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Medicaid, the largest payer for long-term care facilities, covers around 2 in 3 nursing home residents, and reducing dollars to the massive, yet already resource-limited, program could have disastrous effects on older adults’ health, safety and quality of life.

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Judge Duggan has filed a motion to dismiss based on judicial immunity. Overseeing/keeping order in her courtroom is part of her official duties. A really interesting aspect is that immunity law forecloses examination of subjective motive, so it's irrelevant wh she wanted the feds not to arrest Ruiz.

submitted 16 days ago • 39 comments

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

submitted 23 days ago • 637 comments

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submitted 30 days ago • 80 comments

Take a minute from your day and read this chilling story about how quickly we've gotten to where we are.

submitted 32 days ago • 160 comments

Consumers absolutely LOATHE this business model. Car makers need to wake up.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

submitted 34 days ago • 265 comments

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

submitted 40 days ago • 3943 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 43 days ago • 415 comments

The two-year-old boy had wandered away from home on Monday evening and spent the night alone nearly seven miles from his home.

submitted 44 days ago • 170 comments

All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

submitted 45 days ago • 611 comments

The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns, has been shut down.

submitted 44 days ago • 218 comments

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

submitted 46 days ago • 456 comments

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

submitted 45 days ago • 1280 comments

Happy Jackie Robinson Day. It is important to remember our history. All of it. He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

submitted 46 days ago • 45 comments

On Friday, federal judge Paula Xinis had ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.

submitted 48 days ago • 46 comments

If enacted, the cuts would "take us back to the 1950s in terms of our scientific footing and the American people.”

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A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

submitted 51 days ago • 840 comments

Warner: "I just talked to senior folks on Wall St, and he described today's market as 'a good day in hospice.'"

submitted 53 days ago • 135 comments

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

submitted 53 days ago • 1830 comments

"As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are enacting our planned short-term actions including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans."

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 57 days ago • 3266 comments

🚨BREAKING: A three-judge panel in the North Carolina appeals court ruled Friday to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the state’s Supreme Court election unless they can fix their ballots in 15 days. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 57 days ago • 527 comments

Bill Withers was a 32 year-old Navy vet, working at a factory making parts for airplanes, when Booker T. was assigned to produced his first hit — and won him a Grammy. “I wasn't going to do [the ‘I know-I know’ lyric], he said, “but Booker T. said, 'No, leave it.” Gone five years ago today. #RIP

submitted 62 days ago • 34 comments

UPDATE: DOGE has made a significant change to its website to make it more difficult for 3rd parties to check its claims. It has paginated all cuts, and displays only 10 cuts in each category per page Not to worry though, the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker will have a workaround soon doge.muskwatch.com

submitted 64 days ago • 49 comments

Sometimes all you need is a warm pile of laundry fresh out of the dryer. Mini is happy 😊 #Chihuahua

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

New in PN: All the laws flouted during SignalGate "There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."

submitted 64 days ago • 457 comments

Bondi says she thinks Signal is a safe way to communicate and foreign adversaries can’t hack it (the US intelligence community begs to differ … )

submitted 64 days ago • 2466 comments

Everything’s fine. ““By mid-April we expect disruption to virtually all North American vehicle production,” Mr. Smoke said Wednesday on a conference call with clients and reporters. “Bottom line: lower production, tighter supply and higher prices are around the corner.”

submitted 65 days ago • 61 comments

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 65 days ago • 1696 comments

The former far-right populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, will face trial for allegedly attempting to overturn his 2022 reelection loss and stage a violent coup.

submitted 65 days ago • 452 comments

This executive order is a blatant attempt to have the federal government run elections, abrogating the power of Congress and the states. It’s also peppered with conspiracy theories - including references to the supposed benefits of hand counting paper ballots. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 66 days ago • 21 comments

The arrogance, hubris, and stupidity of thinking that The Atlantic wouldn’t just publish the full thread if they tried to deny what was in it… And the responsibility the Senate bears for confirming these yutzes to such important national security positions in the first place…

submitted 66 days ago • 172 comments

This isn't how gov't is supposed to work: The acting commissioner of Social Security admitted “I was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,” so I ended a program in Maine. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/s...

submitted 66 days ago • 1222 comments

<saves to show FOIA office>

submitted 67 days ago • 224 comments

Top Trump admin. officials – including the VP, defense secretary and national security adviser – used Signal, a secure messaging app, that is outside of the national security apparatus to discuss plans for military strikes in Yemen that include detailed, sensitive and confidential information. (1/x)

submitted 67 days ago • 184 comments

Jessica: I don’t ever want hear “but her emails” again

submitted 67 days ago • 438 comments

The fight over the rarely used wartime power has become central to Trump's immigration crackdown agenda and his efforts to stretch the powers of the executive branch.

submitted 67 days ago • 36 comments

Beautiful #Spring day in North Carolina. #springflowers

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Stewart-Cousins: My father had Social Security in the amount of $300. Like Lutnick said, he would not have called if he did not get the Social Security check. He had dementia. But the people who take care of him would have called because it made the difference of him keeping a roof over his head

submitted 70 days ago • 231 comments

While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

submitted 74 days ago • 189 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 74 days ago • 1680 comments

JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

submitted 77 days ago • 248 comments

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. We said from the beginning that this North American trade war is the dumbest in history, and we were being kind.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 80 days ago • 123 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 85 days ago • 1285 comments