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Biggest Medicare Advantage insurers denied rehabilitative care for older and disabled Americans at higher rates than industry peers, then frequently overturned those denials when patients appealed, OIG finds. Confirms reporting from @caseymross and me: statnews.com/2026/06/11/medi…
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Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth: That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.
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The federal government collected $21.93B in tariffs in May and refunded $21.97B, for net tariff revenue of -$42 million.
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It's so beautiful (SHED data is now in FRED!).
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UPDATE: I'm starting a new job Monday as a Florida correspondent for The New York Times. Excited to work with so many talented journalists. Story ideas? Reach me at david.ovalle@nytimes.com or on Signal: davido.38 nytco.com/press/nationals-ne…
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JUST IN: Judge blocks series of Trump administration immigration policies adopted following National Guard shooting in DC last November. Judge John McConnell (Obama/RI) says holds on USCIS asylum grants & work permits are illegal. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/…

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Where does American income come from? Less and less of it comes from work. Wages have fallen from 73% of personal income in 1970 to 60.5% today. Income from assets and transfers like Social Security and Medicare has climbed from 23% to 39%.
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The Pig is leaving the Python.
Job openings jumped to 7.6 million in April, and layoffs ticked back down after rising in March. But hiring and quits continued to slow. In other words: More of this low-churn, "low-hire, low-fire" labor market. #JOLTS bls.gov/news.release/jolts.n…
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What a line in the Fed's Beige Book today: Middle-income households were described as “squeezing more life out of every dollar before deciding to spend it,” and low-income consumers showed greater financial strain. This is America's economy now -- an "E-shaped" -- economy with the top 20% doing just fine. The middle stretching every dollar and the bottom in serious trouble.
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I missed this @USATODAYCo staffing news from last week. Welcome to him.
Here’s your Friday news dump: I’ve joined @USATODAY as an investigative and storytelling editor. I’m thrilled to be working closely with such a talented group of writers.
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Zillow is forecasting home price declines across many U.S. metros through April 2027. The question isn't whether America has a housing shortage. The question is whether buyers can afford the monthly payment. We live in a payment economy. When rates doubled, affordability got crushed. Now inventory is rising, migration is slowing, and sellers are competing for a smaller pool of qualified buyers. The house didn't change. The payment did.
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It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org
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A disturbing proportion of NEET men spend a significant amount of their time obtaining, using, and recovering from the effects of psychoactive substances. ifstudies.org/blog/pervasive…
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EIA's weekly data release for the week ending 22 May showed broad-based declines across U.S. crude and refined product inventories. Total crude oil stocks, including Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) withdrawals, fell by 12.4 million barrels. Refinery demand surged to nearly 17 million barrels per day, potentially limiting export availability as crude exports slowed for a second consecutive week to 4.4 million barrels per day. Meanwhile, inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma - the delivery hub for WTI futures - declined by 2.8 million barrels. Ahead of the peak summer driving season, gasoline inventories fell to their lowest seasonal level since 2014, while distillate stocks dropped to around 100 million barrels, the lowest level for this time of year in 25 years.
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NEW: We’ve updated our tracker of federal court rulings in ICE detention cases. Of the 13,000-plus decisions, 11,500 of them have gone against the administration — with lopsided results from judges across the ideological spectrum. w/ @Jtblaeser politico.com/news/2026/05/13…
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"[Trump Administration is] conflating fraud and misrepresentation with cases that just don’t have a high likelihood of succeeding...They’re fleeing actual violence...their claims don’t always neatly fit within the protected grounds," -AILA's Heather Hogan bit.ly/4aatvsI
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Very interesting data across 2,444 companies. 82% of tokens are spent on AI-generated bugs, rework and review friction.
This is what we've been seeing with every company we work with. Try justifying spending 100k on token spend when only 18k even makes it to a stable prod feature. In the rush to maximize AI token spend, companies are wasting over 44% on bug fixes
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This should scandalize anyone who believes in DUE PROCESS. The Trump admin is rushing to suddenly reschedule huge numbers of immigration court hearings for immigrants, so they can order them deported when they miss a court hearing they never knew about.
Scoop: A new immigration court strategy is emerging: mega hearings that may result in more orders of removal if people are not there on time. Lawyers worry these target immigrants without attorneys and who may not know their hearings have been pushed up. npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-583…
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"Immigrants are now being scheduled for massive master calendar hearings—or 'mega masters'—that include 100 or more people at a time...For many immigrants, this is their first appearance in court to try to make their case to be able to stay in the U.S." n.pr/4uyXeUE
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Whoa! Everyone had assumed Alabama would get to go back to its old congressional map after Callais. But the lower court that originally struck down that map says, not so fast.
🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Z…
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