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Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.
We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
β.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..β
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When Christian Nationalism imagines greatness it thinks of power and domination
When Jesus imagines greatness he thinks of humility and service
Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.
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07.10.2025 19:08 β π 7508 π 1406 π¬ 170 π 78Thanks, New Yorker
07.10.2025 17:40 β π 20553 π 6409 π¬ 211 π 206"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.
07.10.2025 22:13 β π 7287 π 1794 π¬ 81 π 67Murray: I talked to a family thatβs paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. Itβs going to jump to over $1,800 per month.
Many people will turn away and not pay for itβobviously, theyβll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.
You can joke about Pam Bondiβs ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but Iβm deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. β This should shake everyone to their core.
07.10.2025 19:40 β π 27169 π 7455 π¬ 2090 π 593One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
07.10.2025 16:01 β π 1045 π 225 π¬ 23 π 46Psychiatrists have joined other public health groups in calling for the removal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.
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This strikes me as pretty bad
07.10.2025 21:49 β π 21683 π 8882 π¬ 2031 π 738CNN: βAn older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 β 30% of their income.β π³#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax
This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.
Kash was begging for a Community Note
07.10.2025 21:09 β π 11971 π 3105 π¬ 246 π 92I donβt blame you or any of my friends from Europe, Latin America, Asia, etc. for not wanting to visit the US right now. Itβs been comforting but also awful to have their support because of what our country has become.
07.10.2025 09:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.
07.10.2025 01:33 β π 17173 π 4543 π¬ 560 π 151π¬ awkward
06.10.2025 22:40 β π 5841 π 2012 π¬ 279 π 126Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him
06.10.2025 22:45 β π 8609 π 3063 π¬ 175 π 60The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.
This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.
06.10.2025 19:30 β π 15499 π 4534 π¬ 417 π 143Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.
06.10.2025 11:41 β π 6602 π 2509 π¬ 129 π 105Once again, for the head-smackingeth time, this administration and all the R governors who are happily going along with the war against the American people are NOT inept or stupid. They know exactly what they are doing, and they're doing it enthusiastically. Calling them dumb is part of the problem.
06.10.2025 15:30 β π 212 π 48 π¬ 16 π 2Body-camera video appears to contradict the governmentβs claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Not that I miss hearing from Dear Leader, but has anyone else noticed that it seems we hear less and less from him directly these days and more from the likes of Miller and Vance? He goes missing for days especially after big events.
07.10.2025 02:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 018 months ago.
06.10.2025 10:46 β π 9840 π 2827 π¬ 431 π 108Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.
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