Bert Kaufman

Free speech?

Excellent satire still lives! When great journalism becomes public art…

An Interview With Claudia Sahm Of rules, recessions and more

Fabulous discussion between @claudia-sahm.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social. Covering tariffs, risk of recession, DOGE, the positive effects of immigration to help COVID Econ recovery, the dangers of gov cuts to educ research funding. It made a microeconomist love macro for just a bit!

Patients Caught In Crossfire Between Giant Hospital Chain, Large Insurer - California Healthline Insurance giant Cigna and San Francisco-based Dignity Health have failed to ink a 2020 contract, leaving nearly 17,000 patients in California and Nevada scrambling to find new health care providers. M...

Brian Thompson’s murder is awful, tragic and inexcusable. Bullets are never the answer. We don’t yet know motive.

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The U.S. health insurance system is broken.

There are ways to exert pressure to show how broken it is. (A battle from 5 years ago)👇

californiahealthline.org/news/patient...

Peering over the shoulders of phone-scrollers on a crowded Metro in the morning as they open X and see the first 3 things that pop up in their feeds are all Elon posts. Truly CRAZY.

Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week

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