dyslectic superhero

Living my best life by two rules 1) don’t be stupid 2) unless it’s funny. Power systems consult and good guy.

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@cspan @RepDelBene Trumps tax returns were read only and somehow that is $10b in damages

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@efficientenzyme @BoringBiz_ Also pornstars

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@atrupar Why no follow up - how much would it cost to setup and maintain the guardrails you require and in what timeline could you make it happen. His statement is easy this is harder (end of he wasn't a huge unreliable source)

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@cjgproduxions This!!!!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..."

Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump??

Zeteo put together a montage:

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@iamkym2 @RonFilipkowski Now do the fbi director or hhs

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"I don't even know what that phrase means and I doubt that I said that... How I can I answer something that I didn't say... I'd like to hear the recording."

Okay @RFKJr_Official. Here you go. Here's you caught lying on tape:

[HJN🌹 @HJNRose1]

@atrupar

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@Acyn Don’t you need to be able to read before getting a full library?

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@StealthQE4 He left out the part where we killed more children

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@JigarShahDC We skipped the whole risk reward evaluation of this much compute. When NASA wanted to go to the moon they first convinced Americans, then started building infrastructure and mission plans. Datacenters launched and now asking for fuel while in space

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@HighImpactFlix Is that Bob? Battery Operated Boyfriend?

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@RonFilipkowski @MeidasTouch You are all not being fair to trump. Of course he would have take Hitler out. Ruth’s Chris was not yet open but he would have found somewhere else to take him out to…..

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

Trump — I have ‘15 point’ agreement with 🇮🇷 Iran

Jon Stewart — Give details

Trump — *Could give only 3*

Jon Stewart — You said you got 15 points agreement, but could give only 3 points and those 3 are also THE EXACT SAME THING 🤣

Love how Trump is being grilled 😭🔥

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@vadimus613 @covie_93 @Muscle371959931 You're framing this wrong

[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.)

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@KevinRinke What the utilities have calculated is the cost to burry exceeds the cost to replace multiple times. If they buried the rate increase request would have been higher not zero

[Jeremy Moss @JeremyAllenMoss]

Even through the terror, we can find light.

The Chaldean Community opened its doors to 100+ Jewish children and staff as a place of refuge from gunfire. And last night hosted Shabbat services for a synagogue damaged by a car fire.

This is a true brotherhood in West Bloomfield.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

OMG, SHUT DOWN DOGE:

A DOGE official in his 20s testified today that he canceled federal research grants based on personal judgment.

No peer review. No subject matter expertise. No formal process.

Just him. And books he had read.

He flagged a grant studying HIV in prisons during the Reagan and Clinton era — decades of academic research — as “one of the craziest” because it mentioned LGBTQ in the description.

He flagged a grant examining the military service experiences of Black, Native American, female, and immigrant veterans as crazy.

His qualification for making these calls: “A person can have enough judgment from reading books.”

He was then asked if he regretted cutting programs that may have led to people dying.

“No.”

Did DOGE reduce the deficit?

“No.”

A person in their 20s. Reading books. Canceling peer-reviewed academic research. Deciding what knowledge the American government is allowed to fund.

No experience. No regret. No results.

Under oath.

[dyslectic superhero @scottstapels]

@BryceJohanneck @EnviWood @xiaowang1984 Sorry had to look up “sinusoids”