Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

"ICE cannot enter your home unless they have a warrant signed by a judge ... Most of the time ICE agents will only have warrants signed by ICE officers, and those warrants do not give them permission to enter your home.

If they say they have a warrant, ask them to slip it under the door. If you open the door, you are giving them permission to enter your home. This is why it is important to keep your door closed during the entire interaction with ICE."

https://maketheroadny.org/deportation-defense-manual/

While a real President and decent human being is addressing the nation he leads, a despicable pos posts a grift to his social media hawking cologne to his idiot followers using a picture of the other man’s wife. #uspol

Interfax reports that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow, where Putin has granted him “humanitarian asylum”.

Let me repeat that: The monster who tortures his enemies to death, and who built additional crematoriums so he could incinerate more dismembered bodies from his underground dungeons, has been granted…
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… humanitarian asylum.

Because without it, he would risk being treated like he has treated the Syrian people for 25 years.

Cry me a Tigris river.

Our son suffered an asthma attack. We rushed him to his doctor who refused treatment. Why? Because our health insurance wouldn’t cover it.😳

We had UnitedHealth—who leads the industry in rejecting claims.😐

We must end the violence in America’s health system.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/americas-violent-health-system

@randahl

As one pundit pointed out, European national security cannot continue to rely on whether 77,000 voters in Wisconsin are for or against democracy today because the price of eggs or gas is upsetting them.

Hey Mastodon, I’m running a small experiment here. Please boost for better reach 🙏

Do you add alt-text to your images?

Alone our debts are a burden. Together they make us powerful.
We are a debtors’ union
fighting to cancel debts and defend millions of households.
Join us to build a world where college is publicly funded,
healthcare is universal
and housing is guaranteed for all.

https://debtcollective.org/

People are being kind of smug about the FBI announcent not to text anymore, and I understand why... But there's a bigger problem than your texts to aunt Edna being intercepted.

Your mfa codes that are texted to you are now fully compromised. And a lot of websites only have sms mfa. That's the real story here. We've known for a while sms mfa was insecure because it's susceptible to SIM cloning and hijacking but there's now confirmation of man-in-the-middle happening. That's 10x worse.

You know, I've come to the conclusion that the reason I felt absolutely nothing beyond a mild joy when I saw the UnitedHealth CEO had been shot dead is pretty straightforward.

For the entirety of my life, billionaires, CEOs, and especially healthcare executives have been doing their damnedest to prove to us that even a sea slug has more empathy than they do. These are not people with a shred of conscience -- they have shown that 'earning' a mere dollar is more than worth the cost of a human life, and demonstrated it over and over, with United denying one in three claims on intrinsically spurious grounds. And now with BCBS stating that surgeries have to be under X amount of time.

I do not personally take great joy in it, because all human life intrinsically has meaning, but don't expect me to be in mourning over someone who clinically sentenced millions of people to death and/or lifelong debt.

Eternal memory 🕯️

Ukraine is losing some of it's best people. 💔

Victory and justice for Ukraine 🇺🇦

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American Society of Anesthesiologists:

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures

Another Example of Insurers Putting Profits Over Patients

https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/11/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-will-not-pay-complete-duration-of-anesthesia-for-surgical-procedures

#anesthesia #insurance

@futurebird @whknott having taken both Calc and Stats, I'd say statistics was harder for me.
But then, I'm no mathematician. Math is a tool to accomplish a goal, not something to play with.

I've met people with the opposite opinion, and that's fine. We just need to realize that those opposing philosophies can complement each other or fight each other. It's up to us to decide which it is.

Your annual reminder...

Madeleine Riffaud, hero of the French Resistance, has died at the age of 100. “The essential was not to give in. When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/world/europe/madeleine-riffaud-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU4.LF78.GsGVLXus8Ry6

And to those who argue that Biden pardoning Hunter gives Trump an excuse for his J6 pardons ... TRUMP WAS GOING TO DO THAT ANYWAY!

It's time for Democrats to stop the "oh gee, we have to play by all the rules all the time and be super fair and nice and sweet" while the Evil GOP breaks all the rules and runs over the Democrats with a fascist steamroller while the Democrats stand there waving flowers.

Well, Trump pardoned his son-in-law’s father and made him Ambassador to France, so no Republicans can complain.

Right?

President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/joe-biden-issue-pardon-son-hunter-biden-rcna182369