Announcement: you’re not crazy and it’s not your fault.


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Season Finale
Aaron’s Purchase

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Some Comments On Rural Americans

https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1192178047610277888

The American Healthcare System Is Untenable

How Greedy Hospitals Fleece the Poor - The New Republic
Investors’ Deep-Pocket Push To Defend Surprise Medical Bills - Kaiser Health News
How One Employer Stuck a New Mom With an $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby — ProPublica
With Medical Bills Skyrocketing, More Hospitals Are Suing for Payment - The New York Times


Ady Barkan


Ady Barkan Is Running Out of Time to Speak - The New Republic


Examples like that are a frightening demonstration of why Barkan’s advocacy is so powerful: Americans who could be alive are dead now, silenced by the policy decisions we have made together.









The Kids Are Calling It “Water”

Are We the Most Hydrated We’ve Ever Been? - MEL Magazine


Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head
“Guys, we’re really trying to give our money away, but it’s so hard you guys” —Billionaires, apparently

Tech’s top 20 billionaires keep getting richer no matter how much money they give away - Vox
Bill Gates and Elizabeth Warren are tweeting at each other about wealth inequality - The Verge
Rich Computer Man
Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire (Part I) — Bill Gates and Western Media







Or maybe we could all work less

Kamala Harris’s new proposal to lengthen the school is completely backwards - The Outline
The Leisure Agenda ❖ People’s Policy Project
The Productivity–Pay Gap - Economic Policy Institute
The Productivity-Pay Gap Chart


You’re not crazy and it’s not your fault

Thinking a lot lately about how liberating this idea can be
It can be so empowering to say those two things, but it’s the two things those in power consistently withold
Ep. 30: It’s Not Your Fault (w/ Michael Moore & Meagan Day)

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Companies and politicians have serious incentives to convince you that you’re to blame for your own situation, so that they have a free hand to plunder

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