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the blood may be fake but the bleeding's not. Milwaukeean I wrote Health Justice Now, a book about Medicare for All and beyond. https://error.malware-virus.biz Infrequent health policy newsletter: buttondown.com/error

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Looks like Obsidian has a plugin called Ink that lets you handwrite within an existing Obsidian file. Might go with that and just get whatever tablet makes sense.

05.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Part of me wants to crack down on myself and recommit to the paper journal and integrating it into what I'm doing, but at this point it's mostly for free writing. And the other part wants to submit to Everything's Computer

05.08.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone have a tablet + pen setup they like? I've been using Moleskine journals for the past 20 years β€” either for my agenda, or what I'm reading, or whatever. But as I've shifted my to-dos and notes to digital (I use Obsidian), I find I both use it less and don't transfer notes over.

05.08.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

the White House Ballroom is a DIY space

05.08.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

because you touch yourself at night

05.08.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

that's what i'm talking about

05.08.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Does Shift Happen? Key Concepts and Evidence in the Hospital Cost-Shifting Debate - California Health Care Foundation Key Takeaways Private insurers often pay more to hospitals than public insurers like Medicare or Medicaid for the same services. This leads some stakeΒ­holders to conclude that hospitals engage in β€œcos...

The hospital argument is that decreased Medicare or Medicaid rates necessarily result in increased private insurer prices β€” but this idea of 'cost shifting' doesn't bear out in real studies www.chcf.org/resource/doe...

05.08.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think this is a sharp proposal: huge hospital systems in WI charge private insurers over 4x what Medicare pays. Capping those prices at 3x or even 2x of Medicare creates big savings β€” which can be invested in Medicaid to draw down federal funds & increase provider reimbursement

05.08.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i know it's technically not his fault but we need to tie the guy who ran the Dennys twitter account to a telephone pole and let the crows eat him

05.08.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 543    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

I certainly would grab it again if I happened to see it at the store

04.08.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah there was a korean spot in crown heights-ish that had a really good set of jackfruit dishes. What a strange and wonderful fruit

04.08.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wanted to make a sandwich so I grabbed this jackfruit pulled pork. It smelled a little saccharine while I was cooking it, but added some mayo, avocado, and tomato and it worked really well.

04.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, so now you guys are opposed to clean energy, just because Trump is behind it?

04.08.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

aside from the obvious revulsion i feel at a gag like this: talking to a robot as if it's a ghost proves that modern technology has unleashed a level of Peasant Brain of which I have not before been aware

04.08.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

imagining what all of the badass organizers i know could do with these funds

03.08.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh you know it

03.08.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't think Liam Neeson could pull off a role like this but he was *so* good. And Pamela Anderson owned it and was also extremely hot and you never get to see older women cast as hot, so that was cool

03.08.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely brilliant. I was barking.

03.08.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nw

03.08.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A few scattered thoughts on BLS:

Trump would have done better to install a loyalist before the jobs numbers started looking like trouble. The post-revision tantrum and sacking will make it, if anything, harder rather than easier to cook the books without anyone taking notice (1/x)

01.08.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 300    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 21
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goddamn, does Nick Gurewitch still "got it." pbfcomics.com/comics/the-h...

01.08.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

The trendy liberal line appears to be "You should let me in your coalition if I want to be in it." No! Coalitions do things! You need to do them too! You just feel bad that you sleepwalked towardβ€”or supportedβ€”genocide. Well, tough shit. Live with your guilt. Your victims can't.

01.08.2025 07:13 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Well, fuck me.

01.08.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Soft Black Stars

01.08.2025 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Introducing wife to Current 93

01.08.2025 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I know sexual violence is a "weapon of war" (yuck) and certainly we've seen it in, eg, Abu Ghraib, but it seems to be so *constantly* seen in the Gaza genocide. Is this just because the Gaza genocide is more documented?

01.08.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

What's with Israel & sexual violence? Every account from Palestinian prisoners includes sexual assault or rape; we've all seen the photos of soldiers wearing women's underwear, the forced "confessions" from Palestinians of committing SV... Is it singularly present here? www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

01.08.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences β€” adults and children alike β€” to see the humanity of all people.

I was moved to tears. Ms. Rachel isn't a new Mr. Rogers -- she's in a league of her own. www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/in...

31.07.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

fuck i should have made it my wife's wikifeet page

31.07.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i made it

31.07.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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