The article doesn’t mention current gas prices, which have severe effects on workers who live in outlying areas to get cheaper rent. Another “feature” of Florida living is severe restrictions on healthcare for people of limited income.
“Of the 20 most common occupations in the state, 13 paid on average less than $20 an hour, including retail salespeople, cashiers and cooks, according to a 2025 study by United Way of Florida.” Source: same WSJ article
It’s $14/an hour for non-tipped employees. That will max out at $15 in September.
Florida minimum wage is $10.98 per hour for tipped employees. Even with the tax break, you can’t live on that in Florida.
“A poll last year by Florida Atlantic University … found that 80% of Florida residents were concerned about housing affordability and 43% said they lived paycheck to paycheck. Nearly half said they had considered leaving Florida because of the cost of living.”
“Among the 25 most populous metro areas in the U.S., Orlando, Miami and Tampa ranked among the bottom five for median household income in 2024, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report last year.”
“The affordability picture has changed in Florida almost more than anywhere else in the country,” a demographics expert told The Wall Street Journal. www.wsj.com/economy/flor...
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
The maddening truth: The U.S. could end homelessness, feed all the hungry children, and give every single person affordable healthcare, but instead, our government chooses to exempt multi-billion-dollar corporations from paying fair taxes on their profits.
I respectfully suggest that most other verbs of attribution (other than “said”) stick out annoyingly unless pertinent to a situation, e.g. “whispered.”
Fourth, I’d like to see the hospital answer questions about the reports that the patient “declined to have the surgery and said he wished to return to Alabama for further medical care, but [the doctor] … ‘continued to pressure’” the patient. 7/7
Third, I want to know more about the hospital where the deadly procedure was performed. Not only had this same doctor previously erred in organ removal; in the liver case, the procedure “was not regularly performed at [this hospital] … the Health Department statement said.” 6/n
Text in image: The Health Department had sanctioned Dr. Shaknovsky before, finding that he erroneously removed part of another patient’s pancreas instead of an adrenal gland in 2023. Dr. Shaknovsky said at the time that the adrenal gland “migrated” to another part of the patient’s body, the documents say. State records show that Dr. Shaknovsky paid $400,000 to settle a medical malpractice claim in that case.
Second, I want to know the details of his past errors at the hospital where he removed a patient’s liver instead of spleen. The NYT article says the doctor “erroneously removed part of another patient’s pancreas instead of an adrenal gland in 2023.” 5/n
First, I want to know every detail of his medical training and his job history. Journalists can get that for us. 4/n
In comments I’ve seen around the interwebs, stupid people ask about the doctor’s race and speculate he was a diversity hire. However, he’s obviously a white man. So let’s squash that lie whenever we see it. 3/n
The NY Times story includes interesting details, but not enough. I am curious about several things not explained. 2/n waltonso.org/walton-count...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that it has been acquired by the Baltimore Banner’s publisher, rescuing the paper just weeks before it was set to shut down. https://cnn.it/4tNIeBq
The questions I’d like answered: Who made the image (AI prompter) and who gave it to Trump (he said “I posted it”) and what did they say to him when they passed it on?
Take his answer at face value and it shows he knows nothing about Christianity. He can’t even recognize a standard representation of Jesus (albeit with his own head grafted on).
This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.” [cardcatalogforlife.substack.com]
Is that Jeffrey Epstein?
I had to quit using it!
Using DuckDuckGo now so I guess that’s Bing? At least I can turn off the AI summaries.
“Google = ruining search”
so true
so ironic
You might not care about sea slugs, and you might not know about programming in R, but this photo is an absolute timeline cleanser. Enjoy!
Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.
Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.
But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅
First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.
#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates
There was never Critical Race Theory in schools.
That's as silly as saying, "I oppose teaching toxic tort litigation in schools!🤡"
Critical Race Theory is a graduate level legal and political theory topic. No district has ever taught it as part of an elementary school curriculum.
Butt-gills!!! 🥰
