TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

INSANE: Ron #DeSantis wants #Florida residents to carry firearms without a permit. In Jan alone, there’s been 49 mass shootings and more than 3,400 gun deaths, including 138 dead children.

If Ron DeSantis gets what he wants, expect more dead Americans.

"A total of 41% of US adults, 100 million people, bear medical debts. One of every 8 individuals owes more than $10 000. In Massachusetts, 46% of adults say they skip needed care because of costs. As of 2021, 58% of all #debt collections in the US are for #medicalbills."

Excellent commentary by former US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Svs administrator, Don Berwick, out today via @JAMA_current

Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801097

Telling my Twitter followers I'm heading over to Mastodon for a pack of cigarettes and I'll be right back and then deleting my account

He'd wake up on Saturdays to go skate or sometimes, he'd go to the park to enjoy the sunset & snap photos of it.

He wanted to go every night & look at the sunset, that was his passion.

Tyre Nichols was a father, a man who loved his mama, a free-spirited soul who was looking for a new life in Memphis, Tennessee.

Everything he was trying to do was to better himself as a father for his 4 y/o son.

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Kanye West’s old presidential campaign bankrolled white nationalist Nick Fuentes https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/kanye-west-nick-fuentes-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#Memphis Fire Department says it fired two emergency medical technicians and a lieutenant who responded to the brutal police beating of #TyreNichols

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/328421

The imposter "George Santos," who should be immediately removed from the House chamber by Capitol Police as a grave national security risk, was funded by non-existent donors. He's a walking #Russian money-laundering operation. #GOP #USpol #politics https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/we-tried-to-call-the-top-donors-to-george-santos-2020-campaign-many-dont-seem-to-exist/

...Ms. Omar’s detractors might say all this reflects her anti-Americanism. They’re wrong. Ms. Omar speaks idealistically about “the moral authority the United States carries on the world stage when we stand up for human rights.” She just recognizes — as do many across the globe — that the United States doesn’t exercise that moral authority nearly as often as our leaders claim...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/opinion/when-ilhan-omar-asks-questions-her-colleagues-should-listen.html

In 2011, the Lutsk railway station was restored and rebuilt. The architect Andros Bidzilya designed the station with three domes - as in the picture. However, the head of the Lviv Railway was indignant: "There are three domes at the Lviv railway station, and there should be one at the Lutsk railway station." Lutsk is not Lviv!". And solemnly crossed out the two domes on the paper where the facade project was depicted. The architects had to change the project https://volyn.tabloyid.com/layf/5-malovidomyh-faktiv-pro-zaliznychnyy-vokzal-lucka

This is accurate ;)

(via https://marketoonist.com/2023/01/evolution-of-smart-products.html)

The way to honor Tyre Nichols is to never stop fighting for justice, to never give up on reform and progress, and to hold fully accountable not only the murderers but the system that gave them the power and the implied permission to take his life so violently and with such evil purpose.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
― James Baldwin

#quotes

The proliferation of conspiracy theories over time erodes reality in a political system designed to be maintained and run by an educated populace. As if paranoid nihilists give a damn about the founders' democracy they have rejected. https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/30/wuhan-and-the-nature-of-belief/

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-florida-doctors-convicted-31-million-medicare-fraud-scheme

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/01/30/johnsonjohnson-talcum-powder-lawsuit-bankruptcy-rejected/1871675114169/