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Matthew Holt

@boltyboy.bsky.social

Health Care Curmudgeon Was Health 2.0; Now @THCBStaff blog & #THCBGang Podcast AND @smackhealth health tech advisory Topics: health, tech, politics, soccer

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I have no idea how they judge this. They are all throwing it all out there, and the ones who make it to the bottom should all get gold!

13.02.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure half pipe snowboarding has much to do with the snowboarding I do but OMG are both the men and the women absolutely amazing and taking incredible risks. This is right on the edge -- fantastic competition

13.02.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Too few people know about this:

Musk caused hundreds of thousands of deaths with DOGE by cutting USAID.

More people have died because of this than in Gaza.

Musk and the people involved in DOGE must be held accountable

11.02.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

Amazing progress in geothermal powerπŸ‘‡

UK Gov should now abandon its disastrous carbon capture plans, centred around building π—‘π—˜π—ͺ gas power stations fed largely by importing Trump’s #LNG which is disastrous for the climate.

We’d be energy independent but it would need courage to go against Big Oil.

10.02.2026 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

08.02.2026 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 14971    πŸ” 8447    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 309

Fascist enablers

09.02.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It takes a special kind of hypocrisy to be Peter Thiel.

A gay, immigrant billionaire who enjoys an open marriage, yet bankrolls a movement hellbent on destroying the inclusive democracy that made his life possible.

He is pulling up the ladder after he climbed it

08.02.2026 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
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Evergreen.

08.02.2026 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1031    πŸ” 326    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 13

Bizarrer still as he turned out to be gay like Thiel!!

27.01.2026 06:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œEven if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out.”

27.01.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1674    πŸ” 335    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 31

The Bari Weiss line is a banger

27.01.2026 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As I said the other day, I know Steve Jobs wasn't infallible, but I'm pretty sure he would've taken a pass on this.

25.01.2026 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

"Regime's secret police continues executions in provincial city"

25.01.2026 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When did Tim Cook become such a brown nosing coward?

25.01.2026 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree. They deliberately created a stasi/gestapo organization with a network of concentration camps & have given them full access to go kill Americans. Yes there have been brutal assaults on groups like the Black Panthers but this level of institutionalization has never happened in our history

24.01.2026 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She simply cannot tell the difference....she probably believes what she is saying by now

24.01.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Certainly the armed lawless goons who got out of their car, assaulted him with pepper spray, tackled him to the ground and then drew their weapons to fire several bullets in his back had no intention of committing murder, no, not after committing murder in the same way a couple weeks ago, no ma'am

24.01.2026 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 854    πŸ” 179    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 2

The message is that the Presidency can do what it likes. That message has been received loud and clear by Trump, Miller and all their cronies. They need to be stopped and the nation needs a reckoning. /end

24.01.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Gestapo and Stasi didnt leave till they were evicted. We need an entire Nuremberg trial. We ignored Watergate, Iran Contra, Gitmo and the war crimes of the War on Terror & Iraq, the corruption of the 2008 financial crisis, and the many many crimes of Trump 1st administration./1

24.01.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Brown and Toland weighs in on the $34.94 Labcorp test. (Part 6) – The Health Care Blog

The 6th installment of @boltyboy.bsky.social's attempt to discover why he was charged $34.94 for a preventative lab test that should have been free is up. And no, it's not the final episode in the telenovela
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

19.12.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.

Adopting.

Babies.

What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

17.12.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3458    πŸ” 1175    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 105
Health Insurance Cancel Culture – The Health Care Blog

So my insurance has been cancelled. Read on for the tale of his desperate attempts to figure out CoveredCA, Blue Shield of CA and the kafkaesque nightmare of American Health Insurance Cancel Culture
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

08.12.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Slaying The Dragon – The Health Care Blog

Do you remember when Joseph McCarthy was defeated? Mike Magee does and he hopes something similar will happen again soon

thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

06.12.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There is so much bullshit about the cost of health insurance and wouldn't it be better to give everyone cash. Luckily @kimbbellard.bsky.social is here to give you a very basic math lesson
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

03.12.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Farewell to Medicare Advantage – The Health Care Blog

In the great Medicare Advantage or trad Medicare FFS debate, Jeff Goldsmith has now made his choice and dumped Medicare Advantage

thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/12...

02.12.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really think putting staggeringly dumb rich people who are also total jerks in charge of everything was a bad call.

21.11.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1171    πŸ” 198    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 4

I'm sure the Stasi and the Gestapo told the truth too

21.11.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Support your neighborhood scientist – The Health Care Blog

Do we need fewer lawyers and more scientists in Congress? @kimbbellard.bsky.social thinks so
thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/11...

17.11.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hang on. You expect me to correctly interpret a layman's interpretation of some scientist's interpretation of something no one can see or believe exists and get it right? You should have more important things to concern you such as, is Tuchel about to try to play Bellingham & Foden together again?

07.11.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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