Mike R

This kid has bright future! So good…

They don’t even try to hide their intent anymore

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

Major Breaking News: Iran's Security Chief Larijani just issued the following statement and warning: “I've heard that the remaining members of Epstein's network have devised a conspiracy to create an incident similar to 9/11 and blame Iran for it. Iran fundamentally opposes such terrorist schemes and has no war with the American people. We are defending our country against an aggression launched by the US and Israel. Iran stands tall in doing so in order to teach the aggressors a lesson.”

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.)

High oil prices are now good War is now good Big deficits are now good Protecting sexual predators is now good Presidential corruption and political insider trading is now good

Rising gas prices are causing a steep rise in consumer prices and will slow any future economic growth. It is a tax on all Americans.

Spot on!

@mark_dow You crack me up Mark! 🤣

WHY WON'T DENMARK SUPPORT US IN IRAN?

compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

This is important to understand. Don’t let the media manipulate your thinking.

Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che!

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

Dear Anna Paulina Luna, The Enumeration Beyond Entry program, which issues SSNs to LEGAL noncitizens, was launched in 2017 UNDER DONALD TRUMP to streamline work authorization for eligible immigrants. The Social Security cards for noncitizens have the restriction "Valid for Work Only with DHS Authorization,” unlike a U.S. citizen card. It does not give them the right to vote. The Heritage Foundation's own election fraud database found only 77 cases from 1999-2023 of noncitizen voting. Please stop omitting the facts. Signed, Informed Americans

"We figured out there's something that sells better than sex, and that's rage." NYU Professor Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) on tech companies' manipulation of vulnerable young men

It’s important that you understand what happened last night. Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue. In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired. CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.” In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump. But censorship always backfires. Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

A walk in the forest increases immunity for 30 days. Trees emit phytoncides. By inhaling them for 2 hours, you increase the number and activity of NK cells (cancer and virus killers) in the blood by 50%. The effect lasts for a month. This is the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku. (Nippon Medical School).

$38,300,000,000 of your tax dollars. Not for healthcare. Not for education. Not for small businesses. But for mass-detention camps. It’s flat out UNAMERICAN. Nobody can sit on the sidelines — it will take all of us fighting back together to stop this.

Pep Guardiola responding to a really intelligent question from a reporter: ‘Do you want to be my assistant coach, fucking hell, you are brilliant…’ Superb from Pep 👏🤣🤣 [@BeanymanSports]