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 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. Also yesterday, I heard from Carrie B that her granddaughter-in-law’s surgery is successful. 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. She is so very grateful for everyone’s prayers and vibes. (She’s also pretty proud of her grandson. I told her, yes, that’s what a real man does – takes care of his family.)
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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/
The Hill – Three cases to watch as Supreme Court readies for final oral arguments of term
Quote – :Trump-era ‘remain in Mexico’ policy,” “Miranda rights,” “Prayer in school athletics.”
Click through for pros, cons, and details. 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.
Letters From An American – April 17, 2022
Quote – Today, political scientist and member of the Russian legislative body Vyacheslav Nikonov said, “in 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 Maçães, 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’s bad moral foundations
Click through for complete letter. 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.
Gizmodo – We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here’s What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.
Quote – As part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public, Gizmodo is today—for the first time—publishing 28 of the documents previously exclusively shared with Congress and the media. Meta declined to comment on the release.
Click through for a real scoop. The actual papers, as opposed to commentary on them (though there is some of that also.)
Food For Thought
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