Sparky Abraham

like if you have decent employer based insurance most of your experience is very similar to just paying extra taxes for nearly free healthcare. but people at both margins have very different and totally opposite experiences. very american (derogatory).

it's kind of impressive that we created a system that is mostly just socialized medicine but allows a small set of middlemen to make insane amounts of money and also excludes / kills / financially ruins a significant number of poor people.

look I'm only joining ice because of my student loans. actually criticizing me for that is classist if you think about it. plus wouldn't you rather have me in ice than someone bad? maybe I can change it from the inside

SEIU California | SEIU California Demands Release of CSU Faculty Member Brutalized By ICE SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he…

A worker was killed. Dozens detained.

Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.

Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.

seiuca.org/press-releas...

After feds fired a tear gas canister towards someone in a wheelchair: "While attempting to assist the disabled bystander who could not see or breathe, Dr. Caravello was abruptly taken down by immigration agents, dragged into an unmarked vehicle, and taken to an unknown location."

From Camarillo to Carpinteria, firing tear gas and less lethals at children, congressman being denied entry by soldiers, and one lone man tries to stop a military convoy with his El Camino.

Raids are still happening over L.A. today, btw, and Santa Ana is being hit especially hard right now.

the baby box sounds cool but if a system really supported parents we would all get a socially provided sensory deprivation tank

the cfpb is the only law enforcement entity that cares when companies steal from you.

the rich people are running their own defund the police campaign

are there any federal elected dems putting up a fight over the ICE terror campaign? or is it just kids at risk of losing their parents who have the backbone to say anything

I assume Ferguson's faith in the FTC's ability to divine and apply natural law extends to its actual subject matter domain, including one of the classic subjects of medieval natural law: fair and just prices. I stand ready and willing to serve.

i try not to dwell too much on the fact that in a sane society my entire career and set of professional skills would be totally unnecessary.

like sometimes they are taking something that is no big deal and misunderstanding it and blowing it way out of proportion. and sometimes they are totally missing why a thing is a huge deal. and on any other topic I would have absolutely no idea about any of that.

consuming non-expert media about consumer finance makes me very nervous about consuming non-expert media about everything else

Biden touted student-debt relief for 5 million borrowers. Here’s who benefited. New research suggests borrowers whose loans were canceled were less well-off than those still paying.

Every politician and journalist who thinks this is an important feature just wants higher taxes but doesn't realize it or is too afraid to say it.

If you think people with more money should contribute more, there's a tool for that. It's not student loans.

www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-...

i just pretend everyone gets both As. it's all udaap now

"The loans cancelled have aggregate outstanding balances of approximately $1.7 billion. The expense to the Company to cancel these loans was approximately $50 million, which represents the amount of expected future recoveries of these charged-off loans on the balance sheet."

i haven't harped on this for a while but here's a nice reminder that whenever someone talks about the "cost" of canceling debt as the balance owed on that debt, they are either dumb or lying. navient knows exactly how this works and discloses it in their 10-k

A perpetual motion machine for genocide in the name of "eliminating Hamas"

99% of baby parenting

Debtors above 80 owe over $2 billion collectively

2,800 student debtors age 96+

great system.

super fucked up but also super on point that the term a large portion of our legal and administrative system has adopted for "normal person" (i.e. not a corporation) is "consumer"

logging some continuing fatherhood education hours (watching bluey)

in approx 2017-18 my mom and aunts would frequently say stuff like "I'm in Facebook jail for three days so I'm really bored." they haven't mentioned it for years so I guess criminal justice reform worked somewhere?

the premise underlying this discourse is "if you tell powerful people they're doing bad and harmful things they won't like you" and somehow the conclusion is "so you should help them do those things instead"

I've had several cases against these programs and associated financial companies. shocker: many don't bother following regulatory requirements. another shocker: many operate on the model that many young people will get a job no matter what, and just want to claim a part of that future income

cool ad, great

finish your meal, don't you know there are starving kids next door?

your toddler has an english accent from peppa pig? that's cute. mine has a boston accent from car talk.

jealous of how smooth and well-paved those Kabul roads are. skaters paradise

does anybody know what's going on with this bell it won't stop tolling