Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Bill retweeted
This is Dr. Joel Abraham. You might recognize him from Kathy Hochul’s latest campaign ad, “Wrecking Ball.”
Dr. Abraham is affiliated with Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Let's take a look at how much taxpayer-funded revenue and government assistance his hospital receives.
- $453 MILLION in estimated annual Medicare and Medicaid revenue.
- $65 MILLION in allowed claims through New York State’s Empire Plan in 2023.
- $63.6 MILLION in federal COVID-19 relief funding.
- $3.75 MILLION in New York State capital grant awards.
ALSO...
69% of Vassar Brothers Medical Center's hospital admissions involve Medicare or Medicaid patients.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the hospital ranks in the BOTTOM 2% NATIONWIDE for emergency department visit times and 133rd out of 140 hospitals in New York State, making it the 8th slowest in the state.
Meanwhile...
- Susan Browning, President of Vassar Brothers Medical Center, receives $1.2 MILLION in annual compensation.
- Michael Dowling, former CEO of Northwell Health, received nearly $6 MILLION in annual compensation.
- Dr. John Murphy, former President and CEO of Nuvance Health, received over $5 MILLION in annual compensation.
So, while Dr. Abraham appears in Kathy Hochul’s campaign ad warning New Yorkers about Medicaid cuts, the hospital he’s affiliated with collects hundreds of millions annually through government-funded healthcare programs, its executives take home MILLIONS in compensation, and its emergency department ranks among the slowest in the state and nation...
Maybe @KathyHochul is the problem, not the solution?
Bill retweeted
The FBI raids NYC adult day care centers suspected of Medicaid fraud.
Where’s NY Attorney General Letitia James?
Her Medicaid Fraud Control Unit ranked 51st out of 51 jurisdictions in criminal indictments and convictions per dollar of Medicaid spending from 2019–2025, according to an Empire Center analysis of federal data.
Before James took office, the unit averaged over 100 criminal indictments annually. From 2021–2025, just nine.
The state reportedly referred numerous adult day care providers to her office for investigation.
As of 8 AM this morning, October 21, I could find no public comment from James or her office specifically addressing the raids.
Which providers were referred to her office? When? What did her office do about them? Were any among the businesses the FBI just raided?
James owes New Yorkers an accounting.
Cc @NewYorkStateAG @TishJames
FBI agents searching New York City locations amid Medicaid fraud investigation 7ny.tv/Kai9D7
ALT FBI agents searching New York City locations amid Medicaid fraud investigation
Bill retweeted
I’m feeling like I need to make a boomer defense website at this point.
No, we aren’t the selfish generation. We are the most hardworking generation. We don’t want to sell our homes because we worked damn hard for them, and now we have grandchildren visiting with our children and we like there is room for them. AND it’s OUR HOME. Those that are wealthy (not as many as you all imagine) ARE helping their children with paying for college (no student loans) and helping with them buying a first house. Those not wealthy now depend on the SS and Medicare they paid into their entire lives. They are also babysitting grandchildren and loving your children as no one else on earth will. We are not selfish. We are living on the years of hard work. Maybe you’ll understand when you get there, but now this bullsh*t narrative on your parent’s generation has got to stop.
Bill retweeted
BREAKING: A driver in a black Chevy Silverado pickup truck has MOWED down at least 13 people on the youth soccer fields at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, Kansas.
Two are feared dead, five are in critical condition, and six others are injured, according to scanner reports by @wichitafireorg.
Wichita Police: “WPD is investigating a mass casualty incident involving a vehicle. There is no further ongoing threat at this time.
We will provide further updates when we have additional information."
Bill retweeted
NYC Comptroller @MarkLevineNYC wants Albany to consider higher taxes to cover the city’s budget deficit. You’re supposed to be the steward of our money. Show us what we’re getting for it.
Your predecessor’s office identified 396 active nonprofit homeless-services contracts worth $21.6 BILLION over their terms. City investigators documented conflicts of interest, nepotism, bidding failures and some shelter executives receiving more than $700,000 a year.
What has been fixed? Which providers are delivering results?
How many adults in homeless and migrant programs are able and legally authorized to work? How many already work? How many have these nonprofits helped find jobs, keep them and move into stable housing? At what cost?
Meanwhile, Mamdani backs a bill Amazon warns could move thousands of jobs out of NYC. Losing those paychecks could push more people into the assistance system taxpayers already finance.
We should be helping people out of a permanent underclass, not adding to it.
You’re the comptroller. Follow the money and show us the outcomes before asking for more.
Comptroller @MarkLevineNYC called on the state to consider tax increases next year, citing a need to address the deep municipal budget deficit on the horizon.
“Certainly an increase should be on the table for the year ahead in Albany,” he said at @POLITICOLive’s NY Outlook👇
Bill retweeted
For anyone who missed last night’s New York gubernatorial debate, I took the liberty of putting together a quick recap of @KathyHochul's talking points.
You're welcome. 🎻
@NassauExec
Bill retweeted
Trump Tells Liberals Uncomfortable With Public Execution To Just Imagine It's A Healthcare CEO buff.ly/UW0qpu4
Bill retweeted
At La Cabaña prison in 1959, Che Guevara presided over tribunals that executed somewhere between 156 and 550 men, many after trials lasting minutes. Appeals were theater. "Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail," he wrote, which is a convenient position when you are the one holding the rifle.
The man despised markets with the same enthusiasm he despised due process. As head of Cuba's National Bank, he destroyed the peso, printing money and signing the new bills simply "Che" to show his contempt for the whole institution of sound currency. Cubans paid for this in bread lines.
He built labor camps too. The UMAP camps, opened in 1965, held homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone the regime labeled counter-revolutionary. Forced labor under armed guard. These people needed "moral correction".
Leftists wear his face on a T-shirt, advertising a man who wanted to abolish the very commerce that printed the shirt. He called money a bourgeois disease. He loved the firing squad and hated the price system, which makes sense, because both let strangers coordinate without a commissar's permission.
A killer. Economically illiterate. Incapable of reason. No wonder the left idolizes him.
Bill retweeted
At 8:00 yesterday morning, power prices across all of New York jumped from $35 to over $1,000 a megawatt-hour, for fifteen minutes. No plant broke down. It was a mild October morning.
What changed at 8:00? Within ten minutes, the schedule on the new Hydro-Québec cable dropped from 700 megawatts to zero. It did the same thing at 8:00 the morning before, when prices spiked to $527. All the while, New York was sending 800 megawatts to Quebec on the older line next door.
Gas and hydro plants picked up the slack, and that’s what it cost.
Over the entire day, New York used 381 GWh of electricity. Demand peaked at 18.0 GW at 1 PM. At that hour: gas 27%, all solar (rooftop included) 25%, nuclear 18%, hydro 14%, wind 10%, all imports 6%. Metered grid load peaked later, at 7 PM (17.5 GW), after rooftop solar faded. Over the full day: gas 38%, nuclear 21%, hydro 19%, all solar (rooftop included) 9%, wind 8%, all imports 5%.
Solar’s best hour covered 26% of the state’s power; solar was done for the day by 6 PM. NYC wholesale prices topped out around $280/MWh (hourly average). That hourly figure averages in the 8 AM spike.
Bill retweeted
Allow me explain it so you can "comprehend" it: 1. Kid wasn't visible from the exterior; 2. Driver was wanted on a warrant, for questioning in a separate shooting at a federal officer, is a reported violent gang member, has a felony prior, and was here illegally; 3. Driver tried to mow them down; 4. NYPD is forbidden from targeting illegal felons or from cooperating with ICE, so the feds were on their own; 5. The perp knew who they were--the idea that he might've thought guys with bodycams and vests drawing down on him were maybe looking to rob him (of what?) is utterly ludicrous. You don't think a Trinitario knows what a rip-off looks like? 6. You find this "incomprehensible" because you, like most of NYC's political class, live a life far-removed from the depredations that career criminals inflict on neighborhoods, law-abiding people, businesses, kids, the elderly, and others unable to defend themselves from this sh*t. Hope that helps.
Bill retweeted
Happy b’day, Jay Graydon, who once explained his solo in Steely Dan’s “Peg”:
“.. It was just another record session as far as nerves go. .. I hoped I would play a solo that Donald and Walter would like, since a guitar solo on a SD album was a big deal ..”
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Bill retweeted
I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese
He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years.
Bill retweeted
Most people know David Niven as the charming actor. The easy smile, the perfect line, the man who always looked like he belonged in a dinner jacket.
What many don't know is that he served in WWII, because he rarely spoke about it.
In 1939, he was a rising British star in Hollywood. When Britain declared war, the embassy told most of the actors to stay put and keep making films, but Niven went home. He'd been through Sandhurst Military Academy years earlier, so the army took him back. He served with the Rifle Brigade, then the Commandos, and later commanded A Squadron in Phantom, a unit whose job was to get out there and find out where your own side actually was once a battle started and chaos ensued. He finished the war a lieutenant colonel.
But then he went quiet.
He loved a story. He wrote two memoirs and could hold a dinner table for hours. But he seldom spoke about those years in the war.
He explained it once.
Some American friends asked him to find their son's grave near Bastogne. He found it where they said it would be, in a field of thousands of others. But standing there, in front of all who had fallen, his stories seemed so insignificant. The raids, the rank, the stories he could have dined out on. Then and there, he told himself those men were thousands of reasons to keep his mouth shut.
And when he died in 1983, the largest wreath at his memorial didn't come from a film studio. It came from the porters at London Heathrow Airport. The card said:
"To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a porter feel like a king."
So here's to David Niven, a true English gentleman. 🍻
Bill retweeted
BIGGEST RED FLAG 🚩FOR NYC MEN
Meet the Hardo Cyclist
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- Yells “BIKE LANE” at a toddler with a balloon 🎈 enjoying Central Park
- Thinks 21 mph through a packed park is “just spinning”
- VP at a bank who talks about his FTP like it’s a hedge fund
- Full Team Ineos kit, zero races ever
- Shaved legs in October so the park knows he’s serious
- Thinks Central Park is the final kilometer of the Tour de France and you’re the obstacle
- $14k carbon bike but will send you a Venmo request for coffee
- Terrorist
Bill retweeted
Last week, a hardworking father, husband, and union steamfitter was killed in central park by a speeding cyclist. His name was Richie O’Brien and he was 41.
While good samaritans, including a doctor, were attempting to render aid to him as he was dying, other cyclists screamed and cursed at them to get out of their bike path.
This is what bike culture has become in New York City. And we have the bike lobby, led by the lobbying group Transportation Alternatives and their media outlets like Streetsblog and various other propagandists to thank for it. They created this culture.
For years now, New Yorkers who use Central Park have pleaded with this city to do something about the high-speed bicycles that tear through the park every single day.
They use the park as their own personal racetrack, not the shared public space that it is. They have zero respect for anyone else. And yesterday it got someone killed. And there have been countless previous incidents and ever more close calls.
Yet nothing is done. Why? Why is it politically impossible for anyone with any authority to tell this special interest NO?
Nobody seems to have any problem regulating every inch of this city into oblivion, and yet bicyclists are treated as some kind of special class, completely untouchable by law or regulation. Like an aristocracy.
And what about Democrat supposed commitment to ‘working people?’ This was a blue-collar working class union member — exactly the sort of New Yorker the Democrats and the DSA want us to believe they fight for.
And he was mowed down while walking to his job site by someone affluent and privileged enough to be riding a bicycle through Central Park on a weekday morning.
Where is the so-called ‘solidarity’ for this working New Yorker? Where are the calls to change laws and enforce some kind of order on reckless bicycle riders?
There is none, because the Democrats don't actually care at all about working class people at all. They care about the sort of people who scream obscenities at a dying man because he blocked their bike lane.
Please consider contributing to the GoFundMe for Brian's family. It's unlikely they'll see any satisfaction from the City of New York.
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