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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 34 comments

NO. Addendum: Put all billionaires and their minions on a one-way rocket to Mars, then we can return to trying to save our current planet. Which is still habitable.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

This is really an amazing, real-life experiment in consumer behavior versus corporate C-suites.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Huh. Good for you, Harvard.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

OH COME ON

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Homeland Security sent an email informing people living in the US on a temporary legal status that their "parole" has been revoked and instructed them to leave the country "immediately." However, the email was also addressed to at least one US citizen, an immigration attorney from Massachusetts.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The same sort of attack that targeted Pelosi and injured her husband. apnews.com/article/josh...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

There’s been increased attention in recent years to the parcels of land used to create and fund the University of Minnesota. The U.S. government gave the land to the state in the mid-1800s after taking it from tribal nations through treaties often signed under the threat of violence.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

We won on April 1. Now it’s all eyes on 2026, with a chance to replace right-wing Justice Rebecca Bradley next spring, flip U.S. House seats, & win a blue trifecta in WI in the midterms. Join your fellow WisDems for the 2025 Convention in WI Dells on June 14-15 & fight on: wisdems.org/2025convention

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

A few years ago I found out that my great grandma lost a son to the flu and literally nobody in my family knew about this, not even the folks from my parents generation.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

#ICYMI: Staffers at 18 rape crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months after North Carolina’s state legislature directed $15 million for sexual assault survivors away from Democratic-led agencies that had long overseen such money. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

For Minneapolis residents and tourists seeking transportation options beyond cars and buses, the city has launched its shared e-bike and scooter program. The program will be year-round, as the weather allows. Previously, the program shut down at the end of November and resumed in April.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's pretty clear that a major goal of Republicans is to ensure women have zero rights outside the home, to serve as sex slaves and incubators for their lords. That's it, the end.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

trump administration is a complete and utter FAILURE, cancel all Republicans immediately and ship them to El Salvador. #eggs

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Yes, contractors cost more, perform worse, and are harder to manage. But they can be fired at will without collecting benefits, and most importantly this will allow them to sell off these government agencies to the private sector for nothing like they wanted all along (like Russia did in the 1990s).

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Alt text of a NYT headline regarding banned books: "Angelou's 'Caged Bird' is Out, But Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Stays: 381 Books Are Banned From Naval Academy"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

THe deck is definitely stacked against us since the Republican administration is entirely backing those industries.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

submitted 2 days ago • 268 comments

If any man thinks changing your last name is just a bit of paperwork, change yours. Might I suggest “Waterford”, “Palpatine”, or “Lannister”

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

I'm at this point too. Having better overall policy than Republicans is a given, really, so I'm not going to nitpick that. But we need JUSTICE.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Spurred by ProPublica’s reporting, Democrats have introduced a measure designed to block a right-wing strategy to disallow ballots after they were cast. It’s being used to try to upend the results of a key state Supreme Court race. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

This right here! l know this has been especially hard for Black folks because we're always told by our community that we've always been gaslit by White folks that we were lying about institutional racist hiring practices, but a now all of a sudden institutional racism is outright federal policy.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone has got to stop using Google or Bing or any service with default AI (or is AI).

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In the very end, the gun companies are going to profit doubly.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 3 days ago • 2329 comments

American authority in anything has become a fucking, pathetic joke.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 3 days ago • 1654 comments

Convincing a coworker to watch #StarTrekDS9 as well as #StarTrekLowerDecks... #StarTrek

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I’m encouraging everyone that lives in Minneapolis to share this with your non online Mpls neighbors and family. Can be a simple “I can’t get over this story and how the MPD treated this man.”

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

For absolutely no reason other than the joy of learning, please read about instances of how ordinary people have physically delayed or blocked ICE abduction vehicles, like a Bend city councillor who parked her car in front of an ICE bus for 12 hours:

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments