“CMS, in preparation for implementing the Biden rule, determined that 17 skin substitute products have proven their effectiveness in scientifically valid studies. The agency found that Extremity Care products lack scientific backing. One of Extremity Care’s products, Coll-e-Derm, costs $11,051.10 per square inch. Another Extremity Care product, CompleteFT, costs $7,812.38 per square inch.“ @Judd Legum , consistently shining a light & exposing dark corners.

UPDATE: Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom

Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care – a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars pe...

#Journalism

“These U.S. National Guards members say they’ll defy order to deploy in Chicago Capt. Dylan Blaha and Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek, both Democratic candidates, say Trump’s demands are unlawful” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/national-guard-dissent-9.6957454?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar #NationalGuard #RuleOfLaw

#Breathe #SilentSunday #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Rose #Bloomscrolling #Nature #Photography #1000Breaths Expand to see the full vertical image.

This ⬇️ position is incorrect in law. You can talk about whether or how you’d like to change copyright law, but “training for AI” is not fair use under current law, it’s the unauthorized use of someone else’s property for your own purposes, i.e. theft. This ⬇️ “If training makes fair use of copyrighted works, however, then no permission is needed.” happens to ignore the corollary: “If using someone else’s property as raw materials without permission required, then copyright ceases to exist.” 1/2

#Germany designates AfD as an extremist party that goes against Germany’s “free democratic order.” “Vice President J.D. Vance and billionaire White House advisor Elon Musk supported the AfD and backed it in a recent election. Rubio took AfD’s side today, writing on social media that that new designation was “tyranny in disguise.” He attacked the current government and urged Germany to “reverse course.”” - Historian Heather Cox Richardson

May 2, 2025

Yesterday I identified incorrectly the messaging app newly fired national security advisor Michael Waltz was using at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesda...

#Musk #Rubio #Fascists

Canada is a sitting duck with a treasure of natural resources between Putin and Putin’s stooge. The US already sided with Russia trying to gain access to our northern corridor, and Russian propagandists in the US already started with cries that the US needs to “denazify Canada”, and calling PM Trudeau a Nazi, fed by far right proponents and paid Russian shills in Canada too. Trump deciding to ignore borders is not a theoretical risk but a real one.

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@bls@mas.to @GottaLaff@mastodon.social Does anyone think Trump is going to respect that border the moment it doesn’t happen to serve him? We a...

LIVE: VP Kamala Harris about to take the stage at her final rally, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: https://www.youtube.com/live/jHWM5pZGwIY?si=kHgWeAbXXo213Ci3 #Vote

PSA - Replyguys will be blocked. I don’t owe you a debate. #SorryNotSorry

“That’s driven by the strength of independent women, who back Harris by a 28-point margin, while independent men support Trump, but by a smaller margin. Similarly, senior voters who are 65 and older favor Harris. But senior women support her by a more than 2-to-1 margin, 63% to 28%, while senior men favor her by just 2 percentage points, 47% to 45%.” “Male Pollsters Shocked Shocked When A Woman Pollster Discovers Women Voters” All. Of. This.

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Male Pollsters Shocked - Shocked!! - When a Woman Pollster Discovers Women Voters - emptywheel

This entire election has been disproportionately viewed through the lens of polling that has deliberately weighted to ensure that polling doesn&#03...

#Women #Vote #Harris