Born a Cranky Old Bat

BREAKING: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress today that he signed an agreement to work with DOGE to cut jobs and spending. The USPS is planning to eliminate 10,000 jobs in the next 30 days through a "voluntary early retirement" program.

BREAKING: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress today that he signed an agreement to work with DOGE to cut jobs and spending. The USPS is planning to eliminate 10,000 jobs in the next 30 days through a "voluntary early retirement" program.

Does everybody know the story with United Healthcare that was likely the start of all of this? It seems that this is connected to a security breach that occurred back in February, affecting 100 million people. The breach targeted Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth, and hackers reportedly took huge amounts of sensitive data. UnitedHealth paid $22 million in Bitcoin to the ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat, but even after the payment, they weren’t given back their keys. Instead of telling anyone, they waited, hoping the hackers would follow through. They waited months. My wife was in the health insurance industry until recently, helping people get coverage for certain specific conditions. She told me that while United sat on their hands, doctors couldn't get paid. Patients were denied coverage and medical treatments. Pharmacies also struggled, unable to process prescriptions because of the disruptions. United claimed the problems were being addressed, but it dragged on for longer and longer. Ultimately it got so bad that the doctors' offices were underwater. They came to United and complained. United told them it wouldn’t be much longer and agreed to "help" them with short-term loans... with interest. By mid-year, UnitedHealth had issued $8.9 billion in loans. More time passed, and nothing changed. The doctors' offices went bankrupt. So United "helped" them again by buying them out for pennies on the dollar. UnitedHealth now owns an unholy conglomerate of doctors' offices and health insurance operations, something which my wife says is a massive conflict of interest. The DOJ has been working on a fraud and insider trading case as a result of this series of events. ​ The CEO of UnitedHealth, Brian Thompson, was gunned down yesterday by a masked, hooded man using a silencer. He is still at large. It is clear from footage that he is very familiar with his weapon, suggesting a professional hit, but he was also on camera at a local Starbucks just before the attack, suggesting an amateur. The assassin wrote the words "​Deny, Defend, Depose" on the bullet casings left at the scene. Was Brian Thompson about to testify? Was this politically motivated? Or was this revenge?