5 years in and @scmesk still sends me off to work with a loving note #LuckyGuy

Wyndham pulling up to the Rink at the Canadian Open rocking the USA Hockey jersey & making bird. Incredible 💀

Americans after winning their World Cup opener 4-1

K'Andre Miller shares an emotional moment with his newborn son Kashton after advancing to the Stanley Cup Final 🥹❤️

Happy Star Wars Day !

May the fourth be with you

fuck you

"who here can tell me the speed of light?" twelve kids raise their claws

They willingly went to a game between the Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals on their wedding day? A thousand nations couldn’t break their bond, I wish them good health and endless prosperity for all their days

‘How are you so focused under pressure?’ Me in 1995:

ever just stare at this after a tough loss?

Those are NHL officials about to make the worst goaltender interference call you’ve ever seen

when worlds collide 🏈🤝🏒

Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson is at the United Center and gets a deafening ovation. #Blackhawks

Bartenders when you ask them to change the channel from a replay of yesterday’s horse races to the very popular college basketball tournament

Magic ‘the gathering’ Johnson

The Blackhawks honor fallen Chicago Firefighter Michael Altman

walked out of phm and this car was parked next to me 🥺

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

FIRST TIME A COUNTRY HAS WON THE TRIPLE CROWN OF OLYMPIC HOCKEY Women’s Gold ✅ Men’s Gold ✅ Paralympic Sled Hockey ✅ 🗣🗣 CONGRATS BOYS