RT @rbreich
Why is healthcare so expensive in America?

In the past few years, some hospital CEOs have seen their salaries increase by as much as 700 percent. Yes, you read that correctly.

Say it with me, Medicare for All.

So. A Texas* school superintendent** went to the restroom in a school and left his gun*** in the stall by mistake.

It was found by students. No one was harmed. Parents were mad.

Happily it was not a copy of "And Tango Makes Three" or some other bit of subversive literature. Then there might have been real danger.

um. what the heck are we doing in this country?

* Is anyone surprised?
** Leadership.
*** This whole sentence is messed up from top to bottom and shouldn't exist.

The American Independent: 6 weeks in, the House Republican majority has done nothing to curb inflation

https://americanindependent.com/republican-house-majority-nothing-address-inflation/

RT @SenSanders
Corporate Health Care Lobbyists: Medicare for All would lead to rationed care.

Gallup: A record-breaking 38% of Americans were forced to delay needed care last year because it was too expensive.

The greed of private health insurance companies is literally killing Americans.

#Admin #IndieWebSocial

Given all the crazy happening on Twitter this morning, where Elon is shutting down free SMS Two Factor Authentification, putting it behind a paywall, it seems like a good time to post this:

This server and all Mastodon servers have built-in Two-Factor for free - and we strongly encourage everyone to enable this. Here is how.

#2FA

https://sts10.github.io/2022/11/11/mastodon-two-factor-authentication.html

This is brilliant data-infused journalism:

Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/

Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them.

Of course, they're proud of it.

Florida's war on freedom expression is expanding. Now it's fired a teacher who shared a video of empty classroom bookshelves.

The extremists who run the state government don't need to burn books. Abuses like this are handling the censorship just as effectively.

https://jezebel.com/florida-teacher-is-fired-for-posting-viral-video-of-emp-1850130894

Essentially the entire DC press corps -- like pretty much all of Big Journalism -- still acts as though the Murdoch family's poison-spewing Fox "News" does journalism.

Why?

I keep wondering at what point Big Journalism will awaken to the threat(s) posed by DeSantis, who is a Trump-like power-monger but with more brains.

As Nieman Lab reports, his anti-journalism agenda is deeper and more dangerous, too.

But you can count on the NY Times et al to focus on everything but the danger he poses to democracy. Business as usual political "coverage" prevail for the most part.

So much as stake, and so little media awareness...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/02/ron-desantis-is-weaponizing-partisan-media-and-weakening-independent-sources-of-news/