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I seem to remember that, some years ago, there was a NASCAR driver with a thin mustache. He was sponsored by a hairdressing chain.

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AG Chief of Staff Brandon Smith told the Tennessean that the real scandal is that the hospital narced on the AG's office

jfc... the mindset that can even make that statement is rotted beyond any capacity to change.

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Medical records can be, and routinely are, sanitized, i.e. all names and other PII removed, so they can be used for demographic investigative purposes only. The only reason to get full records is to know who is behind the numbers, so you can hurt them later if politically expedient. So fuck these fuckers.

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Just donated a kidney through Lahey! Medical care was good, but wasn’t impressed with their administration. Hopefully you have a better experience.

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So now the FBI is thinking your Bitwarden vault has terror plans…because typing into Disqus sure as hell isn’t private.

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It's not a "timeline", it's a broken simulation...

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Yes, they could challenge it but it would be a waste of time and money. IF it was above board, which I’m guessing it was.

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My guess is the TN AG doesn't care, like a common Ken Paxton

All that screaming some of us who've been called "hysterical" have been doing concerning whether or not the AG is red?

This is one of the reasons why

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Oh, no. No, no, no. NO. BAD NAZI! BAD! And also isn't this a serious HIIPA violation?

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The immigration camps under Trump were a prelude to a lot of bad shit.

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White people who claim to be pro-democracy didn't care enough about voter suppression to stop their Confederate cousins from voting these people into office

... thought of voter suppression as "just a Black problem"

... for a period of about 30 years https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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As Fukui says downthread , there are some messy "law enforcement" workarounds with HIPAA

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That's why I only store my risotto recipes in my Bitwarden vault.

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Florida (always Florida): hold my beer.

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