Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on a hospital roof. @h-lev.bsky.social & @acleek.bsky.social investigate American Healthcare System, the company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“I’d take you upstairs, but there’s a lot of underwear on the floor": A date with Lindsey Graham in the mid-'90s. (The writer also went on a date with Mark Foley.) washingtonian.com/2013/06/14/f...
Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.
I'm gonna keep posting the fact that only $9 million (inflation adjusted) changed hands in Teapot Dome and it was the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate until it stops being relevant.
Bloomberg NewsA fund that includes Trump’s eldest sons among its investors has booked hundreds of millions of dollars in paper profits through a playbook that involves taking stakes in a steady stream of small, thinly traded public companies
Every day Sean Duffy doesn’t have to preside over a mass casualty event in the skies thanks to his mismanagement of the transportation department, the odds get better that he will have to
The Boston GlobeOne day after a Delta Air Lines flight aborted a landing at Logan Airport to avoid a potential crash, a second Delta flight pulled up abruptly before landing and performed a maneuver called a go-around Sunday because another aircraft was still clearing the runway, according to the FAA.
“DPR Aquatic’s Mismanagement is Threatening the Future of DC Wave” www.popville.com/2026/06/dpr-...
Scoop with @dfriedman.bsky.social: Trump brought a statue of a slave owner out of storage & hired a contractor to build it a new pedestal in DC. Installing it took ONE day & cost $527K. The Gov't justified the high price tag w/ urgent need to finish by July 4. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Given the news that Trump has just appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, it feels timely to revisit the three different episodes of financial impropriety by Pulte that I’ve reported on in the just last six months! Let’s recap:/1
I'm neither a transportation expert nor a reality TV star. But I am the resident of a red state whose capital city airport regularly experiences 2+-hour traffic jams and has had to ground flights due to insufficient ATC staffing. Please spare us your "boon."
Aaron RuparFaulkner: "Sanctuary cities include Boston, Chicago, Denver, LA, NY, Philadelphia, SF. All of those airports handle 1,100 int'l flights per day. They're not just gonna not fly. They're gonna go to red states and cities. A boon for red states. People will just really hate living in blue states."
“Is there not still reason to study how Americans, from within their infinite chorus of difference and pluralism, have understood their nation as a whole? If historians don’t, advocates of ‘patriotic’ history will do that for us.” —@dblight.bsky.social
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Across all Utah public schools, every district copy of each banned book must be destroyed, according to state law.
BONAMICI: How does it enhance the health of children to spend HHS's limited resources on a video of you drinking milk in a hot tub with Kid Rock, and how much did it cost? RFK Jr: I have no idea B: I consider it waste RFK Jr: So many people have come up to say, 'That inspired me to workout'
“I believed that the U visa meant that we would finally be safe. [I]nstead, they put me and my child on a plane and sent us into the arms of the person we had sought protection from.”
Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school
Rob Townsend"The affected majors include Classical Civilization, Digital Humanities, German, Russian, and Middle Eastern Studies, among others...no jobs are currently slated for elimination, though teaching assignments and workloads may be affected." bit.ly/47oHkm9
Trump's $400 MILLION ballroom will have faux windows and a stairway to nowhere. We knew money couldn't buy class... but apparently in Trump’s case it can't buy functionality either.
speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick
Aaron RuparHegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."
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There were people who posted things like this about Charlie Kirk when he died. They were doxxed and harassed by Trump's supporters, and in many cases were fired from their jobs as a result.