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Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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FDR vs the Billionaire Class: How the New Deal Saved America
YouTube video by Taken for Granted
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October 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You’re being played – your part in the culture wars theshot.net.au/uncategorize... Right on @ronnisalt.bsky.social
You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot
When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.
theshot.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
You’re being played – your part in the culture wars theshot.net.au/uncategorize... Right on @ronnisalt.bsky.social
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NAIDOC 2025: A Voice To Parliament Finally Achieved
July 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
NAIDOC 2025: A Voice To Parliament Finally Achieved
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Oh lordy, Jacinta Price. What a fiasco. Just a melange of slogans. Literally saying Aboriginal people should be heard after helping to defeat The Voice.
May 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Oh lordy, Jacinta Price. What a fiasco. Just a melange of slogans. Literally saying Aboriginal people should be heard after helping to defeat The Voice.
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Whilst there is so much to despair about here on our Pale Blue Dot... hopefully you take time tonight to contemplate the full moon and the wonder of its luminescence, and that it goes a little way to calm our anxious, weary hearts.
April 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Whilst there is so much to despair about here on our Pale Blue Dot... hopefully you take time tonight to contemplate the full moon and the wonder of its luminescence, and that it goes a little way to calm our anxious, weary hearts.
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The group that accused the left of 'cancel culture' is now literally cancelling culture.
April 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The group that accused the left of 'cancel culture' is now literally cancelling culture.
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This mob have no idea. Job sharing is not widespread cos it’s hard to set up. Work from home, the right to disconnect, access to flexibility are widespread & critical gateways to work for the 1 in 2 workers who are women. Dutton is back to the dark ages at work.
Return to office order wouldn't disadvantage women, Dutton says
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says women looking for flexible work can find job-sharing arrangements, defending a Coalition promise to order public servants to return to the office five days a week.
www.abc.net.au
March 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This mob have no idea. Job sharing is not widespread cos it’s hard to set up. Work from home, the right to disconnect, access to flexibility are widespread & critical gateways to work for the 1 in 2 workers who are women. Dutton is back to the dark ages at work.
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Spotted in the wild.
March 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Spotted in the wild.
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Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
February 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
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A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
Port: It's not just about kids, and it's not just libraries
Legislation under consideration in Bismarck wouldn't just restrict access to books in schools and libraries. The language of the bill also applies to private book stores.
www.inforum.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.
A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.
www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...
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The use of #antisemitism as a justification for Israel’s policies in Palestine is a morally unsustainable strategy. #auspol
Antisemitism as a morally repugnant excuse for genocide - Pearls and Irritations
The use of antisemitism as a justification for Israel’s policies in Palestine is a morally unsustainable strategy.
johnmenadue.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The use of #antisemitism as a justification for Israel’s policies in Palestine is a morally unsustainable strategy. #auspol
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Today's USA:
"falling life expectancy, stagnant wages, rising inequality, failing healthcare, deindustrialisation, educational stratification, mass incarceration, and societal fragmentation."
I'm amazed how many US progressives still hold to American exceptionalism.
johnmenadue.com/america-and-...
"falling life expectancy, stagnant wages, rising inequality, failing healthcare, deindustrialisation, educational stratification, mass incarceration, and societal fragmentation."
I'm amazed how many US progressives still hold to American exceptionalism.
johnmenadue.com/america-and-...
America and the forgotten memento mori (remember you are mortal) - Pearls and Irritations
In recent decades, the West has witnessed a growing trend among increasingly hubristic US leaders to proclaim the US as "indispensable."
johnmenadue.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Today's USA:
"falling life expectancy, stagnant wages, rising inequality, failing healthcare, deindustrialisation, educational stratification, mass incarceration, and societal fragmentation."
I'm amazed how many US progressives still hold to American exceptionalism.
johnmenadue.com/america-and-...
"falling life expectancy, stagnant wages, rising inequality, failing healthcare, deindustrialisation, educational stratification, mass incarceration, and societal fragmentation."
I'm amazed how many US progressives still hold to American exceptionalism.
johnmenadue.com/america-and-...
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A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.
February 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.
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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
January 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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A major reason older women face homelessness is they put caring for children, ageing parents etc ahead of their own need to earn an income. Caring was what they had been told to do since childhood. What no one mentioned was the terrible price many would have 2pay www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My homelessness was temporary. But for many older women like me, a house is becoming out of reach | Susan Francis
Having your own home, even your own room, equates to freedom and necessary privacy. All older women should have such a place
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A major reason older women face homelessness is they put caring for children, ageing parents etc ahead of their own need to earn an income. Caring was what they had been told to do since childhood. What no one mentioned was the terrible price many would have 2pay www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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January 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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