Nah, you really gotta read the article. They’re gonna force insurance companies to separate from the stupid mandatory specialty pharmacies that they own that they force anyone insured who needs a “specialty medication” to use. I used to be able to get my specialty medication at the regular fucking pharmacy, and so did everyone else before they started up this nonsense. They cost more, and I’ve never had one that didn’t fuck me over every single year when I have to redo my prior authorization. Like I have to get every specialty prescription filled in advance, even if I don’t necessarily need it right now, to have a stockpile of 2-3 months of medication in case they fuck it up again and I lose that buffer. Most people don’t have that buffer. Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum, and there so many more. Call your fucking congressperson and tell them to support this legislation. PLEASE.
the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:
Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how “smooth” sharks really are.
Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because it’s so smooth.
But buddy.
Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims. … In the opposite direction, it feels very rough like sandpaper.
the reporter is standing outside the prison walls, while the inmates are inside watching newsmax, and collectively screaming out one-word answers to questions loud enough to be heard by the reporter.
I’ve never seen anything like it
People are talking about how this interview is some of the best journalism they’ve ever seen, and how it’s probably the most humanizing, fair coverage inmates have EVER had. How it’s giving a voice to the voiceless, how it’s going to legit change people’s views towards prison.
And they’re RIGHT
Just want to clarify for anyone who was hesitant like me about the source, this is NOT newsmax, the far right propaganda channel that thinks Fox News is too liberal — it is actually NewsNation, aka WGN, a legitimate news source
I’ve got my tumblr inbox turned off so I really have to commend the person who actually emailed me to let me know they don’t like the things I’ve posted about the UnitedHealth CEO being murdered on their commitment to their beliefs.
But seen as how you emailed me from a dud email that appears to be bouncing back replies and I really wanted to address something you said to me about violence begetting violence:
My migraine medication, the medication I was given for my debilitating neurological disease that has gotten so bad I spent most of this year actively suicidal, costs $1300 a month.
My insurance covered it. But only because my doctors office went to fucking war for me because I’m a high anaphylaxis risk for the drugs the insurance wanted me to try.
Because that’s the thing.
My doctors knew, based on my documented medical history, I likely wouldn’t be a good fit for the “first line” of preventative migraine drugs, but because of insurance, I had to be given drugs that were contradictory to my other life threatening conditions, because otherwise insurance wouldn’t cover anything else.
I failed them. Spectacularly and with an anaphylactic reaction to one of them. And I was still warned insurance would fight me because I hadn’t tried the remaining drug they wanted me to try.
A drug which I would have to take in an ER waiting room because my mast cell disease is unpredictable but insurance wouldn’t cover in-patient treatment to let me try it safely under medical supervision.
Is that not violence?
Were all the times I was denied coverage for vital and necessary procedures that could have prevented my disabilities from worsening not violence?
Maybe not in the sense you mean. But I assure you it felt very much like violence to me.
Do I condone murder? No, obviously. But I’m also sick and tired of people pretending that what is happening to the American people every day isn’t eugenics through class warfare.
Violence begets violence.
It sure fucking does.
Maybe these insurance companies should have thought of that first.
The Sam Reich fans are finding that one selfie again, saying we look alike and have the same style, and I’m begging folks to understand that man didn’t invent having a beard and wearing glasses + suits.
Gonna be a grump and blame athleisure in part for completely obliterating men’s day-to-day fashion to where a sportscoat and vest are conflated for a suit, and all suits in the last 300 years have been compressed into a singular style.
Sorry, guys, I don’t watch his stuff. Our styles are about 80-90 years apart. He dresses very corporate entertainer. I dress vintage country gentlemen. The vibes are nowhere near the same, I don’t know how else I can tell you.
Like, OK. Let me break this down.
Reich favors a very corporate palette. Greys and blues. Pinstripes are a very conservative pattern. No texture to his fabrics. His colors communicate a formal persona despite being an entertainer. His ties are wide and modern, flat colored, with “power” knots. Double-breasted coats, also a “power” cut. He offsets the Boss Boy look with sneakers to look more approachable.
(I don’t like this style, but he enjoys it and looks confident and good in it, which is what’s important.)
I don’t really wear suits. Usually single-breasted sports coats. A mixture of textures and fabric types, usually the more “rustic” stuff like corduroy and tweeds. I favor browns and greens, which are not seen as formal, or even really business professional. My glasses are small and owlish, not big Mad Men frames.
My look is much more casual and has a vintage rural connotation (and yes, sigh, academic), even if I’m considered dapper. I don’t belong in the boardroom.
We’re communicating very different personas, and even if you don’t know that half my clothes are cut in 1930s/40s style (while Reich’s are modern), it still makes me sad to be conflated with someone who is doing a completely different thing with his look. I feel like we are losing a lot of fashion vocabulary.
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It started as an annoyance, but it’s been happening enough times to where people have felt the need to tag Reich *himself* into my threads, which is really fucked up parasocial behavior that has the additional outcome of centering a cis man on a trans joy post.
Absolutely deranged combination of face blindness, fashion blindness, and the real sin: overstepping boundaries to be a parasocial weirdo.
There’s all sorts of other nonsense in my tags from people who have only ever seen 1 TV show or don’t know a pair of brown jeans from Victorian trousers. But those, I can ignore after a little venting.
But I now block anyone making Sam Reich comparisons, because people have no goddamned manners and I have to cut off the reblogs from spreading amongst his fans lest more people try to tag him in.
Tagging a celeb into a thread irrevocably makes that thread about the celeb and people’s reactions to that celeb and is always going to be a shitty thing to do, especially on someone’s personal content.
Happy to see folks recognize that I am wearing sportswear. Reich is dressed for business. I am in outdoor clothing, which is ironic given the “librarian” connotation tweed now carries.
Maybe one day I’ll be brave enough to wear plus fours, like this gentleman of yore, golfer Tom Morris:
Also Sam Reich’s style is textbook gameshow host– because he is one.
Should you need to compare his style to someone else’s compare it to another gameshow host’s. 😒😒 The pinstripes, the neutral dark tones, the double breasted cut, the slightly shiny fabric texture, even the statement tie are straight out of the gameshow uniform.
Meanwhile if there’s any celebrity most of us would be familiar with I could compare op’s style with its J. R. R. Tolkien
There’s the tweed, the open jacket with waistcoat/vest, the mix of textures and colors, very much country gentleman meets casual professor.
The resemblance between these looks, beyond both being menswear styles, is nonexistent. For reference, this comparison sounds as ridiculous as someone claiming the two styles below are the same:
Imgaine claiming these were similar enough to even be compared. “They both have a hood and long sleeves!! So it’s basically the same outfit!” That’s how deranged this sounds. No amount of face blindness could explain this, it’s just an infestation of idiots. God help them if the Twitter menswear guy gets ahold of them.
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