Jessica Dobrinsky
@jldobrinsky
writer | chief of staff @cardinalwv | words: @dcexaminer @thespectator | #endCON | 🇮🇱
The West Virginia Hospital Association, year after year, attempts to defend our state’s Certificate of Need (CON) laws with misleading claims that serve monopolistic interests rather than the public good and health of West Virginia citizens. The reality is that CON stifles…

On the same page, the NEA erases the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust (instead referring to victims "from different faiths, ethnicities, races," etc), and wants to educate members on the extremely important topic of the difference between antizionism and antisemitism.
I just found the National Education Association's 2025 handbook.
New dataset from @InstituteCicero gives exact dates for when every state passed and repealed their Certificate of Need laws: ciceroinstitute.org/blog/comprehen…
*fewer (And maybe more English majors.)
We need more electricians and less sociology majors.
I’m sad for youth who will inevitably outsource their writing to ChatGPT. It will impoverish their minds and in turn the world at large.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Paul VI observing the Moon from the Vatican Observatory on the night of the Moon Landing in 1969
catholics don’t play when it comes to space
This morning, on the anniversary of the 1969 Moon landing, after reciting the Angelus, Pope Leo XIV visited the telescopes and instrumentation in the domes of the Specola Vaticana, the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. @SpecolaVaticana @HolySeePress (📸 Vatican Media)
I agree that CON laws and site dependent care are two of the worst parts of our healthcare system.
Certificate of Need laws belong in the dustbin of history
truly captivated by Virginia Woolf’s bedroom at Monk House
The claim that Orthodox and Catholic Christians in Palestinian communities aren’t “true Christians” is reprehensible—an attempt to erase the identity of a people living in the Levant since ancient times and alienate Christianity from its ancestral home, the place of Jesus Christ.
Despite a recent $750k taxpayer subsidy, the shelves at Kansas City's government-run grocery store are "almost bare." It also lost $885k last year and is, unsurprisingly, hemorrhaging customers.
As Pittsburgh Byzantine Catholics gather, the Pope says their meeting is “a visible sign of communion in the Church." vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…
A thousand miles from New York City, the place @MadeleineKearns call home, there’s a clinic that vows to help women with ‘unexplained infertility.’ She traveled there last year, in her quest to become a mother. thefp.com/p/what-i-went-…
Roaches in the hospital. No labor & delivery. No pediatric ER staff. But sure, WV’s certificate of need laws ensure our hospital is delivering “top-quality care” to all. 🙃
Free to read: From hospitals to clinics, West Virginia’s health network works to keep care affordable & accessible. The Certificate of Need process helps ensure top‑quality care statewide. wvnews.com/news/wvnews/we… #WVNews #WestVirginiaHealth #HealthcareAccess #CommunityWellness