name, email, phone number, and zip code to join an anti-ICE "rapid response network." And publishes the user infromation via a public API. 🚨

17,662 people have signed up.

The sign-up data is exposed on a public REST API. No true authentication. No rate limiting. Full records: names, emails, phone numbers, zip codes, timestamps.

The man who ran the third-largest federal department (250,000 employees, $60 billion budget) who oversaw election security architecture and led counterterrorism operations, then served as Google's Head of National Security Policy...

...can't secure a sign-up form. But he does milk hundreds of thousands of NGO dollars on these credentials. While freeloading off his fame as the person who wrote the infamous NYT article "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration."

And despite me pinging @MilesTaylorUSA about this 12 hours ago, the REST API is still wide open and exposed as of now. Everything has been turned over to FBI, HSI, ICE, and more agencies.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

Taylor's security clearance was suspended by presidential memorandum in April 2025. Trump called his conduct "treasonous." Five months later, Taylor launched DEFIANCE dot org. Five months after that... GTFO ICE.

GTFO ICE is a coalition of three orgs:

1. DEFIANCE dot org : Miles Taylor + Xander Schultz
2. Save America Movement : Steve Schmidt (yes, of the Lincoln Project)
3. Project Salt Box

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@DataRepublican

Apr 23

🧵 THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? 🤔

When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders.

They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted on. They're treated as moral prerequisites that must be true *before* your vote counts.

Despite what they say, they aren't for checks and balances. Checks and balances limit what government can do to you. This limits what you can do to *them*. The brakes are on accountability, not power. The institutions that set the boundaries of acceptable policy have put themselves beyond the reach of the electorate, and they call that arrangement "democracy."

Trump has been an existential threat to this system since the moment he said "drain the swamp" ... because the swamp IS the system. When he threatened those institutions, he didn't threaten the republic. He threatened their immunity from it.

And they said so. On camera. At their own events. In their own words.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

Robert Kagan:
"I would say there is an argument for saying give me some smoke filled rooms... they weeded out the Donald Trumps of this world."

Backroom deals instead of primaries. Because primaries are how you got Trump... and the old gatekeepers would have stopped him.

Think Kagan's an outlier? Here's Brookings senior fellow William Galston at the National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) most prestigious annual lecture.

He explains that "liberal democracy" requires "some abridgement of majoritarianism."

Translation: democracy means limiting what the majority can do.

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@DataRepublican

Apr 22

🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨

11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

I report. You draw your own conclusions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

It is NOT confirmed fact that Chesny, who appeared to be encouraging running over protesters, was SPLC's informant.

But the indictment (paragraph 11a) describes informant F-37, and it matches Chesny:

• Member of the online leadership chat that planned Unite the Right
• Attended Charlottesville (at SPLC's direction)
• Made racist postings (under SPLC's supervision)
• Helped coordinate transportation for attendees

Now here's why this matters beyond the fraud charges.

Charlottesville became the single most consequential founding event in modern American political infrastructure. Every one of these organizations says... in their own words.... that they exist or were transformed because of August 12, 2017.

👇

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