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What's the human toll of America's for-profit insurance industry? Our latest digs into the grim numbers of an industry rooted in greed, where people "literally can't afford to breathe" and roughly a third of the health care dollar is spent propping up a "bloated, Byzantine insurance industry.”

submitted 78 days ago • 29 comments

Nuts!!

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If implemented, Trump’s plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on all goods from Mexico and Canada would result in an estimated loss of $250.6 billion in annual U.S. gross domestic product and approximately 1.97 million jobs. newrepublic.com/post/188950/...

submitted 91 days ago • 15 comments

An important and revealing graphic from @nytimes.com

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Dealing with health insurance in literally any capacity is a galling, debasing humiliation for every American, an insulting slog of unwinnable absurdity that should cause anyone unironically calling this the “greatest country in the world” to spontaneously combust.

submitted 161 days ago • 11 comments

France on Friday showed off to the world the gleaming restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral, just over a week before the 850-year-old mediaeval edifice reopens following painstaking restoration after a devastating 2019 fire ➡️ https://u.afp.com/59E5

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

In 2022, Mexico supplied 51% of the fresh fruit imported to the United States

submitted 97 days ago • 29 comments

Trump’s mass deportation plan will cost $88 billion a year, the American Immigration Council estimates -- nearly twice the budget of the National Institutes of Health and four times NASA’s budget. ⁦‪German Lopez www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...

submitted 97 days ago • 14 comments

Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators, state regulators said Sunday. It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.

submitted 99 days ago • 154 comments

Yar, the sea, she was angry that day

submitted 149 days ago • 13 comments

Interesting: An mRNA Vaccine to Prevent & Treat C. difficile [mouse study] www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re... “Our approach was to create a multivalent mRNA vaccine that would attack multiple aspects of C. diff’s complex lifestyle simultaneously... Study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 100 days ago • 19 comments

Piers Morgan: “50 years ago, before Roe came in, it wasn't a federal law. So why are you so exercised about it?" BTC: "Prior to Black people having the right to vote, they weren't allowed to vote. I'd be worked up if that was rolled back, too.“

submitted 102 days ago • 1222 comments

Trumps cabinet: five people involved with Project 2025, three people accused of sexual assault, two Fox News hosts, a WWE star, and a daytime TV doctor.

submitted 103 days ago • 11 comments

IF ONLY WE HAD THE DATA ON VACCINE EFFICACY Measles, diphtheria, mumps, rubella, smallpox & polio—all dramatically reduced or eliminated thanks to vaccines. Millions of children’s lives saved. Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr as HHS Secretary will spike the numbers—blood will be on the Senate’s hands. Speak up.

submitted 103 days ago • 41 comments

I’m determined to get through the next four years with my sanity and humor intact.

submitted 103 days ago • 145 comments

A mummified ice age cub discovered in Siberia is exceptionally preserved, providing the first view of what sabre-toothed cats looked like and clues about their hunting style.

submitted 106 days ago • 10 comments

In a landmark discovery, Scientists have found a completely preserved 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost. Whiskers, claws, fur, and paws. The whole thing.

submitted 107 days ago • 79 comments

A Tulsa Race Massacre victim was recently identified as a World War I veteran. The city has now paid tribute to him

submitted 107 days ago • 26 comments

Germany to enforce new ban on large knives to protect Christmas markets from repeat of August's Islamist attack that killed 3, wounded 8. www.dw.com/en/germany-t...

submitted 107 days ago • 8 comments

To recap: Defense nominee accused of sexual assault; AG nominee investigated for sex trafficking; Intel nominee is a Putin sympathiser; Health nominee is an anti vaccine crackpot who beheaded a whale with a chainsaw and had part of his brain eaten by a worm.

submitted 108 days ago • 18 comments

There’s essentially nothing easier to prove with data than vaccine effectiveness

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

AG: a man investigated for sex trafficking. Director of National Intelligence: a pro-Putin promoter of disinformation. HHS: an anti-science fraudster and conspiracy theorist. Secretary of Defense: a talk show host. Thank you, Trump voters. You’ve voted for all of this.

submitted 109 days ago • 58 comments

Some thoughts: 1. Many, many Secs of HHS (including Biden’s) are lawyers 1a. But almost all have had executive experience, including most w/experience overseeing some aspect of a state health system 2. No secretaries of HHS are perfect 2b. But to my knowledge none have been labeled as …

submitted 109 days ago • 10 comments

America.

submitted 111 days ago • 885 comments

We are really up against it crew. Twitter, our home and base of operations has gone to sh*t. We need to rebuild. Can you all help share and help us find all the followers we lost?

submitted 111 days ago • 43 comments

full size and travel size

submitted 112 days ago • 337 comments

letter of recommendation: put a window in the box

submitted 112 days ago • 23 comments

X has a new terms of service that goes into effect on November 15. It says that by using X, you agree that everything you post can be used to train their AI models.

submitted 112 days ago • 392 comments

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

submitted 113 days ago • 27 comments