The Taco Bell slander must come to an end. Taco Bell has been there for me so many times over the years and not once has it ever given me diarrhea. Your "Taco Bell gives you diarrhea" takes are hackneyed and dumb. Cheesy Gordita crunch is a gift from the gods
I remember a story I once read about a girl who pleaded with her teacher not to tell her Dad that she'd been caught kissing another girl behind the bike shed. The school insisted.
The next day the girl had a fractured swollen jaw.
Violating kid's privacy feeds abuse. Don't.
When you work with unhoused, your perspective on drugs often evolves.
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Meth, for example, is functional. It keeps you alert to protect yourself from arrests and theft.
It's an appetite suppressant.
It keeps you warm.
Admits that norovirus is also airborne but does not recommend masking 🙃
Not only do masks reduce your risk of breathing in the virus, they reduce fomite transmission by preventing you from touching your nose and mouth.
I really want to break down what this new legislation — the Advancing Women’s Health Coverage Act — is proposing, why it matters, and why I’m fighting to protect the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA).
At first glance, this bill looks like progress. But when I read the actual text, I was shocked. The original WHCRA guarantees that if your insurance covers your mastectomy, they have to cover your reconstruction. This new bill changes that, tying coverage only to a diagnosis of breast cancer.
That means individuals with BRCA1, BRCA2, or other high-risk genetic variants who choose preventative mastectomy would lose their right to reconstruction coverage. That’s unacceptable.
The bill also threatens progress we’ve made protecting access to the most modern types of breast reconstruction, like muscle-sparing procedures, by linking coverage only to outdated codes, undoing years of advocacy.
It is deeply concerning to me that this bill gained bipartisan support and endorsements from major organizations before microsurgeons, patient advocates, and community stakeholders were even allowed to see the text. Transparency matters.
We need to pause.
We need to collaborate.
Surgeons, advocates, patients, and lawmakers need to be brought to the table to make sure we strengthen WHCRA, not weaken it.
How do we get involved? We don’t wait to be invited to a meeting. We create space for the conversation. Right here.
If you have questions, please ask me. It’s so important that we understand what’s really at stake and I am here to help.
Zohran Mamdani’s message to Donald Trump after his historic NYC mayoral win:
“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”