The Wife is at the hospital for emergency tests (not COVID). I am trying to work, which feels impossible.
I would very much appreciate prayers from those who pray and healing energy from those who don't. (I'm religious, she's an atheist.) Thank you.
We got another test result update today from our fab primary practice. The Wife has no lung disease,which was a serious concern,as she is a recovered smoker & has had a severe lingering cough for months since she had a fall at school in late Nov.(that caused the rib fractures).
We are still waiting on another round of test results due next week on other symptomology, but knowing that The Wife does not have COPD or lung cancer is huge. Thank you again for all your support and well wishes. We are both so appreciative.
Also, if you still smoke, STOP. Lung cancer is #1 cancer death among women (and men), while #COPD is the 3rd leading cause of death overall among women. I wrote about this for @damemagazine: damemagazine.com/2018/12/03/the…
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🧵Last night The Wife went to pick up my prescription at CVS and even with the (lovely woman) pharmacist running all my cards and looking for viable coupons it was $2,700 for a one-month supply. This same medication--which is neither new nor experimental--used to cost $150.
🧵There are serious issues in America that impact millions and medical expense is top among them. Every day I see references to ending student loan debt (which I support). But THE most crushing debt in the US is medical debt. And the costs of drugs is literally killing people.
🧵Folks like me who can't afford the life-saving medications we need to stay alive are cutting back on meds or not taking them at all and hoping for the best. The media talks relentlessly about inflation related to gas and groceries,but never mentions Rx prices, which are way up.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has picked a new congressional map. The map slightly favors Republicans — with some important wins for Democrats. inquirer.com/politics/penns…
🧵In a 4-3 decision 2/23, the court chose a map that was drawn by a Stanford professor and proposed by Democratic plaintiffs. The court also imposed a new election calendar for the May 17 primary, leaving that election day in place.
🧵Congressional maps are redrawn every decade to reflect changes in population, and Pennsylvania has a history of partisan gerrymandering — drawing the map to unfairly favor one political party over another.
🧵IOC just destroyed another young woman athlete,complicit with the Russian coaches who gave Kamila Valiyeva drugs,lied about her test, gave her a ludicrously unbelievable story to tell, putting full blame on her instead of taking responsibility. Appalling treatment of this girl.
🧵Russia shouldn't be competing all all. They were banned for doping. But IOC bent to Putin and created the fake ROC. Why didn't Kamila's test from TWO MONTHS AGO get reported until this week? That's more Russian subterfuge. In which the IOC is utterly complicit. #Olympics2022
🧵People who don't understand what these Russian athletes go through, how these little girls get plucked out of their families and made to compete for the State. And then are discarded for a new model. #TaraLipinski echoed what I said here after the short program. It's criminal.
Incredibly disappointing piece that reduces Malcolm Kenyatta's run to a paragraph and mentions Black voters--still the Democratic base and the majority of Philly voters--twice.
The left neutralizes the Dem establishment in Pa. Senate primary politi.co/3gMgkCw
Kenyatta has more endorsements than any of the top three candidates and ranks side by side with Fetterman in polling. Dismissing the actual left candidate--Kenyatta--for Fetterman while ignoring Fetterman's and Lamb's problems with Black voters is lax at best.
But Otterbein does nail that Lamb is more of the same wrt Democratic centrism. But the fact that Rendell and Carville are quoted here is part of the problem. No one under 50 (or 40 or 30) could care less what they think.
I wrote about the race here: epgn.com/2022/01/26/ana…
#ChristinaYunaLee fought her attacker, who was out on supervised release from previous assaults, for some time. One resident of her 6 floor building heard her screams but "thought nothing of it."
Police are not calling this a hate crime,but there have been a series of attacks on Asian women & men in recent weeks. Michelle Alyssa Go was killed when she was pushed in front of a subway train in January. Mayor Adams says he stands in solidarity with the Asian/AAPI community.
Anti-Asian hate crimes escalated starting in 2020 due to Trump claiming China as the source of the coronavirus.
I wrote about the rise in violence last March after the horrific mass murder of Asian women in Atlanta, but little has been written since. epgn.com/2021/03/17/sto…
Well, I've been a politics reporter for three decades for five dailies, three weeklies and several national magazines and this assessment, while cool snark, is only that. Quislings like Haberman and Schmidt aren't the norm. Most of us are working hard for real news.
It's convenient to forget all the news we reporters break that is fundamental to maintaining democracy--even when it is about politicians you align with. Have less fealty to fave politicians. That's what allows a Haberman or Schmidt to evolve.
You can't have it both ways--claim that all political reporting is just gossip and rumors and then complain that someone didn't reveal what you call gossip sooner. Some examples: when Watergate, the S&L scandal, Abu Ghraib were exposed, no one on the left thought it was gossip.