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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not.

If you or someone you love needs help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status.

For more information: https://t.co/GK9uDyoh3Y

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Elon is trying to stop this doc from coming out. Please watch the trailer.

[AQ @QuinonesAdria]

@DrJoelGator You are an absolute dick.

You are taking part in an exploitive system. Support workers or cook it yourself.

[Morten N. Støstad @MortenStostad]

An extremely relevant paper, given the renewed concern that wealth taxes lead to massive out-migration:

The Norwegian wealth tax "exodus", discussed in global media, never happened. At most 100 individuals left. Tax revenue increased by +71.5%. No changes in business activity.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: The Trump admin is using AI to analyze Medicare prior authorizations, and companies get 25% of the "savings" the system generates.

We found Carlyle Group and Patient Square Capital, private equity firms, backing this process.

It's the latest oligarch attack on healthcare.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Powerful statement from mathematicians around the world.

“We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.”

The backlash to AI is only just beginning.

https://t.co/htUBHJl1AM

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

It all comes back to this.

[Leo Papa XIV @Pontifex_ln]

Hac intellegentiae artificialis aetate, urgens fit humanam artem ab iis distinguere, quae machinis efficiuntur. Ars enim et ea, quae machina ex innumeris alienis imaginibus statisticae ope computationis generare potest, ontologice, prius etiam quam aesthetice, inter se differunt. Algorithmis humani deest favilla. Quapropter Ecclesia cum artificibus et humani cultus institutis foedus renovare cupit: foedus scilicet ad humanum custodiendum.

[AQ @QuinonesAdria]

@TheKarlKolchak @brendatracy24 What an off-handedly cruel person you are. Are you like this with your loved ones—I’m assuming you have loved ones, but maybe not.

Hope you get the help you need, good luck!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

You're not imagining it. Portions at fast food chains have gotten smaller, but these corporations use deceptive practices to try to stop you from seeing the truth.

We talked to a former McDonald’s chef about how fast food is disguised to seem like they're giving you more than they are.

[Migo @ReiteConMig0]

@HedgieMarkets Hospital AI found more diagnoses to bill. Insurer AI learned to deny them. Nearly $1B moved, treatment didn’t rise, and patients fund both systems through higher premiums. The machines got smarter. The patient just got a bigger bill.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up.
BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.

My Take
This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.

Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.

Hedgie🤗

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Billionaires spending $227 million to try to avoid paying a 5% wealth tax.

[Vanessa @Nessakins_]

You wanna know why? Cuz the nerd that created this map found more than 300,000 surveillance devices. Flock only publicly reported 120,000

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes last year, you paid more than Citigroup after making $4 billion in profits, charging 32.74% interest on credit cards & slashing 20,000 jobs.

Trump said he'd cap credit card interest rates at 10% & his tax breaks would create jobs. He lied.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: The Senate is on the verge of passing the "Protect College Sports Act" after lobbying from Amazon, Disney, Paramount and more.

The bill would cap player compensation, but fails to address massive coach salaries, buyouts, or private equity.

Actual college athletes have been left out of the process, so while the NCAA would get an anti-trust exemption, players wouldn't get a seat at the table.

We talked to Stanford football players to learn more.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Straight to jail

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

And there it is. Just as I predicted. They’re canceling Congress tomorrow to avoid the vote on IMPEACHING @SecWar. It will also make it harder for us to reach 218 signatures on the Epstein Discharge Petition before the election. We were at 190+ signatures last night.