I was out of bed at 7:00 this morning. Early for me on a Sunday.
Checking the news, I saw that Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had died. No surprise there.
Wait. No. That’s not McConnell. What the ding-dong heck? Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina is dead?? Don’t tell Mitch!
ICE performs another summary street execution without cause.
This Frontline documentary can’t be embedded, but it’s available at the link.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/caught-in-the-crackdown/
Losing weight and maintaining some level of physical fitness is ideally done by eating less and moving more. Simple and free, but not easy.
The other methods are varying degrees of complicated and expensive, from a gym membership, to gastric bypass surgery and, most recently, GLP-1 drugs. Medicare is about to provide funding for some GLP-1 treatments.
Here is Massachusetts, Masshealth is dropping coverage of GLP-1 medications. (Masshealth is Medicaid, which isn’t the Health Connector, aka Romneycare, the predecessor to Obamacare.)
The Internet has been chatty about the possibility that Trump is the beneficiary of an FDA decision to allow “compassionate use” of the weight loss drug retatrutide.
https://people.com/why-the-internet-thinks-trump-is-on-experimental-weight-loss-drug-12005518
Trump, who is finally the billionaire he always, and falsely, claimed to be, is obviously obese. Whatever else is wrong with him, all of his medical care will be free for him and taxpayer funded.
Paul Krugman realizes there’s yet some hope for America.
On Substack, Oliver Kornetzke says, “What a sick fucking society we are.”
https://oliverkornetzke.substack.com/p/a-sick-society
Paul Krugman says something that’s similar, but he says it differently. “Something is fundamentally wrong with America.”
“Trump is who he is, and a nation that elected him twice simply can’t be trusted.”
Two favorite movie moments:
From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – “What’s your interest in this?”
From Star Wars – “See? You can do it.”
