Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025He didn’t want the actual job of being president. He wanted one thing: to stay out of prison. Secondary—getting pending cases dropped; taking revenge on anyone who prosecuted or investigated him; capitalizing on the emoluments of the office. He got all that. And handed Musk the rest of the job. 061
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 20/01/2025This goes out to the 34% of eligible voters who sat it out last November. 051
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 17/01/2025He’s gotta keep that newly-regenerated miracle ear warm that’s why. 130
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 17/01/2025This is SO sick. This is them. Guardians of our Republic. 310
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Someone needs to ask Hegseth if he’s had a drink today. He’s way too wratched up. 120
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Hegseth is not a patriot, he is a zealot for Trump. He talks like a rapist, pushing pushing against others, beating them over the head with his rhetorical holyrollerdom. 030
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Mr Trump’s criminality is patent, extreme, treasonous, and anti-American. He is befouled by his own irredeemable corruption. It’s plain as day. We’ve become a nation half of whom simply don’t care. 020
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Well this isn’t good. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comCourt strikes down US net neutrality rulesThe ruling marks a significant moment in the long running battle over how to regulate internet providers. 000
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 31/12/2024I remember all of them, and some took years to recover from. A good NY🥳’s resolution to think twice. 020
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 28/12/2024And a total racket it is, too. It’s not even as moral as garden -variety extortion, where at least you get something in return for your enforced payment. apple.news/ATBKvNV0oRNO...apple.newsAmericans are sick of the health insurance grinches who steal our money and our lives — Raw StoryIn the past few weeks, one thing has become crystal clear in America: The public outrage after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson exposed a seething fury over the health insuranc... 010
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 26/12/2024in the David Brooks school of dewy-eyed discovery 010
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 26/12/2024The pressure of normalizing him grows exponentially with each passing week. The insanity of his “merry Christmas go to Hell” post should be front page news; but the shrug of inevitability has kicked in. I don’t know how to deal with it. 031
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 26/12/2024He is a plague, to be sure, and we have to survive his corrosive recrudescence and make sure that something like him—and his enablers— are never again able to mortally sicken our body politic. So say we all. 000
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 19/12/2024The facts. No travesty of SCOTUS hocus pocus or willful irrationality by 47% of low-information/brainwashed voters will or can change those facts. Shakespeare wrote “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,” and he was right. 021
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Remember when Dump wanted a military parade, like those in Russia and North Korea? I’m predicting that he’ll have one—the first in US history— parading IBMs, armored tanks, goose stepping soldiers, and heavy weapons—within his first year. 110
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/12/2024British aristocrat SIR Andrew Witty, new CEO of United Healthcare Corporation, given editorial space to tell his lies in the NYT. I haven’t read anything quite so snooty and condescending since, well, David Brooks’s last column. 110
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Americans—We deserve this. We pay for a service we don’t receive. Enough is enough. This should be the top goal for the Democratic and Independent parties. Demand it and don’t stop until all voters understand that it will protect ALL of us from needless death, despair, misery, and bankruptcy. 011
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Simply superb. We need universal healthcare and we’re need it now. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/americas-h...steveschmidt.substack.comAmerica's healthcare system DOES NOT workWith UnitedHealth Group CEO “Sir” Andrew Witty finally speaking out on the assassination of Brian Thompson, the business of healthcare in America is fully under the microscope. 010
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Happy New Year. Enjoy the Polio, courtesy of the Roadkill Eater. 110
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 13/12/2024No exoneration. Not once. www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-let-t...thebulwark.comDon’t Let Trump Fool You, He Was Never ExoneratedHis re-election doesn’t change the damning evidence of his crimes. 000
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Guaranteed by our 14th Amendment. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...worldpopulationreview.comCountries with Birthright Citizenship 2024 000
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Once upon a time there was this flying Shakespearean in the Midwest, giving aerial tours to friends and colleagues. 010
Reposted by Linda A Charnes Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 07/12/2024From 4 years ago: "The US healthcare system is helping to kill people in staggering numbers. And when it isn’t driving Americans to an early grave, the medical industry is bleeding the rest of the country of resources..." www.theguardian.com/society/2020...theguardian.comDeaths of despair: why America’s medical industry explains working-class suicidesA system based on the corporate pursuit of profit sets the US apart from other countries, fleecing the poor to give to the rich 02412
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Why do we allow it to continue? The insurance industry causes more bankruptcies and financial devastation than any other single cause. The insane rise in hospital, equipment, and procedure costs are partly to offset the predations of the insurance industry. 120
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Feelings? How about facts. The Medical-Insurance industry is evil, parasitical, and should be dismantled. Single-payer medicare for all citizens is the ONLY way to cure this cancer destroying lives, and standards of living, ESPECIALLY for what’s left of the middle-class. apple.news/ASy_o_WGXRI6...apple.newsAfter a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance — NPRThe death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson triggered a deluge of painful stories about health care denials on social media. 120
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 06/12/2024An awful lot of emo around this. Time for universal healthcare. www.thedailybeast.com/leading-medi...thedailybeast.comModerators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO“When other’s human lives are deemed worthless, it is not surprising to have others view your life of no value as well,” wrote one medical doctor, whose identity the Daily Beast confirmed. 000
Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Surgeon wakes up patient in the middle of surgery to ask “how do you want to pay for the remaining anesthesia? Cash or credit card?” 032