One week after the start of demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, protests in cities and towns across the United States have been growing, despite curfews and aggressive policing methods in some places.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Minneapolis, Orlando, New York, Denver, Boston, Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington, D.C., and many more cities, expressing anger and frustration over ongoing police brutality and systemic racism.
Their lives mattered.
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If you end up in ICU...costs incurred are as high as $100,000.
If you get the Rona & are unvaccinated...Come October 1st...your insurance carrier will not fully cover all costs associated with your freedom to not get vaccinated.😷💉
Get ready to pay!
Michigan Major insurance companies to start charging co-pays & deductibles to those diagnosed with COVID-19
With vaccines being accessible & free, insurance companies are telling patients it’s time to start paying for COVID-19 treatments & hospital stays
Nursing homes are increasingly seeking to shield themselves from a raft of wrongful death lawsuits from the families of Covid-19 victims by invoking new liability protections they received from Trump Admin.
About 200 lawsuits in nearly half the states have already been filed, and the industry says it’s bracing for many more in the coming months given the virus’ outsize toll on residents and staff.
But an emergency preparedness law expanded by Congress last year limiting health providers’ exposure to coronavirus-related lawsuits — and the Trump administration’s broad interpretation of those protections — are upending litigation against nursing homes.
Republican elected officials and political operators are simultaneously enabling his dangerous corruption and lining his pockets. The latest example of this took place last weekend as the Save America Summit hosted at Trump National Doral.
Women for America First, the dark money group that hosted the summit, was also behind Trump’s January 6th rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol.
The group named Senator Rand Paul, Representatives Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louie Gohmert,Kat Cammack, Byron Donalds & Beth Van Duyne, all of whom spread Trump’s “big lie” of a stolen election & voted against his impeachment & conviction, as special guests of the event
Hundreds of major companies and corporate leaders signed a statement released Wednesday that opposes laws that restrict voting rights, the latest step in an escalating battle over election laws being debated nationwide.
The letter included support from recognizable corporate names such as Target, Netflix, Bank of America, Facebook, Cisco, Twitter, Microsoft, Starbucks, Amazon, Mastercard, American Airlines, United Airlines and Vanguard,
as well as prominent people such as investor Warren Buffett, law firms and nonprofit organizations.