Pass the Gummies

I'm so up for a getaway to Chicago!

How fitting. This administration is on a mission to destroy all things FDR.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal 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 are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

Rehearsal? No it's not.

Once upon a time the US had three branches of government that provided checks on a president's fantasies of being a cruel dictator. In those days, this post would have triggered impeachment and/or 25thA proceedings and the would-be dictator & his enablers would be held to account.

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...

Thoughts and prayers to all those kids and their grieving parents! #🧠🙏

AAAAAAAAGGHHHH!!!

This is the key to the whole thing: "if you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

And maybe a manicurist? Just sayin'.

This is the way.

An absolute masterpiece.

Keep 'em coming.

Billboards, please!

YouTube video by Jesse Welles Join Ice

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🔥 “How much does it cost for fascism? How much does taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?”

Nebraska Republican @USRepMikeFlood gets the raucous reception he deserves at a town hall.

Hundreds of detainees with no criminal charges sent to Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Authorities have refused to release list of people sent there as Democratic lawmakers decry ‘inhumane’ conditions

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell gets moved to a minimum security prison, while the majority of detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” have no criminal charges and are living in inhumane conditions.

Are we great yet? 🙁

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Right, because what has Trump ever paid for in his life?

Serious question.

After Steve Bannon called for “a MAGA Republican” to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trump fired its commissioner

New: After Steve Bannon called for “a MAGA Republican” to run the BLS, Trump fired its commissioner www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon... Trump took this action following a weak jobs report with major downward revisions. Economists say this move will create mistrust about economic data.

JD Vance Praised Jobs Report That Trump Now Says Was a Hoax The vice president applauded a report that Donald Trump baselessly claimed was made up to make him look bad.

Just hours before Trump announced he was firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, VP JD Vance was celebrating some cherry-picked numbers from the latest jobs report.

The point was to say only immigrants are losing jobs, and Americans are doing great.

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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The 17 experts who were ousted from an HHS vaccine committee have published a commentary on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, saying that Robert Kennedy, Jr., and his self-picked panel are abandoning rigorous scientific review and open deliberation. 
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This is how democracies die.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Episcopal bishop asks Trump 'to have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants

Listen.
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Thou shalt not starve children.

Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.

Also, acting to curb genocide shouldn't be a stand-up-and-cheer-for-moral-courage moment. I, for one, still have standards.

I can’t stress this enough

These rates are the result of magic “math”

And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.