Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

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Utter *shock*! I cant understand how such a thing could have happened. There must be some mistake. The Libs cut his moving cameras with box knives

Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

A quick TL;DR for the upcoming thread haha

As predicted. Since no parent will subject their children to examination of their genitals , girls simply wont play sports

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

"Kayleigh, who is now 18, ...sent questionnaires to scores of [other surfmen]... She wrote up the results for her senior-year high school research project. It earned an A...[It] was a remarkable thing for a grieving daughter to do. Even more remarkably, the Coast Guard had never done it on its own."

@trishmaher.bsky.social · 6d ago

A civilian neurologist looking over his brain scans afterward noticed something else. Ms. Bonner recalled the neurologist asking her husband, “You’ve had a lot of concussions, haven’t you?” Mr. Bonner shook his head. No, just one in fifth grade, he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

I really need everyone to remember that the fossil fuel industry knew-knows exactly the climate hell we now inhabit, and are determined to make it FAR worse. That's because they have decided our lives are worth far less than their profits. We are not angry -or organised- enough.

AGAIN AGAIN is screening at the Long Beach Film Festival on Saturday August 29th! I'll be in person for the Q&A at the historic Art Theater. You don't want to miss this one 💖💖💖 www.longbeachfilmfestival.org/features/aga...

I was thinking of applying for a position at one of our national research labs.They do a background check, which includes assessing “loyalty to the U.S. government” (is this new?) I am loyal to the country, to the people, but the government? It is disloyal to America to support a fascist government.

Relatable

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · last wk.

Sometimes, I worry that I hate Donald Trump so much that I don't leave adequate time to hate Elon Musk.

Note that crypto => untraceable bribes paid directly to Trump

Philip Bump@pbump.com · last wk.

A good design decision to put the domestic money at the bottom, so you can see that it — putatively Trump’s real business genius — barely moved at all.

Witch-hunts targeted women with financial independence & status. In colonial New England, women from families w/o male heirs made up 64% of the females prosecuted for witchcraft, 76% of those who were found guilty & 89% of those who were executed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What makes a woman a witch? Financial independence

Women aren’t being burnt at the stake any more, but there is still risk and violence implicit in the label ‘witch’

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After twenty-odd years I've finally cracked the secret of running. Just keep going until you feel your soul quietly leave your body. After that it gets much easier.

The strategy in going after trans women in sports: next will be gender tests for girls in school sports which parents wont agree to -> fewer women in college sports -> fewer sports scholarships for women -> fewer women in college. The aim is to minimize women’s participation in public life.

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Yep. They're coming for Title IX

We are a signatory to the Geneva Conventions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Asked about Trump's threats to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran, Marco Rubio says "it looks like they're not ready to make a deal. So they're gonna continue to pay a price. And every night the price gets higher and higher." (This is a war crime.)

Are there MAGA around YOU? Some MAGA now see that they're victims of the man they believed in & are trying to move forward. But it's an actual cult & hard to escape. They need an off-ramp. We MUST resist the urge to condemn. Vengeance doesn't win. Strategy does. Share... #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Leaving MAGA - Leaving MAGA

We empower people to leave MAGA and tell their stories. We foster reconciliation with friends and family. We develop movement leaders to help others leave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zJl1lBGMUw&...

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Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

Donald Trump does not have a sense of humor. He says what he intends to do, and his willing executioners try to make it happen

Martyn Wendell Jones@martynwendell.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Americans should take the president's anti-Canadian saber-rattling so much more seriously than we do. We should treat it not as a joke, not as a quirk . . . but as a genuine threat to our neighbors." @jamellebouie.net is exactly right www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPs9...

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

As bad as that sounds, it's actually worse. "The mother is a mental health professional with confidential client relationships. One of the two spouses is the general counsel of a major law firm."

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

This is like 30-70% of the US population, if they do it consistently. In reality it is US citizens and lawful residents who are not CIS white folks.

awkword@awkword.bsky.social · 2w ago

Marco Rubio has announced new visa restrictions for so-called “far-left terrorists and other aligned groups” — under national counterterrorism strategy NSPM-7, which identifies the “left-wing” and “anti-fascists” as terrorist threats equivalent to al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

What’s up with the weird maga fixation on blue hair? Some of us just look awesome in blue hair. Some of us just let it go its natural blue as we age.

People also don’t understand the statistics of the games, or how much money you need to survive the random ups and downs. They think $500 will be enough when they need $3000, so even if their strategy is reasonable, they lose their stack because they don’t have enough to ride out the down turn.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w ago

it's not just for entertainment. gambling also goes up during economic downturns. here's the mindset: if you only have $500, you can't pay many of your bills — but if you double or triple it, you can. and if you lose that $500, you aren't much worse off than before. that's why it's so insidious.

it's not just for entertainment. gambling also goes up during economic downturns. here's the mindset: if you only have $500, you can't pay many of your bills — but if you double or triple it, you can. and if you lose that $500, you aren't much worse off than before. that's why it's so insidious.

Steve@swfong.bsky.social · 3w ago

While I gamble and believe it’s personal choice, I wonder if its rise is bread-n-circuses as we are more disconnected to world affairs, and this is entertainment as Rome burns

Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $600 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. But two states have a plan to take on Big Money. Watch.

Could This Actually End Citizens United?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

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Said by Temu Goebbels, who himself looks like a condom pulled over a limp hot dog

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Be alarmed. Resist fascism. Speak up. Vote.

New commentary at @natrevpsychol.nature.com with Alexis Palmer, @natematias.bsky.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social: Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1038/s441...