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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 2025)
(Published April 2025)
“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
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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 2025)
(Published April 2025)
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"One of the things you can't do with Donald Trump is just assume he's gonna fucking go away... You have to make them go away, okay, and you have to call them out and you have to go toe-to-toe with them."
George Conway explains how to deal with "narcissistic sociopaths."
George Conway explains how to deal with "narcissistic sociopaths."
January 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM
"One of the things you can't do with Donald Trump is just assume he's gonna fucking go away... You have to make them go away, okay, and you have to call them out and you have to go toe-to-toe with them."
George Conway explains how to deal with "narcissistic sociopaths."
George Conway explains how to deal with "narcissistic sociopaths."
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Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
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Right, when you compare the two DHS statements, it looks like cut-and-paste language cooked up in advance in the expectation of incidents exactly like these.
It's the same template of lies, not even tailored in any meaningful way to the facts and circumstances in Minneapolis.
Note that DHS's new statement on the ICE killing in Minneapolis today closely tracks the version of events they initially put out about the shooting in Chicago:
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Right, when you compare the two DHS statements, it looks like cut-and-paste language cooked up in advance in the expectation of incidents exactly like these.
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Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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Cassidy should have thought about that before he voted to confirm the deadly menace known as RFK Jr.
January 6, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Cassidy should have thought about that before he voted to confirm the deadly menace known as RFK Jr.
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I did not realize this was...
A: Katy Tur's husband
B: The guy that did the Belichick interview
A: Katy Tur's husband
B: The guy that did the Belichick interview
January 6, 2026 at 4:34 AM
I did not realize this was...
A: Katy Tur's husband
B: The guy that did the Belichick interview
A: Katy Tur's husband
B: The guy that did the Belichick interview
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“More transparent than Cronkite,” he told us just a couple of days ago
CBS has scrubbed Dokoupil’s botched segment from what it calls the “full broadcast” of his Evening News debut, re-recording it for YouTube viewers. Watch how markedly different it is: youtu.be/uJjWTFZW2Eo
January 6, 2026 at 4:36 AM
“More transparent than Cronkite,” he told us just a couple of days ago
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January 6, 2021 was the most shameful day in American history. It should live in infamy. We will never forget it, and we will not let the nation or the world forget — despite the revisionism of Trump and his lackeys in the Republican Party.
The most shameful day in American history
We will never forget, and we will not let the nation or the world forget.
robertreich.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
January 6, 2021 was the most shameful day in American history. It should live in infamy. We will never forget it, and we will not let the nation or the world forget — despite the revisionism of Trump and his lackeys in the Republican Party.
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They’re making up the Venezuela strategy as they go.
This sums it up…
“We’re fundamentally dealing with an unserious, immature Commander-in-Chief, which means we are seeing unserious policy decisions which are incredibly hard to actually analyze and discern what their purpose is.” Michael Feinberg
This sums it up…
“We’re fundamentally dealing with an unserious, immature Commander-in-Chief, which means we are seeing unserious policy decisions which are incredibly hard to actually analyze and discern what their purpose is.” Michael Feinberg
January 6, 2026 at 4:48 AM
They’re making up the Venezuela strategy as they go.
This sums it up…
“We’re fundamentally dealing with an unserious, immature Commander-in-Chief, which means we are seeing unserious policy decisions which are incredibly hard to actually analyze and discern what their purpose is.” Michael Feinberg
This sums it up…
“We’re fundamentally dealing with an unserious, immature Commander-in-Chief, which means we are seeing unserious policy decisions which are incredibly hard to actually analyze and discern what their purpose is.” Michael Feinberg
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Yes, choosing just 500 was a near-impossible task. Here's 1-100, which spans from January through February:
500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025
Part 1-100, January-March 2025.
www.meidasplus.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Yes, choosing just 500 was a near-impossible task. Here's 1-100, which spans from January through February:
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
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The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
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Median Salary:
2025 — $59,000
2005 — $46,000
+28% increase
Median House Price:
2025 — $550,000
2005 — $184,000
+199% increase
Affordability has never been worse
2025 — $59,000
2005 — $46,000
+28% increase
Median House Price:
2025 — $550,000
2005 — $184,000
+199% increase
Affordability has never been worse
December 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Median Salary:
2025 — $59,000
2005 — $46,000
+28% increase
Median House Price:
2025 — $550,000
2005 — $184,000
+199% increase
Affordability has never been worse
2025 — $59,000
2005 — $46,000
+28% increase
Median House Price:
2025 — $550,000
2005 — $184,000
+199% increase
Affordability has never been worse
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This is what's known as "consciousness of guilt"
December 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is what's known as "consciousness of guilt"
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
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The agency can’t exist anymore and its personnel must all be prosecuted
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The agency can’t exist anymore and its personnel must all be prosecuted
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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
projects.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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"Not only did it seem that city leaders had failed to recognize the magnitude of the crisis until one of their own had died, they had also made those bearing the brunt of the pandemic feel responsible for their own demise."
ProPublica Managing Editor @gingerthompson.bsky.social set out to write a David-vs.-Goliath narrative about Albany, Georgia’s response to COVID-19.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
www.propublica.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Not only did it seem that city leaders had failed to recognize the magnitude of the crisis until one of their own had died, they had also made those bearing the brunt of the pandemic feel responsible for their own demise."
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Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat.
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Farm workers are silently in the background of all of our lives working tirelessly to deliver the food we eat.
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
Celebrate farm workers this holiday season by making a donation to help fund change all year long.
act.seiu.org/a/holidays20... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou
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New DOJ files reveal trump was on Epstein’s jet EIGHT times -- directly contradicting his claims. Bill Clinton claps back.
Also, SCOTUS hands trump a big L on the National Guard. Nicki Minaj glazes "handsome" trump.
🚨LIVE ON MY YOUTUBE AT 6:30 PM ET
Also, SCOTUS hands trump a big L on the National Guard. Nicki Minaj glazes "handsome" trump.
🚨LIVE ON MY YOUTUBE AT 6:30 PM ET
December 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
New DOJ files reveal trump was on Epstein’s jet EIGHT times -- directly contradicting his claims. Bill Clinton claps back.
Also, SCOTUS hands trump a big L on the National Guard. Nicki Minaj glazes "handsome" trump.
🚨LIVE ON MY YOUTUBE AT 6:30 PM ET
Also, SCOTUS hands trump a big L on the National Guard. Nicki Minaj glazes "handsome" trump.
🚨LIVE ON MY YOUTUBE AT 6:30 PM ET
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.