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PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE OPEN FOR GENDER IDENTIFIERS ON US PASSPORTS
Right now, you can submit a comment for consideration on the proposed changes to US Passport law that will include requiring a change from "Gender" to "Sex" on all passports and require that people identify with their sex assigned at birth.
THIS IS THE LAW THAT WOULD BAN TRANS PEOPLE FROM UPDATING THEIR IDENTIFICATION
Please take a moment to click through and submit a comment. This kind of thing is fast, easy, and is one of the many ways to show your support of the trans community to the people that need to know how many of us there are.
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the heritage foundation put out a (very short) survey on public opinion of DOGE in an effort to materialize some "proof" of widespread support. it would be a shame if anyone took 30 seconds to fill it out with a fake name/email (they don't verify) in order to skew it the way they don't want it skewed.
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“BREAKING: A constitutional amendment has been filed allowing President Trump to seek a 3rd term in office.
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice."
It was filed by Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN).
Don’t let this slip by unnoticed. This is not just “one extra term”, it’s a warning shot. It’s a red flag. It’s an omen.
They are slowly turning up the heat in the pan. Do not be the frog who sits denying it’s getting hotter.
One extra term will become two, two will become three, and three will eventually give way to lifelong reign of each president.
Fight. Fight for God’s sake.
Contact your local representative of congress. Convince them we do not want this.
We are going to end up in a dictatorship.
@ikiyou
Please help spread this. I don’t usually get political and I don’t usually ask for assistance but this is important and you have more reach.
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These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.
Akash Bobba
Edward Coristine
Luke Farritor
Gautier Cole Killian
Gavin Kliger
Ethan Shaotran
Spread their names!
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Jesus Christ, we really are back in the roaring 20s.
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People in VT, PA and RI, here's some immediate and direct action you can do.
Actually this goes for every state, raise a ruckus.
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I dont about things getting tied up in court being a great strategy.
I've watched for years as "tied up in court" meant putting pause on a policy for a month only for it to be implemented anyway as soon as the wrong judge saw it. And if it keeps getting tied up and fought it goes to the supreme court and we know how they're ruling for the next few decades.
So yeah. I don't trust court systems to keep our rights safe. It's a cute story. But it has yet to work as a tactic.
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"DATA has no emotions" FALSE! Data is programmed to feel longing at all times
#hes programmed to pursue a goal he likely will not fulfill#the objective is not one that would make him more efficient or improve his ability to function as we see when he does experience emotions#yet he does not give up on the objective or attempt to change this part of his programming#he expresses desire to fulfill this objective#he experiences relief and disappointment and affection and even excitement#yet he does not see these as emotions#he spends his time going through the motions of being human trying to be more like them#he shows affection & caring towards spot#he uses words like want and relief and doubt with some frequency#yet his belief that he cannot experience emotions as a synthetic being make him negate these as emotional experiences#so he longs for something he already has but seems to lack the emotional intelligence to recognize those he experiences#possibly because he sees emotions as sadness and joy and anger which he does not feel to the extent that others do#part of depression can be a feeling of longing or otherness or inadequacy#part of depression is feeling as though one has no emotions#data was programmed with depression that he must work through by developing emotional intelligence
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DATA (Depression Assisted Tactical Android)
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Don't mind me. Just crying about a 175lb pile of candy
#portrait of ross in LA#felix gonzalez torres#the injustice of it all#smithsonian trying to make the work meaningless
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"I’m very concerned about my client’s right to a fair trial in this case. He’s being prejudiced by some statements that are being made by government officials. Like every other defendant, he’s entitled to a presumption of innocence. But unfortunately the way this has been handled so far his rights are being violated. And as you know your honor there’s a wealth of case law guaranteeing his rights to a fair trial, but none of the safeguards have been put in place yet here — in fact it’s just the opposite of what’s been happening.
He’s a young man, and he is being treated like a human pingpong ball between two warring jurisdictions here.
These federal and state prosecutors are coordinating with one another at the expense of him. They have conflicting theories in their indictment, and they are literally treating him like he is some sort of political fodder, like some sort of spectacle.
He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I’ve ever seen in my career. It was absolutely unnecessary. He’s been cooperative with law enforcement. He’d been in custody for over a week. He waived extradition. He was cooperative at all accounts. There was no reason for the NYPD and everybody to have these big assault rifles — that frankly I had no idea it was in their arsenal — and to have all the press there the media there. It was perfectly choreographed.
And what was the New York City Mayor doing at this press conference, Your Honor? That just made it utterly political. And as your honor knows under Loro v. Charles, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has held it to be clearly established that these staged perp walks to the media unrelated to a legitimate law enforcement objective is unconstitutional. And I submit that there was zero law enforcement objective to do that sort of perp walk. There’s absolutely no need for that whatsoever.
And frankly, Your Honor, the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded dealing with his own issues. And, frankly, I submit that he was just trying to detract from those issues by making a spectacle of Mr. Mangione.
And there are consequences to this.
He has a right to a fair trial. And I just want to put on the record statements that the mayor made publicly about my client. Nothing saying “alleged” for example. And he said “I wanted to send a strong message with the police commissioner that we’re leading from the front. I’m not just going to allow him to come into our city. I wanted to look him in the eye and state ‘You carried out this terrorist act in my city, the city of New York that I love.’” And he wanted to show symbolism.
Your Honor, he’s not a symbol. He’s somebody who is afforded the right to a fair trial. He’s innocent until proven guilty. And the mayor was talking to jurors — future potential jurors that elected him. Those are the people that elected him that he is talking to and calling this man a terrorist.
So, Your Honor, I just want to make a record of this and put everyone on notice that this has to stop, and my client is entitled to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence."
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We have moved into a new house! It is so quiet here...and lovely. Furniture isn't quite set up yet but we're getting there.
We live in a motherfucking house now!
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Optum--an insurance company owned by uhc that holds the medicaid contract for maryland--has been audited TWICE in Maryland for fraud.
“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.
Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.
Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.
The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.
… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.
… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.
The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d
I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.
UPDATE/EDIT: Article is from July. I didn’t notice myself since it came up in my news feed. Don’t always trust the internet to be time accurate. 😎My guess is it is getting promoted due to current events. However, there are some updates concerning actions taken based on the report which you can look into by checking the authors’ other articles.
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I think we should make luigi ride a bicycle around the courthouse for 10 minutes.
Because if he had a spinal surgery that resulted in 4 screws and plates in his lower back in 2023, I am really skeptical about his ability to run across the street and hop on a bicycle to ride through central park.
#luigi mangione#spinal injuries are no joke dude#and back surgery takes a long time to recover from#not entirely convinced someone with that condition was running around like that
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