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avid gardener🌱, fabric designer🧵, water color artist🎨, and I still resist 🌊💯. I am ANTIFA 🐸 Nasty Lists=permanent block. It's rude af. Also, I have nothing but contempt for that orange pos low-life in the WH. F him and the train he rode on.

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 3h ago

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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VoteHub@votehub.com · 4h ago

Democrats are now favored to flip OH-07 as the allegations of domestic abuse against Rep. Max Miller draw increasing scrutiny and multiple Republican senators call on him to end his reelection campaign.

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Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4h ago

A single day of extreme heat in India could cause approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally and a five-day heatwave could kill nearly 30,000, The Guardian reports "People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing." - Greta Thunberg

‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis

As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted

theguardian.com

ProPublica@propublica.org · 7h ago

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

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PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4h ago

A massive Russian missile attack killed nearly two dozen people in Ukraine overnight. Such strikes have become almost routine this summer as Moscow looks to exploit a critical air defense shortage in Ukraine. https://to.pbs.org/4bRpyub

Russian missile attacks on Kyiv expose weakness in Ukraine's air defense

A massive Russian missile attack killed nearly two dozen people in Ukraine overnight. Such strikes have become almost routine this summer as Moscow looks to exploit a critical air defense shortage in ...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h ago

A new study shows that among people hospitalized with COVID19, other viruses such as EBV, HSV1, and CMV may be reactivated. This effect isn’t limited to those who are immunocompromised, either. So if you’re wondering why I’m still masking indoors in public, have a read.

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

nature.com

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 9h ago

"Joel" shares, "We're staking young apple trees, tying them to support them against the wind, in Parker WA. We're wearing masks as protection from the polluted air but it's still bad. I leave with a headache and very irritated eyes. The AQI is 189. I earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

A farm worker wearing a N95 mask and sunglasses under a smokey sky. Inset shows weather app Parker, WA air quality index 189 (unhealthy).
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Paxton has his aide step and doesn't answer when someone asks him "how come on a government salary you own over 15 houses?"

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5h ago

El-Sayed: I think that's clearly what's gone wrong with Fetterman. It's clear he probably doesn't spend much time in Pennsylvania. He was campaigning with Bernie Sanders and now wants to renounce him. I'm hoping to get to the U.S. Senate. Maybe we can hash that conversation out in person.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h ago

Enjoyed this Esquire feature on the Churchwell brothers. IMO, they are among the last elegantly dressed men in the United States. Notably, neither are "fashion influencers." They are both distinguished cardiologists with great taste and a lifetime relationship with the same tailor.

Ian Kremer@wolverinebear.bsky.social · 4h ago

Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect. Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u... #TrumpBlamesAmerica #Blues

Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect (Gift Article)

Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.

nytimes.com