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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

"Rick Scott, an expert in healthcare"

In 2000, during a deposition for a civil suit unrelated to the fraud investigation, Scott pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.[47] In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history. Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billed Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, it gave doctors "loans" never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[48][8]

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 3d

“Anyone who has ever read the Federalist Papers knows that anywhere between a third and a half of them are about Donald Trump.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’

The turnout and character of the weekend’s No Kings demonstrations speak for...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 3d

The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

“Prompt parties,” gatherings of women over cheese and wine to chat about how ChatGPT can help them, are emerging as the next-generation of Tupperware party in San Francisco.

Wine, Cheese and ChatGPT: Ladies’ Night in San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.

(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public

We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

"By the way - everything I ever sent you is off the record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know"

lmao I think the fuck not you trickass bitch

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist.

But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a...

You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 3d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 4d

With that kind of money, you could kill a lot of dogs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 5d

A memo obtained from HHS reveals plans to investigate chemtrail conspiracies, signaling fringe theories gaining federal traction.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? - Truthdig

A fringe conspiracy theory warning of menace from above takes wing at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS.

www.truthdig.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 5d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 5d

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

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Alexis Alexandridis MD MBA FACS @alexis-md.bsky.social · 5d

Petaluma people are awesome people.
#nokings

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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 5d

American flags, kids, dogs, old people, and inflatable chicken costumes (this is Petaluma). A very friendly protest, and much larger than in the spring.

A line of No Kings protesters, including elderly folks in wheelchairs and some American flags.

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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 5d

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC.

Three

Hundred

Thousand.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 16d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 6d

Ready to haul my normie butt to the No Kings protest tomorrow.

A home-made protest sign of black cardboard stapled to a 1"X4". Two miniature American flags protrude from the top. The text reads "Because I'm Pro-America, I'm anti-Trump."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

Donald Trump announces he has commuted George Santos’ sentence in his federal fraud case:

“at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN! […] I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7d

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn

A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

www.theguardian.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11d

Shining lasers into the air also forces aircraft doing stuff like “life saving medical flights” to land, which is a great way to lose popular support for your activism. Don’t fucking do this.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11d

It is wrong and so freaking stupid. It's impacting hospital care (causing helicopters to have to land an hour away instead of at hospital which is near ICE facility) and the type of thing which will turn people against the protestors. www.kgw.com/article/news...

OHSU says emergency flights will be diverted amid 'laser party' aimed at helicopters circling over Portland ICE facility

A "laser party" for those frustrated with helicopters' nightly flights over the South Portland area can have dangerous consequences for patients, OHSU warned.

www.kgw.com

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NPR @npr.org · 11d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Brendan Buhler @thebuhler.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, go lick a boot.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 11d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 12d

"The employees 'were sent incorrect notifications, which was fixed last night and this morning with a technical correction,' a senior administration official said. 'Any correction has already been remedied.'" The nation is being run by idiots. Idiots with power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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