Medicare for All was shown to be potentially cheaper than our status quo ACA system over 10 years by several major analyses. That is because under ACA we pay for the army of claim denial staff? and the executive bonuses and billion dollar profit margins of health insurance corporations
Reminder that people who had high trust in Musk and Doge scored high in "need for chaos" in our research:
theconversation.com/a-need-for-c...
The Oregon filing deadline came and went yesterday. No candidate stepped up to challenge unpopular senator Mark Meek in Oregon City in the D primary and not a single D is running in HD21 against Kevin Mannix in a swing district in Salem.
A failure in leadership from the Oregon Democratic Party.
For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.
Fucking ingrate better read it. Some kids don’t even have *3* million books
The richest guy in Oregon endorsed the Republican?
Shocking.
The person the richest guy in town wants elected is bad for everyone else. Take it to the bank.
Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now — but it’s because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
I need recommendations of good, practical, economically progressive accounts focused on Oregon, Washington, and the greater metro areas of Seattle, Portland, Spokane, etc. Who can help me out??
Hey Scott! here are my nominations for PDX @pnwelcome.bsky.social
@councilorgreen.bsky.social
@councilormorillo.bsky.social
@councilorkanal.bsky.social@counciloravalos.bsky.social
@evieevolving.bsky.social
@ecosozialismus.bsky.social
@fischer.bsky.social
@seachanger.bsky.social
Here we go again.
Reminder that the CEO of Nike routinely tries to rig Oregon's gubernatorial elections to get Republicans elected.
Someone posted this on Reddit 7 months ago for whatever reason but it works to show how many trucks you would need even if there were roads to drive and industrial docks to dock
The biggest tanker on record is 4.1 million barrels. A big truck is between 190 and 250 barrels. So roughly 25,000 trucks.
In fairness they’ve been perfectly consistent in opposing any potential competitors over the years, whether it was Waymo, or Lyft, or non-white people.
www.portlandmercury.com/news/2012/10...
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
Yeah I’m about the same for pro/impossible. Although (especially for the latter) I have wild variance. This game has been my meditation while recovering from long term illness, and sometimes brain no work. 🤷♂️
I have gotten above 300 days in the daily twice, but after missing one day the second time, I bailed on the dailies. (And it was always pretty boring playing the easy ones.)
I’ll try eternals. I mostly do the impossible but sometimes hit walls on them.
Is that time spent on just that one game? Not like total time on all? I have barely done the eternal version. i guess I don’t remember much of how it works.
God I would hate to see how many hours I have into this game. But, uh, I think it might be less than you 👀
Unfortunately everything absolutely can not not
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
Barker: Ohhhhhh
Barker: now i remember you
Whedon: yes!
Barker: joe whedon!
Whedon:
Barker: ha ha ha
Homelessness is a choice. We could chose to end it.
It's EXTREMELY rare for people to cosplay as one of my characters, in no small part because I do so little description that it's difficult to make a costume. This might change if/when something gets made for TV/Films. In fact the one character that IS cosplayed is K-VRC from Love Death + Robots.
John Brown and his sons famously hacked 5 pro-slavery men to death in Kansas. Using broadswords. Contemporaries credit them with scaring the fuck out of the slavers at the realization that some of the "free men" were also willing to be brutally violent.
Haiti didn't finish paying France back for Toussaint Louverture's massive theft, until 1947.
Elton John was born before Haitians finished paying for his theft. Now that's stealing big!
And yet, all my Haitian friends assure me that Toussaint was a good person?
Haitian General Toussaint Louverture was one of the biggest thieves in history! He hit the biggest lick of all time! He stole 10,714 square miles of land, and 500,000 slaves! Seriously!
France forced him and the freed Black Haitians to pay reparations to plantation owners for the "lost property."🤡
