Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

This is, of course, merely a belated excuse for the impending assault on Iran.

A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.

apple.news/A7uXTeaO7QPG.... Sad that hateful, cruel people have control. We need to jettison them from government roles,completely. They’re certainly not “Christian”, but absolutely evil and corrupt.

A goodbye note to co-workers from veteran CBS News producer Mary Walsh: "We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that." (via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social) #$PSKY #$WBD

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... #ICE

The absolute most sailory thing to do when your boat is steaming toward a stupid death

When asked about skyrocketing U.S. banana prices caused by Trump’s reckless tariffs, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that if bananas were "build in America," there wouldn’t be tariffs. News flash: more than 90% of the bananas Americans eat are imported from Central and South America.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... #Olympics

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

Featured story, from @marytuma.bsky.social: “There’s an almost shocking lack of evidence around these #abortion care accusations. What you’re seeing is an attorney general grasping at straws and rushing to indict anyone during an election year.”

This is called "narcissistic fluffing"- Where you inflate a narcissist's ego to manipulate them into giving you what you want. In this case- Elaina Aghayeva's release from ICE custody. 👏

One teen boy I met had excruciating stomach pain and was made to wait several hours to see a doctor—he had appendicitis. ICE cannot meet the basic needs of the children it’s imprisoning. Dilley must close and we must #FreeOurChildren.

This isn’t a deferral, it’s a ransom note. The Trump Administration is using kids as pawns in their campaign of retribution against our state. kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

We’re not being governed, we’re being looted. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

There are so many reasons not to eat animals. Here’s another, but it doesn’t even matter if it’s true.

TODAY IN MEMPHIS… students walk out… #IceOutNow Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AfD...

District Court Judges are now having to see the sausage of mass deportation being made in ways they haven't been able to since 1996 when Congress stripped them of their ability to hear most immigration habeas cases, and they are *apalled.*

Elon Musk fails to deliver again! airlive.net/space/2026/0...

Never, ever forget that when Establishment figures say "Grok", they actually mean MechaHitler, the chatbot known for doxxing people, fabricating non-consensual nudes, and claiming Elon Musk is God.

The standard can’t be ‘he probably won’t.’

1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender. The policy is the latest cruel capitulation. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

7th Cir. affirms liability of prison officials who used an inmate who they knew had been sexually assaulted by another prison official as bait to try and catch him, which led to an additional sexual assault, but remands for new trial on damages. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

Mayes: We’re talking about having to physically protect the machinery of democracy. And to me, it is surreal that we are at that place. But what I want Americans to know is that you have a team of AGs that has been working together for more than a year now to protect democracy.

A Bible-infused curriculum that Texas approved for public schools over pushback in 2024 will undergo corrections to fix hundreds of errors caught by teachers and education officials after the material was introduced to classrooms.

Why isn’t Melania testifying? I’ll tell you why Because her husband is a pedophile

Breaches at data brokers have cost American consumers more than $20 billion, Congress’s Joint Economic Committee revealed Friday as part of an investigation triggered by The Markup and CalMatters. calmatters.org/economy/tech... 📸 Ben Curtis, AP

Hit play for "accented English"

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

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EFF wins case in front of the 10th circuit court of appeals. The Fourth amendment doesn't give Bondi and Trump blanket permission to search your devices just because you participated in a protest. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

" ... to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” ~ Herman Melville, Moby Dick … or Khan, The Wrath Of, take your pick.

I believe this to be true and I’m from 🇨🇦

Translation: “I don’t want to be deposed”

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

This is a hideous betrayal of the country, in exchange for a bribe.

There is no person alive today who I admire more than I admire Judge Luttig. I wish everyone would watch this video of his recent remarks accepting honorary NY bar membership. "The danger from within has arrived my friends, and America's time of testing has come." www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFDK...

Researchers fed some captive mountain lions meat that had a specific amount of prions in it. They then collected their poop and found that it only contained 3-4% of the prions they were fed. This implies that somewhere in the lions’ digestive tract, the prions were destroyed or sequestered.

We'll see. I don't believe him.

The US secretary of state Marco Rubio told ambassadors in the Middle East to stop making public comments that could inflame tensions and undermine Donald Trump’s pressure on Iran to relinquish its capacity to produce a nuclear weapon, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian

You don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes. You’re gonna need congressional approval and you don’t have the votes. (Write your Senators anyway).