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In a moment of peril, Florida lawmakers allowed Citizens, its home insurer of last resort, to take disputes before judges whose salaries it funds.
Winning Record: Citizens has taken more than 1,500 insurance disputes to mandatory arbitration, where it wins more than 90% of final hearings.
In court it wins just over half the time.
Systemic Issues: Citizens says the process is fast, cheap and fair.
Homeowners say the forum violates their rights.

A Florida Home Insurer Was Allowed to Bypass the Courts During Claim Disputes. It Won More Than 90% of the Time.
State legislators and executives at Citizens Property Insurance touted mandatory arbitration as advantageous for both consumers and insurers. In practice, homeowners were left with few avenues for recourse when their claims were denied.

Israel-based Terra Security, which offers an AI-driven penetration testing platform, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/awdq1yv5k

AI startup Terra Security raises $30M Series A for continuous penetration testing
Israeli startup aims to scale offensive security testing beyond manual and costly methods.

New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens' Passports Over Political Speech (Stephen Prager/Truthout)
https://truthout.org/articles/new-bill-would-allow-rubio-to-strip-us-citizens-passports-over-political-speech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p1#a250914p1

Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to
strip US citizens of their passports
based purely on political speech.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), will come up for a hearing on Wednesday

New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech
The legislation would allow the Secretary of State to strip anyone’s US passport with no legal due process.

ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Chicago -- because she didn’t “look” American to them.
Maria Greeley, 44, was on her way home from a double shift at her job earlier this month when she was
surrounded, seized, and zip-tied
by three ICE masked agents without cause or warning
and interrogated for an hour.
ICE concluded she was an undocumented immigrant
because she didn’t “look like a Greeley".
Greeley, who was born in Illinois,
is …

ICE Detains U.S. Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look” American
She even had her U.S. passport on her.

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."