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Caly 🌎

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Caly 🌎 @calycosmos.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Attn: Medicare recipients in AZ, OH, OK, NJ, TX, WA

From 1/1/2026, the Admin will use an AI program to see how much money Medicare can save by DENYING care to people.

Eg. ⬆️ prior authorizations

"The more expensive it is, the more likely it is to be denied"

#M4A

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Private health insurers use AI to approve or deny care. Soon Medicare will, too.

A pilot program testing the use of artificial intelligence to expand prior authorization decisions in Medicare has providers, politicians and researchers asking questions.

www.nbcnews.com

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💙🦋🌊 Political Americans 🌊🦋💙 @politicalamericans.bsky.social · 6h

In addition to the personal army Trump is building at home.

MAGA is going to war with us.

Trump is not buying weapons he doesn’t intend to use.

This is going to be extremely violent.

newrepublic.com/post/202031/...

ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You.

Donald Trump is arming his masked immigration agents with increasingly lethal weapons.

newrepublic.com

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 8h

This was a comment to one of my posts on Threads: "Trump is not giving Argentina $40 billion. He's buying a private foreign army to attack us with."

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 3h

FDR Memorial, Washington DC. Quote is from the Fireside Chat of April 14, 1938

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h

Bloomberg: The US has refused to support the "Big Seven" plan to transfer €140 billion in frozen russian assets to Ukraine.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 21h

🔥 DemCast’s Director of Partnerships, Jamie Carter, didn’t just organize the Salt Lake City #NoKings rally — she lit it on fire.

Her powerful, rebellious speech moved 15,000 strong, proving that courage is contagious and democracy’s defenders don’t back down. 💙

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 16h

The White House plans to give asylum to far-right anti-immigrant protesters from Europe. No. This is not a joke. It does put one in mind planned terrorism, however.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 5h

Reject tariffs! History has shown us that they only lead to economic depression and military aggression.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 7h

📌This Ontario, Canada, commercial is the truth, sheer brilliance, and should spread like wildfire across the United States.

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun

www.youtube.com

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 8h

ICE has killed at least 19 people since it began its kidnapping spree under orders of Donald Trump; most victims died while in internment due to “illness” caused by the deliberate poor conditions they are held in.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12h

MAGA Cult Slayer

“I don’t know that we have much time if we don’t reconcile what is happening in real time.”

This is what we are talking about and have been warning you of people. They are out for complete control. It wasn’t a mistake when he said you’ll never have to vote again.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 6h

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

www.wsj.com

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

It’s so fucked up.
substack.com/@logicallyjc...

The People’s House Is Becoming a Party House

The East Wing of the White House is being torn down to make room for a ballroom.

substack.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

Overstaying its welcome. Making New Yorkers’ days grimmer. Something we should relegate to the past.

No, we're not talking about Andrew Cuomo. We're talking about scaffolding.

Today we released our plan to take it down more quickly.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

“Frighteningly easy to sell new wars”

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Making Argentina Great Again

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows