Burnell Holland III

There is a false narrative that our young men aren’t willing to work for their dreams. Tuesday, @MBK_Alliance @Prudential @MBK_Newark @rasjbaraka simply provided boys & young men of color a chance to COMPETE for opportunities. The response was clear (1st is pic B4 doors opened):

Five-time NBA All-Star John Wall has become the president of basketball operations at Howard University, returning to Washington, D.C. to partner with the top-ranked HBCU in the country, school officials tell ESPN.

The breakout star from Sinners told me his preparation for the role started with a blues playlist from Ryan Coogler. Miles Caton was 18 when he first got connected to the movie. And yeah, we’re gonna need that playlist. #Oscars

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.)

@grantpaulsen Damn, when yall are on…you’re on😂. Have to salute the fact that ya’ll have FUN while doing this job

There are two types of people in this world. People who love Jeremiyah Love, and people who haven’t watched enough Jeremiyah Love.

@P_ConnerJr They need you in the pro personnel dept.

Three guys im looking at for #Commanders today just happen to be together on this list. Still dont know plan at WR. Aiyuk? Jennings? Diggs? Or RB? Pacheco was just had for under $2 mil.

@Commanders Adam. Is. COOOOOOOOOOOKIN!!

Happy Black History Month.

In 40 years, it had never rained during the Super Bowl. On the day of 41st the heavens opened up and poured down hard. Because everything on the stage were live instruments and the stage floor was slick with water for he and his dancers, they asked Prince what did he want to do about the performance. Prince replied, “can you make it rain harder?” Long live Prince. The greatest halftime performance in Super Bowl history.

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election? Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official. Be warned.

*deep sigh*

@NickiJhabvala And now, they're teammates 🔥

The moment Von Miller found out the 49ers took Javon Kinlaw

"All you got it is your name, and your reputation." Scary Terry standing on business 🗣️ @Commanders

Terry in the locker room rn

Rich Eisen's tribute to Stuart Scott "We all know, there should be someone else right here in this chair next to me"

@RGIII @OuttaPocketRG3 Any list without Malcolm X is invalid and shall be thrown out -- expeditiously.

Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of ALL-TIME. What are your top 5 Denzel Washington Movies? I’ll start. 1. John Q 2. Remember the Titans 3. Antwone Fisher 4. Training Day 5. American Gangster

@dcwater @DCDPW looks to be a water main break at the corner of Burns and G Street SE. Heavy amounts of water flowing and the street is cracked in multiple places. @CMWendellFelder @DavidGadis

Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

Happy 25th Anniversary to Who is Jill Scott?!!!! Enhanced my life beautifully . Love to everybody that touched it, shared it, lived with it and still rocking it. Gorgeous journey. 💃🏽 💃🏽 💃🏽 💃🏽

Your homicide rate is literally DOUBLE California’s.

.@SpeakerJohnson, @LeaderJohnThune, @SteveScalise, @SenJohnBarrasso — are you going to condemn this? Have a spine.