Barbara M Boyd

Tucker Carlson announces that the United States government may be preparing to arrest him through a CIA criminal referral. The government is reportedly claiming that Carlson’s interviews with Iranian leaders before the war began may have violated the law. He says the government spied on him, read his text messages, and is now trying to imprison him like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

🚨Report: Thomas Massie is planning to sit on the Democrat side of the aisle tonight with Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna Via: Axios

The GOP is fractured. Just start preparing for Democrat wins in 2026 and 2028. It’s a better use of your time than being disappointed by the GOP everyday. Prepare for what life will be like under Communism and an Islamic and Woke Reich government post Trump. That’s what’s coming. It’s not like we can even rely on the party to codify President Trump’s agenda anyway. The GOP already blew the window of opportunity.

So the mystery appears to be solved. It’s highly likely that the reason that Epstein KNEW Stef Halper was running anti-Trump operations for both the CIA and British intelligence (see post below) is because his friend Price Andrew (Duke of York) told him. Andrew was deeply connected with British intelligence. He met Dearlove at the Palace just as Russiagate was kicking off. Dearlove is the boss of Christopher Steele, with whom Stef Halper closely coordinated. Professor Christopher Andrew who also attended the meeting with Dearlove at the Palace is another member of the Cambridge Club of the “former” spooks and academics operating out of Cambridge University. It appears that the Palace officially sanctioned the British intelligence support operation to the Hillary campaign. Epstein wrote that Obama likely knew that Halper worked for both the Americans and the British (which is illegal) and that both sides payed him. It appears from numerous documents that Obama asked the Brits to help out Hillary, and Brennan organized for the Cambridge Club to run the op out of the UK. If the Palace sanctioned it officially, to be carried out by Dearlove, the boss of Christopher Steeele, it would make sense why Steele’s FBI codename was CROWN and the dossier was called “the Crown Material”.