Bruce Clendenning
@brucebc.bsky.social
Pretty friggin' simple.
🚨Officer Michael Fanone keeping it short and sweet. ✊🏼
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Pretty friggin' simple.
If you've wondered how/why private equity firms got into providing healthcare (which truly is a bizarre connection), this may help you understand the details. And the impacts.
We can do better.
Thanks, @motherjones.com for more great reporting! Such a worthwhile subscription.
We can do better.
Thanks, @motherjones.com for more great reporting! Such a worthwhile subscription.
Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price.
One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.
www.motherjones.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If you've wondered how/why private equity firms got into providing healthcare (which truly is a bizarre connection), this may help you understand the details. And the impacts.
We can do better.
Thanks, @motherjones.com for more great reporting! Such a worthwhile subscription.
We can do better.
Thanks, @motherjones.com for more great reporting! Such a worthwhile subscription.
Really good assessment of the current reality - and what's to come soon - from a company owner.
andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet
IG 3sixteen
IG 3sixteen
August 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Really good assessment of the current reality - and what's to come soon - from a company owner.
A President with true comfort lying, frequently, should be worrying to all.
(And I'm not freaking naive, I understand that there are times when a lie is truly needed by a National leader, but it should be incredibly rare, not every day.)
(And I'm not freaking naive, I understand that there are times when a lie is truly needed by a National leader, but it should be incredibly rare, not every day.)
July 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A President with true comfort lying, frequently, should be worrying to all.
(And I'm not freaking naive, I understand that there are times when a lie is truly needed by a National leader, but it should be incredibly rare, not every day.)
(And I'm not freaking naive, I understand that there are times when a lie is truly needed by a National leader, but it should be incredibly rare, not every day.)
This gives me a fond memory of the archeology dig I spent a month on, forever ago. Every morning we were woken up EARLY by herons "Kronnnking."
Yeesh, never got used to that....
Yeesh, never got used to that....
July 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This gives me a fond memory of the archeology dig I spent a month on, forever ago. Every morning we were woken up EARLY by herons "Kronnnking."
Yeesh, never got used to that....
Yeesh, never got used to that....
Well, then. Isn't that ... interesting. They care so much about fraud and abuse of government that they're doing it themselves....
We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.
July 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Well, then. Isn't that ... interesting. They care so much about fraud and abuse of government that they're doing it themselves....
Thank you for pointing this my way. So well said....
Mandy Patinkin. His sorrow and anger are so physical. If only our so-called leaders had this soul and spine and human compassion.
“NETANYAHU IS ENDANGERING ISRAEL AND JEWS ALL AROUND THE WORLD”
"I ask Jews to consider what this man Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government are doing to the Jewish people all over the world,"
👤Mandy Patinkin
"I ask Jews to consider what this man Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government are doing to the Jewish people all over the world,"
👤Mandy Patinkin
July 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Thank you for pointing this my way. So well said....
Don't lose site of some of the .. stuff .. they're working to distract from. (Not just this, but also the whole tanking the economy, manipulating elections, doing everything they can to sell off our National Monuments and other publicly-owned lands, and maybe being a disgusting pedophile, too....)
June 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Don't lose site of some of the .. stuff .. they're working to distract from. (Not just this, but also the whole tanking the economy, manipulating elections, doing everything they can to sell off our National Monuments and other publicly-owned lands, and maybe being a disgusting pedophile, too....)
Never thought I'd find myself saying this, but: Thank you, Justices Thomas & Gorsuch, for trying....
Supreme Court Greenlights Transfer of Sacred Public Lands to Foreign Mining Giant
Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site protected as public land for generations, will now be handed to Rio Tinto for copper mining – leaving a 1,000-foot crater in its place.
open.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Never thought I'd find myself saying this, but: Thank you, Justices Thomas & Gorsuch, for trying....
I mean it's worked so well, so far.
Democrats need to make it very, very clear that if Trump continues to abuse his power and weaponize government against the citizens that Chuck Schumer will write another strongly worded letter.
A VERY strongly worded letter.
A VERY strongly worded letter.
May 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I mean it's worked so well, so far.
And on a much worse note.... As Liza knows, at some point each day I wonder out loud: "So what new fuckery have I missed during the day?" as I turn on NHPR or some other news source. This one ranks extremely high in the "fuckery" rankings, though apparently not new.
Mother Forced to Keep Pregnant Daughter Alive After She’s Declared Brain Dead Due to Abortion Ban: ‘It’s Torture’
Adriana Smith, who is pregnant, has been brain dead for more than 90 days but is still being kept alive due to the state ban on abortion. Now, her mother is detailing how the experience has been “tort...
people.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And on a much worse note.... As Liza knows, at some point each day I wonder out loud: "So what new fuckery have I missed during the day?" as I turn on NHPR or some other news source. This one ranks extremely high in the "fuckery" rankings, though apparently not new.
Very 'interesting' political scenario is building for swing-District GOP Members, like this one in AZ. Do you support 'your' President's current will, or the needs of your constituents??
The clean energy boom that could snarl the GOP megabill
Arizona Rep. Juan Ciscomani and other rank-and-file Republicans are facing a tough choice: resist Donald Trump’s efforts to gut Democrats’ climate law or incur the wrath of constituents who could lose...
www.politico.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Very 'interesting' political scenario is building for swing-District GOP Members, like this one in AZ. Do you support 'your' President's current will, or the needs of your constituents??
Reposted by Bruce Clendenning
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This is a new image from #JWST.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
100 days in. Things are going great, if you like crap results, a weakened economy, diminished world respect, shrinking of Americans freedoms, and general chaos.
If those are your jam, the first 100 days have been .. well, they've been something.
If those are your jam, the first 100 days have been .. well, they've been something.
This is the best 100-day recap I’ve seen — and it begs the damn question:
Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?
Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?
April 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
100 days in. Things are going great, if you like crap results, a weakened economy, diminished world respect, shrinking of Americans freedoms, and general chaos.
If those are your jam, the first 100 days have been .. well, they've been something.
If those are your jam, the first 100 days have been .. well, they've been something.
It turns out that you probably need this in your life today.
Volume ☝️
Volume ☝️
April 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It turns out that you probably need this in your life today.
Volume ☝️
Volume ☝️
Visiting Montreal from the USA right now. Here at a historic time, when they can, quite clearly, tell us what they think about our National choices .. and show us how to look out for their own, and others, with dignity, empathy, and a little care....
April 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Visiting Montreal from the USA right now. Here at a historic time, when they can, quite clearly, tell us what they think about our National choices .. and show us how to look out for their own, and others, with dignity, empathy, and a little care....
Reposted by Bruce Clendenning
Seen on the Sons of Liberty feed....
April 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Seen on the Sons of Liberty feed....
Spot on!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Spot on!!
That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off....
April 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off....
Reposted by Bruce Clendenning
Elbows up, Canada.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Elbows up, Canada.
Watching people in various FB groups think they can disentangle their "interests" from politics, in these wild days, is very .. wow!!!
Politics is in everything, whether they want to accept that reality or not. It's real. Onward.
Politics is in everything, whether they want to accept that reality or not. It's real. Onward.
March 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Watching people in various FB groups think they can disentangle their "interests" from politics, in these wild days, is very .. wow!!!
Politics is in everything, whether they want to accept that reality or not. It's real. Onward.
Politics is in everything, whether they want to accept that reality or not. It's real. Onward.
Reposted by Bruce Clendenning
NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so.
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...
Judge rules mass firings of federal probationary employees is likely illegal
U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including the D...
www.cbsnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so.
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...
In addition to the glee they get from pain and chaos, there's always more profit/greed/grift to be made by someone. If it effs up our National treasures, well that's just too bad....
The Hidden Strategy Behind the National Park Ranger Crisis
When rangers disappear, so do public lands as we know them
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
In addition to the glee they get from pain and chaos, there's always more profit/greed/grift to be made by someone. If it effs up our National treasures, well that's just too bad....