20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials
20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials
The Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month, says California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s advisers ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state, and Washington, D.C., to the Department of Homeland Security
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In today's episode of "The rich and powerful do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences"...
a.k.a. the history of civilization
While I largely agree, this admin is crossing many lines that have never been crossed for the benefit of the upper class. Like this gross violation of privacy exhibited here.
The history of hierarchy*
Yes indeed! In my mind civilization and hierarchy overlap perfectly, am I mistaken? Care to hand me some examples where that is not the case?
There are non hierarchical societies littered throughout history, even today the zapatistas and peoples in rojava are non-hierarchical. Being in an organized social group, even numbering into the millions, does not necessitate hierarchy
Yeah. You're right. I guess that makes it all ok then.
i think it more means "the problem isn't this iteration, it's the core original sin of what civilization actually is compared to what we're taught it is in elementary school"
It wasn't meant to come over as cynical. I just wanted to indicate how this is not exclusive to these times. Before the modern age, there were already a lot of powerful people doing a lot of heinous things. I just wonder when the finger will start pointing, not at those in power, but at power itself.
If he doesnt rig the upcoming elections, I am optimistic that there would be consequences not just to Trump but also to Republican party
didn't florida just cancel their local elections this year to "bring local elections in line with federal"? yeah, definitely next year there will be elections
Elections are a cornerstone of autocracies. All of the most brutal dictators have elections, and they get 90% of the vote.
Free and fair elections, OTOH, are nowhere to be seen. And that's a critical difference - they won't be cancelled, so there won't be the obvious line in the sand. Voter suppression and disenfranchisement, which is already happening, will continue and accelerate. But most of it will have a heavy coat of marketing, to convince people that those groups don't really deserve to vote.
Aye, even North Korea has "elections".