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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17h
As is the case in higher ed, calls for civility are actually demands for docility.
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KC Eric @kceric.bsky.social · 19h
Raygun is quick
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thought I was going to take a small load of laundry downstairs. My big boy thinks not.
Black & white tuxedo cat sleeping in a basket of dirty clothes.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@kattenbarge.bsky.social I was born & raised in a college town & was always afraid of frat boys. I can remember being sexually harassed by them while working my PT fast food job. Managers were always looking out for us at closing. That was over 40 yr ago. youtu.be/Ej6zLgt1w7Q?...
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How 7 Cornell Frat Brothers Got Away with It
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Buffalo Temple of Music, Sports, and Whatever @sethfromthe716.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is going to lose his shit when they tell him about the Chicago Blackhawks, Seattle Seahawks, Miami RedHawks, or the Kansas Jayhawks.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh shit, that response, though.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just needs alt-text:
How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE* 

sexual violence centre cork 

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS 

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE. 

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM. 

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU. 

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chuck Schumer is incapable of feeling shame, but Climate Defiance gave it their all. youtube.com/shorts/6y0uw...
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We chucked Schumer's innumerable failures right in his face
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly two weeks into hunting season and Yellowstone wolf 1273M has been killed just outside the park. Wolves don’t know where park boundaries end, yet crossing one can put them at risk of becoming a target. How many more wolves will be killed for the sake of a trophy? 🔗 ow.ly/AwRs50ZSo9R
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 29/09/2026
Zagged a bit this week. Watched a frustrating conversation between leftists about DSA; Netanyahu name-checking Hasan; Trump paying more attention to Zohran than his own party. Felt the need to put DSA's mobilizing efforts in historical context and offer some perspective on left movements.
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The Rise Of The DSA: What You Need To Know
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
American sports is so money grubbing & corrupt. That the NBA would continue with the Emirates NBA Cup in light of UAE's role in war in Sudan is unconscionable. I used to love sports, but now I feel nothing but contempt.
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They would rent our very existence to us if they could. youtube.com/shorts/col-D...
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Let me see if I got this right
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The NFL Punished Him for Honoring Palestinian Children | Azeez Al-Shaair
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Planting things means we're under Sharia Law when your mayor is Muslim. Just wait. The right wing attacks are coming.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jurph: you're soaking in it @jurph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another fight over who controls the nation’s purse strings. The White House announced that it plans to cancel $810 million in spending already approved by Congress, using a rarely used maneuver known as a “pocket rescission.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The cuts include hundreds of millions for refugee and immigration services, along with funding touching education, housing, international assistance and other federal programs.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congress normally has 45 legislative days to consider a president’s request to rescind funding. By submitting the request just days before the fiscal year ends, the administration argues the money can simply expire before Congress acts.
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President Trump Takes Historic Action to Eliminate Wasteful and Harmful Spending
President Trump is committed to utilizing all possible tools to cut wasteful and harmful government spending that does not benefit American citizens. Last
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart
Three images, one of a window surrounded by blue floral patterns on a white exterior wall, two other images of an elderly womam painting the designs
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An excellent neighbor: #AGoodPlace Source: Marie Mariki
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Real Stories - not the GOP’s.
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Text: Elon Musk is a small, small human being whose wealth has given him the delusion that he is the smartest and most important person in human history.

At the end of the day, he's just a spoiled child of Apartheid. 

Pastor Ben Dixon.
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pussy Riot put this out 10 years & we're still fighting this shit & more! Has a great Bossa Nova beat. Also an indictment on what other countries' citizens think about us. youtu.be/rovmW_mbaOI?...
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Make America Great Again - Pussy Riot Lyrics
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is not surprising with the AfD's recent win. As we rightly feel outrage, remember this is happening here in the US. Our governments (Federal, state, local) are removing references, both physical & academic, noting atrocities against marginalized people, notably Black & Indigenous peoples.
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When you realize your punishments as a child (stay home, take a nap, go to bed early) are now your goals as an adult.
Jinx the lazy bobtail tabby cat laying on the bed and covering her eyes with one paw. 
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
holy shit lmao
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Colonizers & Imperialists doing what they do best. Theft & extraction & then calling the people they steal from primitive & barbarian. youtube.com/shorts/sifQU...
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Louis Vuitton, Versace & the African Designs They Never Paid For
YouTube video by Nchonganyi TV
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Heather @muddywaters25.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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I Met a Hero at the UN Protest: Dr. Thaer Ahmad 🇵🇸
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular
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