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”

"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.

Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation. #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

"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 forward.com/opinion/8009...

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.

‘Kristi Noem Needs to Go.’ Three Columnists on ICE in Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

🔥 “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.

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

To quote one source: “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.” prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

He really is doing all of it.

DOJ wants to investigate Renee Good's widow, but won't investigate her killer. As a result the people running the real investigation into the fraud that DHS pretends is the reason they are in Minneapolis just quit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Zohran Mamdani in August 14, 2020 interview: “I think Bernie was great. I mean, Bernie is a big part of the reason that I am where I am. But I think that, you know, we kind of only had Bernie. I don’t know how to put it but he had to put the whole team on his back.” 🥹

The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.

Zohran Mamdani in August 14, 2020 interview: “I think Bernie was great. I mean, Bernie is a big part of the reason that I am where I am. But I think that, you know, we kind of only had Bernie. I don’t know how to put it but he had to put the whole team on his back.” 🥹

Mi familia! We just love to party!

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️

There’s only one way to explain why questions like “who do NYC voters like for mayor,” and “what do San Franciscans think about George Washington,” become national issues that define the Democratic Party, while genuine Republican extremism with national implications is glossed over as a local issue.

I saw a Cuomo ad last night that was basically "if there's another 9/11, we need a mayor with experience like Andrew Cuomo," and it made me wonder, wait, what was Andrew Cuomo doing on 9/11? Well, he was probably preoccupied with damage control for this: nypost.com/2001/09/10/p...

Throwback to my favorite Halloween mishap from 2023. My daughter has recovered.

At least 3,000 people who have been detained in Chicago ICE raids are missing from official DHS records. We still don’t know what happened to the 1200 people who went missing from the Everglades facility. They’re disappearing people. No due process. No accountability.

In the past, Gov. Hochul has called raising most taxes, even on the wealthy, a hard "no." She softened the stance today. "I have a lot of calculations to do," Hochul says. "There's a lot of popular phrases out there... But I am open to trying to help people who are struggling"

Is there a bigger sign of an authoritarian government?

I just want a four way split screen on election night Mamdani, Sliwa, Cuomo and Bill Ackman

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters. Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Sure, sure, Hitler rose to power with disinformation and propaganda. But it also took capture of the courts and paramilitary in the streets.

Because he can: Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...