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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They'll be singing a different tune...or perhaps in a different pitch, if they end up with sterility.

mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it's known outside the US: the US spends twice as much per person than the average of developed countries, with pretty much all of that difference going to insurance adjustors to deny coverage, billing departments and corporate profits, rather than services to patients.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The best way I've heard of describing this: with universal health care, the entire plotline of Breaking Bad would have ended before the first episode was over.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh indeed (Canadian, here). It's that even over and above the cost savings in the health sector itself (no adjustors for basic care, smaller billing departments, hospitals not facing unpaid bills) there's a potential boost to GDP from greater labour mobility that the US is missing out on.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Professor Reich, given that you're a former Secretary of Labor...what are the costs to the US economy of having workers chained to their employers for health coverage? ...I think a single payer option would pay for itself...?

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ditto. I had the caption "...and successfully pulls off wearing a vegetable steamer on her head..." when I saw this.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Tonight I'm gonna break away...just you wait and see....

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I had a running gag with my wife that we desperately needed a Tom Brady tablet ad...with the new shock-absorbent case!

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And again, you can see how the ink cartridge runs down after repeated uses.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When the bib wipes your face for you...?

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

...I'd be checking that gravel pretty frequently....

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I see this and I expect him to say something wise and profound. In Patrick Stewart's voice.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I swear, on that first drive after the declined field goal, I thought the Packers gifted the Vikings more yards through penalties than they gave up from offensive plays. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why am I hearing the sound "...plublublublublublublub..." as I look at this photo?

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As a small plus, he does get the kudos from the OG (Wilbon and Kornheiser) when he appears on PTI, with Tony usually saying something like "and with one more Pulitzer than anyone else on this show."

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You'd have to gradually ease off on that... ...So you could say you tapired off....

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Exactly. Pretty much all the provinces have argued federal jurisdiction holds on-Reserve, so even if the feds have transferred the health services to the community, it's still not something the province can control.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. There's a poetic magic underlying it, along with love, betrayal and redemption.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I worked for Indigenous Services Canada. This looks like a novel use of the Medicine Chest clause (but I think most are as it hasn't been used a lot in the past). I'd bet $20 that the province has never funded on-Reserve services, so the Nation likely has a good case to set its own standards.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

...You haven't watched the CFL, have you....

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For Canada, I think you saw the really big names in WWI: Percival Molson (yes, those Molsons), Tom Longboat and Conn Smythe (there's an NHL trophy there), but a bunch of CFL stars of the day were in WWII. Everyone pitched in.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This made me chuckle, but I'm pretty sure everyone in the 703rd Bomb Squadron and the 2nd Bombardment Group knew who Colonel Stewart was. I'd guess the real surprise was for the guys who discovered that Clark Gable was their waist gunner.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well, we ***are*** unfriendly to ***them*** so they have that right.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just thinking...in the context of former NFL players going back to college to cash in on a fifth year of NCAA eligibility.... LeBron James has a full five years of eligibility, given that he was drafted out of high school. Start imagining the scenarios....

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Soon will the Fetterman come To take our money and drink our rum One day when elections are done He'll take his leave and go.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That movie title has a "Snakes on a Plane" vibe to it. 😄

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was a beautiful panorama / roadside stop looking across Thunder Bay even before the run...now, with so much more meaning attached to it. Just looking at the map, it's stunning to think of him running over all those hills / rock cuts going around Lake Superior....

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just to fill in a bit of context, the monument outside of Thunder Bay is where Terry Fox had to quit his cross-country run due to the metastatic cancer getting to his lungs (after having put up with tendonitis, abrasions and cysts from his artificial leg for the last part of the the 5,373 km run).

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hear Hear! Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor hid Americans in our embassy while riots flowed in the streets, then got them out on falsified Canadian passports (at no small risk to himself and our embassy staff). Just to remind folks: the same country that Trump is fucking over with your tariffs.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I thought all the CSA names for army bases was weirder (like, we celebrate the people we defeated?). Mind you, I made an exception for Fort Bragg, which I figured was named to recognize his great contributions to Union victory.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You understand that we're in a trade war that hurts us regardless of which state you live in, or whether you voted for him?

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

...Oh, and they hang out on the golf course. Kind of intimidating to play through....

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Radium Hot Springs BC: the crosswalks on the highway just happen to be on the same route that the bighorn sheep take to go from the river up to the tablelands above the town.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Assemble your own. 😄 But the easier way to do it is to just have the parents there...starter kits.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

...And with the groups of sea otters hanging out on the surf line just outside of the north side bay...beautiful.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I guess if he wants to fully transition (chemically, surgically), it's free to try out. And, see if any team would actually want her then.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So, to talk about basketball now...is there anything similar to a PIMs stat like we have in hockey? Or a Gordie Howe hat trick?

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Wife and I watched it. It's brilliant. Curious to see what they do with a second season, but this one had lots of twists and turns.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

EVEN IF some tissue-paper thin, slightly less punitive but still coercive US-CA trade agreement gets struck . . . not until Trump is out of office will I buy American.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just think how much harder this must have been in 1941 when it was 30 degrees below outside of Moscow.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I find it weird, though, that the simplified version of that -- "We changed the freaking definition" -- doesn't get used more often.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I look at Strange New Worlds and think about how you'd explain the casting to Roddenberry . . . all of these people with some pretty prestigious backgrounds (adjunct prof at Columbia?) who *wanted* these roles and saw them as career makers / pinnacles.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Definition in 1990: Infantile Autism (DSM III: 1983, 1987). Definition in 2026: Autism Spectrum Disorder (DSM V: 2013). Broader criteria, incorporating Asperger's, CDD and Rett syndrome across a spectrum of behavior, plus much more surveillance . . . . Equals higher number of cases. QED.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

No, I thought you captured it pretty well there.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And yet it's pretty clear that there's a market failure going on in the US, one where a state intervention would make sense . . . all of which is basic **capitalist** economics (the debates are usually around where you draw the line). GOPers are just fine with state provision of military or police.

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mcm0.bsky.social @mcm0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yes. There's a Schumpeterian (hey, got to use that as a word) kind of reallocation of wasted resources / creative destruction of capitalism-thing that would be a knock-on effect of single payer in the US.

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