diamond wants to know

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Insurance denied my friend’s MRI last month.

Doctor ordered it. Said it was medically necessary.

Insurance said they needed more documentation.
Doctor sent more documentation.
Insurance said they needed a peer to peer review.

Peer to peer happened.

Insurance denied it again.
My friend paid $2,400 out of pocket.
The person who denied it was not a doctor.

Was not reviewed by a doctor.
Was an algorithm trained to find reasons to say no.

This is legal.
This is standard practice.

This happens 50,000 times a day in America.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Trump took $1 billion of your money and gave it to his family

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act. This is a big deal, and he must be stopped.

For half a century, harming a protected animal meant you couldn’t destroy the place it lives. The Supreme Court backed that up in 1995. Six justices said the obvious thing, that if you wipe out an animal’s home, you wipe out the animal.

Trump wants to throw this out so his friends can pave over the last nesting ground of a vanishing species and call it legal, as long as they don’t personally kill the animal.

Starve it, drill it, mine it. Go right ahead. It’s a permission slip for oil and mining companies to speed up extinction, and habitat loss is already the number one reason species disappear.

This rule ignores the plain text of the law Congress wrote. The 1995 ruling is still on the books, and a rule this lawless is exactly what judges are there to strike down.

Congress must act too. I’ll push for a vote to overturn this, and I’ll fight any spending bill that tries to lock these rollbacks in.

And you have a role. Public comments already are hundreds of thousands strong against this.

Keep the pressure on.

https://t.co/cL43VqJoLf

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Disappointed Trump voter: "We've always voted Republican but that is about to change. Our biggest support right now -- where everybody is headed is to vote for a Democrat. There were Trump signs everywhere. Those signs are gone. There is not a Trump sign in this county anymore. People feel betrayed. We voted for you and you are doing this to us."

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

Todd Blanche fired the DOJ pardon attorney for refusing to restore gun rights to convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson…as a favor for a friend of Trump

Then he sent US Marshals to her home to intimidate her into silence

This man cannot be AG👇 -TN https://t.co/Lfd54haC5Y

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If anyone else killed as many people as ICE, it would be called a killing spree, and a manhunt would be formed to bring them to justice.

It is INSANE that masked THUGS are given billions of our taxpayer funds to KILL PEOPLE.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump is subpoenaing journalists for exposing his Qatari plane scandal— his Air Fraud One — a private jet he’s spent hundreds of millions of YOUR tax dollars on.

He is the most corrupt president in American history!

[Dog @Dog66515910]

No living calves born. All stillborn calves, since d[ata] centers were built near the land of farmers. The noise coming from them, are causing stillbirths. If these are the effects these centers have on mammals, what are they doing to pregnant human mothers
😡🤬😤

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The Trump Administration and Homeland Security has now announced that they will start their own deportation airline. They plan on building their own fleet of Government owned planes to deport detainees 24/7. This sounds like some shady shit & who’s paying for this!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨🚨🚨 In Kansas City, ICE is stopping people who are walking down the street and demanding proof of legal status. There is no legal requirement to carry proof of legal status with you at all times. Is this the America we want?

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

The White House has been exploring the use of emergency powers to force "changes" to voting machines ahead of the midterm elections. This comes as the last remaining commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission were fired by Trump.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Three Florida Republicans were just charged with creating a fake voter guide to steal an election.

They did not hack the machines. They did not stuff the ballot box. They printed a fake Republican voter guide, made it look nearly identical to the real one, and mailed it to tens of thousands of voters before a 2024 primary.

It worked. An incumbent won by fewer than 1,000 votes. Now three elected officials in St. Johns County, Florida are facing criminal charges for it.

[diamond wants to know @vyount06]

@Suzierizzo1 I think we are already there.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

FEC is without a quorum to act.
EAC is without a quorum to act.
DOJ is under Trump's direct control.

This is a very dangerous time for elections. My advice and request is to sign-up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. https://t.co/99sX9k2DLV

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The Trump admin has appointed Matthew M. Wielicki to oversee the National Climate Assessment.

Wielicki is a climate change denier with zero training as a climate scientist.

[diamond wants to know @vyount06]

@JamesTate121 I thought it was already cut.

[Drey @thedreydossier]

Trump Accounts are no longer going to be optional- so if you ever plan on having a child in the USA, you should read what I found:

According to the @SocialSecurity Administration's announcement last week, they are modifying the hospital birth registration form so that a Trump Account is AUTOMATICALLY created for your child through that same process.

It will be bundled into the Enumeration at Birth program (EAB), which is the already automated gov pipeline that gives your newborn a Social Security number. It’s one box that you check, you don’t have the option of unbundling it. So if you want your kid to have a Social Security number, they have to have a Trump account.

Which is strange, because according to the IRS and @USTreasury’s public announcements, these accounts only open when a parent actively elects to open one. So which is it? Why is nobody in the government interested in explaining this flagrant contradiction?

Who is going to answer the basic question of what a parent does if they don’t want a government-linked investment account (one that collects biometric data, by the way) created for their child at the exact moment their child’s Social Security number issued?

They can call it a savings account all they want, but a $1,000 deposit is a hell of a cheap price for building a lifelong financial file on every American child before they can consent to anything.

And once the government normalizes linking a person’s identity, financial activity, and predictive systems from birth, who gets to decide what that data will be used to predict later?

We deserve answers immediately. @ndstudio @WhiteHouse

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The government just paid a French oil company $2.5 BILLION of YOUR tax dollars... to kill American wind energy.

Not to build it. To make it disappear.

TotalEnergies had two offshore wind farms ready to go. One off North Carolina, one off New York. Combined, they would have powered hundreds of thousands of homes.

The Department of the Interior paid TotalEnergies $795 million to walk away from both, and banned the company from ever building offshore wind in the U.S. again.

Here's the part that should stop you cold:

That $795 million isn't just a payout. It's a condition. TotalEnergies has to take that money and pour it into oil, gas, and LNG projects instead.

The government is paying a company, with your tax dollars, to convert clean energy into fossil fuel. On purpose, by design.

And it didn't stop there.

Invenergy took $765 million to drop four more offshore leases, same condition attached: oil and gas only.

Bluepoint Wind, a 2.4 gigawatt project off New York, folded too. So did Golden State Wind, a floating wind farm planned for the waters off central California.

These weren't early-stage ideas. Ports were already being built to support them. California alone has sunk over $100 million into port and mooring infrastructure for a project that may never get finished.

Over $2.5 billion in taxpayer money, across four separate deals, all pointed the same direction: away from wind, straight into fossil fuel.

Meanwhile, a wind farm that did get finished, Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, is already saving families $1.4 billion on their power bills over the next 20 years. That's the version of this we're not choosing.

Seven states are suing over the TotalEnergies deal alone. California's Attorney General just filed a separate case over the rest.

Since when does the government bribe companies to pick oil over wind?

#DemsUnited

[diamond wants to know @vyount06]

@RonFilipkowski This is a hard no