Mandalorian Mike

5 years in and @scmesk still sends me off to work with a loving note #LuckyGuy

when worlds collide 🏈🤝🏒

Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson is at the United Center and gets a deafening ovation. #Blackhawks

If everyone treated restaurants like they treat their contractors…

Bartenders when you ask them to change the channel from a replay of yesterday’s horse races to the very popular college basketball tournament

Magic ‘the gathering’ Johnson

@HailMaryLogs Where do I find the plan for this?!

Our post about the official 3D model really took off, and now people from all over the world are printing mini Ryland Graces. How cool is it that fans can make their own merch? At this point, what’s next, official paperwork and a crochet pattern? 😉

The Blackhawks honor fallen Chicago Firefighter Michael Altman

walked out of phm and this car was parked next to me 🥺

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.)

FIRST TIME A COUNTRY HAS WON THE TRIPLE CROWN OF OLYMPIC HOCKEY Women’s Gold ✅ Men’s Gold ✅ Paralympic Sled Hockey ✅ 🗣🗣 CONGRATS BOYS

Well, isn’t that a thing of beauty 🥇🥇🥇 #WinterParalympics #WinterOlympics

Make the Microsoft CEO search for an email on Outlook live on camera

Nick Foligno was signed to be a transitional captain between Jonathan Toews and (presumably) Connor Bedard. He was everything the Blackhawks wanted him to be and more. Now they're returning the favor by letting him chase his first Cup.

The butt‑birth mechanical rhino from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls is currently up for auction It is 10 feet long from tip to tail and has a padded interior chair

When I say “Hell yeah!” this is what I mean

How in the world did the Blackhawks let Eddie Olczyk leave Chicago? Still can’t believe it. Best analyst in the game.

LETTSSSSS GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅

Whatever side you're on here, I think we can all agree that it'd be better for this game to end in regulation. Three-on-three is not real hockey, and should not decide a freaking Olympic gold medal.

It’s insane that OT of the gold medal game is 3v3