There are no other words needed. This is a perfect explanation of the self-discovery that occurs after realizing and accepting being not straight. Coming out is only the first step of many winding paths yet to be traveled. 🌈
If health insurers have enough liquid equity to act as a bank to provide loans to help people pay for their care, then it's also true that they have enough liquid equity to pay a higher cost-sharing so that people don't have to borrow money in the first place. 🙄
In 2020, Emory University published an epidemiological study saying that every $1 increase in the minimum wage state to state reduces the suicide rate by 6%.
That means that boosting the minimum wage by $1 could have saved 27,550 lives lost to suicide from 1990 to 2015.
ATTENTION ALL MENTALLY AND CHRONICALLY ILL PEOPLE: This is your yearly reminder that your medication could put you at a higher risk of heat related illnesses such as heat strokes and heat exhaustion.
Examples:
• Antidepressants
• Antipsychotics
• Beta blockers
• Diuretics
I’m sick and tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Living forests matter. Healthy oceans matter. Animals matter. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable world for future generations should not be controversial.
DNA testing takes days. So you're going to imprison people pending a DNA test just for using the toilet. Completely ridiculous, let people piss in peace.
I really hate it here. I’m only relieved to see that the Nigerian soccer players never had to come to the US for this fuck ass World Cup that’s being held here.
A series of US airstrikes have killed 175 people in Nigeria. While the US military’s AFRICOM stated that 175 “terrorists” had been eliminated over the course of three days of bombing, locals state that dozens of civilians were killed, and countless more injured. Hospitals in Borno state were overrun with emergency cases.
The Nigerian government has been at war with Islamist rebels since 2009. Nigeria is just one of seven countries the second Trump administration has bombed.
The Trump administration is quietly moving to change the Affordable Care Act to let health insurers offer people loans to pay for their care.
Deep in a document over 1,000 pages long about how the Affordable Care Act market will operate next year, the administration suggests that insurers consider offering loans to cash-strapped customers.
Under this approach, people who develop a costly disease or need unexpected emergency care would turn to their health insurer for loans.
A third of American households already have medical debt, and this approach would mean even more debt that patients owe to their health insurance companies.
The insurers, who already make billions, would stand to make even more.
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there are raids, door knocks, subpoenas, and indictments targeting anarchists, abolitionists, anti imperialists, and anti ICE activists all over the country right now. like in the last 48 hours.
"There is no such thing as gay kids."
Bitch. I knew at 7. And everyone else knew, too. Y'all were calling me fag, gay, queer, homo, swinging your wrists at me, and walking with swishing hips to try and degrade me all over the playground the moment I stood upright.
Fuck off.
Jacob Tierney on his advice for LGBTQ+ youth:
“I would say particularly to trans kids, we love you guys, and please hang in there,” Tierney told @TheAdvocateMag. “It'll get better. Find your people. Get out of the toxic places where you are.”
He added, “I know it's very tempting to tell young people to come out. I don't say that. I don't think that's the right thing to tell them. I tell them to find safety. Find a safe place, and that means waiting for university. I get it. It's not fun. Duck and cover until you have to, but go find safety and go find your people because we're out there and we will love you and we will embrace you and your lives matter.”
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Is it just me or is it still wild that we have heard nothing about the fkn hate crime that happened in philly 2 days ago? 15+ guys smashed up a bar and maced/beat the people inside. The place is still closed and boarded up and nobody is talked about it
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.
Black gay bars are closing while everybody profits off Black queer culture. Ballroom gets copied, our slang gets recycled, our aesthetics get monetized, & suddenly non-Black people are the face of “Black gay” events.
How do u consume the culture but erase the people who built it?
this language is now indexed as a form of racial harassment. The mere mention of Palestinians and their ongoing mass killing, siege and starvation is treated as a form of bigotry. I don’t know what else to say other than this is completely dystopian and insane.
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