Meghan

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"Privately insured Americans paid an average of $129m in surprise ambulance bills...Private equity has also prospered. Two of the three largest ground and air ambulance companies are now owned by private equity, which in some places has resulted in aggressive billing and collections." 🙃

“Ambulances were once considered a public good and were funded by the federal government. But in 1981, the Reagan administration-“ 🫠

Plan to end exorbitant ‘surprise’ ambulance bills heads to Congresswww.theguardian.com Committee to recommend patients should pay no more than $100 or 10% of a bill, depending on which is less

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It must be amazing to be one of those people for whom police surveillance is a neat idea you can talk about at parties.

Sigh.

Why Progressives Should Actually Want More Police Surveillanceslate.com The potential harms should be weighed against the suffering of neighborhoods where shootings routinely go unsolved.

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Entertainment Tonight: thank you so much for talking about your wife the lovely Cheryl Hines RFK Jr: ok so the deal is that I wasn’t the Zodiac but I *knew* the Zodiac

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RFK is what happens when you allow the elites to too tightly interbreed - he’s our American Hapsburg equivalent

There are things happening in that man’s head which it would take an international team of experts to figure out.

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genuinely, it feels like i've seen way more energy for "HOW DARE YOU CALL THIS NICE CIS LADY TRANS" than I have for "this is a ludicrous witch hunt cooked up by bigots getting high off their hatred, the particulars of her genes and pants are meaningless"

would be nice to see virtually anyone railing against this imane khelif thing say that trans women should be allowed to participate in women's sports

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BREAKING: #KOSA is officially dead in the House. It's infuriating how much time was wasted on a flawed, unconstitutional & controversial bill that was destined to fail, when we could have passed strong privacy or antitrust & KOSA will be back. Stay tuned badinternetbills.com

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Ya know, Richard Simmons died the day Trump ear got scratched And I think we owe him a proper day of just goofing about how we best remember him in a positive way.

the only thing I feel I can do at this moment is eat jelly beans and watch looney tunes

back to basics

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The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller,January 21,1947

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The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1955

This one looks better zoomed in

shoebills are terrifying, they're amazing

I like patterns

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The Rolling Stones lips but it's a butthole. Do they still sue people? I have an idea.

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I was watching the CCNY instagram live feed and they filmed riot cops badge numbers and viewers looked up and shared their complaints/settlements history then asked the cops face to face about it I'm fucking dying

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Exactly one year ago, I watched riot police attack & arrest protesters in the Montana capitol. Today, police are targeting university students for protesting Israel's genocide of Palestinians. When the state responds to protest with violence, it surrenders itself to fascism.

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Fuck this shit

Boston police forcibly remove Emerson pro-Palestinian tent encampment, more than 100 arrested - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com Several videos posted on social media showed a chaotic scene as law enforment officers in helmets and reflective jackets scuffled with shouting protesters, some carrying umbrellas. Many of the protest...

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It’s pretty fucked that you can be imprisoned for bail violations even if you are acquitted of the offence you were charted with in the first place.

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"the NYPD is doubling down on a strategy it’s been using since 2022...That program cost taxpayers an additional $151 million in officer overtime and resulted in about 34,000 more summonses for fare evasion" Wait what? 34,000 × $2.90 = $98,600 They're spending $151 million to recover $100,000? 🤔

NYPD officials say they will deploy 800 additional plain-clothes and uniformed officers to the subway to crack down on fare evasion over the next five days, in what they're calling "Operation Fare Play": "The tone of law and order must start at the fare gates."

NYPD officials say they will deploy 800 more officers into the subway to stop fare evasiongothamist.com Police say stopping fare jumpers is key to stopping more serious subway crime.

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1,800 cops charged with child sexual abuse in the last two decades, targeting mainly teen girls they encountered as a part of their work, according to the Washington Post. The Post leads with the story of a teen girl assaulted by a cop who was processing her rape kit from a different assault.

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The evidence could not be more clear: abortions with mifepristone, one of the most studied drugs in history, are extremely safe. The few flimsy and biased studies suggesting otherwise were just retracted 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/flim...

Flimsy Antiabortion Studies Cited in Case to Ban Mifepristone Are Retractedwww.scientificamerican.com Outside experts found that two studies cited in a federal case on medication abortion had serious design problems and that their authors had undisclosed conflicts of interest

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Yes. Cops paid by cities to be police officers there mostly see actual city residents as either animalistic criminals or as inconvienient obstacles for "good people" who are just trying to drive in and out of cities as fast as possible (like them) bsky.app/profile/broo...

This reminds me a lot of what Bill Bratton said about the Times Square plazas in 2017 when there was a slight rise in what many perceived as disorder. His suggestion was to get rid of the plazas entirely: “It would eliminate this area where people just hang out." brooklynspoke.com/2017/05/01/l...

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Okay, Senator Blumenthal is claiming he fixed KOSA. He's lying. Have at it. www.techdirt.com/2024/02/15/s...

Senator Blumenthal Pretends To Fix KOSA; It’s A Liewww.techdirt.com As lots of folks are reporting, Senator Richard Blumenthal, this morning, released an updated version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). He and co-author Senator Marsha Blackburn are also crowin…

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In a rebuke of surveillance technology, the city of Chicago is decommissioning its use #ShotSpotter and canceling its contract.

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I've been warning about the possibility of cops using LLMs to do paperwork & all the horrible implications thereof coming down the pipe, & here the fuck we are. You want sources for what I've already said, look up my name with the words "policing" "AI" and "bias." Should get you several. So tired.

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For MSNBC, I wrote about how remarkable gender transition care is in terms of patient satisfaction in relation to other more common -- and less controversial -- medical treatments. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | What the anti-trans grift economy gets wrong about transition 'regret'www.msnbc.com Why you shouldn’t let the abundance of poorly sourced anti-trans rhetoric fool you.

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Literally everything. Every bad thing about policing is optimized for under current models of "AI." Every bad thing about policing is optimized for under current models of "AI." Every bad thing about policing is optimized for under current models of "AI." Every bad thing about policing is optimized

What could go wrong? www.police1.com/tech-pulse/t...

The impact of large language models on police report writing and beyondwww.police1.com Exploring the transformative role of ChatGPT in policing — from streamlining report writing to enhancing operational effectiveness

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mean this with all kindness: reading your mutuals in the least charitable light because they are not posting play-by-plays of global crises is not activism. anger is a resource; don't burn it out needlessly.