Insurance warning signs in doctors' offices may discourage patients from discussing important health issues. New research by professors who research how people make spending decisions reveals unintended consequences of cost transparency efforts. buff.ly/kFcvtKa π©Ί
07.08.2025 06:48 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 4 π 2
The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
07.08.2025 02:10 β π 9335 π 2461 π¬ 4 π 99
Hi yes hello, going to reiterate that this should not be legal
07.08.2025 02:27 β π 1418 π 341 π¬ 32 π 10
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research⦠I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
05.08.2025 21:40 β π 40597 π 12253 π¬ 998 π 569
Oh, sweetie, typos happen to us all.
06.08.2025 23:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Trump has doubled his net worth to over $5 billion in the last 6 months and handed himself a billion-dollar retrofitted jet courtesy of US taxpayers but hey, glad his $33k monthly paycheck was donated. Heroic stuff.
06.08.2025 18:29 β π 4508 π 1525 π¬ 474 π 125
No one ever has the rights to a personβs body no matter what age. A 13 year old may not be able to give consent. I know when I was 13 - I would not have known what I was βconsentingβ to.
06.08.2025 20:47 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
I was a free-range child. I rode my bike everywhere. I had no duty save to be home in time for dinner.
I grew up in a mining town, with ore-loaded railcars winding through its middle and blasting caps often discarded on the ground.
These felony charges are insane. It was an accident.
06.08.2025 18:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now Theyβre Felons
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
06.08.2025 18:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
For the morning crowd: NASA employees have revealed that the Trump admin, via Sean Duffy, have secretly directed them to make plans to terminate two highly successful, widely-used carbon monitoring satellites, despite warnings from lawmakers that doing so would be illegal. π§ͺπ°οΈ
06.08.2025 15:38 β π 45 π 38 π¬ 1 π 6
Ironically the AI pushers keep telling us resistance is futile in academia, and that this is how mathematics teachers reacted to the introduction of the calculator, to which I would say, AT LEAST THE CALCULATOR DOESNT MAKE SHIT UP
06.08.2025 15:05 β π 170 π 33 π¬ 5 π 7
05.08.2025 20:52 β π 200 π 56 π¬ 4 π 1
Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. Itβs Worse Than Imagined.
Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.
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05.08.2025 15:33 β π 187 π 86 π¬ 15 π 11
This is an important point
Much in DC in its formative years as our capital was deliberately βplainβ
Because our government was supposedly not going to reflect the excess & exclusion of Old World royalty
The White House is stately & straightforward as a statement of principle
You know.
No kings.
04.08.2025 15:17 β π 1116 π 265 π¬ 21 π 11
It took four years for them to diagnose her multiple myeloma, repeatedly writing off her jaw pain, back pain, skin irritation, etc as anxiety and depression. It wasnβt until she went into kidney failure that they finally took her seriously. This is medical gaslighting.
03.08.2025 22:23 β π 113 π 37 π¬ 13 π 2
Texas Republicans being more committed to cheating voters with a frankenstein map than to doing emergency legislation to fix the state's flood warning systems is pretty much all you need to know about them.
03.08.2025 22:41 β π 1618 π 419 π¬ 19 π 11
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03.08.2025 22:44 β π 16147 π 5036 π¬ 649 π 249
βIsrael is starving babies to deathβ is a sentence that should not exist. These images should not exist. This reality should not exist.
But it does, and itβs a violation of the most fundamental human taboo.
Please make sure the adults in your life know this is happening. It must be stopped.
03.08.2025 15:28 β π 44 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0
@marcelias.bsky.social: We "need to tell Republicans that if they take 5 seats, we're going to put 30 seats on the table... When people say to me 'don't bring a knife to a gunfight,' I don't even want to bring a gun to a gunfight. I want to bring missiles to the gunfight."
30.07.2025 23:28 β π 7046 π 2003 π¬ 297 π 187
We're only as strong as our weakest link. That's how we should be viewing our population. When we help each other, everyone benefits. It's evident in our families. When one of us is miserable, we all are. But if we work together sharing resources as needed, we're all happy and kind to one another.
02.08.2025 17:31 β π 37 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0
You don't have to serve these guys. Not at your restaurant, gas station, or bakery. You can tell them to fuck off, they can go find another place to get something to eat. You can also forget to pick up their trash cans, skip their lawns, tell them to cut their own hair. Fuck these guys.
02.08.2025 22:31 β π 86 π 22 π¬ 4 π 0
Trump's War on Chocolate: 'Thereβs No Way for Us To Source This Domestically'
I didn't expect economic insights from an animatronic cow. In the Disney-style ride at Hershey's headquarters that lays out theβ¦
We hardly grow any cocoa beans in America, but it was American companies like Hershey's that, thanks to assembly lines and economic efficiency, put chocolate within the reach of nearly every human being on the planet.
That's the power of global trade.
reason.com/2025/08/01/t...
02.08.2025 18:39 β π 41 π 14 π¬ 1 π 1
A lot of people are learning that cowardice wonβt save them in real time. Might as well be brave.
01.08.2025 22:36 β π 2901 π 654 π¬ 25 π 22
This is called a panic attack
02.08.2025 02:52 β π 297 π 39 π¬ 17 π 5
βHot Waspsβ Found at Nuclear Facility in South Carolina
βCOULD BEβ a red flag????
Do the saps have to start stabbing people and turning them into Wasp-Man first??
02.08.2025 00:04 β π 456 π 47 π¬ 43 π 15
NEW: The bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected Trumpβs proposed $18 billion, 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget and endorsed a $400 million increase.
DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. Keep speaking up and calling your elected officials.
01.08.2025 01:36 β π 631 π 199 π¬ 2 π 6
Case 1:24-cr-00768-MWB|
Document 117 Filed 08/01/25
Page 1 of 3 PagelD: 507
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
V.
JULIEN GIRAUD JR., and
JULIEN GIRAUD III,
Defendants.
No. 1:24-CR-00768
(Chief Judge Brann)*
ORDER
AUGUST 1, 2025
In accordance with the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, IT IS
HEREBY ORDERED that:
The Girauds' motion to dismiss the indictment' is DENIED with
respect to their request for dismissal;
2. The Girauds' motion to dismiss the indictment is DEFERRED with
respect to their request to enjoin Alina Habba and any Assistant United
States Attorney acting under her authority from prosecuting them;
To the extent not already done, the trial in this matter and all other
pretrial motions are stayed pending resolution of the instant motion;
β’ The Honorable Matthew W. Brann, Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.
1 Doc. 99.
Case 1:24-cr-00768-MWB
Document 117 Filed 08/01/25
Page 2 of 3 PagelD: 508
4. The Court will receive supplemental briefing on the "merits" issue of
whether Ms. Habba's appointment
contravenes statutory or
constitutional limitations, including;
a.
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act;
b. 28 U.S.C. Β§ 546(d);
c. The Appointments Clause;
d. The Due Process Clause;
e.
The Government's "Special Attorney" delegation theory;
The Girauds' supplemental merits brief of no more than 25 pages shall
be due on Thursday, August 7, 2025;
The Government's supplemental merits brief of no more than 25 pages
shall be due on Tuesday, August 12, 2025;
The Court finds that the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of
New Jersey's request to submit an Amicus Brief satisfies the applicable standard'βit may submit an Amicus Brief of no more than 20 pages by Wednesday, August 13, 2025;
Any other organizations or individuals who wish to submit an Amicus
Brief should file a short motion to that effect and include their proposed
Brief of no more than 20 pages by Wednesday, August 13, 2025;
Doc. 112.
Kyocera Doc. Sols. Am., Inc. v. Div. of Admin., 708 F. Supp. 3d 531, 542 n.16 (D.N.J. 2023).
Case 1:24-cr-00768-MWB
Document 117 Filed 08/01/25
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9. If either party objects to the submission of an Amicus Brief, opposition
to the relevant motion is due by Saturday, August 16, 2025;
10. The Court will hold a hearing and oral argument on this matter on
Friday, August 15, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at the United States Courthouse
and Federal Building,
Courtroom Number
1,
Fourth Floor,
Williamsport, Pennsylvania;
The Government should be prepared to submit firsthand
evidence verifying the factual basis for its legal arguments- such
evidence may take the form of an affidavit if live testimony is not feasible.
BY THE COURT:
s/ Matthew W. Brann
Matthew W. Brann
Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Specially Presiding
MAJOR breaking news:
The District of New Jersey is moving forward with the challenge to Alina Habbaβs appointment. The judge has ordered supplemental briefing on the so called βmerits issueβ - whether Habbaβs status as βactingβ United States attorney contravenes statutory and/or constitutional law.
01.08.2025 21:42 β π 1199 π 303 π¬ 19 π 15
the left is responsible for the sexual revolution, maybe the most important development for guys trying to get laid in human history. the right opposes it to this day.
01.08.2025 15:36 β π 4391 π 520 π¬ 79 π 20
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