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Quality Improvement Comm Sr Project Mgr, social media flâneur, culinary adventurer, recovering attorney. She/her. All comments are my own opinions.
Joined Oct 2021
Los Angeles Times won't endorse for President. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has blocked the paper from issuing an endorsement—the first time in 20 years. Soon-Shiong is pals with #Musk but this is outrageous. He knows full well what authoritarianism is having come from S. Africa. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/22/2024/los-angeles-times-wont-endorse-for-president
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Today we’ve gathered the best stories published at Lit Hub about one of the most important issues affecting Americans: the high costs (literal and figurative) of America’s for-profit approach to healthcare. With an introduction, below, from Maris Kreizman.
https://lithub.com/the-issues-2024-the-high-costs-of-the-for-profit-american-healthcare-system
A Place for Trump https://youtu.be/wiyGScJ7iWQ
Evan Lovett crafted this solid obit on Fernando Valenzuela as part of his L.A. in a Minute series.
Holocaust survivor Irene Weiss:
“Man can turn into an animal in no time. All he needs is permission. As soon as permission is given from higher-ups, from the government, it accelerates.”
The one, the only, Obama reciting the lyrics to Eminem's Lose Yourself had the crowd amped up
"Let me tell you what's gonna help us move on: I get elected president of the United States" -- Hallie Jackson asks Kamala Harris if she would considering pardoning Trump.
Fernando Valenzuela, dead at age 63.
The phenomenon known as Fernando-mania swept through L.A. in 1981, when Valenzuela started 8-0, led the Dodgers to the World Series, and won both the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards. Photo from the Herald Examiner - Rob Brown
A MAGA family night out stealing 60 Harris/Walz signs in Nixa and Springfield, Missouri.
Apple AirTag to the rescue! Maga sure loves being felonious.
Link to video: https://tiktok.com/t/ZP88HmMJ7/
“I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had”—Trump
Read the full account of Trump’s fascist leanings in Jeffrey Goldberg’s article https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/
Release of Trump’s Arlington visit records ordered by judge https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/22/trump-arlington-ceremony-records-release
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It was all over the Insta-News yesterday that Moldova had voted against joining the European Union, by a large margin–which, if true, would have been a huge gift to V. V. Putin.
Today the dust settled and it turned out that the Join side had actually won.
Which goes to show: Good news is always worth waiting for.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/europe/moldova-eu-referendum-democracy-interference-intl/index.html
WinRed had nearly seven times more FTC complaints than ActBlue from January 2022 through June 2024
Political fundraising and the elderly with dementia https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/
Good news: Giuliani orders to give penthouse to GA election workers he defamed https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/rudy-giuliani-bankruptcy-georgia-election-workers/index.html
Carmen
- https://twitter.com/crgonzalez
- https://twitter.com/pet_east
- Spoutible
- https://spoutible.com/Carmen
- Location
- Santa Rosa, CA
Quality Improvement Comm Sr Project Mgr, social media flâneur, culinary adventurer, recovering attorney. She/her. All comments are my own opinions.
Joined Oct 2021