Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Company Donations

Trump delayed the rollout of a Biden rule that sought to prevent abusive Medicare pricing practices from private companies — after Trump PAC MAGA Inc. received a $5 million donation from one such company that stood to lose out on billions in earnings due to the rule. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

"Imagine if Biden or Obama" yes but this is real, everything about this is grossly inappropriate, just like Trump's failure to appoint a special prosecutor acceptable to Democrats.

Trump is so plainly guilty the *entire White House and DOJ* is trying to save him.

there’s an infomercial on tv for some brain pill for seniors called neuroq and i don’t think you turn this country around until you (1) shut down the fake supplements industry and (2) make everyone responsible eat all the remaining inventory on a livestream i can check in on any time i want

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

Detroit needs to get Kerby Joseph to Lambeau to announce that pick -- the heel heat would melt the building

Abruptly Eliminating Social Security Phone Services Threatens Access to Benefits | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Starting April 14, phone service will no longer be an option for retirees and survivors applying for benefits, or for beneficiaries making direct deposit changes. Instead, these services will only be ...

The Trump Administration is making it harder for eligible Social Security beneficiaries to access their benefits by eliminating phone services, forcing millions more people to seek in-person help even as it cuts thousands of Social Security Administration (SSA) staff. 🧵

www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility.

Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

So…lock them up?

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle “Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.

He was not dead.

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."

In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

What was Vance’s role in yesterday’s cataclysmic geopolitical clusterf*ck?

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Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

The State Department has suddenly awoken to the incredible opportunity that is $400 million of expensive and impractical armored Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

World University Rankings Explore the top ranked universities in the world Discover the top universities worldwide with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025.

US public universities are the envy of the world and are our greatest comparative advantage. It’s astounding how little that’s appreciated by politicians who want to defund them because they’re woke. The University of Wisconsin is ranked higher than the Sorbonne. University of Illinois outranks LSE.

funniest chyron of all time, easily

Wisdom from his many years.

President, humanitarian, strike thrower

A list of snowplow name suggestions from kindergarten thru 4th grade classes including "Control Salt Delete"

Give "Control Salt Delete" kid a medal you cowards

Really well written peek behind the curtain on @cbbworld.bsky.social and @scottaukerman.bsky.social, the Lorne Michaels of character improv.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/