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Housing and Medicine: Two great tastes that taste great together. CMIO @cocohealth. Views are mine.

San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2009
Adam Buck retweeted
San Francisco’s jail count fell last week to 978, its lowest since August 2023, even as bookings rose. Officials point to a state Supreme Court ruling on pretrial release that was sparked by a stolen cheeseburger. from @frankieduryea missionlocal.org/2026/09/san…
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i couldn't decide on just one fave looney tunes joke so here's mel blanc screaming his fuckign lungs out
Whole tl is talking about Looney Tunes so heres my favorite joke ever
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Distribution of Calculus I readiness @ UC Berkeley, before and after test-blind admissions. 1/2
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Thanks to the thermal expansion of steel, the Eiffel Tower has never been taller than it is this week.
Paris, the capital of France, has recorded more days above 40°C this week than during the 147-year period spanning from 1872 to 2019. Historic is an understatement.
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This will always break my parent-heart wide open.
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San Francisco is the warmest city in the lower 48 this morning
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Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.
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This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics. - At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled - At Amherst: more than 30 percent - At Stanford: nearly 40 percent Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago." As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability—extended time on tests, housing accommodations, etc—the rates of disability at colleges, and especially at elite colleges, has exploded. America used to stigmatize disability too severely. Now elite institutions reward it too liberally. It simply does not make any sense to have a policy that declares half of the students at Stanford cognitively disabled and in need of accommodations.
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UCSD’s message to all high school guidance counselors after it’s come out college math unpreparedness spiked **30x** over the course of just a few years, coinciding with the pandemic and UC’s removal of the SAT in admissions. “In the short-term, nothing will change” Incredible.
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I think people underrate how much of this is downstream of the fact that we incentivize teachers to get Master’s from Education programs that are just absolutely rife with piss poor methodological practice and insane ideology
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Adam Buck retweeted
Just in: Jeffrey Epstein said that Donald Trump 'spent hours at my house' with a woman later identified as a victim of sex trafficking, according to emails that raise fresh questions about the relationship between the late paedophile and the US president on.ft.com/3WRBHHy
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Well, it seems the other Bill DeBlasio is back in the news nitter.cf/zzzzaaaacccchhh/status…
I profiled Bill de Blasio!! Wait no. I profiled a 54-year-old dad named Bill DeBlasio, who's spent the last four months receiving a nonstop barrage of hatemail from angry people who think he's the mayor. Sometimes he plays along and trolls them. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/…
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Wild story. Citizens of SF install guerilla swing in Bernal heights. City bureaucracy removes the swing multiple times San Francisco’s official Travel Marketing organization just featured the swing in a national TV spot. Our bloated, overfunded, overstaffed, union-protected bureaucratic jobs program is holding back the potential of our city
Replying to @Memetic_Theory
The swing was just featured in an ad on national TV! The ad played during the college football game of the week Saturday night. Wondering if you'd be willing to share your thoughts on the swing getting shown to a national television audience?youtube.com/watch?v=9jIZggOV…
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Santa Clara is one of the first law schools to publish 2026-27 tuition. Historically, Grad PLUS loans have had no limits. Starting next year, professional school borrowing will be capped at $50k/year. Notice anything about the trend in tuition? I expect many schools to copy this.
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I do not want to live in a country where we resolve political disputes with bullets and blood
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Adam Buck retweeted
During residency, I was surprised to discover the profound influence that screening incentives have on primary care. I am not convinced they improve patient outcomes. This is my latest in Sensible Medicine. open.substack.com/pub/sensib…
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Japanese people thinking immigrants are taking their jobs in a country with only a tiny number of immigrants, a labor shortage problem, and a demographic crisis, kinda shows how silly nativism is.
🚨BREAKING: Thousands of locals marched in OSAKA yesterday demanding an end to immigration
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I’m in Poland now and paid toilets are a blessing. They cost like 50 cents, are ubiquitous, and always clean. Banning paid toilets in the US was so stupid
not taking any European criticism of American society seriously while Europeans make anyone - including pregnant women - pay money before they can use a toilet
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