😠😠 This Supreme Court… last year they came for women, this week it was Black & Brown people and just now the LGBTQ+ folk. Elections matter, and nobody’s safe (well, straight white men will be fine…) @HRC
Important article by my friend and colleague @AnwaroRama . Shocking that I’ve also cared for more severe hypothermia patients from jail than from outside @EmoryEM
How can hospitals guarantee safety to both patients and healthcare professionals? @DrKatrinaGipson writes in @the_emancipator that they "need a multipronged approach to ensure the safety of patients, faculty and staff who interface with law enforcement."
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Montana legislators are trying to censure Rep. Zooey Zephyr for speaking out against transphobic bills, joining the ranks of extremist lawmakers in Oklahoma and Tennessee attempting to silence elected officials and constituents — particularly those from the trans community.
"If you are denying gender-affirming care and forcing a trans child to go through puberty, that is tantamount to torture, and this body should be ashamed.
If you vote yes on this bill, I hope the next time you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands."
6 people, including little children, were killed in a mass-shooting in Tennessee. The reaction of the State Legislature to make kids safer? Expel D State Reps who stood in solidarity with protesters, demanding gun reform.
Republicans in Tennessee have gone crazy. Shame on them.
Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.
“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”
The inside story 🧵
Cigna uses an automated system that allows “medical directors” (doctors employed by @Cigna) to deny a claim in 1.2 seconds without opening the patient’s file.
Please read this, share it, and help us (metaphorically) burn these companies to the ground.
If only someone could have done this to the hateful, bigoted, lying @GA_Legislature legislators who today got a hateful @BrianKempGA to sign a bill that will result in the deaths of and harm to #trans kids in Georgia. Stop claiming to love #Jesus you monsters. @HRC@GAEquality
State Sen. Megan Hunt (D), speaking directly to Republicans, reaffirms vow to filibuster all legislation if #NEleg anti-trans bill passes:
"No one in the world holds a grudge like me. And no one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don't care. I don't like you."