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🚫NO DM'S🚫 Disillusioned 🐦 app user in PA looking for a new, safer home.🦋 Felines are my spirit animal (but love dogs & ALL #Animals). Vet tech in a previous life, now learning to live w/#Fibromyalgia. 💙Team92%✊🏽/ #Vegan 🌱 /Indoor plants🪴 /Newbie Gardener👩🏽‍🌾

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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Reminds me of the X-Men comics which used mutant inhibitor collars and monitors as metaphors for systemic racism and oppression of marginalized groups. These devices force mutants to suppress their powers, paralleling this real-world attempts to control or erase cultural identities.

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Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 11h ago

A new humiliation. ICE is calling in Haitian immigrants in Ohio only to shackle them with ankle monitors that require constant, degrading charging routines. As leader Vilès Dorsainvil warns, treating legal, hard-working residents like criminals isn't policy—it's pure human degradation! 🎥HaitianTimes

An alleged cat abductor, torturer and killer is on the loose in Seattle and the city needs your help with info leading to their arrest and prosecution. There's a $5k reward for info that can identify this suspect. Contact Seattle Animal Control at (206)386-7387 and provide reference case #9600346.

El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.

Jenifer Lewis said it best: 35.9 million people sat out 2024, and we don’t let that shit happen again. Not this time. Not with 90 days on the clock and everything on the line. Speak out, knock louder, make it impossible to ignore. It’s on all of us to flip it all blue. #BlueWaveIn90Days

Trump Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins just called his SNAP cuts a "pretty big win". Throwing 5 million struggling Americans — including families with children — off food aid to fund tax cuts for the rich isn't a "win". It's a national disgrace.

New reports reveal the Trump administration has detained over 50 military spouses and parents. ICE has fully deported at least 6 people and 8 family members of US service members remain in detention centers.

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