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Remember the private equity funds that bought out hospital doctors' practices so they could opt emergency docs out of insurance and then slam patients with surprise bills, whose looting destroyed pandemic preparation, and who cut med staff wages?

pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…

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Public shaming DID manage to get them to back down, a very small amount, on impoverishing the doctors and nurses who are saving our civilization, but...

pluralistic.net/2020/04/07/ana…

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...Now they're angling for MASSIVE stimulus bailouts, billions and billions in free money from the US government for their investors, AKA the richest people in America.

propublica.org/article/medica…

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Some of the people with their hands out: Envision Healthcare (owned by KKR, founded by Henry Kravis [net worth $5.6B] and George Roberts [net worth $5.8b]).

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These plutes expected to make a fortune by gambling on fucking us all over by buying doctors' groups. Now that the bet isn't paying off, they want us to make them whole.

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Envision would have more capital reserves if they hadn't spent millions running attack ads against modest proposals to limit surprise billing.

The Trump admin has set aside $100b for medical financial stimulus.

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"Shelter in Place" is a new show on @VICETV. In its inaugural episode, @Snowden warns that pandemic is providing cover for governments to create "the architecture of oppression."

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Snowden warns that the surveillance and authoritarian controls enacted to control the pandemic will not be temporary, but rather, will endure long after the crisis (just as the Patriot Act's "temporary" measures are still in place decades later).

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And that this will exacerbate the world's "slide into a less liberal and less free world." The datasets and measures put in place to control the virus will be used to control people, constituting "the architecture of oppression."

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In 1981, the RNC entered into a consent decree to halt its "Ballot Security Task Force" - a voter-intimidation squad that harassed Black voters by accusing them of "improper voting" and threatening them with arrest and fines.

nytimes.com/1981/12/14/nyr…

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In 2018, a New Jersey judge declined to renew the consent decree. Now, Republican operators are planning to reinstate the voter harassment service for 2020. They're recruiting ex-military and ex-police supporters to haunt Black and Native tribal polling places.

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The plan was shared at a Council for National Policy ("a secretive foundation on the religious right") meeting in Orange County that @theintercept's @lhfang reports on.

theintercept.com/2020/04/11/rep…

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Online secret ballots are a nonstarter. Just stop trying. Vote by mail, sure. Just not by internet. Virtually the only security experts who think it's possible work for companies that want to sell online voting products. It's a fool's errand

freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/09/11/sec…

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But that doesn't mean that legislatures can't conduct NON-SECRET ballots online. That's do-able, if complicated.

(Note: I have muted any comments that contain the word "blockchain" - go look for hammer-compatible nails somewhere else)

freedom-to-tinker.com/2020/04/10/can…

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"Attacks that compromise the client or server computers can be detected and corrected if everyone’s vote is publicly displayed. Each member of the legislature would transmit their vote then must check the public display to make sure the vote was reported/recorded accurately."

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