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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

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.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · 1d

Because we love America

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · 1d

Noooo

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · 5d

Always with the projection.

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · 7d

It’s hard to gauge just how many Americans are truly batshit. And to think, I used to love the internet.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12d

The Trump administration is escalating its surveillance of tens of millions of *legal* immigrants, forcing them to refrain from expressing opinions that someone might deem “anti-American.” It’s a clear attack on free speech and the First Amendment. bit.ly/4823Brc

“Continuous Vetting” of All Visa Holders Is Impossible, but the Threat Alone Chills Free Speech

Government claims of AI-powered surveillance create an illusion of total oversight that encourages self-censorship without actually improving security.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · 26d

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Sep 8

Good Evening

Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Jul 14

I have tried with Too Much because I love Lena Dunham’s work but I really can’t stand Megan Stalter in this role. She’s no Hannah. I think I hate her. I do. I hate her so much.

Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Jul 13

How’s it all going to get paid for?

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Jul 1

Are we not entertained?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Jul 1

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 29

Murray: This bill polls like garbage because it is garbage. That's why it should go nowhere except a trash bin

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Jun 22

love this

📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · Jun 21

BREAKING: A growing group of tow truck drivers in LA are reportedly stalking ICE convoys so they can tow away all the unmarked ICE vans and SUVs that get parked incorrectly the moment the agents get out to start looking for people to abduct and deport.
BRILLIANT...be creative folks...

a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a car in a dark parking lot .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a car in a dark parking lot .

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Jun 19

Not to mention the corrupt prosecution and the shittiest judge in MA.

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Jun 19

This case should never have gone to trial. She didn’t hit him.

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Apr 28

I finally watched White Lotus 3 and I have to say… fuck Rick and his childhood trauma. What kind of stupid, self absorbed, whiny little asshole is Rick!? How dare he get little toothy cutie killed?

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · Apr 26

If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Apr 14

Fuck these awful people. I hope karma finds them. Soon.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 14

Homan: "El Salvador would have to agree to release him. It doesn't sound like they're going to."

Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Apr 12

Shauna is the psychotic, bullying despot who peaked in high school. She’s the high school quarterback hitting middle age mediocrity, not Jeff. Not even Melanie Lynskey can make my hate go away at this point. #yellowjackets

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 7

IMPORTANT: Sotomayor, in the dissent, emphasizes that all 9 justices believe that the Trump administration cannot do what it wants to do: shove people onto a plane with NO due process.

They openly told the DC Circuit they were going to do that if they won. On that issue, they lost.

So too do we all agree with the per curiam's command that the Fifth Amendment requires the Government to af-ford plaintiffs "notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act,... within reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs." Ante, at 3. That means, of course, that the Gov-ernment cannot usher any detainees, including plaintiffs, onto planes in a shroud of secrecy, as it did on March 15, 2025. Nor can the Government "immediately resume" re-moving individuals without notice upon vacatur of the TRO, as it promised the D. C. Circuit it would do. See 2025 WL 914682, 13 (Millett, J., concurring) (referencing oral argu-ment before that court). To the extent the Government re-moves even one individual without affording him notice and meaningful opportunity to file and pursue habeas relief, it does so in direct contravention of an edict by the United States Supreme Court.

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Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Apr 4

All of which is not to say that Shauna isn’t stone cold crazy and a killer.

Allie Pennell @alliepennell.bsky.social · Apr 4

I have many problems with being strung along by Yellowjackets for three seasons now. But also, little Shauna has none of the redeeming charm and quirks of big Shauna. Like, I don’t buy her. The Misties and others, on the other hand, are paired well.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Apr 2

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

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