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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

www.propublica.org

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SAPRO @saproartist.bsky.social · 17h

Devilman 💖

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Luna-Olivia-Eirene @luna-eirene.bsky.social · 7h

Takes a while to load, but this elderly woman knew her rights!!!!!

amp.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-...

Video shows Georgia cop scream at grandma: 'You're not in charge, shut the f*** up!'

An Alpharetta, Georgia, police officer has been suspended after dashcam video of him screaming at a 65-year-old woman and aggressively grabbing her during a traffic stop was released by his departmen...

amp.idahostatesman.com

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Joshua Justice // Ghost Tropic @ghosttropic.org · 7h

Whoaaaa, this is gonna be a good one!

sam “over and under” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 1d

on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen

Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for

samsorensen.blot.im

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scare-ron "actual ghost" shanxnywy @thxnywy.art · 12h

thurifer // thurible
#art

a skull with a jar for a cranium belches purple smoke- inside the jar, an organ attached to tubes floats in pink goop

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Natalie Dombois @nataliedombois.bsky.social · Jan 13

Time to post one of my favorite old illustrations. :)
I created it for a group show resolving around botanical visuals. During this time I read a lot about the ISS and how they grew plants in there to test botanical behavior, which also sparked dreams about deep space travels.

Female Astronaut surrounded by plants. She's holding a space shuttle.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 8h

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 7h

Orchid-8 Bazaar

An immense bazaar that travels from sector to sector and unfolds when it's open for business

belgianbooleancg.com/projects/L3W...

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dBCoatl @ Screw Censorship! @decibelcoatl.bsky.social · 7h

Call your reps and tell them to OPPOSE this nightmarish bill NOW!

NOT tomorrow! NOT next week!

RIGHT. NOW!

There’s still a chance to beat this to the ground, so get going!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 13h

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 18h

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 23h

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 7h

While Americans struggle to pay for groceries, Trump is focused on real estate deals in the Middle East and his gold-plated Oval Office.

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Funkybat - Kevin W. @funkybat.bsky.social · 8h

I honestly think the time may be near when the judges of these courts just beneath SCOTUS may have to speak in unison to call out a particularly egregiously wrong SCOTUS ruling as being legally illegitimate.

It would violate every norm & boundary instilled into them through our history, but…

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8h

Only to be mocked by the Supreme Court.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

New Orwellianism just dropped

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 7h

Both DC and Marvel have expressed that gen AI has no place in their comic books.

That’s significant.

I hope they go further and enshroud that in contracts if they haven’t already. #CreateDontScrape

DC:
gizmodo.com/dc-comics-ji...

Marvel:
bleedingcool.com/comics/nycc-...

Jim Lee Says DC Comics Will Never Support Generative AI

So long as Lee is president of DC Studios, the company will not have its heroes drawn or written by AI.

gizmodo.com

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Mellow Lugosi’s Dead 🧛🏻‍♂️ @flyingtrilobite.com · 7h

“They’re eating the dogs they’re eating the cats”

They just lie and lie and lie

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."