Kenneth Baer

The clearest sign of intellectual chemistry isn’t agreeing with someone. It’s enjoying your disagreements with them.

Harmony is not the combination of identical sounds. It’s the pleasing arrangement of different tones, voices, or instruments.

Creative tension makes beautiful music.

WH had illegal day 1 pauses on green energy & foreign aid

On Monday they expanded pauses to be 1/3 of the budget

WH then walked it back & PRETENDED they never expanded & were only reiterating day 1 EOs

Now she's spinning, saying “yeah, everything is continuing as planned, just the day 1 EOs!”

The ADL Scolds Elon Musk for Nazi Puns: “The Holocaust Is Not a Joke” After defending Musk's viral salute, The Anti-Defamation League is criticizing the tech billionaire after he made a series of Holocaust jokes.

The ADL Scolds Elon Musk for Nazi Puns: “The Holocaust Is Not a Joke”

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Trump return-to-work policy will be a nice case study in implementation of EOs and presidential influence in the bureaucracy. Even seemingly cut-and-dry WH dictates are tough to implement w/o skill, persistence, and buy-in. Will be interesting to see if/how WH accomplishes it.

Medicare announces plan to negotiate prices of diabetes, weight loss drugs The expensive weight loss drug Wegovy is among 15 whose prices will soon be negotiated by Medicare.

Lowering prices of drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy is great, but it’s not enough. By adopting a subscription model (think Amazon Prime for GLP-1s) for eligible Medicare and Medicaid patients, we could eliminate the barriers of individual pricing.

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Are you spending $20 on this #Eagles pretzel? 🦅🥨

Medicare Advantage Enrollment Update 2024

MA enrollment 54.7% of overall Medicare recipients in 2024
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An ice skating rink sponsored by an orthopedic group

Vertical integration

News: The Washington Post talent exodus is underway, with Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer joining The Atlantic.

Vox Media: Podcast Network | On with Kara Swisher .

HHS is by far the largest US agency with an almost $2 trillion budget – more than double that of the Dept. of Defense. That’s why leadership matters. I discuss what we might expect for Trump’s second term with @karaswisher.bsky.social, @celinegounder.com, and Donald McNeil Jr.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

UPenn ‘lost its way’ in response to campus antisemitism, Governor Shapiro says In conversation with AJC CEO Ted Deutch, Josh Shapiro says some universities were “willing to forgo” their responsibilities to protect Jewish students on campus

"There is antisemitism on the left, and there is antisemitism on the right...It is critically important for leaders to speak and act with moral clarity and speak out against it, even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it’s within your own party." -
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The putting that on Hard Knocks AFC North?

Impact factor

Knish in a dish
Noodle in a kugel
Kreplach in a headlock

I went to two different Bruce shows in two different cities in two different decades with Josh. He's a fan.

And he's the only candidate for gov who will do something about the high costs of living in NJ.

Wonderland Books just opened in Bethesda! I’m checking it out today and hope you will consider buying books here or another independent bookstore for you holiday shopping!

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Antisemitic vandalism. Four unsecured weapons. 600 rounds of ammunition. Badges with jihadi slogans. Hamas and Hezbollah flags. 90 signatures on the petition insisting there's nothing to worry about here. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I haven't looked at an undergrad polisci syllabus in a long time. Pretty light reading load...

trenton should establish some sort of ted-talk-esque conference so it can reinterpret its bridge to mean "Trenton makes the world's Takes"

People like the Affordable Care Act and pushes for additional reforms should keep that in mind.

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Your #NFL MVP candidate couldn’t capture the win in LA? Can’t relate 🤷😏

Mark Cuban Explains His Battle Against Pharmacy Benefit Managers In a fireside chat at the University of Pennsylvania, Mark Cuban and Ezekiel Emanuel discuss Cuban’s new company that is disrupting the U.S. prescription drug distribution market.

Good summary of fascinating coversation between Mark Cuban and Zeke Emanuel about Cost Plus Drugs' battle against #PBMs

@mcuban.bsky.social @zekeemanuel.bsky.social @costplusdrugs.com

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What does a weak and cornered Iran do?

Syrians just opened up Assad’s presidential garage. This is what the Ba’ath Party’s Arab Socialism looks like.

The surest test of a Middle Eastern regime's commitment to liberal and humane values is its willingness to live in peace alongside the Jewish state of Israel.

Free idea for a Democratic '28 hopeful: call for a Constitutional amendment removing the presidential pardon power.

So they are going to increase funding for program integrity?