A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

Making good trouble in Green Bay WI

Proud to work at @vanityfair.com

🔥

This is truly the best legal advice we can give.

Indeed.

Inner peace can save your life
but external fuckin' rage is an adequate backup.

Imagine needing YOUR MOM go on TV and say you're a good boy (after she blasted you via email), and then promising NOT to drink on the job, being forced out of a veterans group for misconduct and STILL being considered for a job you're not qualified for.

THAT is serious White privilege.

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!

Helpful tip:

If you voted for a guy who openly stole $ from Americans w/a scam online University...
...you don't ever get to complain to the rest of us about 'respecting our laws.'

Now sit down, and wait for the billionaires to care about you.

Sweetest kiddo ever! She had already gotten her dessert, so I think she meant it

I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health:

Vaccines
Antibiotics & antimicrobials
Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene
Food safety & fortification innovations
Modern agriculture methods
Public health education campaigns

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In 55 days, this building will become the epicenter of corruption on our planet.

I had to get the opossum ornament for our woodland themed tree!

Those are in there now :) She tests it every day

I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...”

...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.

From Despair To Determination: Sustaining the Resistance An Essay by Patti Vasquez

As promised, here is “Mocha Monday," a day that we hand over our social media platforms over to a journalist to help us all figure out how to navigate these scary times. 

Here's an article from Patti Vasquez, progressive talk show host from WCPT 820 AM Chicago

open.substack.com/pub/kirkbang...

From 2016 but still great advice

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Hmmm... we did not have Bernie agreeing with Trump on anything on our Election BINGO Card.