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References:
Landry announces $11M in savings: https://gov.louisiana.gov/news/4768
LA DOGE Secret Meeting with Guidehouse: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landry-created-group-meets-in-secret-to-cut-spending/article_920e929c-e32e-11ef-915a-dbb1b1826804.html
LA DOGE partners with LA Legislative Auditor: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landrys-louisiana-doge-to-work-with-auditors/article_9fae9dc4-f478-11ef-8d56-332511026662.html
LA Legislative Auditor says MCIP funds misspent by hospitals: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-health-department-failed-to-oversee-parts-of-state-medicaid-program-audit-says/article_c59da822-fdfb-11ef-8015-9f4118cb1f63.html
(3/26)Budget to LDH increasing $1.5B despite Landry's saving cuts. Surgeon General Abraham claims need to offer doctors more money to get them to accept Medicaid patients: https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/26/louisiana-medicaid-set-to-grow-under-landry-even-as-d-c-republicans-may-force-cuts/
(3/27) Elon Musk's DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to LDH: https://www.wwno.org/public-health/2025-03-27/doge-website-shows-55m-in-cuts-to-louisiana-department-of-health
Louisiana faces $10M loss for mental health and substance use disorders after federal cuts: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-federal-cuts-health/article_c5a6715f-0c56-4ee7-b36b-1a26be86ace3.html
References:
Landry announces $11M in savings: https://gov.louisiana.gov/news/4768
LA DOGE Secret Meeting with Guidehouse: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landry-created-group-meets-in-secret-to-cut-spending/article_920e929c-e32e-11ef-915a-dbb1b1826804.html
LA DOGE partners with LA Legislative Auditor: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landrys-louisiana-doge-to-work-with-auditors/article_9fae9dc4-f478-11ef-8d56-332511026662.html
LA Legislative Auditor says MCIP funds misspent by hospitals: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-health-department-failed-to-oversee-parts-of-state-medicaid-program-audit-says/article_c59da822-fdfb-11ef-8015-9f4118cb1f63.html
(3/26)Budget to LDH increasing $1.5B despite Landry's saving cuts. Surgeon General Abraham claims need to offer doctors more money to get them to accept Medicaid patients: https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/26/louisiana-medicaid-set-to-grow-under-landry-even-as-d-c-republicans-may-force-cuts/
(3/27) Elon Musk's DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to LDH: https://www.wwno.org/public-health/2025-03-27/doge-website-shows-55m-in-cuts-to-louisiana-department-of-health
Louisiana faces $10M loss for mental health and substance use disorders after federal cuts: https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-federal-cuts-health/article_c5a6715f-0c56-4ee7-b36b-1a26be86ace3.html
What do you mean stretched out across all employees?
Lcmc is a "nonprofit" for tax related purposes and the CEO's salary is $2.2M!
The two main hospital chains are oschner and LCMC.
As of a few years ago I remembered the oschner CEO salary being way smaller than lcmc's CEO.
I just double checked and it looks like they had a leadership change 2 years ago and now oschner's CEO makes even more than lcmc's at $3.2M!
https://nonprofitlight.com/la/new-orleans/ochsner-health-system
Not only that, within oschner there are different CEOs across different campuses
https://news.ochsner.org/news-releases/david-callecod-named-ceo-of-ochsner-lsu-health
This is fucking insanity! It's very much a problem. People talking about Medicaid Cuts and more efficiency, but yeah let's have multiple CEOs for the same hospital within the same city.
The Louisiana department of health is blaming Medicaid being too expensive and unsustainable on patients being less healthy over recent years and requiring too much healthcare and doctors not wanting to take Medicaid patients because they get paid less.
Yet LCMC just got rid of several doctors who took Medicaid! Not a whole lot of logic there.
Is it really that people got less healthy over the last two years and required more care? Or is it that oschner changed leadership and tried to go for the corrupt model lcmc was already using and now it's breaking the system.
Hospital expenses are mainly going into the pockets of CEOs that shouldn't exist and this is being blamed on the doctors and patients.
We gotta make cuts, where do we start.
Hmm... Healthcare needs it's CEOs that's a given. No need to keep all those unnecessary doctors and patients around though
I guess some people can change
My instance has a rule that new accounts can't post images until 30 days old
I guess some people can change
Bc last time I just posted the link it got removed for not being a screenshot. Only screenshots are allowed to be posted here
I guess some people can change
Funny thing is there are plenty of Republicans in Louisiana who never felt that way.
"Now, let’s be political. I’m a Republican. I represent the amazing state of Louisiana and as a patriotic American, I want President Trump’s policies to succeed in making America and Americans more secure, more prosperous, healthier," Cassidy said Thursday while leading Kennedy's confirmation hearing.
"But if there is someone that is not vaccinated because of policies or attitudes you bring to the department and there is another 18-year-old who dies of a vaccine-preventable disease, helicoptered away, God forbid dies, it’ll be blown up in the press."
Cassidy was one of several senators who was skeptical about Kennedy's stance on vaccinations, also noting Kennedy has changed his tune on the subject during the hearing.
"You are telling us in the Senate this week that you support vaccines. What are you going to tell them?" Cassidy said. "Now, your past of undermining vaccine confidence with unfounded or misleading arguments is concerning to me."
Cassidy, a medical doctor, shared a story of an 18-year-old patient brought to his hospital with hepatitis B who had to undergo an "invasive, quarter-of-a-million-dollar surgery" that would continue to cost $50,000 in hospital bills annually.
"As I saw her take off, I was so depressed, a $50 vaccine could have prevented this all," Cassidy said. "Ever since, I have tried to do everything I can so that I do not ever have to see another parent lose their child due to a vaccine-preventable illness."
There has always been plenty I disagreed with Cassidy on, but Medicaid and vaccines he always made decisions informed by his background as a doctor. I always had a lot of respect for him for that reason. I was glad he was on the Senate committee deciding RFKs fitness.
I watched the hearings. I heard RFK say things that I know Cassidy doesn't agree with. I wrote Cassidy a letter saying I know you understand how dangerous this is and I am glad to have someone like you in the position to make such an important decision.
He was the deciding vote. All he had to do was say what he already knew and believed. He didn't, and I lost the respect I had for him.
Not because he's a Republican. Not because of everything else we disagree on. Because I know for a fact he knew how dangerous RFK would be, and yet his vote is the only reason his fitness was approved.
I guess some people can change
So Landry's proposed 2026 state cuts were supposed to be offset by a Federal budget increase.
So not really sure what that means in reality since Federal DOGE is now also slashing money already planned for 2025.
I'm not even in Wisconsin and I don't know who is pushing what argument right now, but I'm going to recommend that whichever option the evil billionaire in the federal government who is currently destroying the world and trying to bribe people in Wisconsin wants you to vote for, don't do that.
Do the opposite of that. Regardless of what you believe about how things would/should work during normal times. This is not normal and we need people to start understanding that.
It reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice I ever received. I had a friend who had grown up with probably the worst parenting you could imagine. She told me that since she had her son there are plenty of situations where she has no clue what to do or what the outcome will be. When that happens, she stops and thinks about what her mom would do in that situation, acknowledges it, and says ok, just don't do that, and you're already off to a good start.
In this case her mom is Elon. So whatever he is trying to get you to vote for, don't do that.
The only social media I used was reddit and I eventually got shadow banned for trying to warn people about shit like this.
I've tried using bluesky and Mastodon but it never gets much if any traction. I share stuff online hoping people that use other forms of social media will share it too though, so please feel free to share it everywhere you can.
No DeVos is the Amway family.
I had never heard of Vos before, but out of curiosity just looked at his Wikipedia page. I learned he made his money in the popcorn business (?) and apparently is notable in Wisconsin for his legislative role to weaken bargaining rights and labor unions in Wisconsin while Scott Walker was governor. Which also checks out with some typical SPN scumbag BS going way back:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/state-policy-network-union-bargaining/
What state are you in?
Start collecting evidence and try to keep people in your community informed about what they're really voting for. Feel free to drop it here to add to the collection so people can see just how vast this "small government" loving network reaches. https://lemm.ee/c/stateleveldoge
For instance, find your state policy center. Look up what policy they're promoting. (There's a good chance it's doge related). Look up news articles related to that policy, and there's a very good chance you will start to find some pretty blatant local corruption going on.
At least point out to people billionaires are buying elections across the country to serve their own interests.
Here is a blue print with Wisconsin as an example, but it could be used for any state:
Unsurprisingly the model for this meta AI data factory is almost identical to Musk's xAI data factories I've been trying to call attention to for months.
Giant data centers, build them where you think people will be less likely to have power to complain, pollute the shit out of those areas, and then ignore any regulations because you control the federal (and soon the state) government.
Soon coming to the UK as well.
https://www.uktech.news/ai/elon-musks-xai-starts-hiring-in-london-after-setting-up-shop-20250108
From the SPN source watch page: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=State_Policy_Network
SPN groups operate as the policy, communications, and litigation arm of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), giving the cookie-cutter ALEC agenda a sheen of academic legitimacy and state-based support.
Many SPN groups are and often write ALEC “model bills.”
In the states, SPN groups increasingly peddle cookie-cutter “studies” to back the cookie-cutter ALEC agenda, spinning that agenda as indigenous to the state and giving it the aura of academic legitimacy. Many SPN groups, such as the Mackinac Center in Michigan, have been accused of lobbying in their states, in violation of IRS rules for non-profit “charitable” organizations.
Pretty positive there is no actual plan to improve cybersecurity, it's a facade to quietly hand over power and control to the national guard to keep people in line.
The same day the emergency order was signed by the governor, he announced he was restructuring GOHSEP (governors office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness) under the National guard as part of his state DOGE plan to cut waste and save money.
The emergency order grants the director of GOHSEP authority to act however they seem fit to handle cybersecurity. But on the same day the director of GOHSEP was given a new title, and is no longer director.
The "acting director" is now Louisiana National Guard Brig. Gen. Jason P. Mahfouz
Thank you! The level of coordination with this shit is insane. It is so convoluted even within just a single state, but it's happening all across the country.
Somehow just learned Louisiana will be the site of a $10B AI data center for Meta
Even if you live in the most liberal blue state, you should be aware you have a Heritage Foundation affiliate pushing their policies at your state level.
Even if you live in the most liberal blue state, you should be aware you have a Heritage Foundation affiliate pushing their policies at your state level.
Even if you live in the most liberal blue state, you should be aware you have a Heritage Foundation affiliate pushing their policies at your state level.
Here is a summary of everything: https://lemm.ee/post/59671562
But tldr for even that: One day last week the governor just declared he was suddenly moving the entire office that handles state emergencies (Governor's office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness-GOHSEP) under the control of the state's national guard.
On the same day he also suddenly announced he was Renewing a previous state of emergency that was created by the previous governor to address a cyber attack.
For some unknown reason that nobody has addressed, he added a new section to the renewed executive order that essentially says the director of GOHSEP has authority to do whatever he deems necessary to handle cybersecurity.
Except when he moved GOHSEP to be controlled by the National Guard, he also removed the director of the office and gave him a new title. So there is no actual director.
A member of the National Guard is acting director, so it would appear that the governor basically handed very broad control of cybersecurity to the national guard in a very underhandeded way hoping nobody would notice
Gov of Louisiana placed the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness under the National Guard and signed a state of emergency for Cybersecurity granting them the authority to act
•Florida
•Georgia
•Iowa
•Kansas
•Kentucky
•Louisiana (Fiscal Responsibility Program)
•Missouri
•Montana (Red Tape Relief Project)
•New Hampshire
•North Carolina
•North Dakota
•Oklahoma
•South Carolina
•Tennessee (State level and at least one county level in Hamilton County)
•Texas
•Wisconsin
Sorry I fucked up the formatting, couldn't figure out the bigger bullet points.
I'm pretty sure there are more than this. I swear I saw a headline with a new one recently and didn't save it. But it's like they're constantly popping up
State Level "DOGE Inspired Task Forces" Pop Up Across U.S. Promoted by Republican Governors' Love of "Small Government"
Louisiana Governor's Cybersecurity State of Emergency Renewal, grants the National Guard authority to undertake any activity authorized by law deemed appropriate in response
Louisiana Governor's Cybersecurity State of Emergency Renewal, grants the National Guard authority to act as law deems appropriate in response
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
Florida Lawmakers Proposed Bill to "Liberate FEMA" would Help Dept. of Homeland Security to Dismantle Office of Civil Rights if Passed
Landry restructures Governors Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness under Louisiana National Guard
Landry restructures Governors Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness under Louisiana National Guard
Character Disorders among Autocratic World Leaders and the Impact on Health Security, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Care | Prehospital and Disaster Medicine | Cambridge Core
