emily smith

is listening to In Rainbows

[Covie @covie_93]

EL-SAYED: I want to make healthcare, groceries and gas more affordable, get rid of data centers, remove corporate money from politics and tax the rich.

Republicans: El-Sayed is Muslim.

[Sam @halaljew]

Abdul El Sayed is the most all-American guy imaginable: overachieving immigrant kid, son of an auto worker, high school football player. Stevens and AIPAC are betting that Michigan voters are too racist to accept an Egyptian Muslim as their senator. They will be proven wrong.

[Patrick Henkel @P_Henks]

I am once again asking for a Detroit PWHL team

[rust belt roadtrip @gmoult]

we’re always told there’s no money for libraries, for healthcare, for universities, for high speed rail, for sewer upgrades, and yet there’s always infinite money for war

[𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝟑𝟒𝟒 𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 @Section344Lions]

Connor Hellebuyck (Commerce, Mich.)
Jack Hughes (Canton, Mich.)
Dylan Larkin (Waterford, Mich.)
Zach Werenski (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.)

The 4 players on the ice for the OT winner for USA

This is what we mean around these parts when we say #Hockeytown with pride.

[໊ @meishato]

a coworker of mine got fired out of nowhere. she was always early, stayed late, covered shifts no one else wanted, brought snacks for everyone, basically went above and beyond. one day management called her in, and ten minutes later she came out with red eyes and a box. they said she had an “attitude problem.” no warning, no write ups, just that. we later found out she’d reported a supervisor for making inappropriate jokes about her body, comments that made her uncomfortable and crossed every line. and i still can’t believe he’s still there. still running meetings, still joking with new hires, still acting like nothing happened. she lost her job, her income, her stability. all in one afternoon. while he got to keep everything

[natasha 🍎🏒 is seeing dnp!! @loverboyroz]

this is what happens when a director takes the romance genre seriously

[beck @unrivaled]

i watch heated rivalry with the intensity and observational skills of someone sitting in an imax theater watching a christopher nolan film

[💊 @catboyseider]

I love living in Michigan but one thing I think we’re missing here is more road closures. There’s so many times when I’m driving and I think to myself “you know what, I really wish two of these lanes were closed for no reason for an undisclosed amount of time.”

[໊ @meishato]

if you start reading books again you will feel at least a little better. i promise

[Michael Justus @mhjrad]

MS4

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

I’m sharing an actual recent peer-to-peer call that shows what physicians and patients face when trying to get a surgery approved. This call felt as absurd as it sounds.

The peer-to-peer call was to advocate for surgery to prevent and treat lymphedema for a patient with breast cancer. Her risk is high and we can perform a surgery to lower it.

The doctors from the insurance company on the call were an ophthalmologist with a subspecialty in oculoplastic surgery and a plastic surgeon who currently has a cosmetic practice. Neither doctor has ever performed lymph venous bypass…the surgery I was trying to get approved for my patient.

Neither doctor would provide their name or license number.

At the conclusion of the call, the doctors told me that they didn’t have the power to make a determination or decision to perform the surgery. They were just there to inform me of United’s decision to deny it.

The Medical Decision was not up to the doctors on the call. It had already been made by United.

So here I am, appealing again.

Medical decisions should be made by doctors who are well informed and patient-centered. Patients deserve access to the care that they paid for with their premiums.

[aylin ☽ @weepingcaesar]

once you get back into reading...that's when things don't seem so unbearable anymore

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

tfw you've just stripped healthcare from 17 million Americans and ensured the closure of rural hospitals

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Trump’s big, beautiful bill would:

-End healthcare for 16 million
-Shut 25% of nursing homes
-Cause 51,000 to die a year
-Take food from 2 million kids
-End 1.75 million blue collar jobs
-End Pell Grants for 1.4 million

All to pay for a $975 billion tax break for the top 1%.

[Zariq @zariqxavier]

If you live in Michigan and loved Zohran’s ideologies I have the Senate candidate for you

[Sour @The_Sourkraut]

Each day is a new opportunity to learn of a new crab. What a world we live in, such joy.

[Sherry @SchrodingrsBrat]

people who have been using the em dash long before ai know that it’s the jazz riff of punctuation, the tightrope between intuition and impulse, the trapdoor for digressions—it’s the writing fidget spinner for centrifugal thinkers