I have yet to find a news article that explains all differences between bill 1 (the one president musk killed by tweeting) and bill 3 (the one congress just passed). I feel like journalists are going to read this over the holidays and in January we’re going to get stories about how lawmakers just defunded the EPA or something.

Nah, it’s actually very easy to see, thanks for your concern tho

This is the woke DEI agenda fascists want you to be afraid of (though I think they called it “political correctness” in those days)

Over 6½ years ago, KFF Health News and NPR kicked off “Bill of the Month,” a crowdsourced investigation highlighting the impact of medical bills on patients.

The goal was to understand how the U.S. health care system generates outsize bills and to empower patients with strategies to avoid them. We asked readers and listeners to submit their bills — and they kept coming. “Bill of the Month” has received nearly 10,000 submissions, each a picture of a health system’s dysfunction and the financial burden it places on the patients.

Since 2018, we have analyzed bills totaling almost $6.3 million — including nearly $2.8 million that patients were expected to pay out-of-pocket.

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While our “Bill of the Month” partnership with NPR is sunsetting, the “Bill of the Month” series will continue as KFF Health News investigates your medical bills. Keep them coming! And watch for future stories in [Jeffrey Bezos’ trash rag]

Great idea NPR, everybody in America is pretty satisfied with their healthcare right now so this series is clearly just dead weight /s

https://archive.is/myRcU

The fact that congressional Dems picked 70-something cancer patient Gerry Connolly over AOC for an important oversight role earlier this week tells me we need a lot more stories like this to hammer the point home, and I think the type of senior Dem who really needs to hear this message is more likely to listen to Rupert Murdoch than like Jacobin or the Intercept

The government regulators for being captured by the yahoo ranchers and not listening to the expert virologists

Pretty sure you can listen to most radio stations online from anywhere

100%, I found Silver Jews American Water years ago and listened to it a million times but then kind forgot about them, and only found out about this project after seeing a news article along the lines of “former lead singer of Silver Jews kills himself, he’d recently released a solo album that in hindsight looks like an incredibly obvious cry for help, he was friends with the guys in Pavement and other more famous and well adjusted people, etc.”

Incredibly so, sometimes I almost feel weird for sharing it because it is such a black pill of an album, but it’s just such a perfect encapsulation of long term depression and beautiful and fucking funny, I can’t help but adore it

Nights That Won’t Happen by Purple Mountains

If it needs to be instrumental, the Disco Elysium soundtrack by British Sea Power is pretty excellent (though it goes through a bit of an emotional spectrum beyond malaise imo)

I expect that to go about as well as the time China tried to exterminate sparrows in the late 50s

Too soon to say for sure /s

Nah, the whole album is excellent, but track 3 was what put me on a path beyond my parents’ classic rock collection and towards getting into things like Cut Chemist and J Dilla

The Great Gig is gorgeous, but On the Run changed my understanding of what music could be

Also, if you think enough about what a lie even is you can rationalize a lot. Am I a self motivated and highly organized person? Well, nobody’s ever described me that way before, but maybe I could start being one right now, stranger things have happened. And if it all blows up a few months down the line because I couldn’t manage to get my shit together, I’ll take my couple of paychecks and tell myself “well, I meant to do better” and that will be at least 51% true and I will have a couple of paychecks I wouldn’t have otherwise.

Alternatively, just find a way to sell your weaknesses as strengths. e.g. “I’m not always super organized, but I’m real good at dropping in to a chaotic situations on short notice and getting the essential things straightened out quickly because my disorganized nature has forced me to learn those skills. I’m not self motivated, so you don’t need to worry about me undermining your plans and vision for this place with my own, making decisions makes me nervous so you do that stuff and I will see that your decisions are carried out.”

A bandaid that lets wealthy people get an ego boost and a tax write off

Ah yes, appeasement, there’s a proven strategy for dealing with fascists /s

Yeah, I hate Joe Biden as much as anyone who knows his history on criminal justice issues should, but his mistake here was one of negligence.

The real problem here is

federal authorities verified that their offenses were nonviolent

Like, how was this nonviolent? This judge participated in a scheme to kidnap children and if they or their parents resisted they’d have violence inflicted upon them, just because that violence was being done by police officers and the kidnapping was to a jail cell instead of a brothel shouldn’t change anything, but the system can’t help but give a judge the easy white collar criminal treatment

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Please, marginalized people get more explicitly threatening crap said to them all the time and people rarely get arrested or charged for that. She’s being charged because the system wants to make an example out of her. The judge basically said so himself at the bail hearing,

“I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point,” the judge said.