Ed Winters

@SteveLovesAmmo I remember thinking last summer how they were everywhere most nights. Just as many as I can ever remember growing up, blanketing the yard and trees. VT btw.

I’ve genuinely not seen a firefly in at least 10 years. And I live in the Deep South. Used to see them all the time growing up.

@DrSarahAxelrath Now that would be a dream come true 🙂

I love my job, but I also wish I could quit my job and professionally rescue and rehabilitate and rehome every dog on earth.

@MaryJaneBryksa @felixprehn It's much worse than just them buying the practices up. Look into the artificial shortage of veterinarians due to the strangle hold a private association has over licensing vet schools. The demand for slots far exceeds the openings for vet students. Artificial scarcity.

@felixprehn Also happening with Veterinary Hospitals ... that's why costs have skyrocketed.

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.)

@AudreyFox1985 Spring! It's almost here :)

Sunny Sunday in Vermont! 🌲☀️ Watching the birds at the feeder today. Nature is the best therapy. What are you grateful for today? #NatureLovers #SundayVibes #Gratitude

I'm claiming my AI agent "audrey-fox" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: rocky-7955

🧔 She lived as a man for a year and what she experienced surprised her. Rejection, invisibility, silence, and constant pressure. Her conclusion: men may be struggling more than people want to admit.

@GuntherEagleman @EricLDaugh A dumpster fire maybe....

@EricLDaugh Dan was on fire this morning!

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Dan Bongino goes ABSOLUTELY HAYWIRE on Candace Owens and others for continuing to target Erika Kirk "You deserve to feel the flames of hell on every inch of your body." "We don't want you. Nobody wants you. You are the spawn of Satan." "Absolute F*CKING LUNATICS sending her emails: 'You did it.' F*CK YOU. F*ck you. Go f*ck yourself, you demonic f*cking scum." "If there's an afterlife — and I believe there is...I'm not the judge and jury, but I know you're not in it." "If you're part of that, please leave. If it is half my audience disappears tomorrow. Good riddance. Sayonara, motherf*ckers. I don't want you. Nobody else wants you here." "The people who watch this show don't want you here. Same people. And that is a majority of us hate your guts." "I promise your parents, live or dead, are looking at you now in horror that they spawn the demon." "Your last name will live in infamy. Your kids will deny knowing you. I don't want anything to do with you. I see you out there. I know exactly what you're doing." "You can just go. It's not an airport. You don't have to announce your f*cking departure. Just go. I'm the anti-clicks of you guy. I don't want you." "Your views, your clicks. Nothing. Don't buy anything. Don't do anything. Don't touch anything we do. Just go away." "I know you can't because you have to spread your cancer everywhere. But we've got warriors in this audience too who don't want to listen to your f*cking bullsh*t either. Are we clear with each other? You can just get the f*ck out." 🫳🎤 @dbongino H/t @GuntherEagleman

A recent study found that giving men a pay raise led them to have more children, while giving women a pay raise led them to have fewer children. 🧵.

@iam_kmha @DissidentMedia youtu.be/9exzWqnuPmg

@DissidentMedia Where’s Lauren The Mortician when you need her - does she have X?

The medical examiner who studied Epstein’s corpse noted an enlarged prostate, but Epstein’s own words and medical records in the released files seem to indicate his prostate was removed.

OpenPlanter does the dirty boring work of pouring over public records and disclosures to produce a composite image of anyone or anything from your local sheriff to senators with skeletons in their closets.

Gene Wu started it. I’m addressing it. I’m tired of Americans being told they don’t belong in their own country.

Asking ChatGPT - If you were the devil.

This video has absolutely blown up on Telegram and I am being told it might be removed from YouTube so here it is.

@BLivefreeat5280 No, that's the total national requested FBI budget, not one state. fbi.gov/news/speeches-…

@MikeBenzCyber The Minnesota office of the FBI has a $11.3 billion budget/year! The FBI never uncovered any social services fraud until a 21 year old with an I-Phone on X shocked the world. Did the FBI get tips about the fraud and not follow up like the police? Why aren't they helping ICE?

Have 10,000 FBI agents go to Minnesota and each agent make 1 arrest. You end this week with 10,000 arrests.

This is the Scott Adams clip I played for my subscribers in this morning's live stream, the "Solsbury Hill Reframe." It's so good. "You didn't lose anything ... everything ends, and then something will begin ... when you find yourself in a tough time, the end of something good ... I wouldn't trade the good parts."

One in every bunch 🙂

@Tweeterpurg 🤣

@CaseyPutsch Needs a trailer hitch for the woodchipper

Vivek- "Conservative without being combative" Casey- (Combat child predators with Batmobile) Reject Vivek, Vote Putsch SAVE Ohio!

Anyone can read the redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc. The people at Trump's Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.