Mike Johnson concludes the 118th Congress as it began -- in chaos (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
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memeorandum.com/241221/p24#a24β¦
'Out of the Ages' by Devereux Pryce (never republished before) will be published on 25 January, and it's up for pre-order now.
If you like tales of cursed Egyptian scarabs and vengeful priestesses, this is a book for you!
More details on my blog: hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.coβ¦
#book #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
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ICYMI:
Following an earlier threat, Gaie Delap is going back to prison as there is no tag that can be used to enforce her non-custodial sentence as a Just Stop Oil protestor.
As has been pointed out already, this is the result of the firm that provides the tags being unable to comply with their legal obligation to provide the means by which she can be monitored:
Result Gaie Delap will spend Christmas in prison.... because profits come before her rights!
This is from a queer YA graphic novel called Sunhead. I love how it perfectly depicts the feeling of remembering your favorite swoony romantic moment from a book.
#RomanceBooks
@romancebooks
@romancelandia
#YAFiction
#LGBTQBooks
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AI Models Were Caught Lying to Researchers in Tests β But It's Not Time To Worry Just Yet
OpenAI's o1 model, which users can access on ChatGPT Pro, showed "persistent" scheming behavior, according to Apollo Research.
A summary of the billionaire owned media outlets bending the knee to Trump, and how we can take steps to ensure we remain informed despite corporate media disinformation.
UnitedHealth Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids w. Autism
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* private healthcare companies face increased scrutiny following killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
* aggressively limiting mental health coverage/treatment for 1000s of children w. autism
* effort to cut costs/curtail care
Killing of Brian Thompson
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#healthcare
#capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson
When Salvador DalΓ Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960)
openculture.com/2019/12/when-sβ¦
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While parents are purchasing a drink or two.
@israel @photography @mazeldon
#mahaneyehudamarket #jerusalem #israel #photography
If you want to understand politics, understand the term "false dichotomy".
Here, Rand Paul creates the false dichotomy, that if the US is helping Ukraine, the US cannot help flood victims in Asheville, North Carolina.
He does this, because it sounds convincing at first, but upon further inspection, Ukraine funding has nothing to do with Asheville. He might as well have said, βWe cannot fund Asheville because I just got a pay raiseβ, or pick any other random expense.
youtu.be/lukIxacFtVU?si=nNCVIaβ¦
Victoria Stuart π¨π¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Victoria Stuart π¨π¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •ProPublica: UnitedHealth Profiteering Off Limiting Care for Children w. Autism
democracynow.org/2024/12/16/anβ¦
* private healthcare companies face incr. scrutiny
* dissatisfaction w. companyβs exploitative policies/frequent denials of care
* ProPublica: UnitedHealthcare is aggressively trying to limit mental health coverage/treatment for 1000s of children w. autism
* effort to cut costs/curtail care
#healthcare
#capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson
Victoria Stuart π¨π¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Victoria Stuart π¨π¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •UnitedHealthβs Unchecked Growth Has Caused Widespread Misery
jacobin.com/2024/12/unitedhealβ¦
* despite antitrust regulatorsβ efforts to rein it in UnitedHealth Group keeps growing
* control ever more of the health care sector
* corporationβs expanding power meant worse care, higher prices, mounting human toll
#healthcare
#capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson
#billionaires #WealthTax #AssetForfeiture #CorporateRegulation #CoporateTax
Victoria Stuart π¨π¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ
in reply to Victoria Stuart π¨π¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ • • •UnitedHealthcareβs Decades-Long Fight to Block Reform
jacobin.com/2024/12/unitedhealβ¦
* UnitedHealthcare/UnitedHealth
* health insurer; CEO was murdered Dec 2024
* spent decades fighting/winning political battles to maintain for-profit health system status quo, kill any attempts to reform it
#healthcare
#capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #UnitedHealthcare #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson
#billionaires #WealthTax #AssetForfeiture #CorporateRegulation #CoporateTax