NickKalm

Corp. comm/crisis guy. PR firm owner. Enjoy family time, dining out, nice wines and the gym.

[Brian Costin @BrianCostin]

Illinois has the most state pension debt in America — by a wide margin. How bad is it?

IL Pension Debt: $145.49B

The bottom 41 states combined: $145.77B

IL population: ~12.7M Bottom 41 states: ~180M

And Pritzker and his allies in Springfield are considering pension sweeteners that could add $76B+ more in costs for Illinois taxpayers.

This is not sustainable. This is a crisis.

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

Brilliant

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.

Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.

The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.

Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.

The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

@Oberweis was bought by Hoffmann Companies, a private equity company. So why can’t they figure out what’s wrong with their #homedelivery system more than a week later? Or at least how to communicate with their “valued” customers? #OngoingEpicFail

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

Such great advice.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Roger Federer dropped some real wisdom in his Dartmouth commencement speech:

He won nearly 80% of his 1,526 professional matches, but only 54% of the points he played.

Even one of the greatest tennis players of all time lost almost half his points.

His lesson: Don’t dwell on every mistake. A double fault, a lost point, even a bad day, it’s just one point. The champions move on quickly with the same focus and fire for the next one.

This is one of the best mindset lessons I’ve heard in a long time. It applies way beyond tennis.

Life is full of losses and setbacks. The difference between average and exceptional is how quickly you reset and keep playing.

[John Ennis @johnennis]

I don't really understand how the LA mayor race is a race at all

How is "There was no water in the fire hydrants" not just 100% disqualifying for both incumbents?

What is the point of paying taxes if the lowest possible expectations are not met?

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

The only difference between Luigi Mangione’s followers and Charlie Manson‘s followers are that Manson’s followers weren’t issued a press pass by the city of New York

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

We live among monsters.

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

Spencer Pratt: I will clean up homeless encampments, address drug addicts, & prevent fires from burning down people's homes.

Karen Bass: I will spend your money on teeth for meth addicts.

Nithya Raman: I will ban grilling burgers in the backyard.

Your choice, Los Angeles.

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

FAFO, I guess.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Ken Griffin says he's scaling down in NYC:

"What the mayor of New York has made clear to us, is that we need to double down on Miami."

[Jon Gabriel @exjon]

every time I see a met gala post

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

Congratulations - you just caused 14,000 employees to lose their jobs.

[Secretary Pete Buttigieg @SecretaryPete]

Americans deserve robust competition & affordable airfares. USDOT supports DOJ's antitrust lawsuit, & we plan to deny the JetBlue-Spirit request for an exemption on their merger deal. We will continue with our own investigation while supporting DOJ's work. https://t.co/vs4Aqgdiru

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Frontier airlines knowing they’re about to get all Spirit’s customers.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

I’m not sure there a more vivid illustration of these dirtbags’ depravity than them screaming “shame” at a *children’s cancer hospital* because they hate its donors.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Trump is not Hitler.

ICE officers are not the Gestapo.

Enough with the fucking rhetoric.

[Austin Berg @Austin__Berg]

Tell your state rep to vote no on Brandon Johnson’s “millionaires tax,” which would hit 22k Illinois small businesses. https://t.co/Y8ZsQyUbv1

[Brian Costin @BrianCostin]

Gov. Pritzker raised our gas taxes by 157% since 2019.

Where did the money go?

USDOT studies show our roads didn’t even improve 1%.

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

Monday, 4/13 - announces that he “intends” to resign from Congress

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

man, life comes at you fast:

Thurs, 4/9 - leading candidate for CA gov
Fri, 4/10 - sex abuse allegations drop
Sat, 4/11 - Pharma Bro releases sex worker video
Sat, 4/11 - Manhattan DA launches rape investigation
Sun, 4/12 - DHS launches nanny investigation
Sun, 4/12 - drops out of governors race
Mon, 4/13 - Swalwell resigns from Congress

This has got to be a land speed record for fastest political crashout of all time, right?

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

Congratulations! You are an inspiration on multiple levels!

[Victor Glover @AstroVicGlover]

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

[NickKalm @NickKalm]

@Metra half the car devoted to non-existent bicycles. The other half with a broken PA blasting static. But, really, let’s focus on adding stations and reintroducing cafe cars. #UPNorth #306 today🤡 🤡 🤡 @OnTheMehtra