A new report from @ceprdc shows how hospice care—hospice care!—has become a profit center for private equity, which often offers no actual care while collecting per diem payments. @moetkacik reports.
https://t.co/M4yibVsz83
For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.
The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇
Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.
“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”
The inside story 🧵
The hardest dog rescue I've ever done. Not just the initial few days but the previous 6 months building Britney back up.
I've wanted to give up over a 100 times but to see her like this today makes it all worth it...
U. of Oklahoma professor Fábio de Sá e Silva, who has been writing about the Brazilian far right for years, traces the origins of the Jan. 8 coup attempt in Brasilia to the Lava Jato investigation, which was supported by the DOJ during both the Obama and Trump administrations. +
Billionaires don't wake up at 5am. Bus drivers, teachers, nurses, service workers, etc wake up at 5am. Billionaires wake up whenever they want because their wealth doesn't come from their own labor. It comes from the labor of people who will never be billionaires.
A new study just found that 12.7% of childhood asthma is caused by gas stoves.
That's 647,000 children.
The gas industry has known about these risks for decades.
But they've spent millions lobbying and running misinformation campaigns to prevent regulation.