I have so much respect for the healthcare workers who do their best in a system that is designed to make it so hard to get the care needed. Especially as someone on Medicaid.
As I prepare for my Peace Corps service, the biggest hurdle has been getting my medical clearance. Trying to navigate the healthcare system has been defeating and beyond frustrating at times.
Can we not?... Tom Brady is not news worthy. Washed up and irrelevant.
Whether it's in response to the devastating aftermath of fires or the ongoing housing crisis, people's access to community can be a matter of survival or falling into a cycle of poverty that is almost impossible to get out from under. We need a paradigm shift in how we talk about mutual aid.
Just watched the film Lee, with Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, a photographer who was a correspondent during WWII. Great film. And Andy Samberg was a damn revelation in such a dramatic role.
First post... trying this alternative to meta bs