Jake

mid-atlantic trash

[Jake @jakebennett99]

Bro laced the wood and now I’m fighting Red on Mt Silver

[billiam @BillRatchet]

all of the fake Hunter Biden fans on the timeline who were bashing him 6 months ago are making me sick. I've been a believer since day 1. a true patriot, a fellow fiend, a truth seeker. he simply lived a lifestyle we all dreamed of and the Haters were envious

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Kenneth_Belkin Do I look like I’m a part of the elite oligarch class. This was taken at a super 8 motel off I95 by the way.

[maddie @madsssagascar]

quote so evil it could be used in a childrens comic book to be widely and easily understood as “thats the bad guy”

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I’m trying to figure out how we went from “reduce your carbon footprint” to building AI pollution factories in every city.

[Knoxie @KnoxieLuv]

These people are parasites

[Mads @europemaxxed]

"Your generation is so poor because you spend money buying food and-"

[Stop the Nonsense @kasthomas]

Notice how 70% is now the asymptotic limit to US approval/disapproval of anything, because 30% of the population is eating crayons.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Imagine being so fucking stupid you declare war on renewable energy at the exact same time we have an oil crisis

[Conner O'Malley @conner_omalley]

Irish Zionism

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

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.)

[Finch @blckbrdquitter]

there is quite literally no possible explanation or reasoning that could excuse the mass environmental destruction and indiscriminate loss of human life. this will kill people not only today but for years to come

[More Luigis Needed @LisaA311]

This is a war crime against the entire planet. This impacts every human on Earth

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

There is a profound sickness in the United States just now.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

There are few things more dangerous to humanity than billionaire ownership of our media.

[Jake @jakebennett99]

What a normal and functional society we live in

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

[Jake @jakebennett99]

I think about this often

[pennipotentum @spinozylvannian]

Chinese international student in my class was telling me about how his evangelical dad in Beijing believes that Trump was chosen by god to win the election, but that this victory is part of a larger divine plan to destroy the united states

[Nima Shirazi @WideAsleepNima]

There is no propaganda scale high enough to measure whatever the fuck this is.

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨

Dubai tourism sector fears current safety concerns could be a bigger PR problem than the genocides they’re funding or the slavery they rely on.

[Allen Ivermectin @FanSince09]

Gonna be a suitcase nuke attack on US soil because Kash Patel skipped an emergency briefing to ride in Grave Digger

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

Israel does preventative attacks, preventative genocides, preventative killing of children just in case they grow up. Preventative starvation, preventative torture.