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Starting today, 2.4M Americans, including kids, lose SNAP food benefits. Stores like Freshly’s Market in Mississippi that serve low-income communities expect a 35–45% drop in sales. Children will go hungry & employees at Freshly's lose jobs. Welcome to trickle-down starvation.
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
I'm sure she eats bugs and other pests away.
Same with trans people. Like less than .0001% of people are affected negatively by allowing trans people to exist. But somehow it's the most important campaign issue around the world.
NYC! THIS THURSDAY 9/4! Shit Arcade is back at Union Hall in Brooklyn with an incredible lineup and some truly awful games - some of which I'll give away to you because I don't want them. See the worst games and the best comedians make fun of them!
My feed isn't full of sludge I have 5x as many followers Experts actually engage in meaningful dialogue And there's no Nazis ........ Sounds like this app is thriving actually
Seems less likely to me. I'd think police would have mentioned that with a multiple car injury crash.
Trump is great at diplomacy. He's united all of our enemies.
It says something like that.Police were there responding to a stopped vehicle when they saw an accident on the other side. PRESUMABLY, the driver of G's vehicle had slowed down or stopped in response to the stopped vehicle on the other side and they got rear ended. I don't believe G helped anyone.
His driver stopped his car in the median of the NB lane and there was another car in the median of the SB lane that had the DV victim in it. His driver reentered the highway traffic at low speed and got rear ended.
G wasn't driving.
It's been fixed.
Likely. It was after 8am. But the police said he wasn't driving.
Both vehicles were pulled over on the median of the highway.
Presumably the southbound car was pulled over on the side of the road by the median and flagged down the car driven by G's driver, who also pulled into the center median. G's vehicle then tried to get back on the highway and was struck by a fast moving vehicle.
Even the ancestors of native people immigrated from Asia tens of thousands of years ago.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Does he have a scrotum sack on his chin?
Joseph was 80, Mary was 13. That's why they had to have a miracle birth.
Quit testing for disease and it will all go away!
Locking rates that universities can charge means they can't pay the best professors enough to keep them from going to corporations for better paying jobs. The govt should pay for college for students that are high performing.
AI is trained on Reddit posts from stoned teenagers.
My friend's daughter is a dental hygienist at a busy dental practice. She had been taken away from her job helping people to lay mulch in DC. The dentist has to cancel all her appointments for 29 days, cause they won't pay her extra for a 30 day deployment.
What's a cubic ton? A measure of weight or volume? I'm just a lowly engineer who graduated from a state college.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Don't the fish and sea mammals routinely poop in the water? This can't be new.
Fine is the name of the nurse attending him.
You weren't talking to someone with knowledge of the rules.
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Yes. They narrowed the scope to former smoker or those physically inactive. At Walgreens you check one of those two boxes and in less than ten minutes you get your vaccine shot.
Go nope your fucking self. You're dumb. This is my lived existence. My insurance has always paid for preventative care. There were cheap insurance plans that didn't and had caps on coverage, etc. but MY insurance was always great. It is top notch. Sorry you didn't have the same experience.
I've guess I have better insurance than you. I've never had a claim denied or underpaid. And I have received preventative care from health insurance for the last fifty years. Been hospitalized five times. I've had two surgeries on right arm. Surgery on left hand/wrist and umbilical hernia.
Not true. If you are put on cholesterol meds Medicare will pay for additional blood tests for maintenance. The doctor needs to know if the medication is working. Screening is for healthy people once every five years.
By stupidity, I meant your comment. No pharmacist will require proof of inactivity. You will tell them you are inactive by checking a box on a form. Or that you're obese or a former or current smoker. Then they give you the shot. There is no court or judge or investigator.
Always. ACA didn't exist 30 years ago. It's cheaper to provide preventive care than to pay for chronic illness. They aren't doing it to be nice they do it to make money. I get a discount for belonging to the gym too, which is clearly not part of ACA.
They will even pay for medication and therapy to help people stop smoking.
My preventive care has always been paid for by the insurance company. It's cheaper to give you preventive care than pay for a COVID hospitalization and life long complications. I get a full blood panel and urine screen every year and all vaccines are free.
If you have high cholesterol Medicare will pay for more frequent tests. It's just the initial test that's once every five years if they discover your lips levels are normal. My insurance pays for a full blood screen and urine screen every year.
SoS is fifth in line.
You can say you smoked 20 years ago and quit and you qualify. No health insurance company will charge you extra for that. But the easiest thing is just say you're physically inactive. You get the shot. There's hardly any possibility than can say you aren't and no Dr. or Pharm will disagree w/you
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
It's a proposed note. It's likely a person who doesn't believe that gender identity exists.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Insurance wants to pay for vaccines. It's much cheaper than paying for COVID hospitalizations and long Covid complications. Same with birth control.
Right. They want people to think this is normal in times where there's not a terrorist attack or other major disturbance.
Proof of being a smoker twenty years ago? Proof of laying on a couch all night? It's stupidity.
Proof of being a past smoker or physically inactive? What, pray tell, will they require my pharmacist to do to verify those things? Bring in a cigarette butt? Blow smoke on their face? Show a picture of me laying on a couch and working in a cubicle all day?
Yes. I didn't grow up in the 1920s or 30s. My grandparents did and fought the fascists and before they take working Americans to corporate owned fat farms there will be hundreds of millions fighting and protesting. It's untenable.
Or tell the pharmacist you are a former smoker.
Yeah. If you buy it in the US
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
Would you like an AI summary of the text you just typed into Notepad++?
Morning Bluesky. The war of words between the US and Denmark over Greenland continues after Trump used Putin’s tactic in Crimea before the Russian invasion - sending in “private individuals” to launch an influence campaign. The US badly wants to take Greenland.
He was born Robert as a male. At 17 years old he legally changed his name to Robin and started identifying as a woman.
Isn't Caitlin Jenner the same?
She changed her name to Robin from Robert in 2020 and started identifying as a woman. She also seems to have lots of sympathy for far right domestic terrorists. Weird combo I know.
The entire Reader's Digest Condensed Book collection!
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
And all you do is tell your doctor you used to smoke 30 years ago or that you are physically inactive and they can prescribe it on label if that were truly a concern.
That's not true. Almost every insurance company will pay for vaccines (or other preventative medications) because it's 100 times cheaper to pay for the vaccine than the costs of hospitalization and long term health problems of Covid. I get two diff off label scripts and insurance gladly pays.
They are there to kidnap brown kids and/or their parents and send them to concentration camps.
How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
They're not going to measure your height or weight at the pharmacist's office either. Tell them you are 5'9" and 180 lbs. and you qualify as man as obese. Or look up the BMI chart, subtract an inch from your height and see how much (or little) it takes to get to 30 BMI. Nobody will question you.
Which is irritating as an aircraft design engineer where we have part numbers like 10509-01002-152--C, where the --C is the revision level of the part. (It was revised three times since the original --- was released). But every time in Office Suite, it changes to —C instead of --C. Grrrr.
Update: it got funny again
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Catch Tom Clancy's .22
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
The irony of Trump trying to usurp control over the BLS, Federal Reserve, the tariff power of Congress, and even private corporations is that he'll have no one else to blame when the economy crumbles. His hubris will be his undoing.
The sandwich guy beat the wrap!
It was convenient and free to go to Walgreens to get vaccines for me. A doctor's visit for a shot will likely cost me a co-pay of $20, but not getting Covid again or making Covid less severe is well worth the $20 if I go to the doc. But whoever has it, is where I'll go.
Zero.
You don't have to prove anything. Just claim you used to smoke or that you're physically inactive. Both will get you the shot. No pharmacist can make you prove you used to smoke or that you don't sneak around and go jogging at night.
Or that you're physically inactive. The pharmacist isn't going to hire a private detective to make sure you aren't jogging.
No. You tell the pharmacist you are a former smoker or that you're physically inactive. They check the box and give you the shot. This is just to discourage people from even trying to go get the shot.
You don't have to prove anything. How do you prove "physical inactivity"? You tell the pharmacist you used to smoke and you aren't physically active. They write it down and give you the shot.
Not true. Doctors can prescribe it to anyone, regardless of condition. "Off-label". Plus 99.9% of Americans can claim "physical inactivity" and would not be questioned by a pharmacist prescribing the shot. It's not like they send private detectives around to make sure people aren't jogging.
One loophole is to go to your Dr. They can prescribe you vaccine "off-label" or against FDA advice and any good doctor would do that for you if you asked them. And I bet 99% of people in US (anyone not in competitive sports) could claim physical inactivity and not be questioned.
Well the FDA has dictated which medicines should be prescribed to you and for what since its existence. It's just unfortunate that this used to be based on the known science and our understanding of it.
Can you not claim physical inactivity? Unless you're a competitive athlete nobody would question it.
If you get it from your MD. Don't even need any of the conditions. Drs. can prescribe things "off label" if they want. This mainly prevents or discourages the public from going to Walgreens and having the pharmacist give them the Covid vaccine. But who can argue that you're not physically active?
Or just tell your doctor you want the Covid vaccine. They can prescribe it for you even against the advice of the FDA ("off label") or they can diagnose you with physical inactivity or a mood disorder and give it to you. This mainly limits pharmacists like at Walgreens from giving out the shots.
History of depression doesn't look good when applying for life insurance either.
Antifa is everywhere.
There's a pretty clear limited fair use argument that allows him to post snippets of a copyrighted work for educational or news purposes (and others). However, I agree it is a good policy to recognize authors when quoting their works, although doing so doesn't absolve you from copyright concerns.
