Jacqueline Ros Amable
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One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
www.motherjones.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Jacqueline Ros Amable
Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.
March 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.
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I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
February 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
Me watching this on repeat this morning to get myself pumped for the week with @MaterealWorld So Win. | Nike youtu.be/b0Ezn5pZE7o?...
So Win. | Nike
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February 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Me watching this on repeat this morning to get myself pumped for the week with @MaterealWorld So Win. | Nike youtu.be/b0Ezn5pZE7o?...
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It’s actually brain splitting to see the difference in people’s reactions to Elon musks coup between here, threads and Twitter. Someone please tell me those are bots hyping up the insanity?
February 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s actually brain splitting to see the difference in people’s reactions to Elon musks coup between here, threads and Twitter. Someone please tell me those are bots hyping up the insanity?
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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
This feels like when Umbridge kept putting new ministry decrees at Hogwarts.
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "DEIAtruth@opm.gov."
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January 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This feels like when Umbridge kept putting new ministry decrees at Hogwarts.