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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/04/2026
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
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Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
A note from our editors:
Note from the editors:

ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. 

The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement.

The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
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American Dialect Society @americandialect.org · 10/01/2026
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
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2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
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Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
Screenshot of the Viabundus website.
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The word ‘to hear’ stems from the same root as ‘acoustic’. They’re completely different, so how can that be? ‘To hear’ was inherited from Proto-Germanic, while ‘acoustic’ comes from Ancient Greek. These languages have a common ancestor, but they developed very differently. Zoom in to learn more:
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I believe The Mouse will find a way to stop this but it would be extremely funny if SB79, the bill allowing apartments to be built near transit stops throughout California, ends up allowing homes near Disneyland because the monorail is technically transit
Text that reads “in smaller cities, defined as cities with a population less than 35k residents, only the quarter mile area of the TOD zone is covered. And if a country becomes an urban transit county after January 1, 2026, only heavy rail, light rail, and eligible commuter rail will be covered—not BRT. 

AHEM! While airport people movers are not covered, it remains unclear whether the Disneyland monorail is covered”
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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025
Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved
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Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Publication day! My new article in ASCHKENAS has appeared: "The Mother Tongues of Medieval English Jews"—ever wondered if the Jews of medieval England might have spoken English? This article's for you, #medievalsky. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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The Mother Tongues of Medieval English Jews
Scholars of Anglo-Jewish history have traditionally described medieval English Jews as French-speaking, and there is strong and varied evidence of their facility with French, as well as with Hebrew, A...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
From Sotomayor's dissent, which she's now reading from the bench: "The President has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any
other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only
if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival.
Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort. With
the stroke of a pen, the President has made a “solemn mockery” of our Constitution. Peters, 5 Cranch, at 136. Rather
than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Today’s ruling threatens the very essence of public education. The Court, in effect, constitutionalizes a parental
veto power over curricular choices long left to the democratic process and local administrators. That decision guts
our free exercise precedent and strikes at the core premise
of public schools: that children may come together to learn
not the teachings of a particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society. Exposure to
new ideas has always been a vital part of that project, until
now.
The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear,
for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.
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m @mirative.moe · 22/06/2025
A Documentation of the Occitan Language of Languedoc, or "un langdoc de la langue d'oc du Languedoc"
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I inquired unto Urim and the Thummim and found that my own son Jonathan was he who breached the oath to refrain from food until nightfall
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Just had a great discussion with some Stanford Law students! Now to open my phone and make sure the Supreme Court didn’t overturn a famous 90 year-old precedent on the shadow docket during the last hour.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
You can be evicted for: calling 911 too many times; being wrongly accused of shoplifting; having a son with a disability who needs help; being a victim of domestic violence. This is "crime-free housing" in America. A searing, crucial investigation by Sidnee King Pineda:
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Under ‘Crime-Free Housing’ Laws, Families May Be Evicted for Minor Offenses
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Arcaicam Esperantom is a constructed auxiliary sociolect for translating literature into Esperanto created to act as a fictional 'Old Esperanto', in the vein of languages such as Middle English or the use of Latin citations in modern texts.
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025
Mob linguist threatening to break your legs unless you pay back your loanwords
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Jacob Star @jacobstar.me · 15/03/2025
them: I'm learning javascript
page written in Javanese
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corvid friend @ahabstanaccount.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
sentiment check from bloomberg opinion
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The absences are absolutely damning.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The Trump administration defied Judge Boasberg's order on the basis of its theory that courts have no authority to review or restrict the president's alleged constitutional right to deport immigrants. That theory, if accepted, would mark the end of constitutional democracy. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s astonishing claim of authority would render the other two branches of government purely advisory in the entire field of immigration enforcement. Congress’ decades of extensive legislation detailing which immigrants can be detained and deported, and under what circumstances, would amount to meager recommendations that the president could disregard.  Under this construction of executive authority, court orders attempting to enforce those laws—or even bedrock constitutional protections—would be similarly voluntary. As Steve Vladeck has noted, no Supreme Court precedent remotely backs up this startling theory that Trump has “categorically unreviewable” power over foreign affairs that includes the right to identify, detain, and deport specific immigrants over judicial objections.  The best support comes from a solo 2015 opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas that even Justice Antonin Scalia ridiculed as promoting “a presidency more reminiscent of George III than George Washington.”
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically. www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*
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William Stone @itswilliamstone.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I'm a big fan of the Irish goodbye. Which goes without saying
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
BREAKING: Judge blocks Columbia pro-Palestinian protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil's removal from US pending further action on habeas petition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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m @mirative.moe · 06/03/2025
The Uralic languages? The reconstructed ancestor of the Alic languages?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Pitch-perfect response to Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin from @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Dean Bill Treanor. It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but *especially* today.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My heart breaks for the millions of Ukrainians who have been betrayed by our traitorous president in his pathetic quest for Putin’s approval. Ukraine’s people have shown immense courage in the face of Russia’s brutal, illegal aggression; they deserve our admiration and support. Trump is a quisling.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"The censorship will continue until freedom improves."
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Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos says opinion pages will defend free market and 'personal liberties'
The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page to resign.
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Mrtnrkw @martinrakow.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This bird is now the rightful owner of Baile Átha Cliath
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Mrtnrkw @martinrakow.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Does anyone know if the Romans knew about olms?
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Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
toment nexus etc etc you get the idea
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Appalling, soulless erasure that will not stand. Still up, for now, on the site are pictures of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who would have words (or more) with whomever at the NPS did this today.
The National Park Service has deleted transgender content from the Stonewall National Monument website.MarshaSylvia
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.
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m @mirative.moe · 03/02/2025
gung¹ hei² faat³ coi⁴ ---- ¹ This syllable has high tone. ² This syllable has rising tone. ³ This syllable has mid level tone. ⁴ This syllable has falling tone.
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Travis McElroy @travismcelroy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I have put over 1100 hours into Stardew Valley. I have achieved perfection in the game multiple times including once with in the first two in game years. And yet, I can not get passed the FIRST level of Journey of the Prairie King.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
He pardoned a whole bunch of white nationalists on MLK Day.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The American refugee system, which Trump is dismantling, was put into place in response to America’s shameful failure to provide refuge to Jews persecuted by Hitler
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m @mirative.moe · 23/12/2024
The year is 2180 English has grammaticalized -ass into an ezafe marker
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Perhaps related to this thread, but an article about how Spotify seemingly hires fake bands to rip off real bands and promotes the songs on the algorithms. Once you control all the platforms, you can squeeze the actual artists out entirely. www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t...
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The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
A year-long investigation by an indie journalist is a call to action
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Shade 5 @shade5.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Me: I cleared the table for dessert. Her: Why did you leave these cranberries out? Me: DON’T TOUCH THEM!!! Her: What…Why??? Me: You have to let them linger.
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