Elizabeth D

RN, Activist, Organizer. Also Mom/Step-mom to 4 Ab Fab 20 somethings, 2 dogs and 6 chickens. Married to a wonderfully kind human.

[Indivisible Guide ❌👑 @IndivisibleTeam]

Did you hear the big news about the leader of the GOP?

[Elizabeth D @Ebethd24]

Ohio is having a democracy crisis and it affects us all by @IndivisibleTeam https://t.co/gp9yOfjO0u

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

BREAKING: A new report shows that the end may be in sight for AIDS, the world’s deadliest pandemic.

The Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS says that Botswana, Eswatini, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe have all reached “95-95-95” targets, meaning 95% of the people who are living with HIV know their status, 95% of those people are on lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, and 95% of people in treatment are virally suppressed.

Across eastern and southern Africa, new HIV infections have been reduced by 57% since 2010. Also since 2010, the percentage of pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV who have access to antiretroviral treatment has nearly doubled, and new infections among children have more than halved.

There’s more work to be done, but the UN said the world could end AIDS by 2030 with sufficient investment from global leaders.

[Amy Faith Ho, MD MPH @amyfaithho]

Q: Why are waits at emergency rooms so long?

A: Because the rest of the healthcare system is failing.

The patient did everything right, but the healthcare system did them so so so wrong.

🧵…

They call their PCP, but can’t get an appointment. So they turn to the ER.

They call their specialist, but the call line (automated, no human to respond) says go to the ER.

They try to pick up their new medicine, but it’s 3x their monthly rent $ and they already work 3 minimum wage jobs…so they turn to the ER to get a dose of medicine.

They try to get their imaging done, but can’t get the prior auth approved. So they come to the ER to get it.

Their employer won’t let them take a sick day without a work note (and the ER is the only thing open they can get into TODAY).

They need to see their doctor in the clinic, but can’t afford to take time off work to go, much less arrange childcare, and the ER is the only thing open when all those conditions sync up.

They lost their job and now have no insurance and can’t see their doctors anyways. So they come to the ER.

The list goes on and on and on…

Healthcare reform is not about healthcare — it’s about economics, corporate greed, lobby dollars, transportation, housing, politics/policy, culture, and more…

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

If pride stuff being on shelves offends you because you don't "believe in pride," then we should take away Christmas stuff because I don't believe in Christmas. Don't like the sound of that? Well then. Mind you own damn business.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

It seems pharmacy benefit managers don’t like that people are learning about their little shadow operation. Pharma is a problem, but insurance owned PBMs (optum, caremark, etc) are pulling the strings. Won’t somebody think of the vertically integrated billion dollar corporations?

[Elizabeth D @Ebethd24]

@TehyaRJohnson I have many thoughts about this and how common it is. I’m so saddened by nursing. I thought I could make change but I think the longer I stay in it the more I am just complicit in a terrible system.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Tennessee for real just expelled the two Black guys but not the white woman.

Man folks. Man. They just went out there and straight up did the racism.

[Lindy Li @lindyli]

Kansas Republicans will now allow genital inspections of kids who want to play sports

Florida Republicans tried to force girls to disclose their menstrual history

West Virginia Republicans blocked a child marriage ban

But yea, tell us more about how Dems are the groomers 🙄

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Liberals need to get way more angry parents showing up at state capitals and school board meetings, demanding gun reform. If conservatives can show up demanding school ban CRT that’s not even being taught surely we can show up for our kids being killed.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Here’s the way I see it: banking should be boring. Anyone who wants to take on a lot of risk to make a lot of money should not be in banking. We need to get rid of the Trump banking bill and go back to better regulation to make banking boring again.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

The level of grace and understanding given to depositors at SVB and Signature Bank should also be extended to those with student debt.

[Muhammad Aadil, MD @m_aadil]

Methadone is the only medication for which one must travel for miles every day, stand in line, give a urine sample in front of staff, and swallow the medication while being monitored.

There's simply no evidence to justify these strict conditions when the alternative is a potentially fatal overdose. Its stigmatizing, inhumane and shows the prejudice towards people with substance disorder.

[Kristin Mink (Moving to 🦋Blsky) @KristinMink_]

Proud Boys showed up in Silver Spring and got violent today, trying to scare away families and children attending Drag Story Hour at Loyalty Books.

But the community held a wall of 🌈 safety and support. The kids had a great time and were none the wiser. We will never back down.

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

Nursing is not a calling. It is a job. Stop framing the nursing profession as a calling so we can demand fair wages & better working conditions without being called greedy. How can nursing be a calling but fire-fighting, medicine, and other male-dominated professions aren't?

[Brooklyn Cybele @brooklyncybele]

How fast can we get 142 voters outside of George Santos' district office in Queens? The address is 242-09 Northern Blvd. @DanielleBrecker @bkindivisible @rafaelshimunov @CPDAction @one_queens

[Sarah Fair George @SarahFairVT]

That’s why I am so pleased to endorse Jason Van Driesche for Burlington City Council.  I urge all South End residents to support Jason at the Democratic caucus on December 15.  2/5