Jenn Perez (Bates)

Lots of tweets about sports, strongman, marketing, and mortgages. And my dog Maddux because she’s amazing.

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

“When we say we are small but fierce, about 80% of that fierce is actually just Jenn.”—my boss today. I’ll take that 💁🏼‍♀️💁🏼‍♀️

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

@SportsHeather I’d posit that I-80 going through Nebraska is the real winner of most boring. I’ve done St Louis to Cheyenne via that route. Not. Fun.

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

The millennial urge to wipe your entire online presence and return to a landline, Walkman, and digital camera life.

[Christian Stegmaier @cstegmaier]

Assuming Ted Turner’s funeral will start at 7:05 pm.

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

@MatthewWBenson @BayNews9Jeff It’s the comment near the end for me. “It’s your job to ask questions and it’s our job to figure out what questions we want to answer”

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

Oh man. I still remember my screen names. Away messages were the best

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

People wonder why millennials can see through online nonsense so easily, and I’ll tell you how: we didn’t grow up with the internet, but once it showed up, every school paper demanded ten reliable sources. No random sites, no ChatGPT, just libraries and actual books.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. That suck might be 100 workouts, 100 bland meals, 100 hours of work, or 100 hard conversations. Embrace it as the cost of entry. The answers you seek are found in the actions you avoid.

[Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri]

“I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.”

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

The @Sling day pass for the NCAA tourney games (just not CBS) is so great. $5 for a 1 day pass, $10 for a 3 day pass? Yes please.

[Glenn Kinley @glenn_kinley]

Love this from #Illini head coach Brad Underwood - asked if he has any issue/finds it unfair to have to play Houston IN Houston in the Sweet 16.

"I could care less... I'm an old JUCO ball coach. I drove on 16 passenger fans. I drove from Dodge City, Kansas to Mesa, Arizona for a basketball game... If you had told me back then that I'm getting to coach basketball in the Sweet 16 and play Houston - I would sign up for it, I would crawl to get there."

Says regardless of where the game is, Illinois would/will need to play well to beat the Cougars.

(Video from NCAA)

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

@alexhammeke It’s incredibly eye opening auditing yourself occasionally. Our going out to eat spending was insane recently and we didn’t realize it til we did a mini audit.

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

Is this a problem? Absolutely.

But it’s not the whole story. Americans spend so so much money on stuff that isn’t necessary. Pay in 4 creates a ballooning problem of high monthly payments that stack on top of each other.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Record share of Americans carry credit card debt, can't pay monthly bills. https://t.co/72S1u5AqRo

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

@Matt_Kalish 10000% correct.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I don’t think people realize how much healthcare costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire.

It costs them $30k per family, per year for premiums and care. Most of that goes to the massive, vertically integrated insurance companies that send weekly bills that no one reviews in details. And it doesn’t include the company overhead to deal with it all. It’s usually the 2nd largest expense after payroll. Which is insane

It’s far easier to blame AI than it is to blame Healthcare costs.

Want to increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for every American ?

Break up the biggest insurance companies. Make divest non insurance companies. They don’t need thousands of subsidiaries. That’s how they game and abuse the system and increase costs for all of us.

Call your senator and tell them to support the BreakUp Big Medicine Bill by @HawleyMO and @SenWarren.

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

My husband flies for a competing airline buuuuuuut 👀👀👀

[United Airlines @united]

The entire row is alllllll yours.

Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out...

You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows.

https://t.co/bzHodhQ5Y8

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

@davidubben At a Kstate Nebraska football game years ago I interviewed a woman who had her prosthetic leg decorated in Husker colors.

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

@bigdonkey47 My 18 year old nephew took a bounced slider to the jugular behind the plate. Couple days later he was in left field and hit a HR to center into the wind. Catchers are a different breed.

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

Small businesses are the ones who will suffer greatly unless there is significant change in how they’re required to operate. Ask a small biz owner what it costs for them to employ people. You’ll be gob smacked.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A proposal to raise New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour is drawing cheers from working-class New Yorkers struggling to afford the city and sending chills through the business community https://t.co/ypHvPmLfM7

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

One of those things that sounds good on paper, but the warning signs of continuing to lose any sort of privacy online are there.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

BREAKING: The Senate has unanimously passed COPPA 2.0 – the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy and Protection Act.

This bill EXPANDS the current law protecting our kids online to ensure companies cannot collect personal information from anyone under the age of 17. This is really important to protect kids online.

When I was Majority Leader, we passed this bill with bipartisan support as part of a package that passed 91-3. Sadly, House Republicans blocked it.

This is a very good day for Kids and their parents, as well, who can breathe a sigh of relief that some real protections for kids online is finally passing the Senate once again.

I’m glad the Senate has passed COPPA 2.0 again, and this time the House needs to finish the job and pass this bill swiftly and decisively.

[Jenn Perez (Bates) @_JennBates_]

@BigDanThomason @LundukeJournal Yeah. Not cool. For similar reasoning I will always own a car that doesn’t have a computer inside