Today 43 Republicans voted to keep insulin at $1200/mo instead of $35. Tomorrow every Republican will ask you to be outraged that gas is $5 instead of $3.
In the GOP world, $1200 for life saving insulin in fair play but $5 for gas is an outrage.
Vote them all out.
"A day in the Life of Sue Republican.
Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffeepot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
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It's clear "learning to live with the virus" is the same paradigm thru which we will be conditioned to live with climate crisis—as the structural effects of capitalism are obscured by calls for individual resilience amidst a supposedly natural (and thus unresolvable) catastrophe
Last night, at 3am, the chair of crit care medicine at my hospital was waking around the unit singing Total Eclipse of the Heart at full volume. I don’t know if it was based in insanity after bronchs and lines and thoras or if it was a glimpse of what healthcare once was.
Does anyone else remember when we were in high school and they brought the drug dogs in and we wanted to give them ice cream and the cops said no? Anyway got pulled over tonight and let off because I had a Dixie Chicks bumper sticker…
JCAHO arrived on my unit; wanted to see me give care to my patient outside a contact room.
I gowned up, entered the room, then closed the door & curtain behind me blocking their view.
What were they thinking?
#nursing