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Here’s the ad that The Washington Post canceled at the last minute. Bezos is a billionaire coward. Please share.
February 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Here’s the ad that The Washington Post canceled at the last minute. Bezos is a billionaire coward. Please share.
Trump and Hegseth told a despicable, hateful lie about DEI causing the horrific crash. We don't know yet what caused it. But I'd bet more on FAA funding shortfalls driven by Republicans funding tax breaks for the wealthy instead of infrastructure for the rest of us.
January 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Trump and Hegseth told a despicable, hateful lie about DEI causing the horrific crash. We don't know yet what caused it. But I'd bet more on FAA funding shortfalls driven by Republicans funding tax breaks for the wealthy instead of infrastructure for the rest of us.
“Trump’s remarks are reckless stupidity beyond belief. Imagine what happens when his choice for ambassador to Beijing, David Perdue, takes up his post and, in response to some aggressive act by China toward Taiwan, goes to the Chinese Foreign Ministry to lodge a protest. What will the ministry say?”
Opinion | Trump’s Reckless Greenland Comments Are Not a Joke
China and Russia are listening.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“Trump’s remarks are reckless stupidity beyond belief. Imagine what happens when his choice for ambassador to Beijing, David Perdue, takes up his post and, in response to some aggressive act by China toward Taiwan, goes to the Chinese Foreign Ministry to lodge a protest. What will the ministry say?”
The idea of disrupting the electoral count is old. From Erik Larson’s book The Demon of Unrest, p. 212:
December 31, 2024 at 4:14 PM
The idea of disrupting the electoral count is old. From Erik Larson’s book The Demon of Unrest, p. 212:
Most medical care is paid for by the government, but the funds are filtered through insurance companies, which skim a lot off the top.
Health Insurance is a Racket
What value do these companies add, really?
open.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Most medical care is paid for by the government, but the funds are filtered through insurance companies, which skim a lot off the top.
Our for-profit healthcare system is full of well-hidden payments and conflicts of interest among the gatekeepers to our health care. Bribing pharmacy benefit management companies (themselves monopolies owned by insurers) to let patients become addicted is just one example.
Drugmakers Paid PBMs Not to Restrict Opioid Prescriptions (Gift Article)
Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Our for-profit healthcare system is full of well-hidden payments and conflicts of interest among the gatekeepers to our health care. Bribing pharmacy benefit management companies (themselves monopolies owned by insurers) to let patients become addicted is just one example.
Stringent abortion laws are causing doctors to vote with their feet because they can no longer provide care that their patients need.
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
www.newyorker.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Stringent abortion laws are causing doctors to vote with their feet because they can no longer provide care that their patients need.
“We’re going to have to take the bold steps of saying to the American people that we are not going to let $4 trillion of tax hikes happen and that it’s not going to increase the deficit.”
In other words, we’re going to have to lie.
Republicans Ponder: What if the Trump Tax Cuts Cost Nothing?
Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:58 PM
“We’re going to have to take the bold steps of saying to the American people that we are not going to let $4 trillion of tax hikes happen and that it’s not going to increase the deficit.”
In other words, we’re going to have to lie.