Insurance companies can often be aggressive with their denials because “they don’t expect people to come back,” one health care advocate said.
The lesson is simple, another expert told us: “Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal. That’s all you have.”
It’s genuinely a challenge for legal journalists to cover the birthright citizenship case, because one side’s argument is “the Fourteenth’s Amendment intent and text and a century of uninterrupted Supreme Court precedent all support birthright citizenship,” and the other side’s argument is “nuh-UH”
A better world is possible. You reminded us that. 🙌⚡️
I’m assuming redacted name is the woman who is referenced in this story. It suggests that she was introduced to Kimball a month before this email. fortune.com/2026/02/13/k...
"One-Third of Americans Cut Back to Cover Healthcare Expenses:
Cost of healthcare also causing many to delay pursuing milestones and life-enhancing goals," buff.ly/adneysT #healthcare #healthpolicy #healthecon
Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.
This guy gets it.
Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”
@Virginia Heffernan remains an assassin with the pen.
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Patients cite prior authorization as the biggest healthcare navigation burden: KFF www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/patie...
AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
A news article displays a photo of a person in a dark face covering and blue jeans being led away by two heavily armored officers in tactical gear, one wearing a gas mask, on a city street. The article's headline reads: "ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises," with the photo caption stating "ICE in action in Portland."
Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation.
#leopardsatemyface #Politics #News
Line chart titled 'US backsliding under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent' showing backsliding scores over 12 years for multiple countries. The y-axis shows backsliding scores from 0 to 30 (higher is worse), and the x-axis shows years since the start of backsliding. Five lines are plotted: A red line labeled 'US (Trump 2nd term)' shows the steepest initial decline, dropping from approximately 11 to 17 in the first year. A dark blue line for Turkey drops from 5 to 29 over 12 years. A medium blue line for Russia declines from 5 to 25. Light blue lines for Hungary and Venezuela both drop from near 0 to approximately 20. The US line's trajectory in the first year is notably steeper than the initial decline of any other country shown. Source note indicates this is a 30-point index based on FT research across 10 domains including use of state force against civilians, political prosecution, and independence of judiciary and civil service. Graphic credit: John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times.
"In Trump’s second term, by contrast, most of the action has taken the form of shocking acts or events that bypass rather than permanently corrupt institutions." www.ft.com/content/b474...
For @forward.com, I wrote about Anne Frank, ICE, and what we risk in making - and in refusing to ever make - comparisons
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
🔥 “This started as a pretext about immigration and fraud… it’s WELL beyond that now. It’s into your 2nd/4th/6th Amendments… We’re performing CPR on what may already be a corpse called the Constitution… Wake up. This isn’t just Minneapolis. It’s ALL of us.”
(H/T @allenanalysis.bsky.social )
This piece by M. Gessen should have been co-signed by the entire NYT editorial board. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Makes me think hard about this Feb 2017 Isaac Chotiner interview with a Nazi historian about how Hitler seized power through paramilitary violence in the streets.
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.
One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history
This thread is life giving.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
PSA: You do not, under any circumstances, fund the Gestapo
