The best thing coming out of Black Panther is the renewed calls for the release of jailed Black Panther members who’ve been incarcerated for decades. The FBI’s terrorism unit had labeled them “black identity extremists”, claiming that activists fighting police brutality posed a violent threat.
An incomplete list of
Black Liberation political prisoners
The US is in the middle of a particularly bad flu outbreak and people are dying because they can’t afford medicine, or because they are making horrible choices between like that between medicine and other basic needs.
This breaks my heart literally every day, because I see so many customers have to make this choice. Sometimes they can afford it for the person in the family that is actually sick right now, but can’t buy it for the rest of the family (or at least those most at risk of catching it from their loved one), and then someone else catches it, and it’s just a vicious cycle. Especially since there’s multiple strains going around, so overcoming one bout of flu (or having the flu shot) doesn’t mean 100% immunity to catching another strain of it.
Over here in PA/NJ the generic $106.99 cash, but a lot of people haven’t met their yearly deductibles yet, so the insurance companies
(the absolute filth)
cover NOTHING. NADA. ZIP. Not even a measly 5%.
SO!!! Here’s what to do:
If you are prescribed Tamiflu or it’s generic, Oseltamivir, ask your doctor if they have a coupon for it, or immediately go online/on your phone and look up a coupon on google. Usually GoodRx or scriptsave have decent coupons.
(Between $40-$80 is what I normally see for coupon prices, much better than $100-$250). There’s also familywize, wish foundation, blink (who don’t work with CVS btw), or even your state’s drug discount card.
Make sure it’s for the form and strength of the drug you were prescribed (capsules or liquid, usually. 30/45/60/75mg) and for the pharmacy you’re going to. GoodRX has different prices for CVS vs Walgreens vs Costco, etc. You may need to check with the pharmacy if they have it in stock, because there’s a huge shortage since the manufacturers didn’t anticipate such high demand. Adjust the brand/generic and which chain on the coupon accordingly.
Activate them if they need activating – usually an email or a quick call, sometimes an app download. Read any fine print and check that the coupon is not expired.
Take a screenshot, or print it out. Barring that, write down all the codes exactly as they appear, including how they’re labelled. (Pharmacies always need BINs and IDs, but if there’s PCNs, [rx]Group numbers, Person Codes, etc, they’ll need everything on the card to be able to bill correctly. It’s better to have the actual card/email/screenshot.)
When you get to the pharmacy, check how much your prescription is. If it’s more than the coupon (again, usually $40-80, but sometimes less), ask politely!!!*** for them to rebill the drug with this coupon, and wait patiently as they do so (depending on how busy they are and how busy the servers are for the company they’re submitting the info to, it may take a few minutes.) Understand that whatever amount is billed to the coupon is not being contributed towards paying your deductible, but hopefully you won’t have to worry about that much over the year.
Success. Please feel better soon.
***Please, please, please be polite. Please do not yell or have your parent/spouse/sibling/child/friend/nurse/neighbor/nanny/errand boy yell at the pharmacists/technicians/front store employees/customers in front or behind you/hapless passerby
about the price or availability or how much insurance is a racket. Please understand that the workers have absolutely no control of how much ANY drug costs initially, nor how much your insurance asks for as a copay, nor how helpful the coupons turn out to be in regards to your own financial situation. Even their control over availability is tenuous at best, because of aforementioned manufacturer backlog, high demand, and strict ordering systems. If they need to call around to find it for you, let them call around. If they need a few minutes to get the information processed, give them a few minutes. Please treat your fellow humans with respect, even when you understandably feel like shit and they are limited in what they can do for you.
GoodRX is an absolute saving grace. It brought my ADD meds down from $274 to $125. It helps with almost every med if you pay out of pocket. Sign up, download the app, follow the instructions. Be well, y’all. 💜
As a former pharmacy tech I promise you if you are polite and there isn’t a line 7 people deep a good tech will move heaven and earth to get you what you need and find you a coupon. For a while I had three different discount cards memorized. Sometimes they would only take off $5 sometimes it would make the medicine half price but I was willing to try.
Roy Moore Spokesman Ted Crockett: Muslims can’t serve because you have to swear in on a Bible. Jake Tapper: There’s no law that says you have to swear in on a Bible. Crockett: *shitshitshitshitshitTHINKMANTHINK* Tapper: You do know that right? Crockett: *justfinishstrongmanyoucandothis* WELL DONALD TRUMP
I saw this live. I was stunned
Is that true !?! You can swear on the quran for the inauguration to become the president of the United States ?! Guess I have some homework
Yes, because America is not a Christian nation. It was never supposed to have a state religion. As long as you’re a United States citizen and you meet the age and service requirements for President of the United States, you have every right to run.
UPDATE on HOMEWORK:
This what I found( cut and pasted ):
“Theodore Roosevelt did not use a Bible when taking the oath in 1901. Both John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce swore on a book of law, with the intention that they were swearingon the constitution. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in on a Roman Catholic missal on Air Force One”
I had no idea, I like the swearing on the book of law. Like @thunder-the-great said, we aren’t supposed to have a state religion.
The Constitution specifically forbids any religious test to hold office. You can swear on anything or nothing at all. You don’t even have to swear, the Constitution specifically says you can affirm.
Lan Diep of the San Jose city council swore on Captain America’s shield. You can literally swear on anything or nothing.
Pretty sure that after one of the last Congressional elections, there was an atheist who was sworn in with a book printing of the Constitution, which is absolutely the route I would choose, myself.
Also, if you swear in on a bible and you’re not Christian, you don’t burst into flame, or anything. Holy books, texts, and symbols are not boobytraps that those of different faiths cannot touch without being forced to convert on the spot, or be imprisoned or killed. That is still a completely dipshit reason to say that Muslims can’t hold American offices, even without there being a law to use a bible.
“But if they swear on a bible, it won’t mean anything to them!” Well, it doesn’t mean anything to you, either, or you wouldn’t keep refusing to heal the sick and feed the hungry.
As I said before.
We wrote the Constitution to protect FREEDOM OF RELIGION, not a SPECIFIC religion. Christians are trying to make this country Christian, when it was never meant to be. It was meant to be a haven.
So what can we learn from this study? On the data side, we see that everything is proceeding as planned. Nobody’s paying $50 for a burger at McDonald’s, or $16 for a can of tuna at Safeway. Employers wish their profits were higher, and workers are glad they got a raise, but they wish they made more money. Three years after Seattle started down the road to $15, everything is as it should be. Those apocalyptic claims of destruction and business closures haven’t been proven true.
One thing the study didn’t explain was why the sky didn’t fall as promised. Why weren’t workers laid off in droves, or replaced with robots? Why didn’t prices skyrocket? Why does Seattle have more restaurants now than at any point in its history?
It’s because those workers who saw a raise now have more money to spend in the city around them. Those restaurant workers are eating in more restaurants. They’re buying more groceries. They’re buying more clothes and cars. That increased consumer demand is creating jobs, and more than paying for the increased minimum wage. The $15 minimum wage established a positive feedback loop that created growth in Seattle by including more people in the economy. In other words, it worked exactly as intended.
She was identified Thursday, the same day the death of a Flint Water Treatment Plant foreman who was wanted for questioning in connection with the crisis was announced.
This is the election that counts. Start educating yourself now on who will be campaigning to be your congresspeople/governor/etc.
Register to vote NOW. Don’t wait. You can do it any time.
This is the fight we need to win. VOTE
VOTE
VOTE
Also…reminder to pay attention to all local elections and VOTE. These elected officials are the people most likely to directly impact your life in the short term.
This has to start now. Right now.
Get your birth certificates. There may be a fee or long wait times. Make sure you get a certified copy.
Make sure you have ID. Dig into your state’s laws and the whole Real ID thing, because (and sorry I can’t research this now, but pneumonia) I believe there are certain states whose driver’s licenses don’t qualify for Real ID.
Make sure you’re registered to vote. Google it. Follow the instructions for your state.
Know where your local polling place is or find out if you can vote by mail.
Vote in ALL your upcoming elections. Yes, that means the little ones for city council or dog catcher or whatever. Vote those racist, homophobic, bigots out at every level.
They’re like weeds. You can pull up every visible bit, but if you leave one tiny segment of root, they’ll just come back.
To quote Mira Grant, rise up while you can. Because the Republicans are way the hell worse than zombies.
the united states government: hey … you know what sounds like a great idea?
the american people: what
the united states government: how about we have five people vote for something that impacts each and every one of you severely but get this, here’s the best part, none of you get to vote for who these five people are
the american people: that doesn’t… sound … like a democracy…
the united states government: that’s because it isn’t (:
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