Ruairí Newman

Image of text: “I’m starting to think this God fella is a bit of a cunt.”

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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. 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...

A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

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Banksy just dropped a bomb at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. A gorilla judge in robes, cleaver raised, standing over a protester. Within hours, staff rushed to cover it up. This is no random wall art. It’s commentary on how the British legal system has always been the Empire’s sharpest

I live in #Oldcastle, Co Meath. While the usual racist dickheads are spouting off about the racist “protest” here on 24th Sept, a significant majority of the people who protested were not from Oldcastle. There were cars from outside the town clogging up the whole town, as well as at least one bus.

From Reagan to Trump: the inexorable and execrable descent of the USA into Nazi-style fascism.

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

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You can't hear this enough.

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Turned off the sound on the golf — can’t listen to any more of the American fan contingent who are either extremely drunk or are under the impression that they’re at an American football game.

A sizable chunk of mainstream media outlets feel more comfortable criticizing Zelensky's outfit choices than Trump's foreign policy choices.

News sections have to watch what they say, lest they show bias by including too much factual reality, but the fashion section is free to report and opine.

This would be a good opportunity for France to completely block Xwitter. And to make the case to the European Parliament for blocking it across the EU. Who knows? If they made legislation against propaganda networks tight enough, we might finally get rid of Facebook too.

Musk's X says it won't cooperate with 'politically motivated' French probe Elon Musk's social media platform X on Monday accused French prosecutors of launching a "politically-motivated criminal investigation" that threatens its users' free speech, denying all allegations and saying it would not comply with the probe.

Musk refuses to cooperate with the French probe into TwitterX.

He’s never met the French authorities, has he?

Torture is now acceptable on US soil, apparently.

Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It Hamas wants to destroy Israel, right? But as Mehdi Hasan shows in a new video on blowback, Israeli officials admit they helped start the group.

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.

Boycott Amazon for the same reason.

if Repubs win in 2028, they’re going to be out in 2032 regardless. The US’ credit rating will be severely impacted, which will be an even bigger problem than today, because they will need to borrow externally. This is all about buying votes to stay on the gravy train for longer at any cost. (2/2)

And when it does add hugely to the deficit, he’ll start by denying he said it wouldn’t, despite the evidence, and then say it’s actually a good thing, because (incomprehensible explanation that has nothing to do with the deficit). That’s what you do when your core supporters are morons. But… (1/2)

Watching that video of Diddy beating Cassie to a pulp made me sick to my stomach and mad as hell.

It apparently made Bill Maher think she was the problem and Diddy was in the right.

Why the fuck are Democrats still giving attention to this woman-hating Trump-loving piece of shit?

This would tip the power dynamic less toward the political class and their wealthy owners. There’s no will for change among the wealthy, so the political “will” for it hasn’t been purchased. It may even take a revival of “la Terreur” to get started. Who wants to be Robespierre? I’m no orator.

Young people are harmed much more by fascism and mainstream media misinformation than mobile phones.

For a brief, shining period, it was about unity and religious liberty. Then the acquisition of wealth above all other considerations took over, and idealism became the blood sacrifice of profit.

If #RFKJr wasn’t pro-disease, but still believed the - repeatedly, thoroughly, and clearly - debunked “vaccines cause #autism” crap, he would fund research to find and replace the “cause of autism” in #vaccines. Either he’s mentally disturbed and/or there’s a personal profit motive (I vote both).

Per the great Oscar Wilde: “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

Hard to disagree, seen from the outside. The greatest it ever seems to have managed was the period between independence from the colonialist scum, and the civil war.

UN commission says Russian drone attacks against Kherson amount to crimes against humanity From July 2024, nearly 150 civilians have been killed and hundreds more wounded in drone strikes on Kherson city and 16 surrounding localities, according to the United Nation's Independent Internation...

Russian armed forces have committed crimes against humanity by deliberately targeting civilians with drones in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast, according to a new report by the United Nation's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.

#WarCrimes by the people whose propaganda targeting the malicious and the simple-minded put #Trump in power to weaken the #USA - a successful effort, given Trump’s isolationism and laughable pomposity. #PutinForHagueTribunal

And for good measure, more tags appropriate to the above skeet
#Trump #Failure #Pathetic #Impotent #FailingAtFascism #RealityBites #FantasyDictator #LegendInHisOwnMind #PublicHumiliationFetish #Felon #Treason #Rapist #Paedophile #Dementia #LowIQ #WrongSideOfHistory