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<\/p>\nYesterday, I filed some health insurance claims, including for Part D premiums, and set up a recurring claim for the latter for the rest of the year. It’s revealing (to me) that I had not set up the recurring claim in December, which I normally do, but you may remember December was when the comment system crashed. But I would have expected to notice before April that I hadn’t done it. But I had other things going on each month. Anyway, it’s done now.\u00a0 Also yesterday, I heard from Carrie B that her granddaughter-in-law’s surgery is successful.\u00a0 Not, of course, pain free, but her medical team is working on pain magament, and her grandson is getting 2 weeks off of work whikle sha convalesces.\u00a0 She is so very grateful for everyone’s prayers and vibes.\u00a0 (She’s also pretty proud of her grandson.\u00a0 I told her, yes, that’s what a real man does – takes care of his family.)<\/p>\n
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https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/3270194-three-cases-to-watch-as-supreme-court-readies-for-final-oral-arguments-of-term\/<\/a> Letters From An American – April 17, 2022<\/a> Gizmodo – We\u2019re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here\u2019s What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, I filed some health insurance claims, including for Part D premiums, and set up a recurring claim for the latter for the rest of the year. It’s revealing (to me) that I had not set up the recurring claim in December, which I normally do, but you may remember December was when the comment […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704],"class_list":["post-47561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Hill – Three cases to watch as Supreme Court readies for final oral arguments of term
\nQuote – :Trump-era \u2018remain in Mexico\u2019 policy,” “Miranda rights,” “Prayer in school athletics.”
\nClick through for pros, cons, and details.<\/a>\u00a0 Any one could be a blow to democracy if wrongly decided. And I am not the only one to notice that Roberts has lost any control over the court that he ever had.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – Today, political scientist and member of the Russian legislative body Vyacheslav Nikonov said, \u201cin reality, we embody the forces of good…. The intellectual leap from committing war crimes to claiming to be on the side of good might be explained by an interview published in the New Statesman at the beginning of April. Speaking with former Portuguese secretary of state for European affairs Bruno Ma\u00e7\u00e3es, Sergey Karaganov, a former advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin, predicted the end of the western democracies that have shaped the world since World War II. Dictators, he suggested, will take over. Democracy is failing and authoritarianism rising, Karaganov said, because of democracy\u2019s bad moral foundations
\nClick through for complete letter.<\/a> It is absolutely true that evil, corrupt Republicans think, to a person, they they are good and we are evil. That is undeniable. How? How can that be? We need to know.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – As part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public, Gizmodo is today\u2014for the first time\u2014publishing 28 of the documents previously exclusively shared with Congress and the media. Meta declined to comment on the release.
\nClick through for a real scoop.<\/a> The actual papers, as opposed to commentary on them (though there is some of that also.)<\/p>\n
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