I have yet to find a news article that explains all differences between bill 1 (the one president musk killed by tweeting) and bill 3 (the one congress just passed). I feel like journalists are going to read this over the holidays and in January we’re going to get stories about how lawmakers just defunded the EPA or something.
Over 6½ years ago, KFF Health News and NPR kicked off “Bill of the Month,” a crowdsourced investigation highlighting the impact of medical bills on patients.
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Since 2018, we have analyzed bills totaling almost $6.3 million — including nearly $2.8 million that patients were expected to pay out-of-pocket.
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Great idea NPR, everybody in America is pretty satisfied with their healthcare right now so this series is clearly just dead weight /s
The fact that congressional Dems picked 70-something cancer patient Gerry Connolly over AOC for an important oversight role earlier this week tells me we need a lot more stories like this to hammer the point home, and I think the type of senior Dem who really needs to hear this message is more likely to listen to Rupert Murdoch than like Jacobin or the Intercept
I expect that to go about as well as the time China tried to exterminate sparrows in the late 50s
Too soon to say for sure /s
Ah yes, appeasement, there’s a proven strategy for dealing with fascists /s
Yeah, I hate Joe Biden as much as anyone who knows his history on criminal justice issues should, but his mistake here was one of negligence.
The real problem here is
federal authorities verified that their offenses were nonviolent
Like, how was this nonviolent? This judge participated in a scheme to kidnap children and if they or their parents resisted they’d have violence inflicted upon them, just because that violence was being done by police officers and the kidnapping was to a jail cell instead of a brothel shouldn’t change anything, but the system can’t help but give a judge the easy white collar criminal treatment
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Please, marginalized people get more explicitly threatening crap said to them all the time and people rarely get arrested or charged for that. She’s being charged because the system wants to make an example out of her. The judge basically said so himself at the bail hearing,
“I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point,” the judge said.
Yeah, I’m sure twitter truth social etc would totally crack down on this sort of thing /s
Meh. These are people who were deemed too sick and old to be any kind of threat during the fucking Trump administration and released from prison back then because of the pandemic. These people should have all gotten pardons years ago, and it doesn’t do anything to alleviate or address all the suffering and human rights abuses being suffered by people who are actually in prisons.
There’s zero chance that wouldn’t go exactly the same under the Biden administration. If/when this new government decides to start persecuting their LGBT community I would bet the Trump administration would cheer them on where a Biden administration would tell them to stop, but Israel gets a blank check to commit atrocities from both of them.
If this story gets widespread and sustained attention I bet the JP Morgan VP is done for. Not that they have a problem with that sort of thing if he had kept it quiet, but having it come out could cost them some money and he’s not important enough for that.
“I can excuse sexual assault and violent racism, but talking about being hungover at work is where I draw the line!” - Fox News employees
Some people suck, definitely, but most people I’ve met in my life have been pretty good. The problem is that the sucky people are very determined to become powerful and inflict their suck on the rest of us.
Wright County Circuit Court Judge Craig Carter wrote, “If we don’t let a 16-year-old buy a six-pack of beer and a pack of smokes
I am normally the last person to give a shit about overly informal language, but for fucks fucking sake Missouri, you couldn’t find one person in your state with the intellectual capacity to realize that “If the state does not permit the purchase of alcohol nor tobacco by minors” maybe sounds a bit more serious? Like, the actual ruling itself is an offensive embarrassment, but I really can’t get over the fact that it’s written like a freakin facebook post.
Law schools get absolutely stupid about the ritual of exams. Some of that is because every law school class has some ambitious and devious people in it who will try to cheat if they think they can get away with it, but a lot of it is because law is dominated by old assholes with distorted memories about how much they suffered and how hard they had to work back in the day and see it as their duty to inflict that imagined suffering on the next generation.
Yeah, but they’re also kinda canaries in the coal mine. If corps don’t feel pressured to do this lip service (which I will fully admit is almost always meaningless in and of itself) that’s a bad sign for society in general.
Also, the 1996 telecom act and privatizing of the internet backbone both played a huge part in creating this awful world where a handful of ISPs and tech/media conglomerates control everything
Also, he made a big deal about taking time off the campaign trail in 1992 to go back to the state where he was governor to personally oversee the execution of a mentally disabled black man named Ricky Ray Rector because he was all “I’m not like those other Democrats, I’m tough on crime!”
e; believe it or not this is the better written 2nd draft