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moneek retweeted
طبيبة توضح في مقطع الطريقة الصحيحة لارتداء الكمامة بالشكل السليم، لضمان فعاليتها وتوفير الحماية المطلوبة 👍🏻.
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Watch as they laughed and tried to silence George Carlin in the 90s.
No-one's laughing now.
#GeorgeCarlin
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A new bill, H.R. 10924, opens Medicare to everyone and keeps employer plans on paper.
The fine print: all-payer rate setting. Employer plans and Medicare Advantage would pay doctors at Medicare for America rates.
That is not a choice. That is one fee schedule for every plan.
Commercial rates are the only room a solo practice has above the Medicare floor. Cap them there and the floor becomes the ceiling.
Site-neutral payment in the same bill is fine. Same service, same price, office or hospital outpatient. Keep that. Drop the all-payer Medicare rate cap.
Doctors, residents, med students: email your House member and both senators this week.
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In a 2023 study, naturally not very large, it was found that elderly who moved from other forms of housing into traditional almshouses lived on average up to 2.5 years longer than their peers in other forms of housing. The effect was especially pronounced with elderly from the lowest one fifth of socio-economic status, who
lived as long as other elderly from the second highest fifth.
There is no telling how much is cause or correlation but the effect is real, measurable and easily observed. The theory is that companionship, meaning, belonging and so on, is what causes the jump in longevity. The effect is similar taking up regular exercise and quitting smoking.
And almshouses are far more cost effective than other forms of housing for elderly. We should build more of them.
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World Champion Milwaukee Brewers ✅
Governor-elect @DavidCrowleyWI ✅
A ‘Holy Mackerel' Midterm ✅
Might just be the best birthday yet!
ALT Gov. Evers’ birthday cake
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SOMEONE WHO HAD A SECRET MEETING WITH KUSHNER, AND IS TALKING ABOUT NOT WANTING REVENGE SHOULD NOT BE THE NEXT SPEAKER 🖐🖐
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From the priest who arranged Bob Dylan's audience with Pope Leo.
Today, #November4, 2026, #BobDylan was received in audience by Pope Leo XIV. Together with the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, I accompanied him to the Apostolic Palace. The meeting had the feel of history about it, and at every step I had the sense that anything could happen.
Speaking of peace, Leo brought up "Go Away You Bomb." In 1963, Izzy Young, who ran the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, was putting together a songbook against the atomic bomb; Dylan showed up the next day with the lyrics, typed. In the song, a man talks to the bomb, insults it, orders it to leave. The book never came out, and Dylan never recorded the song. In 2014, the typescript went on the block at Christie's and found no buyer, but the lyrics were published, and so a song that was never sung made its way to a pope's desk, in the company of Dorothy Day, Giorgio La Pira, and Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who, in 1983, declined to pass on a missile alert that the computers insisted was real.
Leo is an Augustinian. In 1967, on John Wesley Harding, Dylan had dreamed of that saint. In "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," the narrator watches Augustine searching for those who have already sold their souls, witnesses his martyrdom, and realizes, with horror, that he is one of the crowd that put him to death. He wakes alone, in tears. The model was the old ballad about Joe Hill, the labor organizer executed by firing squad in Utah in 1915; Dylan put the Bishop of Hippo in his place and turned a rallying cry into an unwitting confession about our tendency to silence those who bring us the truth.
Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost grew up on the American music of those years. Jim Musselman, a classmate of his at Villanova and a Dylan devotee, recalls that the two of them talked about music a great deal, and that it was Musselman who got him to read an essay pointing to Dylan as the poetic talent of his generation.
The Pope who introduced himself from the loggia of St. Peter's as "a son of St. Augustine" knows Dylan's music, and Dylan was glad to meet the American Pope.
