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It’s 2:30 am, and I’ve captured a grab of the mostly spot-on NYT editorial on the flotilla massacre, because its lede is so outrageously wrong I suspect (and hope) it will evaporate by dawn…

Did you know that the “Affordable Care Act” provides for $1 billion in apparently strings-free grants to biopharma companies? Yeah, neither did I.

The keynote discussion Tuesday between George Bush and Bill Clinton at the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention was closed to media: a call for pirate recordings.

Quick recommendations on 1) a Military Times multipart series on the overuse of psychatric meds in the military and 2) a BBC interview with the mayor of Jerusalem featuring questions never, ever asked by American journalists.

Kip Sullivan is essential reading for those who wish not to forget that the public option movement has been a case study in skilled cooptation of well-intentioned progressive groups and impulses. This post highlights his latest contribution.

At least Bill Moyers still pays attention to single payer.

Fresh off the wires.

The groundbreaking BBC documentary will be available to stream for only a few days.

A skilled and knowledgeable dissection of the House and Senate bills by the Director of Public Policy of the California Nurses Association. He spoke last week at the Annual Conference of the single-payer organization, Healthcare-Now!

COBRA premium subsidies, established under the Obama stimulus bill, are now expiring, increasing hardship for countless families at precisely the moment they can afford it least. Two bills, S. 2730 and HR 3930, would extend this lifeline. Will you call today to insist they pass?