@dessamo.bsky.social
This has flown under the radar for too long; the PM needs to act. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Private billing law for doctors threatens universal health care, critics charge
Alberta's Health Statutes Amendment Act could create a "dual-practice" framework allowing physicians to provide publicly insured care and privately paid services.
thestar.com
Q: "Are we ready for the age of global wildfires?" A: Not at all!
Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 2w agoFrance is on fire. Spain is on fire. Norway is on fire. Sicily is on fire. Ontario is on fire. Scotland is on fire. Bolivia is on fire. Algeria is on fire. England is on fire. Greta wasn't wrong when she said our house was on fire. We are in a climate emergency. - Greenpeace UK
Promised his father he wouldn't drink alcohol, smoke, or get tattoos. And is stridently opposed to sports betting...and the French far-right. Mbappé is the hero we need.
Brett Coughlin@coughlinbrett.bsky.social · last mo.Kylian Mbappé #WorldCup
"DSA candidates are polling well not just among people who call themselves progressives, but center-left voters and moderates, too."
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 4w agoHere’s a huge data point in the current debate about why DSA candidates are suddenly winning everywhere: Bernie Sanders is the most favorable Democratic political figure today — even among self-described ideological “moderates.” Huh? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07...
Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed
three French nuclear reactors had to be shut down because the river they use for cooling got too hot and trains canceled in three other countries due to possible track buckling
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.What will Europe’s heatwave cost? ft.trib.al/aaAgQgS
"Human Rights Watch Verifies Use of White Phosphorous Incendiary Weapon over Residential Areas in Southern Lebanon" Thread on Israel's horrific war crimes in Lebanon bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago"More than twice as many kids killed in Lebanon just this week as were killed in Israel on Oct 7th. But no one cares. Arab lives have no value." -- @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
🍅🍅🍅Tomatoflation 🍅🍅🍅 Price of tomatoes is up 39.7%. That’s terrible news for food affordability *and* public health. Tomatoes are one of the most popular fresh vegetables. Chart via @weisenthal.bsky.social
bring back shame
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4mo agoForbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...
Just as Satoshi wanted: a very much centralized currency that will have enormous price swings based on the whims of a single individual
Protos@protos.com · 4mo agoStrategy could own more bitcoin than Satoshi by September protos.com/strategy-cou...
the UAE's threat wasn't subtle (give us swap lines or we're going to Beijing) but hassett is dodging here ("should that be necessary") and between this and the Abdulkhaleq post the other day I have to wonder if there was a massive rupture between the US and UAE at the end of last week
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoHassett on a bailout for the UAE: "The UAE has been an incredibly valuable ally throughout this effort, and I'm sure the Treasury Secretary will make every effort to help them out should that be necessary"
Remember Joe Biden? The guy who didn't rip civilization to shreds? Anyway he had a pretty good economic program of full employment and industrial rebuilding. But he tore down America's best-ever welfare state at a time of high inflation. And it cost him. @ryanlcooper.com has a retrospective:
A Retrospective on Bidenomics - The American Prospect
Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.
prospect.org
Hello, Gaius Cassius Longinus here. I have a favor to ask you. Julius Caesar has DECLARED himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE! I need you to send a denarius to Save The Republic PAC RIGHT NOW so we can stop Caesar from making himself a king.
The closure of the strait could lead to a dearth of helium, a key component of chip manufacturing that comes largely from the Middle East. https://sherwood.news/tech/shutdown-strait-of-hormuz-helium-trouble-chipmakers/
The next domino to fall in the Strait of Hormuz could be… helium? And it might spell trouble for chipmakers.
The closure of the strait could lead to a dearth of helium, a key component of chip manufacturing that comes largely from the Middle East....
sherwood.news
For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.
Seung Min Kim@seungminkim1.bsky.social · 5mo agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.
$2bn/day, with $2.8bn/day in munitions alone over the first two days. I tend to think of myself as a Large Number Scale Understander but this is just mind-boggling amounts of money.
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101) *PENTAGON OFFICIALS MET WITH LAWMAKERS ON IRAN ON TUESDAY: NYT BFW 16:35
102) *NYT CITES 3 PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING ON IRAN BFW 16:33
103) *PENTAGON SAYS IRAN WAR COST MORE THAN $11B IN FIRST WEEK: NYT BFW 16:33
03/11/2026 16:31:40[NYT]
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By Catie Edmondson
(New York Times) -- In a Capitol Hill briefing, officials gave their most
comprehensive assessment of the cost of the first six days of the war, but the
number omitted several aspects of the operation.
Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill on
Tuesday that they estimated the cost of the war against Iran had exceeded
$11.3 billion in the first six days alone, according to three people familiar with
the briefing.
The estimate did not include many of the costs associated with the operation,
such as the buildup of military hardware and personnel ahead of the first
strikes. For that reason, lawmakers expect the number to grow considerably as
the Pentagon continues to calculate the costs that accumulated just in the first
week.
Still, it appeared to be the most comprehensive assessment Congress had
received so far amid mounting questions about the objectives, scope and time
frame for the war. The New York Times and The Washington Post reported
earlier that defense officials had said in recent congressional briefings that the
military used up $5.6 billion of munitions in the first two days of the war.
That is a far larger amount and munitions burn rate than had been publicly
disclosed. The Center for Strategic and International Studies had estimated that
the first 100 hours of the operation cost $3.7 billion, or $891.4 million each
day.
The first wave of the bombardment used weapons including the AGM-154 glide
bomb, which can cost from $578,000 to $836,000. The Navy …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreihcsjdum2q7hdoyqqbb5x6nhtiw3ldqmxfeuf6dutasyn2xyeecni)
this is wrong. Markets immediately responded to 24th January 2020 China lockdown news. Commodity markets are HIGHLY attentive to anything in the world economy that disrupts demand & supply. Equity markets did not as they thought pandemic would be contained to China & only freaked out in Feb-Mar 20
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 5mo agoSpent some time today trying to fathom why the markets don’t seem to care about an unfolding catastrophe. Then I remembered it took them 6 weeks to realise there was a global pandemic, even with wall to wall footage of dead bodies around the world.
You cannot tell voters (accurately) this is a fascist regime that is hell bent on destroying us - let alone rely on it (as Dems are) as your GOTV while also voting yourselves to enable the regime.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5mo ago18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director: Baldwin Coons Cortez Masto Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Peters Reed Rosen Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner Whitehouse
It's not some tactical maneuver, it's not secret negotiations to extract concessions, it's not because they conclude some nominee is actually pretty reasonable and qualified. They do it because they literally don't care and aren't even paying attention, and have been taught this is thing you do.
64/ Yes, losing Gulf Kings now a risk. “They can hardly believe US impotence at protecting oil installations & shipping, & the US inability..to rapidly refresh their dwindling stocks of interceptors. There's a profound sense that US military bases have become a source of threat rather than security"
51/ Listening to US & Israel hawks paraded on CNN etc saying this if you read between lines " If Iran hits back we must escalate bc they're strong. If Iran doesn't hit back, we must finish the job bc they're weak. The only constant is more bombs,more killing,more $ on their forever war"- Ben Rhodes
Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps: 1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups. So even small supply changes = big price effects
the 1970s oil embargo & resulting stagflation was felt to discredit the left on economics for two generations & this is a million times stupider & more avoidable than that
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5mo agoIran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue.
47/ US military experts have been studying this question for decades. Read Prof Talmadge assessment of how difficult it would be to force open Hormuz as a military matter given Iranian capbilities. Paper www.caitlintalmadge.com/uploads/8/5/... Thread bsky.app/profile/prof...
Caitlin Talmadge@proftalmadge.bsky.social · 5mo agoU.S. efforts to go in and clear the mines-- a process that can take weeks-- would then make US surface vessels vulnerable to Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles, drones, and small boat attacks. 5/
This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
