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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

NEW: Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises.

Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.

By @emcahan.bsky.social

A freshly groomed black and grey cocker spaniel is sitting with her tag visible that says "Omen"

Groomer day 🩶

A grey and black cocker spaniel standing on a porch

Yes?

calling myself “clean air pilled” instead of covid cautious to my gen z cousin bc im hip to the lingo

A stern peregrine falcon looks at the reader against a background of pinks. "My love for you is like a Peregrine Falcon. Strong. Powerful." The peregrine zooms through the sky over a forest. "Energetic. Zooming towards you at 200 mph." The peregrine catches a bird. "Striking prey in a dramatic mid-air explosion of feathers. Storing excess meat in crevices or on ledges." The peregrine barfs up a pellet with a BLECHHH. "Vomiting up pellets of bone, feathers, gizzard, and other coarse material. Wait. What were we talking about?"

My love for you is like a peregrine falcon. One more valentine from a past year.

A white business card with "Get out of situation free" and "good for one (1) use" printed on the front with clip art of a person running in the middle

A white business card with "This card may be used to exit, escape, and otherwise get out of, a situation" and "situations include but are not limited to imagined, social, uncomfortable, boring, overwhelming, and shady situations" printed on it

THATS SO GOOD 💀 the last business cards I printed were get out of situation free cards, and "you must tell me if you're flirting" ones would fit right in

This haunts me every time you remind us 💀

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...

At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"No shit," said Gandalf, "It isn't as if most people wish for this kinda of fuckshit to rain down on them. It sucks. It totally sucks. Why do you think I have so much 'pipeweed' on me at all times? C'mon now."

RIGHT. The fact the shutdown lasted mere hours and there was so much buildup makes the whole thing feel like a stunt

A tiktok banner saying Welcome Back! And saying it's thanks to Trump that they're coming back

Yup 🫠

A banner from tiktok saying welcome back and explaining that thanks to Trump, people can come back and keep sharing things they love

And another one

The years really be like Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanuary FebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember.

“Wow I sure am glad all these stupid teenagers lost their dumb app cause I’m smarter than them”

Hello, I’m actually 34, and I think perhaps you might be 12

So much fearmongering out there over the Xiaohongshu aka REDnote. Not only was there no evidence they planned to separate foreign IP addresses, they rolled out one-click translation with lightning speed to facilitate cross-cultural interaction after the influx of newcomers who don't speak Mandarin.

Having shut down TikTok for a few hours and replaced it with pro-MAGA propaganda, TikTok is announces it is restoring service, including more pro-MAGA propaganda in the announcement

L. M. A. O.

The #tiktokban might be the Dems' biggest misstep since deciding to bail out wall street

It's gonna be changed beyond recognition by vultures after the data. The whole thing breaks my heart

A screenshot of the tiktok shut off pop up with a caption from a video saying "level of fascism" below

well are ya?

And the dead air makes me so profoundly sad

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

There’s something deeply jarring about losing something and then having to grieve it around people who refuse to believe it was important.

Open invitation to @ or DM me your vent when some smarmy asshole starts acting like the community you lost was just a toy. I was there, I get it, I see you.

Screenshot from tiktok showing the poop explaining tiktok isn't available, and the only two options to choose are learn more or close app

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Meet the Americans who still take COVID-19 precautions seriously People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.

“I don’t consider myself COVID cautious. I consider myself COVID competent,” Zebrowski said. “Cautious would imply that I have an unreasonable fear of something. I do not have an unreasonable fear of this disease.”

Nailed it 🔥

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It will be literal years after an interaction and suddenly it's like OH WAIT THATS WHAT THAT WAS

Then I think to myself "I'll know it next time"

(Narrator voice: they never knew it next time, it always goes over their head)

We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”

A Plea to Maskless Healthcare Workers from Vulnerable Patients If you see a mask - wear a mask. Better yet - wear a mask all the time and show us you understand that we're still IN a pandemic. We are depending on you to keep us safe - please don't betray that.

It’s 2025… can we start masking in hospitals this year?

Can we stop insinuating that hospital acquired covid is “inevitable” or that those who die were going to “die anyways”?

Can we call it what it is? An epic failure of infection control to protect those who put their lives in your hands: