A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea.
In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.
"We know the pain and grief that so many are going through ... You [the team] honored the right things ... I want that coaching staff and those players to know how much we love them and are with them." - Coach TB
Daughter: 4th-year UVA student. Distraught. In 20-person American Studies class with Devin Chandler. 3:30 today, in fact. "Dad, he's awesome. He always walks into class smiling and cracking jokes." She's talking in present tense.
What class, you ask? "Non-Violence in America."
Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was shot and killed Friday morning while giving a speech in the city of Nara in western Japan. He was 67.
The brazen attack has stunned the world, and sent shockwaves throughout Japan
https://t.co/wr3S9LCwXS
This is unacceptable.
We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit.
As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I’d support a hearing if necessary.
Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.
https://t.co/hSNPLyjrCX