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WHAT TO DO AT AN ICE CHECKPOINT

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WHAT TO DO AT AN ICE CHECKPOINT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WHITE and/or FEEL THE NEED TO JAM UP THE WORKS. Here's the deal: 🔘 Border Patrol can verify citizenship within 100 mi. of a border or "external boundary." This includes coastlines, so PDA & SEA are within the 100-mile zone. 🔘 Border Patrol & ICE can only ask brief questions about citizenship. They cannot hold you for an extended time w/out cause. 🔘 You always have the right to remain silent. You do not need to answer their questions. 🔘 WITH THAT SAID, IF YOU ARE A BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, ESP. IF YOU ARE WHITE, YOU NEED TO SPEAK THE FUCK UP. 🔘 The most important acts of resistance are the small ones. Make it difficult and uncomfortable for ICE agents to do their jobs. 🔘They count on citizens to turn a blind eye & allow them to deport undocumented citizens w/out challenge. Disabuse of that notion. 🔘 If you are on a train, bus, or anything else & ICE or CBP boards, you need to stand up ...

Episcopal Church reply to the Rapist Felon of the United States

This is what the Episcopalian Church had to say about his tantrum on x: President Trump, 1. Much like those who do not want you to be president, you do not get to decide whether a bishop’s office is legitimate. She was chosen by the people of her diocese to be their bishop. Then, she was granted consent to be a bishop by other bishops and standing committees of our church’s dioceses. Beginning by calling her a “so-called” bishop is an obvious low blow to discredit her as a person, rather than what she actually said that you disagree with. The Episcopal Church was legitimate enough to hold your third wedding, the funeral of Melania’s mother, and the baptism of your son, Barron. Barron also attended an Episcopal day school. Now you have an issue with how we do things when it doesn’t go your way? 2. You didn’t have an issue with politics being brought into the church by the ministers who spoke at your inauguration, or by yourself for that matter. They were blatantly partisan, crediti...

Health care claim denial

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  When I went looking for denial rates, I was shocked, shocked I was,    to find United Health Care denied 1/3 of all claims, according to ValuePenguin which did comparative rating of insurance corporations. The office manager for my primary care doc confirmed this with her assessment UHC was the worst to deal with. So, I started digging deeper. https://blog.persius.org/investigations/claims_denials is a highly useful data source about denials, as this picture shows: So, it happens frequently, even though Oregon is one of the least worst for denials. And, folks don't appeal often enough, as the report shows: "While claims denials occur frequently, internal appeal rates are vanishingly low; this fact remains true across all categories of denial, so far as can be told from the data which reports sufficient detail to make such a determination. Among internally appealed claims denials overturn rates are high. The monetary value historically recouped in the observed data ...