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🧵 For those wondering how someone convicted of a hit-and-run that put a woman in a coma and sentenced to 8 years in prison in 2020 was out and driving around *licensed* in 2023, let me introduce you to the absurdity of how vehicular crimes are charged and sentenced.
The disconnect between how massively difficult it is to be approved for and maintain *individual* benefits vs. how systemic, million $$$ fraud is missed by DHS is wild. A short thread …
They were warned: How Minnesota state government kept allowing the theft of the people’s money (by @jpcoolican) minnesotareformer.com/2025/0…
Anya lived fiercely for all of her 27 years. We are devastated.
andersonfuneralhome.com/trib…
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Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative
By @megtirrell
cnn.com/2025/06/24/health/cd…
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BREAKING: Multiple sources tell 5 Eyewitness News at least two MN state lawmakers were shot at their homes last night by a gunman impersonating a police officer. DFL Speaker Emerita Melissa Hoffman in Brooklyn Park and DFL Sen. John Hoffman in Champlin. Working on more details.
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BREAKING: A gunman believed to be impersonating a police officer is at large after opening fire early this morning at the homes of two Minnesota legislators, injuring three people.
mncrime.com/latest/gunman-po…
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theguardian.com/us-news/2025… Your United Healthcare scandal of the day
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DOGE said 40% of phone calls into Social Security centers were fraud, so it built a tool to track it. Turns out the 40% was actually 0.0018% and the tool slowed down processing significantly.
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I asked the spokesperson for the Stanford School of Medicine about this “very top of her medical class at Stanford” claim. The spokesperson said there are no rankings because they use a pass-fail system rather than grades.
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Seeing a lot of hot takes of people trying to figure out if the pope is conservative or not because he's pro-life but he's also pro-immigration and care for the poor.
Idk, guys. Call me crazy, but I think the pope might be Catholic.
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A reporter gets cancer -- and learns the story of how Revlimid, one of the most expensive cancer drugs, became so expensive.
By @DavidArmstrongX.
Everyone I know in the biotech industry has heard the basic outlines of this story, but seeing David tell it in such personal detail brings it into sharp relief.
propublica.org/article/revli…
Social Security wait times were already long under Biden. They're even longer under Trump. usatoday.com/story/news/poli… via @usatoday @sarahdwire
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obsessed w/this. Inside the Living Rooms of Notable New Yorkers: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
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For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever. wired.com/story/north-korea-…
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M Health Fairview said it could not determine how a man died; records show otherwise. A Twin Cities family accuses the hospital of concealing key details in a mysterious bleeding death. kare11.com/mobile/article/ne…
Previously, for an amended return, once you used the automated "Where's my return" tool and were outside the 16-week window, you were offered and actual phone number/extension to call. It was answered by a human being who could offer an update
Great work by Jeff Day at the @startribune to find the apparent disconnect between this no-charge decision and a felony charge against a teen, first-time offender, for a similar incident/damage of keying a vehicle: startribune.com/in-declining…
Great work by Jeff Day at the @startribune to find the apparent disconnect between this no-charge decision and a felony charge against a teen, first-time offender, for a similar incident/damage of keying a vehicle: startribune.com/in-declining…