Doctors spending many hours and then taking to twitter to try to get insurance companies to authorize payment for the medicines their patients need should not be the norm.
#HealthcareInAmerica
Hi, @AnthemBCBS: I have a preemie baby who can’t get his life-saving medication because you won’t cover it without me speaking to someone about pre-authorization. For 3 days I’ve been leaving messages and getting lost in phone trees. Can someone please DM me? We need to talk.
Moment that clarifies size of threat: “W/in hours of the search @ Mar-a-Lago, a chorus of GOP lawmakers, conservative talk-show hosts, anti-government provocateurs & pro-Trump conspiracy theorists began issuing explicit or thinly veiled calls for violence” washingtonpost.com/national-…
Authoritarianism is "on the rise around the world. Governments are becoming less transparent and have lost the trust of the people." —US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
This is "Walk Away" founder Brandon Straka — who did not serve any prison time in his Jan. 6 case thanks to, as his attorneys described it in their sentencing memos, "substantial" cooperation with investigators.
What I need you to understand is that I stood here for about half an hour yesterday and this guy NEVER broke character
He wept sitting on the bench
He wept sitting on the floor
He tallied days on a chalkboard set up for the purpise
"That's... surprisingly easy for me to accept. All things considered."
"Yeah, you're from... 2022, right? That's a good year for realizing nothing that you thought was stable is based on anything firm."
"Yeah. Yeah. That's... yeah."
"But that brings me back to your question."
I was at the Capitol when I learned, along with many lawmakers, that the fate of abortion access in WV would be imminently decided
What happened next was chaotic, confusing and will have impacts for decades
This is what it looked and sounded like inside:
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
Read this tweet. This is NY Post’s Police Bureau Chief. Reporting the *big revelation* from NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ scaremongering press briefing. 716 people were responsible for 30% of 2400 shootings! Wow. That’s alarming. That’s…
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716 *is* 30% of 2400. 🤯
NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LaPetri says they've identified 716 people who are responsible for 30% of the 2400 shootings in NYC since 2021. @NYPDPC
This very, very strange letter was just posted in a Morgantown Facebook group by the co-owner of Big Daddy Guns.
The proposed gun store in Morgantown has been a point of contention all summer long.
Also lol (sob) the only thing standing between some AG like Ken Paxton ordering school districts to use this software to start monitoring for terms like "abortion" and "transgender" is a pinky swear from the spokesperson of the shadiest surveillance company on earth 🙄
Slavery, segregation, voting rights, gerrymandering and abortion all have one thing in common:
“States rights.”
Since the first draft of the constitution, “Leave it up to the states” has been code for “Leave it up to the racists.”
Last week there were over a dozen unhoused voters prepared to give public comment at @LACityCouncil, opposing the 41.18 expansion criminalizing homelessness.
LA City Council postponed their vote to a day when they KNEW these voters' homes would be scheduled for destruction.
West Virginia state Senator Mike Azinger is well-known for his anti-LGBTQ comments, but now he’s taken on a new hobby: 𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿𝘀. He called the story of how @ash_in_wv survived being raped as a child "pathetic."
Yes, that really happened.
Atlanta's Music Midtown festival has been cancelled due to Georgia's gun laws. The festival attempted to ban weapons, but does not have the standing to supersede the law and enforce its own ban rol.st/3zM5OoP
IF this Doesn't make you livid then you are not human. It's disrespectful, it's vile and it was written by a monster who also is an elected senator. Share the hell out of it.
I am a trans person, childhood rape victim, & abortion patient. Tonight, I received this email response from WV Sen. Azinger. Not only does the Senator not seem to understand the difference between gender & sex he can't even recall the names of those he shares a chamber with.
To the national organizations plotting their next moves, let me help y’all out: invest in us West Virginia organizers. We’re on the ground daily, fighting for change & demanding accountability. We do not need saving, we need your resources. Invest in us if y’all want real change.
Women were always going to end up bearing all the responsibility for men's misconduct in this bad, misogynistic timeline we now live in. He's just saying the quiet part out loud.
So, Mary Elizabeth Coleman was having an affair with the Speaker of the House. Personally, I didn't care. Not my business, right? It wasn't until SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade that I ever thought about her again, after reading an article in Vanity Fair...