Vlad
@phdredsox.bsky.social
Red Sox fan, Social Liberal, Dog dad. European married to an American. Former cruise ship photographer. Multilingual bookworm, history, and economy are my guilty pleasure reads.
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BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
January 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
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The directive rescinding President Johnson's non-discrimination executive order doesn't simply repudiate a foundational federal civil rights policy; it's a backdoor effort to force federal contractors to dismantle diversity programs using MAGA lawyers and snitches.
Sec 3(b)(iv) requires contracts or grants to require parties to agree that compliance "in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material" for purposes of the FCA and to certify they don't promote DEI efforts that violate any applicable fed anti-discrimination laws.
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The directive rescinding President Johnson's non-discrimination executive order doesn't simply repudiate a foundational federal civil rights policy; it's a backdoor effort to force federal contractors to dismantle diversity programs using MAGA lawyers and snitches.
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Do you think the government efficiency people are gonna chastise the administration for issuing obviously unconstitutional executive orders that waste millions of dollars in legal fees and court battles
January 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Do you think the government efficiency people are gonna chastise the administration for issuing obviously unconstitutional executive orders that waste millions of dollars in legal fees and court battles
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Countries who aren’t part of the World Health Organization:
- Liechtenstein
- The United States
Countries who are part of the World Health Organization:
Literally everyone else
- Liechtenstein
- The United States
Countries who are part of the World Health Organization:
Literally everyone else
January 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Countries who aren’t part of the World Health Organization:
- Liechtenstein
- The United States
Countries who are part of the World Health Organization:
Literally everyone else
- Liechtenstein
- The United States
Countries who are part of the World Health Organization:
Literally everyone else
The best thing i saw today is a video of nuns in Louisiana, playing with snowballs.
#snow #Louisiana #nuns
#snow #Louisiana #nuns
January 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The best thing i saw today is a video of nuns in Louisiana, playing with snowballs.
#snow #Louisiana #nuns
#snow #Louisiana #nuns
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Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.
January 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.
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As best you can, ignore him.
January 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
As best you can, ignore him.
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yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...
Of course, this story doesn't get the front page coverage that a CEO's murder does.
December 6, 2024 at 8:36 PM
yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...
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I'm not mad at a baseball player getting paid his money, but its wild to me that MLB has teams that can shell out over $700 million for a player and teams that apparently can't build a stadium without taxpayer money.
December 9, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I'm not mad at a baseball player getting paid his money, but its wild to me that MLB has teams that can shell out over $700 million for a player and teams that apparently can't build a stadium without taxpayer money.
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BREAKING: Russian state news agencies report ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family are in Moscow and given asylum.
Russian state news agencies say ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad is in Moscow and given asylum
The Syrian government collapsed to a lightning rebel offensive that sent crowds into the streets to celebrate the end of the Assad family's 50 years of iron rule.
apnews.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:21 PM
BREAKING: Russian state news agencies report ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family are in Moscow and given asylum.
Let's transport antimatter across Europe ,what can go wrong. I've seen movies that start like that. Let's hope this is not the next December suprise.
December 8, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Let's transport antimatter across Europe ,what can go wrong. I've seen movies that start like that. Let's hope this is not the next December suprise.
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It's #DOScember! Here's DOS and Windows 3 running on a... NeXTstation color?! It's also running Mac OS. And NeXTSTEP. All at the same time. And it did that 34 years ago.
SoftPC got a version of DOS/Windows from Microsoft that's (partially) compiled for the Motorola 68040.
#retrocomputing
SoftPC got a version of DOS/Windows from Microsoft that's (partially) compiled for the Motorola 68040.
#retrocomputing
December 7, 2024 at 2:40 PM
It's #DOScember! Here's DOS and Windows 3 running on a... NeXTstation color?! It's also running Mac OS. And NeXTSTEP. All at the same time. And it did that 34 years ago.
SoftPC got a version of DOS/Windows from Microsoft that's (partially) compiled for the Motorola 68040.
#retrocomputing
SoftPC got a version of DOS/Windows from Microsoft that's (partially) compiled for the Motorola 68040.
#retrocomputing
I've read this book as an ebook, but today, i finally bought a paper copy. I grew up in a city centered on the car factory. Both of my parents worked at the factory, and we went from comfortably middle class to having to worry about missing meals when it closed, that is why this book hits hard 📚💙
December 6, 2024 at 3:58 PM
I've read this book as an ebook, but today, i finally bought a paper copy. I grew up in a city centered on the car factory. Both of my parents worked at the factory, and we went from comfortably middle class to having to worry about missing meals when it closed, that is why this book hits hard 📚💙
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"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers."
Read @propublica.org's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives.
Read @propublica.org's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives.
Uncovered
Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm.
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2024 at 5:58 PM
"Deny, deny, deny. That's how you hit your numbers."
Read @propublica.org's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives.
Read @propublica.org's seminal series on how insurance giants like United and Cigna systematically, cruelly—and very, very profitably—deny health coverage every day, at the expense of patients' lives.
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I am so tired of seeing posts by people refusing to believe others read faster than them. Some people aren’t watching tv or spending a thousand hours on their phone. You’d be amazed how many books you can read if you try. Stop judging folks for how they spend their free time gosh.
December 6, 2024 at 4:09 AM
I am so tired of seeing posts by people refusing to believe others read faster than them. Some people aren’t watching tv or spending a thousand hours on their phone. You’d be amazed how many books you can read if you try. Stop judging folks for how they spend their free time gosh.
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This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
December 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
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This is really not the point, but man is the shooter an unintentional advertisement for the fastest way to get around is by bike
December 5, 2024 at 6:31 PM
This is really not the point, but man is the shooter an unintentional advertisement for the fastest way to get around is by bike
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
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Today's my birthday! You ain't gotta get me anything but if you're so inclined to spare a like and a RT, I'd be thankful! Trying to build up again on a new social media platform is a pain.
✨Some of my work✨
✨Some of my work✨
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Today's my birthday! You ain't gotta get me anything but if you're so inclined to spare a like and a RT, I'd be thankful! Trying to build up again on a new social media platform is a pain.
✨Some of my work✨
✨Some of my work✨
If you gonna make a movie last 3 or more hours, then you need to have an overture, an intermission, and some end movie music. I am not sitting for 4 hours straight. #movies
December 5, 2024 at 7:52 PM
If you gonna make a movie last 3 or more hours, then you need to have an overture, an intermission, and some end movie music. I am not sitting for 4 hours straight. #movies
Today, I rewatched The Ten Commandments, and I gotta say the people freed from slavery seem a bit ungrateful. They just witnessed God free them by visiting plagues on Egypt and parting of the sea, but Moses leaves them alone for a few hours and they are like fuck it there si no god lets have an orgy
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Today, I rewatched The Ten Commandments, and I gotta say the people freed from slavery seem a bit ungrateful. They just witnessed God free them by visiting plagues on Egypt and parting of the sea, but Moses leaves them alone for a few hours and they are like fuck it there si no god lets have an orgy
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United healthcare initially denied coverage for my daughter’s birth because she wasn’t named on the policy at the time of services. This is not a joke, this really happened.
December 5, 2024 at 1:03 AM
United healthcare initially denied coverage for my daughter’s birth because she wasn’t named on the policy at the time of services. This is not a joke, this really happened.