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“By the usual measures, Biden should be cruising to reëlection. Violent crime has dropped to nearly a fifty-year low, unemployment is below four per cent, and in January the S. & P. 500 and the Dow hit record highs. More Americans than ever have health insurance, and the country is producing more energy than at any previous moment in its history. His opponent, who is facing ninety-one criminal counts, has suggested that if he is elected he will fire as many as fifty thousand civil servants and replace them with loyalists, deputize the National Guard as a mass-deportation force, and root out what he calls “the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.””

— Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

#us politics #joe biden #i honestly feel like I'm taking crazy pills #i realize there is a lot of shit happening right now #and tensions are high #and our voting system needs work #but we have 2 options #don't fucking choose the guy who wants to start by rounding up brown people #he certainly won't stop there

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poll plagiarism <3

#100% #but I'm going to be real here #i only did that well because I'd just done the other European country test #otherwise i would have probably gotten a few wrong

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Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen

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if you're ok with an incessant amount of boops reblog this so I can get those other 2 badges <3

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reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

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Less than three months after U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and her colleagues launched an investigation into the four major American manufacturers of inhalers, three of the companies have relented, making commitments to cap costs for their inhalers at $35 for patients who now pay much more.

25 million Americans have asthma and 16 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), meaning over 40 million Americans rely on inhalers to breathe.

Inhalers have been available since the 1950s, and most of the drugs they use have been on the market for more than 25 years.

According to a statement from the Wisconsin Senator’s office, inhaler manufacturers sell the exact same products at a much lower costs in other countries. One of AstraZeneca’s inhalers, Breztri Aerosphere, costs $645 in the U.S.—but just $49 in the UK. Inhalers made by Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, and Teva have similar disparities.

Baldwin and her Democratic colleagues—New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders—pressured the companies to lower their prices by writing letters to GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva, and AstraZeneca requesting a variety of documents that show why such higher prices are charged in America compared to Europe.

As a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Baldwin recently announced that as a result of the letters they had secured commitments from three of the four to lower the out-of-pocket costs of inhalers to a fixed $35.00 rate.

“For the millions of Americans who rely on inhalers to breathe, this news is a major step in the right direction as we work to lower costs and hold big drug companies accountable,” said Senator Baldwin.

A full list of the inhalers and associated drugs can be viewed here.

It’s the second time in the last year that pharmaceutical companies were forced to provide reasonable prices—after the cost of insulin was similarly capped successfully at $35 per month thanks to Congressional actions led by the White House.

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

#inhalers #us politics #us healthcare #that's my fucking senator #i met Tammy Baldwin this week #she's really awesome #and considering my other senator is the Russian schill ron johnson #it feels good to get to have one senator who cares about us #and gets shit done

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*please disregard the 'string' on the second option! if you play any other instrument that relates to short nails, you may click on that option :)

*sensory issues could fall under 'make me feel weird' or 'other'

*health issues, dysphoria, typing and work may fall under 'other' too!

i kind of posted this on impulse and didn't expect to reach such a wide audience, so i missed a lot of possible reasons. thank you to those who clarified in the tags and allowed me to be aware :)

#sports #specifically contact sports #I've seen a few of these polls #and they always leave sports off #but there are a lot of sports that are quite dangerous to long nails

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#this is literally a nightmare scenario #Trump is a threat to democracy #he is a threat to minorities #he is a threat to us all #vote for Biden #i don't fucking care that he's ancient #i don't fucking care that you don't like xyz #i am willing to guarantee that he will not start rounding up your neighbors and putting them in camp #you have to vote for Biden #not third party #not abstaining

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TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

via ift.tt

#happy clair cameron patterson day!

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Ma Dong-seok in Train to Busan (2016) dir. Yeon Sang-ho

#ok i have to dispute this being a dad bod #our expectations are so broken #that is what a legit strong man looks like #i know we've become accustomed to quote fit dudes having no body fat and seeing every strand of muscle #but actual strength doesn't look like that #it looks like this #he is a dad and has this bod #but that is not a dad bod #that is the bod of an absolute unit

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#this is for real #it doesn't mean experts are always right #or that it's not ok to ask questions #but not all opinions should be weighted equally #during the covid vaccine ridiculousness #i was talking to my dad and my husband and it #and i deferred to my husband on something medical about the vaccine #and my dad was like why did his opinion matter more #and i said he's a doctor #and my dad got a bit huffy saying that just because he's a doctor didn't mean his opinion counts more #and i said 100% it does when the topic is about medicine #when the topic is the law or real estate #then your opinion as a lawyer holds more weight #this shouldn't be controversial

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if u feel the first cramp and think "i dont need a painkiller yet, itll pass" ? that the devil speaking, take that painkiller immediately

#there is no reward for being in pain #for my thumb surgery i had a nerve block on my whole arm #so i couldn't feel anything for several hours after the surgery #the second i started to feel the tingling in my fingers #i took my prescribed painkillers #and my pain was well managed #then i went to sleep and didn't wake up to take a painkiller on schedule #i woke up in a lot of pain #and it took hours to get the pain under control

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go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

#rural Romania #i think I'll survive

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#sport reasons #i play contact sports #long nails are a BIG no no #i also am just generally very hard on my nails #between sports and chores and crafting #so if i don't keep them short they're constantly chipping and breaking #and generally driving me crazy

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Ok, I almost never add on to things, but as a former Mormon, this one is of particular interest to me. I would like to echo that Mormon missionaries are teenagers who have been raised to believe the things they do from the moment they were born. Yes, it might seem obvious to you how absurd the things they believe are, but the people they love and trust most in the world have been teaching and reinforcing this stuff for years.

But also please know that these kids are also raised from a very young age with the expectation that they will go on a mission. It's not really a choice for many of them. The boys used to go at 19 so they had a year of college or other adulting beforehand, but too many kids were leaving the nest and then deciding they didn't want to serve missions. So they recently bumped it up to 18 to send these kids straight from the nest out to test their faith. And here's the thing, there are huge problems with depression and mental illness. There's a very good chance that the kid knocking on your door with a book and a smile is depressed af and moments away from a panic attack and feeling guilty that they aren't faithful enough to push through it.

So yes, think they're wrong and silly all you want, and feel free to vilify and protest the organization for all of the many valid reasons you would want to, but please be kind to these kids. Not just because you don't want to reinforce the belief that they will be persecuted for their faith. Be kind because they are humans who almost certainly didn't have a choice in their faith.

#misc #religion #ex mormon

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#makes me laugh every time #random #funny

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Star Trek: The Next Generation // S02E21: Peak Performance

#ok this might have just made me cry #i literally just opened Tumblr for the first time today #since losing a national semifinal rugby game #where i played by absolute hardest and did my best #and this was the very first thing on my feed #so now I'm crying