Neuroscientist, Professor, NASA Analog Astronaut. The only white male Millennial conservative ever tenured in America. DEI Whistleblower ❙ Children’s Author✝️✈️

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Story from the Mar a Lago awards w/ @OKeefeMedia
Words can't express how honored, humbled, & grateful I am to be recognized among much bigger heroes with this award for courage, integrity, & truth from @jamesokeefeiii & @okeefemedia at the President's Mar a Lago for catching over $76M in fraud by Florida Tech's President and refusing to sell out to his $96k offer of hush money. Thanks to everyone standing for truth in a world of lies. With all my heart: THANK YOU for this Honor of a Lifetime 🙏
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. . . like bring home stranded astronauts?
Imagine if Elon Musk did something to benefit others with his trillion.
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1. It was a debate that exposed Biden's true condition in 2024. 2. Republicans have mocked Dems since then for installing Kamala as the nominee without any input from the voters. 👉 Why are Republicans accepting @FloridaGOP's edict that we don't need a debate?
I'm still stunned by this. The largest group of voters in RPOF's own poll said they're undecided, and @FloridaGOP 's response is to say we don't need a debate. It's clear that Florida voters are looking for an alternative to Donalds and want to hear from the other candidates.
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Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever. Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸
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That was 1996, i was 14. Fast forward to 2025: 43 year old me was armed & able to fend off the harms of Title IX that Camile Paglia prophetically warned us of in a 1996 kids newspaper for @USAWrestling as "cowardly & self serving university administrators" turning Title IX into a "clumsy & brutal quota system" that "diverted education into a suffocating social welfare ideology". Thanks, Camile & USAW!! @TitleIXforAll
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Great insights on Title IX in 1996 by Camile Paglia in our wrestling newspaper in @IKWFusaw @TitleIXforAll
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The year was 1996: we boys were getting based by Camile Paglia articles in @USAWrestling on how "cowardly & self serving university administrators" turned Title IX into a "clumsy & brutal quota system" that "terminated over 100 mens wrestling programs" on campuses where "arrogant overpaid administrators" "diverted education into a suffocating social welfare ideology". I was 14, it was awesome, and she was right. @TitleIXforAll @usedgov @EdSecMcMahon
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Replying to @suzylebo @UF
Bell is wholly unqualified. He should step back on his own to save UF and Ron the awkward disgrace and simply state that it is clear that it has become an unneccessary distraction on an important topic, and that he does not want to distract from the important mission of the university's next steps.
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I don’t think people realize how monumental this is. It’s easy for me to call a spade a spade, I’m not in politics. For America’s governor to drop the hammer on these bogus proceedings is downright legendary. That’s why the people love him!
The chairman of the party should not be insulting the intelligence of Republican voters. A debate was promised and these ridiculous criteria are being used to renege on that promise and to engineer a preferred outcome. Why not just take 90 minutes, find a tv partner, and let the candidates mix it up? The only reason why you wouldn’t is if the party hierarchy is serving outside interests instead of the best interests of the voters.
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The UFC just released an AI promo for the White House event featuring Theodore Roosevelt
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I agree with @RonDeSantis ~ as a member of the executive committee of @FloridaGOP , I am going on record to say that I respectfully disagree with this unilateral decision. The American experiment works because we trust free people to hear competing ideas, evaluate the facts, and make their own choices. I believe sunlight, debate, and open discussion strengthen our party and our democracy. Republican voters do not need protection from ideas, they need the opportunity to judge them for themselves.
Governor DeSantis understands that politicians work for the people and have to earn their support. Floridians deserve the chance to vet candidates, hear them debate the issues, and make up their own minds about who should lead our state.
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I'm positioning Missouri's state universities & colleges to focus on combat veteran recruitment under the Returning Heroes Education Act. They get reimbursed by the state for the tuition they forgive under the law. Other states will follow.
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Why isn’t @GovRonDeSantis clawing back the 7 million in tax payer dollars from the university?
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Colleges are dying because thanks to the Trump administration, they no longer have a free flow of foreign students to goose their tuition revenue. This will radiate out and harm the economies (and political power) of libtarded college towns. Got what I voted for...again!
The demographic cliff is here. Syracuse offered students significant discounts to attend but still ended up under-enrolled. The university has already offered buyouts to 175 professors and closed 93 majors. And the pop. of 18-year-olds “will decline for the next 15 years.”
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Our Gov is 💯 right. RPOF should be better than the DNC that pushed Kamala Harris on their voters without debate.
The chairman of the party should not be insulting the intelligence of Republican voters. A debate was promised and these ridiculous criteria are being used to renege on that promise and to engineer a preferred outcome. Why not just take 90 minutes, find a tv partner, and let the candidates mix it up? The only reason why you wouldn’t is if the party hierarchy is serving outside interests instead of the best interests of the voters.
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Replying to @RonDeSantis
💯 It’s a matter of respect for the voters. RPOF should be better than the DNC that pushed Kamala Harris on their voters without debate. That didn’t work out well for them.
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Ron is Right here. 100%. I won't be shy with praise when worthy, @RonDeSantis
The chairman of the party should not be insulting the intelligence of Republican voters. A debate was promised and these ridiculous criteria are being used to renege on that promise and to engineer a preferred outcome. Why not just take 90 minutes, find a tv partner, and let the candidates mix it up? The only reason why you wouldn’t is if the party hierarchy is serving outside interests instead of the best interests of the voters.
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Laura, you are on the right track here but are missing the core point that this is at least the third time that DeSantis has sided with DEI and the Woke Mob of College Presidents, and that DEI is weakest failure despite being his strongest brand. Last year at UF, and also at Florida Tech, where your friend @JamesOKeefeIII & I exposed DeSantis "instructing" my University President on how to defraud Trump's EOs on DEI for over $69M annually. Ron never helped the whistleblower (me) nor took back the state funds of millions that we caught him being defrauded of on DEI (e.g. $7M in state funds we caught admitted on video with @OKeefeMedia , for a grant sponsored by GOP's @JimBoydFL & @SteveCrisafulli - was there a kickback in place in Ron's Office? And, we have reason to believe that Ron's Comms team (@BryanDGriffin) Lied to O'Keefe in their official statement (denying it was Ron who did it, but confirming that it happened from their Office): listen to the President on video and it was clearly Ron (I was there as a witness and it was who we were led to believe it was- and no other option exists to fit the description provided on video by the Woke Univ President (@PalmInstitute & @JohnDSailer at @ManhattanInst @CityJournal ). Other schools like UCF are known to be non-complying with Ron's DEI, too, and with zero accountability nor support of Ron's supporters who blow the whistle to stop fraud in Florida. Ron's actions have left no choice but the obvious in a continuing trend of reluctant reporting by Ron's allies: You can't spell DEsantIs without DEI, and Florida is Where Woke Comes to Lie.
DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis And His Top Donor Endorse Stuart Bell As Next University Of Florida @UF President Despite His Pro-DEI Record DeSantis is likely backing Bell because his mega donor, Mori Hosseini, who is Iranian, also backs Bell. @SenRickScott loomered.com/2026/06/13/desa…
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No: it is not a "great op-ed" on DEI by incoming UF DEI President endorsed by DeSantis. Ron has gotten dog-walked on DEI for years now. All talk, no walk- and I have earned the scars to prove it: stood up for Ron when a woke University President said he would "fight back" against him last year, and DeSantis "instructed" the Woke Mob on how to evade Trump's EOs for millions of fraud. Then Ron's Comms guy, Bryan Griffin, issued an Official Statement to @OKeefeMedia that we have good reason to believe was a lie about it, too. Not good, Ron, not good at all. If Dr. Stuart Bell wants to fix his image, then he can start by fixing this mess that Ron left him, which has been well covered @JohnDSailer and @PalmInstitute @CommiesOnCampus and others. This is coming from me as a DeSantis *supporter*, whom he hung out to dry as a whistleblower as the only tenured professor in Florida as an open conservative and straight white male under age 45 during the era of DEI: it should have been an easy win for Ron, but he played it like Bill Buckner and it has created a terrible trend of inaction on DEI by Ron in Florida needing immediate fixing. Great Governor, Giant Weak Spot. You can't spell DEsantIs without DEI: and Florida is Where Woke Goes to Lie
Great op-ed from incoming UF President Dr. Stuart Bell on overcoming DEI and returning higher education to its original intent. foxnews.com/opinion/america-…
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DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis And His Top Donor Endorse Stuart Bell As Next University Of Florida @UF President Despite His Pro-DEI Record DeSantis is likely backing Bell because his mega donor, Mori Hosseini, who is Iranian, also backs Bell. @SenRickScott loomered.com/2026/06/13/desa…
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The coming doom of academia will be hilarious
The demographic cliff is here. Syracuse offered students significant discounts to attend but still ended up under-enrolled. The university has already offered buyouts to 175 professors and closed 93 majors. And the pop. of 18-year-olds “will decline for the next 15 years.”
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