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The Education Department’s civil rights office once helped push a South Dakota school district to treat its Native students equally. Under Trump, that same office decided that helping Indigenous students would discriminate against white students: propub.li/3GIdTRr

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 68 days ago • 471 comments

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

submitted 74 days ago • 127 comments

Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."

submitted 108 days ago • 619 comments

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking help from the public as it investigates the killing last month of a federally listed endangered gray wolf in Morrow County. On November 8, a radio-collared male gray wolf known as OR 159 was found dead on private land.

submitted 146 days ago • 24 comments

Goldman asks: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

submitted 156 days ago • 973 comments

This ream of paper is our financial aid app for Rob’s cancer treatment. No, I am not joking. This is what cancer care as freelancers looks like. We had to add extra pages to it Friday night, because it wasn’t enough. It took more than 200 hours to compile this.

submitted 159 days ago • 191 comments

Last year, my health insurance company stopped paying for my Humira. Humira is a type of immunosuppressive drug called a biologic, and I take a pretty high dose of it to control my severe Crohn's Disease. Without it, I will have a bowel obstruction, and then I will die. (Cont)

submitted 163 days ago • 94 comments