📣 Here's a PARTIAL list of "pre-existing conditions" which insurance carriers could deny you coverage for before the #ACA was signed into law:
--AIDS/HIV
--Lupus
--Alcohol abuse/ Drug abuse with recent treatment
--Mental disorders (severe, e.g. bipolar, eating disorder) 1/
Lindsey Graham just retire now because we've raised $500k today challenge.
(But seriously, we've raised $500k today (!!!) Chip in to keep that momentum going tonight and to #SendLindseyHome) https://t.co/fKMazXXFbl
@JohnSungKim Right, I get it and I feel like you’re oversimplifying the argument. I think both climate change and land management (or lack thereof) work off each other, and are informed by US vs Canada approach. If your position is that we need to reform climate laws, that’s different
@JohnSungKim I think Canada’s different vegetation, climate etc would account for the difference in Canada vs US fires, but with climate change affecting both. This is from a Canadian fire website:
My friend Glenna is a board member of NARAL Pro-Choice Washington and is such a badass doctor who makes a huge difference in reproductive and sexual health - consider joining me in donating for a feminist and pro-choice future!
https://t.co/JMMweP79nR
Support USPS x Incarcerated Youth!
We are asking for donations of sheets of stamps so that we can give stamps to young people incarcerated across Illinois so they can write letters!
These are a class of #EssentialWorkers who have been paid the least and left wholly unprotected in this current crisis, along with all others. Our treatment of them is a measure of our continued failure as a society
Farm workers don't get to use Zoom to harvest our food. Ramiro sent us this photo from Salinas CA where he is currently harvesting lettuce during the wildfires, despite the air quality being "very unhealthy ." #WeFeedYou
It's National Left-Hander's Day.
About 10% of the world's population is believed to be left-handed, although the number ebbs and flows with time and place, researchers say. https://t.co/Gk923ytxyh
The tree is rotted, it’s time to uproot.
“They belong to some of the department’s most prolific shooters, including Sean Kenney, Joe McCarthy and Steve Darden - Together these men account for nearly a third of the department’s 30 fatal shootings of the past two decades.”
Really helpful to understand how people are accessing/or unable to access things able people take for granted - tech should always be thinking of how it can be fully accessible to everyone!