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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.

(Published April)
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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October 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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bob hope understood something a lot of people still can't reconcile: apologizing is actually really easy and you can do it as much as you want
January 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The correct response to “parents rights activists” is: our children are whole human beings in their own right, not our property. We should not claim rights over our children but instead accept the *responsibility* to give them the space to grow into the people they are.
December 6, 2023 at 11:30 AM
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I must say this as clearly as possible: if you have, in the last ten years, thought "I just don't get tech" or that you're "getting old" or "you're not technical," you are the victim - so much of the tech industry is now oriented around making you do stuff rather than doing stuff for you.
I was seriously relieved when I started listening to your podcast and realized my increasing levels of frustration with modern tech are not because I'm getting older (I'm only 40 for gods's sake!) but because everything is actively getting worse. 🫠
November 29, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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There are 1000 grandmas in a kilogran
November 27, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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So, either the system is *not* healthy – or the Trumpist regime is not an acute threat. The latter is a much more comfortable proposition, especially as Democratic / liberals leaders have struggled to meaningfully transcend politics as usual. Their ineptitude fuels the normalization.
November 24, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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The way some establishment Democrats and leading Liberals have acted suggests they feel a kinship with their Republican opponents that is rooted in class politics. They seem incapable of viewing leading rightwing operatives as anything but fellow elites.
November 24, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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For me it isn't the Swifties or whomever that changed the place... it was the fence sitters who didn't mind and weren't personally impacted who followed the large fandom groups that started messing up the vibe.
November 23, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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if you're wondering which people on the right had a genuine, principled interest in meritocracy and which of them were simply grabbing the most noble sounding language facially to the left of "resegregate now", simply look around and try to find the resisters of the emerging status quo. I'll wait
November 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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I hope everyone has a fantastic Bell Riots day
August 30, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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I try to remember that whenever we talk about how much of a fucked up horror show the world is, what we mean is that the world is full of good people being wronged and beauty being destroyed, that we risk losing all of it—not a denial of the good in the world but its affirmation.
December 25, 2023 at 4:28 PM
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This is Sylvia Gonzalez. At age 72, she won an upset victory for city council after campaigning to oust the city manager. The mayor didn't like that.

So he had her arrested & jailed.

The Supreme Court is about to hear her case, which has largely gone unnoticed. A thread.
March 20, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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happy St Patrick’s Day from the agency whose actual job it is to dye water for investigatory purposes.
March 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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<this is fine gif>
March 17, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Detective: You’ve painted yourself into a corner. There’s no way out.

M.C. Escher: We’ll see about that.
March 17, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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the weekly evil
March 11, 2024 at 8:35 PM