Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

“Look, it’s not against the rules anywhere, but a black woman with power was dating and there has to be something wrong with that.”

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

This fight is for everything.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

It’s a doggy dog world.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

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Medicaid and emergent care under block grants

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Roughly half of everyone living in Puerto Rico has health insurance through Medicaid. Medicaid is obligated to pay for medically necessary care in an emergency even if the hospital is not in the provider network. The doctor in this clip is making a recommendation that anyone who needs significant care and whose family can find a way to get them off the island to go to the mainland.

I grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. There was a large Puerto Rican population there. I would be shocked if some of the kids I grew up with are not talking with their siblings and their cousins about ways to get a family member to Lowell General Hospital for treatment next week. Those same discussions have to be occurring all over America. And these are the discussions that are best for the families involved.

However, it will drain the already inadequate Puerto Rican Medicaid block grant as some of the potential medical evacuees will be insured via Medicaid and when they present their cards to mainland hospitals, the care will be medically necessary and unavailable in Puerto Rico. The prices that will be charged will be far higher than the prices hospitals on the island charge to Medicaid. So each given unit of service will be a more expensive unit of service and a higher proportion of the fixed budget of the Medicaid program.

Block grants don’t work when there is a large shock that needs an immediate response.

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On the Road and In Your Backyard

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Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

 

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Watch & Enjoy

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The clip is from Chris Hayes’ interview with Hillary Clinton last night. Well worth watching!

So I spent last week helling around with my old friend, and only skimmed the news. My mood is much better, but it’ll take me a while to catch up on all the current outrages…

Sounds like the latest attempt to gut Obamacare may be (no so) quietly being put to rest, so that’s one good thing, yes?

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What else is on the agenda for the new day?
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Late Night Open Thread: Trump’s Reverse-Midas Touch

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POST-RACIAL AMERICA!!! Truly, there is no bad-but-popular stereotype that Donald Trump can’t expose to public opprobrium, like lifting up rocks to show the squirmy things hiding beneath them…

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According to The Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe the USNS Comfort Will Not Be Deployed

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Washington Post reporter Dan Lamothe has broken some interesting news: the USNS Comfort will not be deployed to Puerto Rico. Here are the details:

And here’s Lamothe non twitter reporting on the topic at WaPo.

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These Are, Indeed, Strange Days: All the Cowboys Take a Knee

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Including team owner Jerry Jones!

ETA at 9:30 PM EDT: We have video!

Consider this an open thread.

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ATTN: Wingnuts! We Have a Problem!

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Wingnuts have a new hero:

By one metric, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Alejandro Villanueva has emerged from the NFL’s current controversy as the most popular player in the league.

In the last 24 hours, Villanueva’s No. 78 is the best-selling jersey on Fanatics, the biggest retailer of sports merchandise, after the offensive tackle and ex-Army Ranger stood on the field for the national anthem while his teammates stayed out of sight.

And, as heroes go, he’s really not that bad a choice. But wait, it gets better:

Villanueva says he asked quarterback Ben Roethlisberger if he could be out in front with the captains during the national anthem and they agreed to it, but when he went to the front of the tunnel to see the flag, he went too far unintentionally.

“When we came out of the locker room into that tunnel, it was a very small area. There was a flag or something coming off the field so there were a bunch of Bears fans, coming off the field holding that going in front of us, so it kind of held us up,” Villanueva said.

The rest of the team remained in the tunnel.

“I made my teammates look bad, and that is my fault, and my fault only,” Villanueva said. “We as a team tried to figure it out, but obviously butchered it.”

During his press conference, the former Army Ranger says he is absolutely okay if teammates kneel or sit during the national anthem.

“People that are taking a knee are not saying anything negative about the military, they’re not saying anything negative about the flag, they’re just trying to protest that there are some injustices in America,” Villanueva said.

He says some players who have been kneeling during anthems have even approached him before or after games and thanked him for his service including other players in the NFC North.

I wonder how many of those jerseys will now be cancelled.

On a side note, there is no fucking aspect of this country that Trump is not going to fucking poison.

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