Olivia Hempstead

Parent, cat-parent, European. Views my own.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Just got off the phone with my college roommate.

His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.

He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.

7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.

He told me he’s not the same person anymore.

Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.

They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.

One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.

And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.

I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.

I really don’t.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ed Davey, "The rising tide of racist violence and hate that we're seeing in this country"

"And they way it's being incited and normalised by some members of this house"

"I was talking to a British friend of Indian ancestry who told me that Reform UK activists came to her door and said that: if they get into power, she and her family wil have their passports seized and their citizenship revoked"

"Does the PM agree that racism has no place in our country, and will he join me in condemning anyone who has spoken it"

Keir Starmer, "Racism and intolerance is permeating everywhere"

"We have to deal with it because it's tearing our societies apart"

"It is keeping good people away from politics because they don't want to be involved in it"

"And it should be called out by every single person who is a politician at any level in our country"

"I say this looking at the plaque to Jo Cox and David Amees"

"I'm not able to say that in the ten years since Jo's death, things have gotten better, because sadly, they've got worse"

"That's on us to fix, every single member of this house"

"And anybody who inflames it should be absolutely ashamed of themselves"

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

NEW: The Times has established that Nigel Farage and his partner own at least five homes spanning Surrey, Essex and Kent.

All but one were bought with cash since 2000. Farage described himself as "skint" in 2017.

https://t.co/dwVOv9TQvs

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@BosniaNTBall We’re rooting for you!

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@Catters61 To be fair we were all thinking this for a while. Lesson learnt.

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@jomickane WTAF?

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@helen_off_troy @MatthewStadlen We need to reclaim the flag! I saw one that said, ‘For football not Farage’

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@puffpuff65 I think they have to go in almost as the underdogs as they’re playing a home team, riding a wave, with crazy support, at altitude. England have to fight as hard as the underdogs dare to do and not go in with expectation.

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@darciovilela @cardososampaio Yes, a lovely analysis but please call it football 🙏

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@Benson_EU Playing at altitude to a team on home ground with enormous support… what could go wrong? Why do the Mexico team get to play at home throughout and not have to change altitudes!?

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@JohnDav19476421 @itvfootball Speaking to his own teammate

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@DonaldMcne34554 @itvfootball Because he was speaking to a teammate. It’s only if there is conflict with an opposing player.

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@itvfootball Stupid rule!

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@FOXSoccer Wrong and actually hilarious!

[Olivia Hempstead @oliviaRowley17]

@FabrizioRomano Will they just be playing in their own stadium the whole time?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Israel just carried out one of the largest single warhead explosions in modern history destroying an entire village in Lebanon. This is Gaza all over again. Israel is committing genocide to build settlements on top of the corpses of the Palestinian and Lebanese people, and it is all being funded by the Republican and Democratic parties.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

New Labour is rushing its new National Security State Threats bill through parliament in just one day.

It will be illegal to publish TRUE casualty information from Iran, from Hamas run hospitals in Gaza, or IDF assault details from the resistance in Lebanon.

14 years in jail.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

If only they had some Thailand-based crypto tycoon to bankroll their lives…

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

THIS!!!!