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Experienced technology journalist, storyteller, toy taxi collector, vintage Miata driver, Philadelphian. Telling your technology story.

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DOJ Investigates Medicare Billing Practices at UnitedHealth — The Wall Street Journal Civil probe of diagnoses that triggered extra payments to the company’s Medicare Advantage plans adds to scrutiny of the healthcare giant

UnitedHealth is under investigation by the Justice Department over its Medicare billing practices and how it records diagnoses

21.02.2025 12:14 👍 1435 🔁 321 💬 70 📌 55
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8 key software security fails to avoid Security best practices can help, but it’s the bad practices that will expose you to software risk. Here are the worst practices to avoid at all cost.

Security best practices are important for safe business computing, but it’s the bad practices that will expose your company to software risk.
In my latest story for @reversinglabs.com learn about the 8 worst security bad practices to avoid at all cost.

www.reversinglabs.com/blog/8-worst...

21.02.2025 17:28 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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“I think calling Elon Musk a dick is pretty kind, actually, considering everything he’s done.”

Watch full interview with @briantylercohen.bsky.social at: youtu.be/Eac2IQ9lR5k?...

15.02.2025 19:09 👍 1555 🔁 252 💬 80 📌 24

Air travel has traditionally been the safest way to travel, but the number of crashes and incidents in the last weeks needs serious investigation and oversight.

What we should not be doing is firing skilled FAA technicians and staff – we need to hire MORE of them.

17.02.2025 21:50 👍 2072 🔁 452 💬 83 📌 14

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

18.02.2025 23:06 👍 67382 🔁 17438 💬 1851 📌 744
Washington post headline and picture of Robert Garcia

Washington post headline and picture of Robert Garcia

No reasonable person would view my comments as a threat. We are living in a dangerous time, and elected members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

20.02.2025 18:58 👍 1574 🔁 288 💬 117 📌 26
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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

20.02.2025 19:55 👍 31121 🔁 8824 💬 3300 📌 1563

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

26.01.2025 00:07 👍 59194 🔁 17228 💬 368 📌 1162
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This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.

Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

25.01.2025 23:50 👍 55829 🔁 12696 💬 1979 📌 1301

Respectfully, Mr President, you can’t fire the IGs  so easily, says the IG. static.politico.com

26.01.2025 02:57 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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ICE Raid in New Jersey Sweeps Up U.S. Citizens Along With Undocumented Immigrants A U.S. military veteran was reportedly among those detained

“Show your papers” is now a reality in the U.S. as ICE advises Americans to prove their status if they get caught in a raid.
meidasnews.com/news/ice-rai...

24.01.2025 15:21 👍 1011 🔁 318 💬 154 📌 36
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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Executive Order Limiting Birthright Citizenship A federal district court judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, marking the first major legal challenge to the new administration’s immigration agenda. Senior U.S. District…
24.01.2025 15:22 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

Somewhere in northern Virginia, James Comey is scrolling the same news feed as you and saying "oops, my fault... yeah, that was me... hm, sorry about that one."

24.01.2025 11:46 👍 1076 🔁 75 💬 47 📌 10

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway.

And those who warned America about it were right.

23.01.2025 21:22 👍 64720 🔁 13443 💬 1751 📌 626
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NEW: After some agencies tempered the language of the DEIA snitch email, OPM is now testing a government wide distribution system so they can circumvent agency chiefs and threaten employees directly. They had to send a 2nd email assuring folks the first wasn’t a phishing scam.

24.01.2025 15:22 👍 2641 🔁 956 💬 168 📌 46

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

24.01.2025 00:55 👍 47986 🔁 3420 💬 726 📌 119
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Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

23.01.2025 23:30 👍 33277 🔁 12262 💬 1446 📌 977
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Costco successfully defends its diversity policies as other US companies scale theirs back Costco has claimed victory in pushing back on a shareholder proposal that urges the wholesale club operator to conduct an evaluation of any business risks posed by its diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies

24.01.2025 03:21 👍 28153 🔁 4432 💬 607 📌 471
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Hitler Pardoned His Goons Too Trump’s Actions' Parallels with Germany 1935

Greay piece by @harrylitman.bsky.social putting J6 pardons in historical context. harrylitman.substack.com/p/hitler-par...

23.01.2025 17:36 👍 1861 🔁 690 💬 88 📌 30
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23.01.2025 21:05 👍 84512 🔁 26819 💬 1422 📌 971
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Trump ends federal contractor civil rights order with roots that go back to FDR In revoking Executive Order 11246, Trump took aim at history and efforts to combat discrimination. Also: Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship is blocked for now.

I spent a decade on and off reporting on one of the executive orders that Trump revoked on Tuesday: Executive Order 11246, signed by LBJ in 1965.

Because of that, I took a minute and wrote down some thoughts to explain just how awful this is — and how ahistorical Trump’s claims are.

24.01.2025 04:23 👍 725 🔁 262 💬 17 📌 14

Trump wants you to feel fear.

Don’t. Laugh at him instead.

He hates that.

19.11.2024 02:18 👍 4949 🔁 995 💬 241 📌 44
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A commenter on our YouTube channel has a suggestion

19.11.2024 03:56 👍 51079 🔁 8127 💬 1700 📌 722

I am going to stop picking on this person in a second but everyone please

For the love of God

Don't treat the death of democratic elections (however deeply imperfect) as a foregone conclusion.

THAT IS WHAT THE FASCISTS WANT

26.11.2024 14:31 👍 1009 🔁 262 💬 39 📌 16
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Trump gets in bed with the Chinese owners, and suddenly Tik Tok isn’t “evil CCP compromised” anymore. These people believe in nothing. What Trump decides today is what they believe in today. Which changes tomorrow if Trump makes a deal with someone else to enrich himself.

19.01.2025 12:57 👍 11255 🔁 3065 💬 637 📌 186
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This is the only man I'll be honoring on January 20th, 2025.

19.01.2025 03:53 👍 3156 🔁 814 💬 77 📌 41
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Why Trump Can’t Just End Birthright Citizenship There are numerous roadblocks, starting with the Constitution.

Re-upping this piece on why a president cannot simply end birthright citizenship, which is guranateed by the 14th Amendment. Ending it lawfully requires a constitutional amendment. I expect Trump’s EO will be challenged immediately.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

21.01.2025 02:45 👍 1306 🔁 292 💬 71 📌 9
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The inverted flag isn’t disrespect — it’s a distress signal from naval traditions, used to show grave danger to life or property.

With a lawless man set to take power after attempting to overthrow the government, America is in extreme danger.

That’s why I’m posting it today.

20.01.2025 14:21 👍 32156 🔁 7614 💬 805 📌 284

I mentioned this above, but, just to hammer the point home:

21.01.2025 02:28 👍 242 🔁 44 💬 8 📌 1