Reporting on waste, fraud, and abuse at state agencies through public records and open sources. Legal and evidence-based peaceful accountability without bias.
TEXAS!
Joined January 2014
- Tweets735
- Following1.1K
- Followers376
- Likes3.6K
Pinned Tweet
A Texas state agency reported my public criticism to the state police. Police were sent to my home. Here are the records.
On June 18, the Sunset Advisory Commission published its review of the Texas Workforce Commission. Issue 4 is titled "TWC's Poorly Executed IT Modernization Efforts Compromise the Effective Delivery of Workforce and Child Care Services to Texans."
The next day I posted a thread quoting it. It included this: "The Legislature should demand accountability from TWC's IT leadership... Public hearing Aug 12. See you there."
On June 26, TWC asked the public to help honor "those championing employment for people with disabilities." I replied: "How ironic. The full story will be out soon about how the TWC treats it's own staff with disabilities."
That's it. That's the post.
On July 7, an employee in TWC's Risk & Security Management unit reported my account to DPS. She "believed the posts on X were becoming more aggressive." She also "believed" the account was mine. A guess.
DPS opened a case classified "Threat To Life." Its report calls this "a threat of self-harm against the Texas Workforce Commission," then quotes my post as the threat.
On July 10, a DPS agent called my local police non-emergency line and asked for a welfare check at my home. On the recording, he says my statements were on TWC's X page. They weren't. He says a prior welfare check "agitated" me and that I "may just get agitated with another welfare check." He says "his former employer told us."
That prior check, in July 2025, was requested by TWC itself, and I believe it was retaliation for speaking out about failures at the TWC. I never spoke to an officer that day. So, how was I "agitated" or "amped up" as described? Everyone knows how those terms are used to put someone in danger during a so called "wellness check."
Dispatch logged the call as a Priority 1 suicide threat, with the note "MAY GET AGITATED WITH OFCS."
Three units were sent to my home. Fifteen minutes after the call came in, the responding officer wrote: "The post today wasnt an active threat."
DPS created its case record the next morning. Its records still list the case as open, with no deadline. No DPS investigator has ever contacted me.
Then DPS's lawyers wrote to the Attorney General to keep the records from me: "The investigative report forms the basis of the pending prosecution." I have not been charged with anything.
All of this happened while I had a pending federal civil rights charge against TWC, and while TWC was under Sunset review.
I had written "See you there" about the Aug 12 hearing. After police came to my door, we didn't go. My wife and I were terrified.
Meanwhile, TWC's CIO and a deputy CIO, who oversaw the IT failures Sunset documented, have left on retirement and voluntary-separation codes. Neither was dismissed for cause.
Accountability for the IT failures: none. For the critic who quoted the report: police at his door.
Read the records. Then ask why a state agency under legislative review sent the police to the home of a man who criticized it.
@TX_Sunset @TXWorkforce @loiskolkhorst @LaceyHullTX @CesarJBlanco @DonnaCampbellTX @SenBryanHughes @kevinsparkstx @CharlesTX127 @DonnaHowardTX @AngeliaOrrForTX @MattShaheen @PatrickJCurry1 #txlege #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #DisabilityRights #Accountability @andrealucasEEOC @USEEOC @DOLOIG @USLaborIG @FBI @FBIDirectorKash
Can confirm. I used to specialize in doing code cleanup for failed offshored/outsourced software development. FYI, they all failed. Every single one, until someone like me redid the whole project. Yet, it continues and now it's worse, because people like me have been let go. No one is left to clean up the mess.
during my time working at a european oil major, word got out i had previously worked in tech and i somehow got loaded with the responsibility of being business analyst and SME for the development of a new pricing tool (in addition to my regular job, of course). obvs, the company, to save a few centimes (or so they thought), outsourced development to a 3rd party indian development team, who worked off a design document that i cooked up over the course of a couple of weeks. no cap, crystal clear design doc - as long as you bother to actually read it, which of course they didn't
in spite of the fact that i spelled out exactly everything they needed to do in the design doc, and would meet up with them biweekly to go over features (i'm not calling them user stories, go cry on r/agile), troubleshoot and so on, they simply could not make it happen. just one example, i remember spending like a month explaining to them twice per week that they were using the wrong primary key for some table (it was fucking up data integrity during updates, blah blah blah), yet they could not figure it out. it only got fixed when i convinced them to let me do a code-along session with their "data engineer" to fix the issue. there were several cases like this per month.
this dragged on for almost a year and somehow they managed to bleed us for $700,000 in development costs for an application that honestly would have taken a single qualified developer maybe a month of solo work to do. At that point, they were perhaps halfway done and I gave my honest assessment to the company that they would probably try to bleed us for another $700,000, at which point the company pulled the plug
this is one story, but frankly i had many at this company. they also outsourced accounting to an indian team as well. absolute fucking nightmare. i would spend hours trying to explain to indians how Excel works, why you can't just make up numbers and you actually need to track unexplained expenses, discrepancies, etc (that's basically literally their whole job) because they could indicate a billing issue or internal data problem. and so on.
i'm honestly unconvinced at this point that outsourcing actually saves money. sure, indians are only $300 per month or whatever, but you end up paying 50 of them to do something a single decent worker could do, and yet they still fuck it up
Going to take a pause while investigations are underway. I am hopeful that justice will prevail. Those that can fix the issues have been in contact with me. Make Texas Great Again! @GregAbbott_TX @DonHuffines @TxDPS @FBIDallas @andrealucasEEOC @DOLOIG #txlege
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
What's worse is when they get more than one job/contract and offshore the work to their friends in India without disclosing it. And it is FAR worse when it is for government contracts that handle sensitive data. Unvetted people, in another country, with YOUR Gov data...YIKES!
In an economy fueled by debt, raising interest rates does NOT decrease inflation, but increases it. When a huge interest payment increases, that's an input and companies raise prices to offset it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson…
#Inflation
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
We need this in Texas @GregAbbott_TX @DonHuffines @TX_Sunset @TexasDIR Move IT internal, save a fortune on double billing and most likely a bit for waste, fraud and abuse as a bonus. I have personally witnessed internal staff propose and even build solutions in house but then have the project sent to a vendor anyway. Even one that was already done!
Time for my monthly PSA.
Millions are wasted across virtually all local, state and federal jurisdictions on IT Services.
Here’s an example of a Sheriff who cut $12 million alone from reducing IT Services they were paying for but not deriving value from. She also plans to move more work in house, for an additional $6-7 M in savings.
@DonHuffines Texas needs this type of review. ITSAC contracts are out of control.
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
Calling for the suspension of all visa reliant vendors/contractors used by the State of Texas. It is a national security risk and a vehicle for FRAUD and ABUSE. @GovHotWheels_TX @KenPaxtonTX @TXWorkforce @LoisKolkhorst @TPPF @TexasGOP #txlege @DonHuffines @DOLOIG #h1b
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
I’m beginning to think our largest industry in this country isn’t finance and real estate, it’s fraud.
There isn’t a single segment of the economy that isn’t riddled with this cancer.
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
This is why you don't offshore critical information and use visa holders with sensitive access. Since many if not most corporations and even state and federal agencies are using these same IT sources, expect that your financial/health/more data exists outside the country. @DonHuffines @FBI @WHFraudTF @JusticeOIG @TPPF
If you bank with @USAA, don't be surprised if your accounts are empty or inaccessible right now. Apparently they're experiencing some kind of catastrophic IT meltdown. Never seen anything like this in the 35 years I've been a member
We need this in Texas @GregAbbott_TX @DonHuffines @TX_Sunset @TexasDIR Move IT internal, save a fortune on double billing and most likely a bit for waste, fraud and abuse as a bonus. I have personally witnessed internal staff propose and even build solutions in house but then have the project sent to a vendor anyway. Even one that was already done!
Time for my monthly PSA.
Millions are wasted across virtually all local, state and federal jurisdictions on IT Services.
Here’s an example of a Sheriff who cut $12 million alone from reducing IT Services they were paying for but not deriving value from. She also plans to move more work in house, for an additional $6-7 M in savings.
@DonHuffines Texas needs this type of review. ITSAC contracts are out of control.
The Great Enshittification
Products: Same price, less inside. Built to fail a month after the warranty ends.
Food: Smaller bags, more air, cheaper ingredients, same label. Restaurant prices up, portions down, plus a "service fee" and a tip screen asking for 25% on a counter order.
Services: Junk fees on everything. Concert tickets, hotels, rent, internet. The price you see is never the price you pay.
Call centers: Press 1. Press 4. Say "representative." Hold for 52 minutes. Then you reach someone you can barely understand, who can barely understand you.
Software: Updates that make it slower, uglier, and full of ads. Your data collected, sold, and leaked. Breaks all the time because they are using developers who bought their degrees from a diploma mill and faked credentials.
Insurance, banks, airlines, healthcare: Pay more, get less, and fight for what you were promised. Constantly goes up and they claim "inflation" but then have record earnings.
None of this is an accident. It's a playbook.
What's the worst example you've dealt with lately?
Texas Accountability Project retweeted
We are living through the death of white-collar work as we know it.
For decades, office jobs were considered the pinnacle of American success.
But HR Karens, excessive bureaucracy, and hiring practices favoring girl bosses and H-1Bs over qualified young men have completely ruined the allure of office work.
Now, the decay has gotten so bad that something as simple as a screening process can’t even be done effectively anymore.
If you don’t match the ideal Hinge profile, HR Susan will swipe left like it’s a dating app. If you want a living wage, they’ll hire an H-1B instead. Now, if your resume has the wrong punctuation, you’re disqualified because of lazy programming.
They continue to say that young men have abandoned the workforce, but really, the workforce is abandoning them.
Inflation Is Bullshit
Every earnings call sounds the same: “inflationary pressures,” “rising input costs,” “challenging environment.” Then they announce record profits.
Look at the numbers. S&P 500 companies posted a 15.7% net profit margin in Q2 2026, the highest since FactSet started tracking in 2009. That’s the fourth record quarter in a row. The long-run average since 1946 is about 6 cents of profit per dollar of sales. Today it’s more than double that.
If costs were really squeezing these companies, margins would shrink. They’re expanding. That means prices are rising faster than costs. That isn’t inflation happening to corporations. It’s corporations happening to you.
This isn’t a fringe theory. The Groundwork Collaborative found corporate profits drove 53% of price growth in mid-2023, compared with about 11% over the previous four decades. The IMF found profits accounted for 45% of eurozone inflation in 2022.
Here’s how it works. A shock hits: a pandemic, a war, an oil spike. Everyone expects prices to rise. So companies raise them, and then raise them more than their costs justify, because “inflation” gives them cover. In markets with three or four big players, no one undercuts anyone. Why would they?
Meanwhile the same companies lay people off, offshore jobs, and buy back their own stock. Workers get told to tighten their belts. Shareholders get a record quarter.
And the “solution” we’re offered? The Fed raising interest rates, which means higher mortgage, car, and credit card payments for regular people, and slower hiring. We punish workers for a problem created in the boardroom.
Stop calling it inflation. Call it what it is: pricing power, consolidation, and greed. Start asking why we let industries consolidate to the point where competition stopped working.
#Greedflation
Are there really two parties? Not really.
My MIL worked directly for one of the most powerful people in politics. She was his go to for pretty much anything of importance.. and later his wife's best friend. So, our families were very close.
He wasn't an elected official, he was the man who made them. He gave Bill Clinton his start and put him into power. So many others as well.
So, one day he and I were talking and he told me how it really works. This won't surprise anyone that really follows politics and government affairs, but hearing it from the "king maker" himself was worth far more than from a random person.
What you see on TV is all for show. Both sides, DEM and GOP, are personally good friends. They "bicker and argue" for public consumption, but at the end of the day they would go over to the Hay-Adams and get drunk and share laughs.
They don't work for us, pretty much none of them do. That came from the man who put many of them in power himself. Oh, and and this is global. It's not just the USA.
I do think that Trump shook up the game a bit. Which explains why his efforts have been sabotaged even by his own "party." I also think he may have been co-opted in this term.
Our country is still being flooded with illegal and legal immigrants. Offshoring continues and appears to be increasing. Corps remain unchecked. Inflation is bullshit when they keep having record breaking profit margins. No anti-trust actions of importance.
Same game is still being played.
The destruction of the middle class continues, by design.