Mike Hendricks
@sonoranadk.bsky.social
NYS/Tucson. Plodding hiker, mediocre photographer. Retired journalist. language learner. Author of typos. Fascinated by climate science. I hate cliches with a passion. If I had to do it over again, I would choose to be a theoretical physicist
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“Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions execs at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.”
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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April 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions execs at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.”
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
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April 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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This was three months ago.
April 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This was three months ago.
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Cantwell: "You're telling us in your testimony you want a tariff on semiconductors. I'm saying that the last administration and this organization here passed the CHIPS and Science Act so we could reshore semiconductors. You're not going to win the innovation economy by tariffing semiconductors."
April 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Cantwell: "You're telling us in your testimony you want a tariff on semiconductors. I'm saying that the last administration and this organization here passed the CHIPS and Science Act so we could reshore semiconductors. You're not going to win the innovation economy by tariffing semiconductors."
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Veterans getting fired, social security is at risk, and Elon is telling you what you don’t need in govt, all while he just got a $6billion space x contract today!
He makes money on you!
He makes money on you!
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Veterans getting fired, social security is at risk, and Elon is telling you what you don’t need in govt, all while he just got a $6billion space x contract today!
He makes money on you!
He makes money on you!
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Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
April 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
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Hosting the Olympics and World Cup are going to be impossible. What athlete in their right mind would risk coming to the US now?
Head coach of MMA Australian team Renato Subotic arrived in the US to teach a seminar. Instead he said he was detained at the border: "No clear explanation, no chance to talk to anyone, no rights. They handcuffed me, put me in a car, and drove me to federal prison."
www.news.com.au/sport/boxing...
www.news.com.au/sport/boxing...
www.news.com.au
April 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hosting the Olympics and World Cup are going to be impossible. What athlete in their right mind would risk coming to the US now?
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I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
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Anyone just waking up now badly overslept.
People are waking up to just how bad things are with co-presidents Trump & Musk and Republicans running Congress.
We don’t have to wait for midterms—we can win special elections now. We’ve been here before and won.
@repjasmine.bsky.social lays out the path 🔥
We don’t have to wait for midterms—we can win special elections now. We’ve been here before and won.
@repjasmine.bsky.social lays out the path 🔥
February 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Anyone just waking up now badly overslept.
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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“The idea that humanity has a “purpose” while all other life forms simply exist, is a product of absurd, highly dangerous human supremacist rhetoric”
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Beyond The Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy and Algorithms
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January 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“The idea that humanity has a “purpose” while all other life forms simply exist, is a product of absurd, highly dangerous human supremacist rhetoric”
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Today's 10,000 steps
December 30, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Today's 10,000 steps
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It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
December 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter
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One CEO gets shot and now all CEOs are scared to go back to the office.
Imagine how our children feel going back to school.
Imagine how our children feel going back to school.
December 19, 2024 at 12:29 AM
One CEO gets shot and now all CEOs are scared to go back to the office.
Imagine how our children feel going back to school.
Imagine how our children feel going back to school.
This morning's walk in the desert
December 17, 2024 at 8:53 PM
This morning's walk in the desert
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This is indeed how it works.
December 17, 2024 at 4:49 PM
This is indeed how it works.
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It kills me that this is exactly what happened.
December 11, 2024 at 4:45 AM
It kills me that this is exactly what happened.
Today's dose of Vitamin D
December 8, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Today's dose of Vitamin D