@heidi98110.bsky.social
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Canadians live longer, spend less on health care, and suffer fewer preventable deaths. The border does not just divide nations. It divides lifetimes.
Two children born the same night, ten miles apart, inherit radically different odds of survival. One will outlive the other because of institutions.
Two children born the same night, ten miles apart, inherit radically different odds of survival. One will outlive the other because of institutions.
September 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Canadians live longer, spend less on health care, and suffer fewer preventable deaths. The border does not just divide nations. It divides lifetimes.
Two children born the same night, ten miles apart, inherit radically different odds of survival. One will outlive the other because of institutions.
Two children born the same night, ten miles apart, inherit radically different odds of survival. One will outlive the other because of institutions.
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Take a couple of minutes and read this powerful thread. Policies do change lives.
We must do better.
We must do better.
People Born Across The Bridge Live 20 Years Longer. Why?
A Black child born in Windsor, Ontario, will likely live into her eighties.
A Black child born the same night in Detroit, visible across the river, is not likely to reach her seventies.
Policy is deadly.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
A Black child born in Windsor, Ontario, will likely live into her eighties.
A Black child born the same night in Detroit, visible across the river, is not likely to reach her seventies.
Policy is deadly.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
The Cost of Preventable Suffering: Why Americans Die Younger Than Canadians
From a bus ride in Connecticut to a bridge in Detroit, inequality decides who survives
open.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Take a couple of minutes and read this powerful thread. Policies do change lives.
We must do better.
We must do better.
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Medicaid covers:
- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state
- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state
February 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Medicaid covers:
- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state
- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state
Mount Tahoma today.
January 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Mount Tahoma today.
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Corporate logic:
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
NEW: John Deere is costing American farmers $4.2 billion a year by restricting them from fixing their own tractors.
Apple, Amazon and major automakers use the same strategies on everything you own.
It's bad for you, but excellent for corporate profits.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOS...
Apple, Amazon and major automakers use the same strategies on everything you own.
It's bad for you, but excellent for corporate profits.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOS...
How John Deere Robs Farmers of $4 Billion a Year
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
m.youtube.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Corporate logic:
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
You pay us for our product.
But you don’t own that product, we do.
And when that product breaks you can’t fix it unless you pay us more money.
Right to repair laws will fix this scam.
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This is about Colorado. A reminder California just voted to retain forced prison labor.
Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics.
The DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement. boltsmag.org/colorado-pri...
The DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement. boltsmag.org/colorado-pri...
Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery
Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.
boltsmag.org
November 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
This is about Colorado. A reminder California just voted to retain forced prison labor.