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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

Dark Pence is back.

Stay informed www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

Trump unilaterally cut indirect cost recovery rates in federal grants (typically between 25–70%) to a maximum of 15%. Here’s why that matters youtu.be/yxTDlFvkvio?...

Search results for SpaceX at www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash...

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

It’s not about “government efficiency.” It’s about autocratic power.

🚨BREAKING: @democracyforward.org files emergency lawsuit to halt DOGE from taking taxpayer data at the IRS. Visit Democracy Docket for full coverage. www.democracydocket.com

Loading up for the Great Aloha Run 🏃🏽🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️🌺 #running

Knowledge is power…

Danielle Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

Read the letter from Danielle Sassoon to Emil Bove about Eric Adams. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...

Agree. Here are the letters for the inquisitive: Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated, www.nytimes.com/interactive/... and Letter From Emil Bove Accepting Danielle Sassoon’s Resignation, Annotated, www.nytimes.com/interactive/....

RFK Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services by the Senate in a 52-48 vote. All Democrats opposing and McConnell. I hear the bird flu virus and measles are holding after-parties.

This says it all

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

The wonderful Mike Luckovich

Hawaiʻi Supreme Court, upon the recommendation by the Board of Examiners, adopts the NextGen Bar Exam starting in 2028 (nextgenbarexam.ncbex.org). www.courts.state.hi.us/news_and_rep... #lawyers #lawstudents #hawaii

🧪Measles “is the thing we see first when public health starts to falter,” Ratner said recently from his office in New York City. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

A bill to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. H.R.369 - States’ Education Reclamation Act of 2025 (119th Congress). Sponsor: Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] (Introduced 01/13/2025). www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Cool. DeepSeek can pass the bar exam. ai-mbe-study.streamlit.app #law #barexam

"The American Bar Association supports the rule of law," wrote @abaesq.bsky.social. "Our courts stand for the rule of law as well." www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Whistleblowers are a vital part of Congressional oversight to hold the administration accountable. www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

Too true!

America, you are in danger, girl! Elon Musk and his hackers—aka DOGE—are everywhere within our federal government, and they are spreading. Pay attention, connect the dots, and call it out—before it’s too late.

A statement from the Kennedy Center

Not so brilliant.

"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Perhaps if he had not spent so much time playing video games so that he could be the #1 video game player he would know that the answer to this question is "All of them."

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

List of judicial dockets challenging the Administration's actions: (1) www.justsecurity.org/107087/track... (2) www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r... (3) clearinghouse.net/search/case/...