Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: https://pimento-mori.ghost.io/

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  • Basic Glitch@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicadoEnglish
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    2 days ago

    True, there was not a whole lot of mainstream media coverage of assange but there were journalists from places like the intercept and I believe rolling stone or vice also covering it.

    In this case, and many cases all over the country lately, I’m finding that tiny local news outlets are doing a better job keeping us informed than mainstream media or even larger less mainstream news outlets.

    Also realized that if this was a case of spying it would seem very unlikely he would have a lawyer at his residence while it was being raided but who tf knows. Not us.

  • Basic Glitch@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicadoEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, if only we had a free press that could keep the public informed about matters so we could know what the fuck is actually going on anymore.

    It’s especially weird the university just didn’t release a statement about it or anything.

    It definitely could go either way

    If we actually still had a free press, you would expect this to be getting some coverage and for there to be some kind of statement from the University’s lawyers saying they were cooperating with the FBI if this guy was legitimately wanted for shady dealings.

    It’s fucking sad that we all read this and have to think, is this the FBI handling a legitimate threat or is this why DHS keeps complaining about Civil Rights Offices standing in their way.

  • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPMtoState Level DOGE Inspired Task Forces Watchlist @lemm.ee•When we talk about why Medicaid is becoming unsustainable due to increasing healthcare costs, why don't we ever hear Republicans or Democrats mention salaries for hospital CEOs?English
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    3 days ago

    Certainly not enough of them. Especially not on smaller levels.

    It’s a sad fact, but even though so many Democrats claim to be anti establishment, many are in fact part of the establishment and receiving giant donations from banks and corporations.

    It’s one of the first things AOC pointed out when she was elected.

    On the other hand so many Republicans claim to love small government and transparency, but many are also getting funded at the state level by some very shady corporations and groups like SPN and the heritage foundation.

    The SPN is a network created by one of the earliest funders of Heritage Foundation. They use money to influence policy at the state level to make it seem like small government and representative of individuals in the state, but really it represents interests of some very powerful people and their corporations.

    https://lemm.ee/post/59677728

    I’m not saying any of this as an attack on people with views that lean democratic or Republican. I only point it out because we all need to shift away from the idea of treating politics and politicians as a sports team that we have to support bc they’re representing “our team.”

    Its kind of a sunken cost fallacy to keep supporting a team that won a championship decades ago when you realize lately they seem to be throwing a lot of games. Except with sports it is a team paid to represent a local city or state.

    Politicians are humans like anyone else. There’s good and bad ones and they’re capable of corruption and change just like anyone else.

    Black and white thinking is what got us here and what keeps dividing us as a country while individuals continue to profit from it.

  • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeOPtoLouisiana@sh.itjust.works•If we're blaming Medicaid being unsustainable on nursing homes and rural hospitals existing, can we at least think about maybe bringing the salary of LCMC's CEO into the discussion?English
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    3 days ago

    I’m not saying we should be rasing pay for other employees at all. I’m saying the reason Medicaid is becoming unsustainable is because we have so many CEOs making insanely huge salaries like this.

    The point of healthcare is to provide care to patients. Not to create hospital monopolies.

    If Medicare is unsustainable that means healthcare cuts.

    When you’re looking for where you should be making healthcare cuts what makes the most logical sense to you?

    At least having a discussion about how these administrative salaries and positions are actually justified?

    Or

    •Slash and burn policy eliminating doctors that were already accepting Medicaid

    •Reducing care offered to patients so that the patients will then indeed become less healthy, rely on emergency services and require more costly care in the long run

    •Claiming Medicaid is unsustainable bc “no doctors want to accept Medicaid patients.”

    If you abruptly eliminate all the doctors that do accept Medicaid and then claim you need to increase the Medicaid budget to incentivise doctors in order to get them to accept Medicaid patients, then yes, by default it becomes easy to make the argument that no doctors in your hospital “want to accept Medicaid.”

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