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Stephen M Phoenix, AZ LD4 You probably know me as “Benji and AJ’s Dad” or “Lori’s Husband”

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Hollywood

27.07.2025 08:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is wild how much of right wing greivence culture is now just mom said you have to play with me

10.06.2025 04:34 — 👍 1043    🔁 141    💬 0    📌 2
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People shooting the rapids.

12.05.2025 21:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They needed a toilet where they can sit with their legs straight and knees locked. Like pooping while seated in a kayak.

12.05.2025 21:46 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They could be just that stupid. In fact, they could be even more stupid than that.

21.04.2025 23:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where’s my paycheck?!

“The paymaster wasn’t contributing enough to lethality.”

10.04.2025 23:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then that is dumb.

01.04.2025 01:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t forget fundraising texts to pay off debt from when they lost the last election.

01.04.2025 01:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s because they’re not tipping 20%. They’re probably tipping 12%.

01.04.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Touch grass, idiot" - some 80 year old Oil Board Chair who talks fondly about losing his house to creditors back in the 1984 oil crash when he was an accountant

14.02.2025 21:00 — 👍 88    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

And a day after Musk called an American senator, who was also a fairly distinguished veteran and astronaut, a “traitor”.

11.03.2025 22:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just finished watching it.
It was a tough, gristly piece of meat to chew through.

02.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*hurls an Emmy at Sterling K Brown* #paradise

27.02.2025 15:06 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 1

Trump is technically correct.

…when that happened after the 2020 election.

26.02.2025 23:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your tracking data has been one of my big arguments for state, county and local party to focus on driving registrations for this cycle. Lots of great things for the party to debate and dissect, but the registration gap is a pure math problem.

23.02.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I spend a lot of time writing about many of the horrors of American history, but one consistent bright spot, something about which it is right to be proud, is that we've never had a king.

11.02.2025 13:34 — 👍 52    🔁 9    💬 9    📌 1

Continuing the trend started last fall. Same trend downward across Europe for months.
Australia is one of the only countries bucking the trend.

10.02.2025 21:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No. Try to keep up. They’re called the Los Angeles Lukas.

04.02.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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27.01.2025 13:28 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Graeters x Skyline Chili Ice Cream Review #snack #foodtok #food #icecream #Graeters #Skyline @Graeter’s Ice Cream @Skyline Chili TikTok video by mgolicjr

Graeters x Skyline Chili Ice Cream: 9.3/10

a triumph. two of my favorite Cincinnati institutions coming together for a glorious symphony of flavors. the oyster crackers really make it sing.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2NPMcau/

25.01.2025 16:26 — 👍 135    🔁 10    💬 17    📌 18
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This was ruled a catch by Xavier Worthy on the field. The Bills challenge, but it fails, and the call stands.

Do you agree? 🤔

27.01.2025 01:09 — 👍 90    🔁 2    💬 61    📌 2

This was the best thing in my feed this week.

08.01.2025 15:58 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years

me: punching a goose in it’s mouth

interviewer: you know actually we’ve already filled the position

me: *clenches fist* was it a goose

16.12.2024 16:22 — 👍 539    🔁 83    💬 8    📌 1

Real conversation I had with Narus.
Them: “They said they’re not in network”
Me: “But they are…”
Them: “They said they’re not”
Me: “Explain to them that they are. That’s literally half your job here”
Them: “How do I prove it?”
Me: “That’s the other half of your job!”

14.12.2024 18:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Keep at this, Mark. I’ve been doing advocacy on health insurance reforms (mostly COBRA) for years and I know how hard this is and how tricky your opponents are. Stay at it!

13.12.2024 00:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you can find a way through those issues, you’ll win this fight.

You’ve got to find a way to simplify it for the providers and for those who are covered.

Otherwise you’ll end up like us. Switching to Anthem after 4 years, and paying a higher price for basically the same coverage.

12.12.2024 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Narus handled the claims issues between the providers, the TPA and PBM.

Our insurance was fantastic (on paper), and cheaper (on paper), but our employees would get stuck waiting for someone in a provider admin office to learn how to key in everything correctly. Leading to denials and delays.

12.12.2024 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Lucent as the TPA with Welldyne as PBM.

Most of the claim & auth denials was due to confusion at the providers level.

Then it’s an issue of speed to clear it up. Waiting hours or days for the patient services rep to get on the phone to hear “No, you are in network. It’s covered.”

12.12.2024 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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