Just got an email from the VA- The caregiver line hours have been cut 2 hrs a day mon-fri and Saturday service is done away with- Tell me again how the GOP supports the military and veterans

HIPAA includes any PII stored by a medical provider, not just health data.

Cookie McCake Face lives up to the hype. #portland

Trump administration disbands taskforce targeting Russian oligarchs US attorney general issues memo to break up effort started after 2022 Ukraine invasion to target those close to Kremlin

huh, i wonder what this is about www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How is this enforced?

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.

Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act marketplace in WI hit a new record-high in 2024 with 313,579 enrollees. Any cuts to subsidies or weakening of the law by Congress will jeopardize coverage for our neighbors.

Call your member of Congress and tell them "hands off the ACA!"

The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States' officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program . . . . [S]uch commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898, 935, 117 S. Ct. 2365, 2384, 138 L. Ed. 2d 914 (1997)

The law is clear that cities and states have every right to focus on serving their residents, instead of helping ICE detain and deport them.

This is why they are going after schools. Focus on the easy targets, children, people who have productive jobs. It is not about criminals and never was.

I believe that is a violation of HIPAA. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't one of the tenets the processor can only collect and store the minimum information needed for treatment and payment?

And in related news, analysts lower Diageo's quarterly sales forecasts.

Agree, but any intereferance by someone using their conscience is good interferance.

Donate to the @aclu.org

New membership card came today! #aclu

Another beautiful day in Portland, Oregon. When people talk about dry January this is not what I expected.

Imagine you worked for ICE. Your job is to ruin people's lives.

He's a sad mean circus clown who replaced the water in his spritzer bottle with hydrochloric acid.

Today, the President issued an executive order restricting access to the ACA and impacting the ability for 24 million people to get healthcare insurance.

If I had to pay $1,800 for coverage, I probably would have risked it and gone without healthcare.

#healthcare #aca

I recently changed jobs.During the transition, I had to provide my own health insurance.

If not for the ACA marketplace I would have likely been paying close to $1,800. The ACA marketplace kept it under $700.

Cont.

#healthcare #aca

Credit to the @107ist.org

Time for institutional investors to drop TSLA. 1/2 the country won't touch anything Elon Musk related, the other 1/2 hates electric and Trump has made itclear no more infrastructure investment.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social on Trump’s pardon of 1,500 Jan. 6 offenders: “By endorsing and celebrating their actions today… Trump has said, ‘If you carry out acts of violence to try to put your favorite leader in power, there's a good chance you will never, ever be held accountable for it.’”

Correction, I was there in 93, not 95.

Worked at Word Perfect in '95. Word is better. Has been since 97.

Lower investment in multiple energy sources = smaller set of sellers fewer choices. That results in higher costs. Plus US technology falls behind.

Trump’s inaugural address centers on pledge to lift a country in ‘decline’ In his second Inaugural Address, the president reprised dark themes from his first and laid out an expansive policy agenda.

President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.

Post away. There's a hiring freeze. So not enough Feds to go around and get us all.

On board with that.

With TikTok gone, I now fear I will.never learn the proper use of "skibidi."