UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

The real healthcare thieves are these crooks & Rick Scott.

He's just lost it. Now saying Rob and Michele Reiner caused their own murder because they didn't support him. So sick.

Trump critics hit with death threat "surge" open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi has been rearrested in Iran, with her condition and whereabouts currently unknown. Writer @porochista.bsky.social says the government sees the human rights champion as a "huge threat" due to her "moral authority."

Kamlager-Dove: Biden put together a very restrictive plan around selling these chips to other countries. And Republicans were saying, “Hey, Biden, you’re not protecting our national security.” Fast forward to Trump, and he’s selling these things like you sell Snickers on the corner.

Haaland: Affordability is real. We have a president downplaying the suffering that people are experiencing in our country. He is not listening. He’s in a bubble, and you can look at him and see that he’s never had to worry about missing a meal himself.

"Every single act of gun violence is 100% preventable." Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.

🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 Negotiations between the US and Ukrainian delegations were difficult, with the American side unwilling to make concessions regarding the peace agreement, - WSJ Washington insists on quick solutions, while Zelensky and Europeans maintain that serious differences remain that need to be resolved.

The genius had doubts... Psychopath.

Do this in Ireland next please. And add a couple of zeros for good measure. And seize the unlicensed properties and convert them to social housing.

We had a school shooting in Scotland, Dunblane, in 1996. We banned handguns for virtually everybody. We haven't had a school shooting since.

More shootings! And we'll hear "Now is not the time for gun control". This is the time. Always has been. There is only one explanation for that ridiculous comment. They care more about money and power than young people's lives. You can't get any worse than that.

When people say to vote for Republicans and Trump is to vote against your own interests, this seems like a pretty good example of what that likely means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Americans There’s been a mass shooting, now is not the time to talk about gun laws Australia There’s been a mass shooting, we need to review our already great gun laws

As Pete Hegseth once said, “If you’re doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that.” Urge your Members of Congress to demand an immediate, public investigation into Hegseth’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific.

If Trump had been around when David fought Goliath, Trump would have cheered for Goliath and tried to convince David to accept the terms of surrender. The AFU has been holding off a military that is 8x its size. If that isn't remarkable, I don't know what is.

With just 17 days until Obamacare tax credits expire, it’s now clear: Congress—and the country—are headed over the Obamacare cliff. Even if the House acts, the Senate won’t move in time. It’s outrageous that all members of Congress have great, taxpayer-funded healthcare! Screw regular Americans!!

This is a real headline on the New York Times website. Support independent media.

Rand Paul: "The president also said, 'Be careful Colombia, you could be next.' I mean, if we're gonna go and topple regime after regime in South America, there's no amount of money that could be printed to pay for that and I don't think lives should be lost without a vote by Congress."

REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”

A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path.

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ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

Any time I comment on shootings in the US, I invariably get told that "you need guns to defend against tyranny". * looks back over 2025 * .... does "tyranny" mean something different over there?

I don't think I will ever understand America's gun worship culture when basically every other country in the world doesn't hesitate to regulate guns after a terrible gun tragedy.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

13 years ago today.

I’m a gun owner. My entire inheritance from my dad was guns. That said, we should regulate guns.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American. Two options: 1) ICE deliberately targeted him. 2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens. Hard to say which option is scarier.

I am convinced America crossed an event horizon thirteen years ago, when even the deaths of elementary school aged children at the hands of a monster weren't enough for their government to say "enough is enough". Hard not to think that Americans would rather have their guns over their children.

Rob Reiner was more than an amazing movie director to me. He was one of our strongest public advocates for @TheDemCoalition, part of our Impeachment Task Force. He was one of America's foremost voices of reason and wisest defenders of democracy. Rob is an American treasure.

Pity the US doesn't allow snap elections. It could come in handy right now.

Publish your article and get smeared. That’s the message Dan Friedman came away with after he emailed the Pentagon for comment on a story and soon received a message from Pizzagate promoterJack Posobiec threatening to publish a scurrilous story about him.

Several Federal Court Rulings Have Already Clarified That Any ICE Agent Attempting To Detain Anyone Is REQUIRED TO HAVE A BENCH WARRANT FROM THE LOCAL FEDERAL JUDGE, And Without Said Warrant, Their Actions Can Be Charged As KIDNAPPING... Local Law Enforcement Better Start Doing Their Jobs.

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