Elizz
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Elizz
@Elizz224
likes: travel 🏖 olympics and fun 🤩 dislikes: covid 🦠 mandates 🛑 school exclusions, masks 😷,new normal,
Good… but why do we have to suffer under these relentless back-and-forth court decisions? It’s exhausting. Just let women talk to their own doctors and make their own decisions about their own bodies and their own health care.
tremendous jumps in average gas prices, these are the top 10 states seeing average prices surge the most, all of them over 30c/gal higher from a week ago
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
For the most devoted fans, Disney has engineered an ecosystem of financial entanglement that goes far deeper than park tickets or merchandise, which keeps the magic—and the debt—perpetually compounding. In 2023, Ashley, a freshman at Quinnipiac University, in Connecticut, had $15,000 in her bank account. Excited by her newfound freedom as a college student, she decided to start going on solo trips. Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida, seemed like an obvious choice. She went during her winter break. Then she returned, six times, in two years. Soon enough, her account balance had dwindled to just five dollars. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many adults who have accumulated Disney debt seem to be chasing a feeling from their childhoods. One woman, who has been to Disney World more than a hundred times, said that visiting the parks takes her back to a time when she had fewer worries: “It’s the nostalgic feeling of what brought you joy when you were little and you didn’t have the stressors of adult life.” Read more about the Disney adults putting themselves in debt for the pursuit of magic: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_JqtFg
Appeals court approves sweeping abortion pill restrictions, teeing up SCOTUS showdown dlvr.it/TSKZr5
Two charts that tell you all you will ever need to know about the failure of Obamacare. It was passed in 2010, the very year American life expectancy began to stagnate. Since then, the US has fallen ever further behind other rich countries. Yet our medical spending has doubled.