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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ

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Explorer of the possible. Anarchist communist. Anti-fascist. He/him, Bi-Furious. Not all those who wander are lost. #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A curvy rectangle shape colored in a multi colored gradient and with a similar but contrasting coloring a related wormy pattern throughout. The whole shape has been cut through with thin mono weight lines that cut it into letter shapes sort of in the style of a 60s rock poster. Highlights have been applied to the letter shaped to give them some dimension. They spell out ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/09/2026
Job applicants are using AI to write resumes and prep interview answers. Companies are using AI to screen those applications and conduct initial interviews. We’ve officially automated both sides of a process meant to measure human connection. The irony is genuinely unreal.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you think Trump wouldn’t demolish the Kennedy Center, that this is all some kind of bluff or only a calculated distraction, you clearly haven’t been paying attention all this time.
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DrHello @drhellodarkness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Guess who Trump says he trusts more than his own Director of Intelligence, and said so, publicly to the media? Yep: Vladimir Putin. 3/
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404 Media @404media.co · 20/09/2026
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Dead Armadillo @deadarmadillo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Democratic candidates for federal office should commit publicly to the following: "We believe markets are the best arbiter of malinvestment: accordingly, we pledge never to provide public funds to distressed AI companies. Backstopping private investment returns is not a 'national security' issue."
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Anthropic's numbers are as bad as my worst expectations, and it's impossible to see how it manages to make good on its spending commitments. OpenAI and Anthropic are toxic companies with rotten economics, and should not be allowed to go public. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
In any case, these numbers are as bad as I’ve always thought they’d be, if not a little worse. I don’t see how this company becomes one that can afford its $518 billion in compute commitments, nor do I see how it magically works its way out of the economic equivalent of septic tank. 

This company will, if allowed to go public, likely lean on the very same junk-grade/high-yield debt that AI data centers and neoclouds like CoreWeave currently need, and it will do so at volumes of somewhere between $50 billion and $100 billion a year for a company with few assets, endless losses and a CEO with the grace of a drunk elephant. 

Anthropic is not the future of technology, nor is it the next Google, nor is it the next Microsoft, nor is it, to quote Reuters, capable of “[transforming] the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet.” It is impossible to rationally argue that the economics of OpenAI and Anthropic make any real sense. To claim that this is “just like Uber” or “just like Amazon Web Services” or “just like the Dot Com Bubble” is to bury one’s head in the sand or, on some level, want to know less about the world. This is serious, dangerous, and should not be seen as “business as usual.”

We must treat OpenAI and Anthropic as what they are: economic disasters waiting to happen. 

To do anything less is to directly invite danger to the door of every investor that’s allowed to believe that they’re funding the next industrial revolution.
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 6h
This is WHY there's an "A.I." bubble, and why it's gonna pop soon.
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 6h
I've implied this before, but don't think I've said it directly: Capitalism is fucking bonkers.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 7h
Computer, generate bluesky topics. Isolate the horniest anime section of the site, please. Zoom in again by 25%, computer. One more time. My god, its the resistance.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 16h
We aren’t mad enough www.cbsnews.com/news/cornell...
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Details emerge in case of former Cornell student alleging gang rape by fraternity members
A woman, identified only as Jane Doel, alleges she was gang-raped by seven fraternity members in 2024 and accuses Cornell University of failing to protect her.
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kulbreez @llangford.bsky.social · 17h
It’s like every asshole who ever copied off your homework is now in the Republican Party. Actually, forget the ‘like’; every asshole who copied off your homework and got it WRONG is now in the Republican Party.
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jke127.bsky.social @jke127.bsky.social · 17h
Senator Schmitthimself
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’ve been pretty disheartened at how little coverage and attention Trump’s attacks on the environment and our planet have received so going to start a thread to keep track of as many as possible. 🧵👇
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Trump administration moves ahead to end roadless rule on national forests
The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nati...
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 21h
It is amazing, and sobering, to realize that had Trump not chosen to start this war for no good reason and against the advice of many of his senior ppl, Trump and the GOP would probably be doing... Ok. Not awesome, maybe losing the house, but ok.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 17h
Minnesota Ends Conviction Review Unit With 160 Cases Still Under Investigation 📹
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Minnesota Ends Conviction Review Unit With 160 Cases Still Under Investigation - UNICORN RIOT
Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison has decided to "eliminate" the state's Conviction Review Unit (CRU) less than six years after he created it. The closure is a devastating blow to around 160 ...
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Big bright orange lettering in a vaguely graffiti/marker style with big black drop shadow reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’. At the bottom in front of the lettering is a small cartoon turtle with a little hourglass on its back.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
you know it's going great when even INC., basically pseudo-journalistic fan-fiction for MBAs, starts ragging on your shiny new product
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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The latest on Facebook: “In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.” Via Apple Insider
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 29/09/2026
Trump strips Biden-era LGBTQ+ language from Title IX rules. Advocates warn of far-reaching damage www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Trump strips Biden-era LGBTQ+ language from Title IX rules. Advocates warn of far-reaching damage
Cathy Renna of the National LGBTQ Task Force says the rollback weakens protections for trans students, women and girls, and students who experience sexual violence.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A serious moron is a hard thing to deal with, because they have no idea what they don't know and no inclination or ability to question themselves. When you give those people power, the results are predictable.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A faithful, slightly slavish, yet still abstracted digital recreation of The Clash’s London Calling album cover. Featuring a guy lit by a spotlight on a stage in a very wide stance and bent over with his head down, holding an electric guitar like an axe by the neck just an instant before he smashes it into the floor. Small white type at the top reads ‘Maybe it’ll’, then down the left side in pink and the bottom in green larger block lettering reads ‘happen today’.
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A Radical Guide @aradicalguide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Starting soon! The 20th NYC Anarchist Book Fair: International Workshops. Watch live, online, and for free: www.radical-guide.com/anarchist-in...
Poster for the 20th NYC Anarchist Book Fair promoting "International Workshops"—online and free on Sunday, September 27, 2026, 11:00 AM–7:00 PM ET—shows a white phoenix rising from flames above silhouetted people, with a QR code and a registration URL.
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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hear our chat with Cal of the Minnesota 15 (activists facing felony charges in relation to resisting the ICE and Border Patrol assault on the Twin Cities during Metro Surge. More on the case & how to support can be found via @minnesota15.bsky.social thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/2026/09/27/c...
"TFSR 9-27-26 | Cal of the MN15 on Metro Surge and this Moment of Growing Fascism" alongside a flyer showing black and white butterfly reading "Defend the Minnesota 15 | October 3rd! Day of Solidarity! Abolish ICE! Return the abducted & deported! Drop the charges! MN15" plus "Fifteen activists have been federally indicted for their role in the Twin Cities' historic movement against ICE. The Trump regime wants to make an example of them to stop all of us from fighting back. On Saturday, October 3rd, the Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee is calling for an international day of solidarity actions to show the regime we will not back down. Plan an action at your local ICE office or federal building!"
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
prescription drug coverage is some of the most demonic shit you will ever encounter in your life. my doctor prescribed me a medication and somehow there are now at least two third-party corporations involved for no apparent reason and nobody knows what is going on or what needs to be done
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026
I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran
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🏳️‍⚧️ anniejump (she/her) @anniejump.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thats me! pls come and support the right for trans women to defend themselves against violent attackers. SELF DEFENSE IS NON VIOLENT! whether systemic courts want to acknowledge this fact or not, we as a Revolution undersfand this to be true. www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/02/03/a...
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Annie Jump Vicente Case(s): NOT A CAUTIONARY TALE
West Hollywood resident and trans activist, Annie Jump Vicente, shown here in this file photo, speaking before the WeHo City Council. On Feb. 15, 2024, Annie Ju
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Leaf Basagne 😷❤️‍🔥Ⓐ @astia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I reckon the odds are about even that under a Democratic presidency, the NYT starts cranking out shit like "My Parents are Both Wasians but I'm Genetically White".
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...
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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Jessica Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I poured chicken broth into my coffee instead of cream, how are you
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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anarchist @anarchist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
stop letting them make the trans arguments more complicated than they need to be. it’s pretty simple, if a type of person exists, they should be allowed to exist.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is an instructive situation - if you hadn’t clocked taylor lorenz as a grifter and a hack long ago, you need to hone your moron radar
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

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The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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anarchist @anarchist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
at a certain income level, people just stop telling you when you’re being a giant dumbass, it is extremely unhealthy for the brain. we gotta make these guys poor. for humanity.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People were like no, using genAI doesn't deskill you. And then *all* the CEO's started announcing that not only is deskilling the explicit goal, but then they brag that they don't know how to toast a poptart
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fig @sunteafig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is why I don't really debate people who say it's good for x or y. It might be? But I know for a fact that doing the thing ourselves is good, it's good for our brain, and it's good for our social ties. And it's usually good for many things at once instead of being good for one task at a time.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Canadian study of nearly 9,000 adults looked at repeat COVID infections. Researchers found that people who reported having COVID at least twice had 76% higher odds of being diagnosed with a new health condition, across 21 conditions studied, compared with those who reported never being infected.
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Adults with Two or More COVID Infections Had 76% Higher Odds of a New Diagnosis in Canadian Survey
A Canadian survey tied repeat COVID-19 infections to 76% higher odds of a new diagnosis. Here is what it shows and what it cannot prove.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren and 12 other Democrats have introduced legislation to ban private equity from owning medical practices as increasingly widespread corporate ownership continues driving up health care costs each year.
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Warren Introduces Bill to Ban Private Equity From Owning Medical Practices
More than 80 percent of doctors are employed by corporate entities — a massive increase from 62 percent seven years ago.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026
“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
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.
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
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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