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RN by day, reader/sleeper by night.
ER - ICU - IR

[Esper Borzoi @EsperBorzoi]

What’s the opposite of a Jimothy

[David Ellis @So_Dellisious]

A paradigmatic example of how a picture is worth more than a thousand words. I'd love to see pictures of all these anti-democratic "community hearings" to demonstrate how unrepresentative they are of the stakeholders who stand to benefit from allowing housing to be built near jobs.

[Jon 👾👾👾💥👾👾 @vjon]

Hundreds of people with $3-5 million homes in the second most expensive city in the hemisphere gather to put a stop to “greedy developers” building a tower with hundreds of $1.5 million “luxury condos” that will each pay 5x more property tax than them.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

ERCOT is setting an all-time demand record today at 91 GW, which is +17 GW vs the summer peak in 2021. But over the same period, maximum solar output is +27 GW. Add in the massive battery buildout, and wholesale power prices are actually lower now than they were 5 years ago.

[Can I pet that dog? @lingoplatter]

@AstrosFuture Looks like they finally moved him to relief

[Can I pet that dog? @lingoplatter]

@SanAntonioTim @TheAstrosLocker They may be fringe AAAA guys, but having Bloss and Gusto might have made the Burrows trade unnecessary (not that Melton is making us regret it). W. Wagner could be a LH depth piece, but I know that doesn’t help us in the outfield. Losing Wilyer stings, but WS with Vazquez in 22!

[Can I pet that dog? @lingoplatter]

@SanAntonioTim @TheAstrosLocker I think he means handcuffing ourselves with the contract of Correa (and perhaps the prospect loss aggregate of the other trades - Sanchez, Kikuchi before, others im forgetting)

[Can I pet that dog? @lingoplatter]

@JON_GUERRA9 @brianmctaggart Teng had been pretty solid until he was overused. burrows and Imai have their warts, for sure, but one eats innings and the other has shown flashes

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

Only 35% of voters work full-time.

That equals the share of voters that are retired.

No wonder politicians keep trying to transfer even more wealth from workers to retirees.

Via @EchelonInsights.

[Can I pet that dog? @lingoplatter]

@dannybarrand_ Safe to say you liked the Astros picks at the top half of day 1?

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

The refusal of blue states to build housing means that they will lose the equivalent of Wisconsin in 2028 no matter how hard they campaign.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

I just realized what makes Latino/Hispanic culture so unique and why it's so important to the rest of the world

It's the only large-scale culture that is BOTH Western and collectivist

There are other Western cultures, like the US and Europe, but they aren't collectivist anymore, and thus have lost their sense of a cohesive society and social bonds

There are other collectivist cultures, most of them in fact – India, Africa, China, the rest of Asia – but they aren't Western, and thus lack the emphasis on individual sovereignty and freedom

Latino culture has both – the individual and their liberties matter, and solo achievement is valued, but always with the needs of the family and society in mind as a counterbalancing force

Surely someone has thought and written about this before?!

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I sincerely don’t know how to escape the attention black hole that is New York City, but obviously to the extent you care about policy the outcome of races in Alaska, Texas, Ohio, and Iowa matters a million times more than NYC House primaries.

https://t.co/6taIZlEUyO

[Alex Hernandez @DeepDishhhLover]

@AlTayWeiss Bro.

32.2 units per capita. Not great lol

[Samuel 🇲🇽 @resisres]

🇲🇽🚄 Sheinbaum is building two train lines from Mexico City to the U.S. border that will connect all of Mexico's major cities.

Today, she presented the major progress made by the Mexican Army Engineers.

The initial lines are projected to start running next year.

[Dion @2024dion]

There are more bookstores, restaurants, wine bars, and plant shops than ever before in the US, and our libraries on average have longer opening hours. We don't have a shortage of consumption-oriented third places.

What we are missing is third places that demand something of you: churches, social clubs, union halls, etc. Places you have to show up to regularly, where you're expected to contribute, where you build the bonds that create real community. All the things that Putnam describes as social-capital-creating in Bowling Alone.

But no one wants to talk about those.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The top 1% now hold as much wealth as the entire bottom 90% of Americans combined — about 32% each.

This is what runaway inequality looks like, according to the Fed's most recent data released this month.

[mas 🇺🇸🇰🇭 @shsu05]

@HockeyCheese365 @espn @emilymkaplan @PatMcAfeeShow The WHA Aeros outdrew the NBA’s Rockets in the 1970’s.
The merger left Aeros out though.

The IHL/AHL version did very well for a minor league product.
Rockets owner raised the rent from 18k to 40k per game forcing the Wild to relocate them to Iowa.

They never failed though.

[Oatsdoc, MD @oatsdoc]

Surgical friends,

Can we PLEASE stop saying “surgical clearance” instead of “surgical risk stratification” and PLEASE stop asking primary care to fax a letter of “clearance” for every young, healthy person undergoing surgery.

This behavior is WILD.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The fact that the administration is looking for opportunities to cut costs is great. These changes were needed. But they are missing an important piece.

The expectation that giving insurance companies more leverage in certain negotiations will lead them to passing on any cost reductions to plan holders or anywhere among their hundreds or thousands of subsidiaries, is ridiculous.

That is not their culture.

Remember. These are the same companies , when they were on the other side, tiering and other similar rules were passed for their PBMs, they sued and found other ways to charge new fees.

The administration has to go much further and make sure these changes are not gamed.

Not just by the insurers. Also by the hospitals.

They need to remove all confidentiality clauses from ALL contracts signed between insurance companies and at least non profit hospitals, if not all providers.

And require all of these contracts to be posted right next to the pricing hospitals post on their website. With the fines moved to 1m dollars per day for non adherence. Make it so it’s not a business decision to not adhere

The ONLY way you are going to know the carriers and hospitals followed through and adhered by the rules, without gaming them , is by making them publish their contracts.

With pricing. Terms. Everything.

Taxpayers are subsidizing both sides. Insurance conglomerates get 70 pct of their revenue from taxpayers.

Non profits keep billions that would go to taxpayers. They literally have more in cash than Medicare has in cash reserves.

We all have every right to see those contracts.

This will increase competition and cut costs more than anything.