I agree that the firing of the Librarian of Congress is just racist and misogynistic. But the Copyright Office? Intellectual (forgive my use of this word in connection with Trump) property is very important to anyone who relies on branding for income. Trump wants copyright and trademark protections for his family’s stuff to sail right through the process in the Copyright Office. That’s just another piece of the grift.
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More likely, it seems related to Elmo’s desire to use all the copyrighted materials to train his AI LLMs. Apparently the copyright director told him, “no.”
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Fuck, yeah!
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I read elsewhere that the head of the Copyright Office was fired one day after refusing to give to give access to the data for Elon Musk AI engine.
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Are there states that allow undocumented immigrants to use Medicaid? I thought all workers paid into it but the undocumented got no benefits from the system.
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Trump couldn’t find the Library of Congress with a map.
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Well, he’s certainly a fly pope.
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Repubs say its OK because the Saudi general was wearing a tan suit. And no one bad can wear tan suits.
/s
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Occam’s razor. It’s a library. Libraries are bad.
Plausible. Still unclear to me what they hope to accomplish, which is always distressful.
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Same as always.
Fire the librarians and scientists.
Leak anything damaging to opponents.
Sell any state secrets for pennies.
Then burn the books and historical documents.
Where exactly, ya think, do they keep the notes and records from his impeachments?
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If he got there and a librarian handed him one of their (smaller) books, though, he could hold it funny and upside down for a photo op.
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It’s complicated. Children and pregnant women, in particular, do have access in some states, and some states run their own Medicaid-like state programs to provide some care to adult undocumented folks. The federal government does have a program to pay for emergency care for undocumented immigrants. (which seems to me just like a basic minimum level of human decency but I’m sure it strikes most of the current Republican party as being of the devil)
This is how this major insurance-industry information site spells it out –
Six states provide Medicaid or Medicaid-like coverage (benefits similar to Medicaid but provided through a separate program) to at least some undocumented immigrant adults, and 14 states (including the six that offer coverage to adults) provide Medicaid or similar coverage to undocumented immigrant children and in some cases, pregnant women.
The following states use state funds to provide Medicaid or Medicaid-like coverage to certain adults who reside in the state and meet income eligibility guidelines, regardless of their immigration status:4
- California 5
- Illinois The Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults Program (HBIA) stopped accepting new enrollments in 2023.6 And coverage will end for adults aged 42 to 64 on June 30, 2025.7 But Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults (HBIA) will continue for those 65 and older.8
- Minnesota (Coverage is provided through MinnesotaCare,9 the state’s Basic Health Program.)
- New York (Only for those 65 and older)10
- Oregon 11
- Washington (Enrollment cap has been met, but people can still apply to be considered if space opens in the program.)12
Which states offer Medicaid to undocumented immigrant children?
A longer list of states use state funds to provide Medicaid or CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) to children who reside in the state and meet income eligibility guidelines, regardless of their immigration status. (This includes all of the states listed above that also allow certain undocumented adults to enroll in Medicaid.) Some of these states also offer Medicaid coverage for undocumented pregnant women:3
- California
- Colorado (Undocumented pregnant immigrants are also eligible.)13
- Connecticut 14
- Illinois
- Maine (Undocumented pregnant immigrants are also eligible.)15
- Massachusetts 16
- Minnesota (Coverage is provided through MinnesotaCare.)9
- New Jersey 17
- New York (Undocumented pregnant immigrants are also eligible.)18
- Oregon
- Rhode Island 19
- Utah (The program covers about 2,000 children, but enrollment is currently closed to new applicants.)20
- Vermont (Undocumented pregnant immigrants are also eligible.)21
- Washington
Can federal funding ever be used to provide health benefits to undocumented immigrants?
Yes, some programs utilize federal funding to provide at least some health coverage to undocumented immigrants. They include Emergency Medicaid,2 as well as two CHIP options: From Coverage to End of Pregnancy (FCEP)22 and Health Services Initiatives (HSI).23
What is Emergency Medicaid?
Emergency Medicaid, which is jointly funded by the state and federal governments,2 covers emergency care for uninsured patients who are ineligible for Medicaid due to their immigration status. There is state-to-state variation in the types of care that can be reimbursed under Emergency Medicaid.24
Emergency Medicaid spending, much of which is used to pay for labor and delivery costs, accounts for less than 1% of all Medicaid spending.25 Federal law requires hospitals to provide certain emergency care, including labor and delivery services, regardless of the patient’s health coverage or immigration status.26 Without Emergency Medicaid, the cost of providing certain emergency care would have to be borne by hospitals and the states.25
CHIP options for unborn children and postpartum mothers
Federal funding can also be used to provide prenatal care to pregnant undocumented immigrants via CHIP’s FCEP option. This program, used by nearly two dozen states, ensures that pregnant residents have access to prenatal care regardless of immigration status, since the babies will be United States citizens once they are born.27
The FCEP program’s focus is on covering services directly related to the health of the fetus.28 However, several states use funding from CHIP HSIs to provide postpartum coverage for new mothers, regardless of immigration status.23
What are alternatives to Medicaid for undocumented immigrants?
Undocumented immigrants are much more likely to be uninsured than U.S. citizens or lawfully present residents.29
Providing it’s available to them, undocumented immigrants may be able to enroll in employer-sponsored health insurance. Or they can buy individual-market health coverage outside the health insurance Marketplace.
In most of the country, undocumented immigrants are not eligible to purchase Marketplace coverage,30 but can enroll in full-price coverage outside the Marketplace.31
But there are a few exceptions: Colorado32 and Washington33 allow undocumented immigrants to enroll in Marketplace (or Marketplace equivalent, in the case of Colorado) coverage with state-funded subsidies, and Maryland will join them in the fall of 2025.34
Federal law guarantees that everyone in the U.S. can receive emergency care – including care provided during labor and delivery – regardless of their health coverage or immigration status.35 As described above, Emergency Medicaid will reimburse hospitals for the cost of providing emergency services to people who would be eligible for Medicaid if not for their immigration status.
Undocumented immigrants can also obtain non-emergency care at federally qualified health centers and free clinics.36
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They’re stealing information to train AI models, because all these guys have convinced themselves that AI is the future and they want to dominate it.
There’s no economic case for AI due to the vast amounts of energy used to run these models. Paying for the information to train these same models makes them even less economically viable.
A big part of what’s happening right now is a bunch of tech “bros” are looting the government to for information they can’t afford to train AI and then to turn around and make government dependent on their AI “help desks” with big government contracts that private business is already finding out cost them more money to run and operate than just training actual people to do the jobs.
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Musk wants access for his AI and is using DOGE to hoover up everything. The others are junior partners along for the ride.
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Well, Hot Damn…Trump and Miller are fabricating more tales ( Haitian immigrants eating pets, etc) in order to import a bunch of White South African racists. Meanwhile revoking the refugee status of Afghanis who worked with American Forces in that hopeless GWB war.
Oh, there needs to be a day, week, month…YEAR of retribution on these fucks.
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FIFY
Trump’s firing of one person and appointing of another in an interim capacity to a legislative branch agency remain thorny, alarming and unclear. Even Republican leadership in Congress made a rare acknowledgment that something improper may have taken place.
Picture if you will a golden dart board where Trump has triangles with useless,incendiary,provocative topics that when blindly selected are guarenteed to get a rise out of lawyers,judges,feckless legislators a mortified public…the sickest of his many parlor games
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In the last hour ago I exchanged emails with a long time friend who happens to be a retired academic. He’s been one of us on just about any topic here on TPM or similar forums.
It struck me that he seems to be getting blase’ (?) indifferent (?) numb (?) uncaring (?) to what’s been going on these past 3 months or so.
Then it hit me: I’m getting numb myself. The flight or fight syndrome we learned about in Health classes (or human physio classes) only lasts so long. To protect the organism’s health, it must fade – or damage the health of the organism. I’m nowhere near there yet, but prolonged stress damages the immune system. (Ask darrtown).
Anyway, I’ve got to chill a bit but not give up.
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