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📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Wishing you and yours a very happy 100th Dick Van Dyke-mas.
a man in a striped jacket is walking with three penguins behind him
Alt: Dick Van Dyke, dancing with penguins in Mary Poppins
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Wishing you and yours a very happy 100th Dick Van Dyke-mas.
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Searched through the 300+ replies looking for the recipe from Janelle. I don't see the recipe. But this recipe from @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social looks similar...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/ulti...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/ulti...
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Searched through the 300+ replies looking for the recipe from Janelle. I don't see the recipe. But this recipe from @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social looks similar...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/ulti...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/ulti...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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This is how it always is for women, Chris. Afterwards they will tell her that guy was out of line.
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is how it always is for women, Chris. Afterwards they will tell her that guy was out of line.
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One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 AM
One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.
"Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP."
And anti-corruption.
And anti-corruption.
Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons:
1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up.
2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight.
3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...
1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up.
2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight.
3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...
Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows
The president saw defeat and ran. But that doesn’t mean the fight over releasing the files is over.
www.thebulwark.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP."
And anti-corruption.
And anti-corruption.
Looks like a recipe to try on a snowy day!
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Looks like a recipe to try on a snowy day!
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they counted on the Democrats also wanting to bury this. nope. roll all of their bodies into the sea
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
they counted on the Democrats also wanting to bury this. nope. roll all of their bodies into the sea
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This could not be more noxious--private restaurants and elevators to take cars to your penthouses as "the acquisitive power of the very rich is soaring."
A gift link to spark the revolution:
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
A gift link to spark the revolution:
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life.
www.wsj.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This could not be more noxious--private restaurants and elevators to take cars to your penthouses as "the acquisitive power of the very rich is soaring."
A gift link to spark the revolution:
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
A gift link to spark the revolution:
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
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Thank you veterans. Thank you for your courage. May we all honor your service by carrying on the battle for freedom. #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Thank you veterans. Thank you for your courage. May we all honor your service by carrying on the battle for freedom. #VeteransDay
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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In 1931 Clifford Clinton opened the first of several cafeterias in Los Angeles, Clifton's at 618 Olive Street, in Downtown L.A. (it's a parking lot, now but a nearby one sort of survives nearby). He had a simple philosophy of never letting anyone go hungry.
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
In 1931 Clifford Clinton opened the first of several cafeterias in Los Angeles, Clifton's at 618 Olive Street, in Downtown L.A. (it's a parking lot, now but a nearby one sort of survives nearby). He had a simple philosophy of never letting anyone go hungry.
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There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history.
Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.
Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history.
Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.
Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.
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We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
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This is one of the fundamental lessons of Hannah Arendt's On Totalitarianism.
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is one of the fundamental lessons of Hannah Arendt's On Totalitarianism.
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Anne Applebaum: "Modern authoritarian propaganda, of the kind we are about to receive from the Pentagon and perhaps other government agencies, isn’t designed to produce true believers or mass movements. It’s designed to produce apathy" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Anne Applebaum: "Modern authoritarian propaganda, of the kind we are about to receive from the Pentagon and perhaps other government agencies, isn’t designed to produce true believers or mass movements. It’s designed to produce apathy" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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White House? GOP
Senate? GOP
House? GOP
USSC? Conservative majority
Which part, exactly, of government are Republicans not currently in charge of????
Senate? GOP
House? GOP
USSC? Conservative majority
Which part, exactly, of government are Republicans not currently in charge of????
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
October 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
White House? GOP
Senate? GOP
House? GOP
USSC? Conservative majority
Which part, exactly, of government are Republicans not currently in charge of????
Senate? GOP
House? GOP
USSC? Conservative majority
Which part, exactly, of government are Republicans not currently in charge of????
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Release the Epstein files.
Trump in July, on the WH $250MM ballroom project:
“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Release the Epstein files.