This perspective is needed. I'm fighting to walk again for my children. My medical records and story are right at the top of my timeline.
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Two senators on their way out the door. Nothing left to lose. Total leverage. And they traded it for a memo. A piece of paper. Cornyn and Tillis folded like lawn chairs, and everybody knew they would. Again.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Even the Internet’s favorite pool guy has no clue how to fix the reflecting pool.
Even the internet’s favorite pool guy has no clue how to fix the reflecting pool
A host of fixes has made it hard to diagnose the problem—let alone clean up the mess.
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@arimelber.bsky.social Hey Ari, Pass this on to Mr. Emmanuel since he thinks everything with the Merger is Copacetic. But, break it to him gently because when you interviewed him, he looked like he was going to stroke out
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3d agoNEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Under US law, it is nearly impossible for a person to file a civil rights lawsuit against an individual federal agent. But an increasing number of people harmed by ICE and DHS agents are filing tort claims: demanding monetary compensation from the federal government for what has been done to them.
“The ICE agent behind me grabbed the back of my shirt and just threw me like a sack of trash”
People keep suing the agency for beating them up.
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Writing about a few essays that failed to come together. Some interesting facts and reflections that didn't quite come together into an actual narrative:
Essays In Support of the Null Hypothesis
Failed essays on snobbery, bad neuroscience explanations, and the ontological status of stuff
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George Santos has been fined $35,000 for attempting to place bets on his own attendance at the State of the Union in February. He’s also been banned from the prediction-market platform Kalshi for 3 years.
George Santos got busted for manipulating political betting markets—and seems to have little remorse
"Touché bitches lets see who wins!"
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“If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them.”
Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno Says Max Miller is Unfit to Hold Office
The GOP Senator spoke out against his former son-in-law: "If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them."
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“The Trump administration opened the floodgates for these predatory companies to come in and profit off of detaining human beings.”
As for-profit companies battle over ICE contracts, immigrants are caught in the middle
"There is so much money right now in detaining people."
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The wellness world’s favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn’t just annoying—it’s harmful.
The Great Inflammation panic
The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.
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Its publishers appear to be rooting for the oligarchs.
Does the Washington Post want democracy to die in darkness?
Its publishers appear to be rooting for the oligarchs.
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Hey America, your president is delusional.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump: I am very disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella.
The first home run of the Women’s Professional Baseball League was a historic moment for the sport. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I Like Baseball Now.
The first home run of the Women's Professional Baseball League was a historic moment for the sport.
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There's a concept in statistical learning called the "bias-variance tradeoff". One of the things you can take away from it is the value in pluralistic thinking: having many different tools for thinking is better than trying to find the one perfect way
The Wisdom of Foxes
The bias-variance trade-off and the value of pluralism in thinking
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Dr. Angel Foster has made $5 abortion pills so accessible that abortions in Mississippi are up a mind-boggling 85% since Dobbs.
She's remaking the abortion landscape one pill at a time
Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”
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In January 2025, American Healthcare Systems ordered dozens of furloughs to a hospital in Illinois. The staff that remained knew that critically needed sitters to watch vulnerable patients were gone. One week after the cuts, a patient froze to death on the roof.
A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
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American Healthcare Systems grew into a major for-profit hospital operator with promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it has been throwing them into financial chaos:
A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
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The GOP Senator spoke out against his former son-in-law: “If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them.”
Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno Says Max Miller is Unfit to Hold Office
The GOP Senator spoke out against his former son-in-law: "If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them."
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Rep. Jacobs: "Are Americans better off when the Strait of Hormuz is open or closed?" Mike Waltz: "The American economy is largely unaffected by the Strait of Hormuz." Rep. Jacobs: "My constituents who are paying thousands of dollars more in costs because of this war would beg to differ."