Bertha Coombs

Millions of #Medicare recipients can now access #GLP-1 for weight, joining consumers who are already rocking the U.S. #Economy. Watch our @aspenideas.bsky.social session here: www.aspenideas.org/sessions/how...

SLOK: “.. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. .. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Saturday’s presidential campaign split-screen: “Mr. Trump spoke longer in his one speech than Mr. Obama did across two.”

This YouGov survey graphic in today’s WSJ is something — people see economic and political power being dominated by Billionaires, CEOs, men and White Americans; the most well-known billionaires check all of those boxes. www.wsj.com/economy/musk...

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Kind of begs the question… aren’t hackers likely using AI to make the same determinations?

Trump reportedly wants to turn the press briefing room into a swimming pool…?

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

OMG, it's double heart-break. My heart goes out to her.

Doctor friends please explain how in the world does an elite athlete in his prime develops a pulmonary embolism?

Or, GLP1s vs AI…

I miss the old Point-Counterpoint at the end of 60 Minutes... That "commentary" at the end of tonight's show seemed to normalize the President's recent actions toward Ukraine. I guess I miss the old 60 Minutes.

This is not the way you want your company to be associated with Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon. Hopefully, somebody from $FDX has reached out to fix this. Think about all of the literal energy/fuel expended on this mistake in an era of sky-high prices.

Katie Zacharia beats The Mooch.

On top higher Part B payments, It is looking more and more like a Hobson’s choice: - cheaper MA plans that will cost you when it comes to restricted provider and benefit access vs - sky-high supplemental plan premiums for the privilege of seeing the doctors you want and need.

Few details about ACA plan member cancellations and even fewer on reinstatements, it appears.

Worrisome…

Boomer retirees get bigger checks, while those still working will pay more in Soc Sec tax — a big example of the generational inequality that’s resulting from inflation right now.

Praying for him. 🙏🏽

This👇 is such a good example of how on top of her game Helen was. While she was keeping us all updated on Ebola, MERS, flu, and so many of all the other infectious diseases out there, she immediately grasped the gravity of the first warning sign of what we now remember as SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19.

Hackers made off with $100 M from what was supposed to be a secure crypto wallet device…

I ❤️ this. It was not AI — a real human engineer from Yale made this work!

Wonder whether they knew that dumb is spelled with a b…

Sometimes history rhymes…folks named places after tariff aficionado Herbert Hoover while he was president back in the early 1930s…

I also worry about the emotional impact on the soldiers who will be ordered to carry out the execution…

Can someone please ask Zuckerberg whether he is using Muse himself? And if he isn’t, is it because he worries that the AI will dox him?

Because when you’re in your 20s, you think “Yeah, high leverage played a role in the crashes of 1929, 1987, the collapse of LTCM in 1998, and more recently in 2008 — NBD. This time it’s different.”

More than half of Marketplace enrollees (55%) live in Republican districts. The highest shares of state enrollment are in Florida (16%), Georgia (11%), Texas (10%), and Utah (10%) — states that were all won by President Trump in 2024. Get more data here: https://on.kff.org/4jcR7m8

In modern times distributing video of executions was big with ISIS back in the early 2010s…

I was just talking about this tonight. It’s hard to trust these things.

And by 2054… that might be just enough to buy a gaming console.

That’s a helleva DM…

President Trump says $2K Trump accounts will make kids “very rich” by the time they are 18. Even with compounding, that sum would in a good market grow to just over $11K, which might cover a year of trade school, depending on inflation. If used for school or buying a home they would avoid tax.

Today is a great day to buy at-home Covid/Flu tests, they’re discounted during the Amazon Prime sale!

Just curious… does anybody know how to harness AI to find data brokers who give out your number for annoying campaign text messages and have a bot text them non-stop?

Keep seeing a negative local TV ad about Dem. Senate candidate Rebecca Bennett that calims she got rich making health care deals with insurers which deny care and a hospital which had a sex offender. It highlights her work at Midi Health - a women's telehealth provider - which is not an insurer.

Seriously nuts that the judge allowed the AI video, and that the prosecution didn’t object.

At my local CVS, here on the east coast, the shelf with the Cold-Ease and Zicam zinc cold meds was nearly empty yesterday...

About the WSJ's "new sexy"... looking beyond the clothes it seems the fashion world has gone all-in on the mean girlfriend look. It's not that women need to be smiling, but why do fashion folks think emaciated, hangry, and looking depressed is a good look?

Another indication of the importance of vaccines to protect against diseases longterm: Data shows millions of cancers linked to viruses and “four of the five leading infectious causes of cancer, as well as HIV, already have ‘highly effective’ prevention measures, researchers said.”

Text I received while I was under for my colonoscopy this morning… (P.S. Schedule your cancer screenings!)

Does that count as deflation, since it’s only 10% of the original offer to voters?

FREE LINK > Pennsylvania has now reported a FIFTH measles death. Avril Silva has more here > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1. https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/30/legal-immigrants-risk-losing-medicaid-coverage-trump/

Epic is using Anthropic AI tools to shore up security vulnerabilities. Guess if Claude is going to kill us through our medical records, it may have to get in line behind the bureaucratic bots which already crush our souls with paperwork.