Terry Lorch

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Primary care physician. Universal healthcare advocate. I play with string, spinning to knitting and weaving.
"No president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor," says Biden in #SOTU.
This is what the media refuses to cover. #SOTU
RT @georgehahn
No, this is not a courtroom soap opera about a new money mob wife whose husband just got 20 years to life. This is a sitting U.S. congresswoman. With committee assignments.

RT @maksymeristavi
r*ssia liberated downtown kharkiv of a university. because cultural erasure is integral to genocide.

r*ssia is a terrorist state
@suspilne_news

And this-

Someone asked me what Biden has done yesterday even though I post about it all the time. If he didn’t do anything, there’d be nothing to cancel.

171 Republican lawmakers join effort to stop student loan forgiveness program-
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/171-republican-lawmakers-join-effort-stop-student-loan/story?id=96898628

171 Republican lawmakers join effort to stop student loan forgiveness program

The representatives and senators insist the "bailout" is executive overreach.

ABC News
A neo-Nazi leader is charged in a plot to attack the #Maryland power grid with his girlfriend https://wapo.st/3I2w02W
Duo accused of neo-Nazi plot to target Maryland power stations

Atomwaffen founder Brandon Russell and a girlfriend, Sarah Clendaniel, are accused of launching a neo-Nazi plot to attack power substations around Baltimore.

The Washington Post
@anildash they don’t care. It’s really just that simple. Frankly, neither do most Texas voters, apparently.
"In 2020, there were 24 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, about 2.5 times higher than the average for high-income countries." https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/us-still-has-the-worst-most-expensive-health-care-of-any-high-income-country/
US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country

US health care has lagged peers for years, and the pandemic made things worse.

Ars Technica
@ryanlcooper regarding the fourth bullet point, I wonder where the US ranks in terms of administrators per person-visits. Of course, other countries likely have no need for such a metric.

Imagine being terrified by a Chinese spy balloon but ignoring a virus which is killing thousands of Americans a week and creating chronic disease and shortening the life expectancy of many others.

#COVID