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.@Foxworth24 opened today's episode with thoughts on the Protect College Sports Act and what it's really about 👀
"The core of it is about re-establishing the power the NCAA had in the past – that the court system determined was illegal."
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I told @TVietor08 a few ways politicians can be truly pro-Palestine: (1) support their right to self-defense (2) endorse a single democratic state OR, if you’re still for 2SS, share a plan to force Israel’s hand militarily (3) stop lying about idea of a Jewish & democratic Israel
My testimony of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank begins at minute 52: youtu.be/7x53nC2n6ms
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Social security is inflation adjusted.
Medicare is taxpayer provided
The mortgage is paid off.
You're not raising kids.
You can afford a property tax bill which averages out to 1% of the equity you could withdraw from the house.
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Just finished the latest @PabloTorre Finds Out on Riley Gaines.
Extraordinary digging as always, but the strength of the episode is its thesis. Examining this not through the lens of the issue, but the motivations of those making it an issue, is the right way to do it.
The fact is, they never cared about women's sports until they could use them as a cudgel to go after vulnerable groups. Pablo and Madison were wise to juxtapose their fervor against trans youth and "concern" for the safety of women with their indifference to the broader issue of real abuse.
They don't want to protect women's sports because they don't have the impulse or desire at all to protect vulnerable people. They only possess the desire to *go after* vulnerable people. That's what this is, and that's what the thesis of their work lays bare. Amazing
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I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.
Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.
But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.
Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.
We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.
It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.
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trying to figure out how buzzkilly it is to argue that this is a marginal overpay while acknowledging that the cost is still pretty minor and it feels pretty cool
BACK WHERE HE BELONGS‼️
The #Vikings have agreed to terms on a trade to acquire @athielen19.
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Yes genius take here that the career treasury staff is responsible for the federal debt. I also think the scorekeeper at the baseball game is the reason my team lost. I’m very smart
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She! Ran! On! None! Of! This! And! Still! Lost! Every! Swing! State!
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Voters weren’t happy with the status quo and punished the party in charge. Until Dems can make people's lives better instead of always falling short undoing the damage the GOP did, that's the endless cycle. And they're not incentivized to do that because of their donor class
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One of the most insightful comments on social class in America that I’ve read. Haven’t stopped thinking about it
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It's so fucking bad. Money is no object. He could have a Musk Daily Briefing where people explain shit to him. He just... doesn't care whether what he says is true or false. That's a major problem given how powerful he is.
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Does anyone have that recent study that determined all 8 billion of us could be easily housed and fed with only 30% of the current global labor output and that our collective suffering is manufactured by capitalism
Because it altered my brain chemistry
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the DoD makes them put the same scene in all of these movies where the squad hesitates to kill an unarmed man and it causes trouble for them later
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Yup, they’re just the final, customer-facing scapegoat of a deeply flawed and inefficient system.
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Great quote in Vox today:
"We need private insurers to drive a harder bargain with the most expensive doctors and hospitals. When we demonize insurers for doing precisely that, we aren’t standing up against our health care sector’s profiteers — we’re sticking up for them."
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This is 100% true and 'sin eaters' is a fantastic phrase.
The mental image of a hospital is smiling nurses while the mental image of insurance company is a soulless bureaucrat. Buddy the hospital has an army of soulless bureaucrats and they're part of the problem too.
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BCBS told some extremely overpaid specialists (median salary: $430,600) that they would be cutting their pay by applying some of Medicare's payment rules.
This is how single-payer works: Squeeze rentier providers, lower costs.
If you're outraged by this, you're getting played!
Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.
It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.
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This post is directly from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. This change follows medicare billing practices. cms.gov/files/document…
Anesthesiologist providers very often have been found participating in surprise billing, and this change attempts to close this loophole. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
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yep, it's presented as benevolent assistance for a country resisting aggression but is actually a giant handout to US weapons makers
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It is simultaneously true that Clinton and Obama are talented politicians whose style of politicking should be emulated *and* that their policy failures (NAFTA, the bailout, embracing Big Tech, failing to confront the opioid crisis) are at the root of our present discontents.
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