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My son just aged out of my health insurance.
Two choices for him.
Pay over $1,400 a month for COBRA
or
Pay over $400 a month on the Health Marketplace, which is actually the least expensive plan there.
Apparently, I'm going to be paying for his cell phone forever to help him out.
The system is not set up to help young adults succeed.
Housing unaffordable. School is unaffordable and Healthcare unaffordable and you have the guy in the White House more concerned about gold for his ballroom and blue paint for the reflecting pool.
#DemsUnited
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The NFL is deprioritizing Sunday and that's a major problem.
Bob Pompeani@KDPomp
Soon, NFL games will be on 6 days a week There are Sunday games, Monday games, Wednesday games, Thursday games and now Friday games and at least 6 Saturday games ( 4 regular and 2 post season games)
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Glasses were placed in front of us but we did not drink them. I know that may be a confusing concept for Director Patel.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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My seemingly healthy, strong father Daniel “Dad Timpf” Timpf died very unexpectedly on the evening of May 7 at just 69 years old.
It does not seem like enough to simply call him my father, because he was so much more than that. He was my rock, my hero and my best friend. He was loyal, funny, kind, selfless, hard-working, and so devoted to his children that it was impossible to be near him and not find yourself inspired. He was a writer, a painter, a sailor, and somehow knowledgeable on every subject from world history to literature to accounting. He was the most dependable person anyone has ever met. I always felt like, as long as I had his phone number, there was not a problem I could not solve. I needed him here with me; I am not okay, and I am far from the only person who feels this.
The birth of my son in February 2025, his first grandchild, was supposed to be a happy new beginning for our family. A family that had been already once devastated by an untimely loss: the loss of my mother Anne Marie to a rare disease in 2014 just a matter of weeks after her diagnosis.
The joy of my son’s birth was, of course, complicated by my also very unexpected breast cancer diagnosis just a matter of hours before going into labor with him. During this time, my dad did what he did best, which was to save the day. As soon as he heard about my diagnosis, he simply got into the car and started driving to New York -- making it through the tunnel just as my son was born…on the day that happened to be his own birthday, as well.
In the tumultuous time of a simultaneous new cancer diagnosis and new baby, my dad was the sole reason for our stability, rushing in to help care for our son, and returning to do so again for my double mastectomy, reconstructive surgery, and any time that we ever needed him. It was an awful, awful year… but I found so much joy and hope throughout it by watching the beauty of a very special relationship form between my son and my father. This horrible thing that was happening was creating such a very special bond between the two of them -- almost making the terrible thing worth it -- and I was so excited to see how that bond would grow.
The bond was of top priority for my father, who visited from Michigan often. I saw him last on the Monday before he died, and my son was so proud to help his grandfather push his suitcase down to the car as he left. The goodbyes were quick. Why wouldn’t they be? We would all see each other again at the beginning of June, when we would all head to Texas for my shows and to see my grandpa. We wanted to make sure that my son could spend as much time as he could with his great-grandfather. He is, after all, 93.
I was certainly not over the trauma of my cancer or having to amputate the breasts I so badly wanted to feed my son with, but the one thing I could always count on to get me through my worst moments was seeing my son’s and my father’s faces light up when they saw each other, be it during the visits or our routine morning and bedtime FaceTime calls.
That is, at least, until I had to hear over the phone from a doctor I had never met in an emergency room in the same town up north that I’d previously announced to my father that I was pregnant that my dad was dead; I would never see him again, and neither would my son. It would turn out that last year was not the hard one, after all. Rather, it was the one I would now do anything to relive. I would amputate my breasts every year just to be able to speak with him one more time, even for five minutes.
I am currently living an unimaginable horror. For many people, this is a tragic story. For me, it’s my life. I do not know how I will recover from it. I only know that I have to for the sake of what is left of my family.
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@ProFootballTalk @billsperos Hi Bill. Supporting the racist misogynist insurrectionist lying criminal. Ok Nazi.
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Given how Mike Florio willfully and completely distorted THIS story - watch the video - one can only imagine what he fabricates when we don't have the video
ProFootballTalk@ProFootballTalk
Donald Trump "not happy" Fernando Mendoza skipped Indiana's visit to the White House. nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…
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@billsperos The quotes are straight from the video, Billy.
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Joel Embiid was asked about the way tonight's game was officiated and whether or not the officials let more things go tonight:
"They shot 32 free throws, we had 16. We're not a team that shoots a lot of threes. We attack, put the ball on the ground. I don't know.
I guess it's good when New York wins, so we've just got to have that mentality of just not fouling, I guess, and being smart enough to not put ourselves in a position where they're going to take advantage of it."
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I find it morally reprehensible that @abbydphillip @CNN are now defending a “comedian” after spending the last 10 years cancelling comedians for “offensive” jokes.
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@GovKathyHochul Or maybe she was a deranged lunatic who tried to run over an ice agent.
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I’ll be in Portland tomorrow with @grahamformaine to kick off his campaign to retire Susan Collins.
Let’s go win this thing.
Democrats@TheDemocrats
Maine, let’s send an oyster farmer to the U.S. Senate—and kick out Susan Collins.
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Graham Platner isn’t just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins, he’s a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better.
I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces. Clearly, that’s what so many people in Maine have done - from all different walks of life and political persuasions.
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine
My statement on Governor Mills' decision:
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@ChrisMurphyCT That’s not rigging an economy. Why don’t you tell us how much each of them paid in payroll taxes?
Or why don’t you mention how much employees paid in income taxes due to these businesses providing job opportunities for people?
You people are always trying to take more money.
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