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🧵i'm in twitter jail so bsky gets my NDAA yells. biden will sign the 1st ever federal healthcare ban. the natl party is transphobic to the core. here's the sen vote color coded w/ just bullshit i already had at hand. i screamed this was happening and i am never fucking wrong. 1/15
December 19, 2024 at 7:36 AM
🧵i'm in twitter jail so bsky gets my NDAA yells. biden will sign the 1st ever federal healthcare ban. the natl party is transphobic to the core. here's the sen vote color coded w/ just bullshit i already had at hand. i screamed this was happening and i am never fucking wrong. 1/15
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U.S. Protests Mexi-Canadian Overpass
theonion.com/u-s-protests...
theonion.com/u-s-protests...
December 18, 2024 at 7:56 PM
U.S. Protests Mexi-Canadian Overpass
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theonion.com/u-s-protests...
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Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.
Health care accounts for more than 17 per cent of the U.S. economy, or around $4.5 trillion dollars, but the revenues of just two companies—CVS/Aetna and UnitedHealth—account for nearly one in every seven dollars the nation spends on health care.
The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here
Health insurers and hospitals increasingly treat patients less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Cerberus, a private equity firm, buys a chain of hospitals, sells the land on which they sit, and charges them rent. The hospitals struggle and start cutting corners. Patients' care worsens, death rates climb. And Cerberus makes $790 million in profit.
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NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
December 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
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legacy news: Why would someone do this brazen shooting
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 AM
legacy news: Why would someone do this brazen shooting
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane
legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?
shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed
legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know
The contradictions of capitalism are most tangible to people when it relates to their health and wellbeing. It explains the Health Exec shooting having such an impact. Capital mediates our ability to produce a livelihood, health insurance mediates our very flesh, blood and bones, a rift torn open.
December 8, 2024 at 3:37 AM
The contradictions of capitalism are most tangible to people when it relates to their health and wellbeing. It explains the Health Exec shooting having such an impact. Capital mediates our ability to produce a livelihood, health insurance mediates our very flesh, blood and bones, a rift torn open.
“Health Insurance CEO fatally wounded in freak lead exposure incident.”
Gave this event the passive voice treatment.
Gave this event the passive voice treatment.
December 7, 2024 at 10:02 PM
“Health Insurance CEO fatally wounded in freak lead exposure incident.”
Gave this event the passive voice treatment.
Gave this event the passive voice treatment.
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"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail”
This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM
"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail”
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A Palestinian boy and his cat emerged from the rubble caused by an Israeli air strike as he headed to the hospital for treatment.
December 5, 2024 at 12:53 PM
A Palestinian boy and his cat emerged from the rubble caused by an Israeli air strike as he headed to the hospital for treatment.
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The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were found on shell casings near where Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was killed - as in, the legal tactics insurers use to reduce liability or reject claims abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-...
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in Midtown Manhattan, masked gunman at large
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot near a Midtown Manhattan hotel in a potentially targeted shooting early Wednesday, according to police.
abcnews.go.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:59 AM
The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were found on shell casings near where Brian Thompson, the CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, was killed - as in, the legal tactics insurers use to reduce liability or reject claims abcnews.go.com/US/man-shot-...
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The New York Times had entire homepages full of stories on campus antisemitism hearings.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:48 AM
The New York Times had entire homepages full of stories on campus antisemitism hearings.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
It’s weird, every time I see footage of the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting I never see a shooter, and the pictures the police are releasing also don’t have anyone in them either. It’s very strange. Oh well.
December 5, 2024 at 2:44 AM
It’s weird, every time I see footage of the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting I never see a shooter, and the pictures the police are releasing also don’t have anyone in them either. It’s very strange. Oh well.
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9 times out of 10, being short staffed is a budgeting decision made at your expense.
Don't help a company save money by allowing them to overwork you.
Don't help a company save money by allowing them to overwork you.
December 5, 2024 at 12:24 AM
9 times out of 10, being short staffed is a budgeting decision made at your expense.
Don't help a company save money by allowing them to overwork you.
Don't help a company save money by allowing them to overwork you.