Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

This was not an inevitability.

This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.

It does not have to be this way.

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich.

Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else.

Trickle-up economics.

Milton is pissed in his rain suit

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World CARLSAGAN • COM

#MedSky #SciSky #MedicalSchool

I recently had a health scare that illuminated one of the (many) problems with our health care system: pharmacy benefit managers.

They're a big reason why medicine is so expensive in this country. Here's what you should know about PBMs.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/congress-and-my-prostate

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar.

Why? This chart has the answer.

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Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.

Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.

Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?

New drug could prevent diabetes complications not fixed with blood sugar control, study hints An experimental drug compound could be a promising treatment for harmful diabetes complications, per a new study in lab mice and human cells.

This new drug might really change outcomes for people with diabetes.

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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

the US, in another example of its true “exceptionalism,” has never ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In this country, children are no more than chattel.

Revolutionary therapy treats ‘untreatable’ blood cancer Gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers

"A world-first gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers." www.positive.news/society/revo...

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Noah Reid, Catherine O’Hara’s costar from Schitts Creek plays piano and sings a song for her. #Canada

A Case of You 🎶

Get out the tissues 😭💔

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A drawing of Spider-man swinging from his webs in the air, kicking one leg up, wearing Liam Conejo’s “blue bunny hat.” Black text reads: Dear Liam, I'm so sorry about what's happening Buddy. I know you must be super scared and confused right now. I saw that you're not feeling great. I thought maybe if I drew you a picture it might cheer you up, even just a little. Spidey is one of my favorites too! I wish I could do more. I hope if you see this someday you'll know that there were so many people thinking and worrying about you even though you don't know us. Sometimes when bad things happen Kids wonder if it was their fault but none of this was your fault Kiddo. You didn't do anything wrong. Nothing at all. I hope you feel better and that you and your Dad get to go back home to your Mami really soon! FOR LIAM 'CONEJO’ FROM YOUR NERDY TIO FREDDY -

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For Liam.

Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024

UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M.

HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Not a metaphor.

Nobel prize for a wife from OXford A HOUSEWIFE and mother of three yesterday won the 18,750 GBP Nobel chemistry prize -- for a lifetime devotion to science. --Daily Mirror, 30 Oct 1964

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:

Here are my top 10 most unusual dog friends of all time!

Trial begins of wealthy Florida brothers accused of sexual abuse over decades Prosecutors allege real-estate trio Tal, Alon and Oren Alexander raped, assaulted and trafficked dozens of women Prosecutors in New York will tell a jury on Monday that three brothers from a wealthy Florida family raped, sexually assaulted and trafficked dozens of women during a decades-long reign of terror and depravity. The high-profile trial in Manhattan with elements of money, fame and power has parallels in other recent sex-trafficking cases held there, including the conviction and sentencing of the musician Sean “Diddy” Combs last year on prostitution-related charges. Information and support for anyone affected by rape or sexual abuse issues is available from the following organizations. In the US, Rainn offers support on 800-656-4673. In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support on 0808 500 2222. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html Continue reading...

Trial begins of wealthy Florida brothers accused of sexual abuse over decades

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.

When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL

I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.

The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27.5M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469.

Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by.

It's past time Walmart paid them a living wage.

Wow. David Popa Ice Art

There's this nice natural geological formation in Iceland, called the 'Elephant rock' for a precise reason.

Pretty neat 😎💙😎

Today we celebrate the wisdom of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, including and especially his lesser known work. Watch and share.