Insulin should be free!

There’s a lot going on but as a quick reminder, insulin is still expensive and should be free

ah, well

Really lookin forward to all the newly minted "political violence is never ok" people to join the call for a ceasefire in Gaza

If your first time speaking up about BAD THINGS is when BAD THINGS happen to BAD PEOPLE, then you are also BAD PEOPLE

The whole “this moment will be studied” thing has been overdone over the last (checks notes) decade??? But man this is a bad bad day and a lot of damage is being done to the country. So many people will die. You gotta wonder how much bad is too much to come back from

Happy Disability Pride Month my friends. They fear our resilience.

I get a 3-month supply of CGMs in the mail regularly. This quarter, only one month of CGMs arrived. I called and whaddya know... national shortages

ICE is one of the biggest embarrassments in modern American history. Mass deportations are a cornerstone of fascism. Your life is better because you’re surrounded by immigrants. Love thy neighbor, remember?

Happy pride my friends

Trump wants other countries to pay more so that the US can pay a little less for prescription drugs. Instead of just, I don't know, supporting price caps on expensive drugs. Say it with me: The corporations and billionaires will not save us. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/h...

As someone who met with a cofounder of Levels several years ago, I can confidently say that Casey Means- and anybody involved with that company- has no business as surgeon general

Self described leftists need to stop making “political cartoons” with ai

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Years ago I have a statement to the FTC leading up to this lawsuit and I’m bummed as hell that it looks like it’s dead now www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/f...

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

Hey Section 504 is still under attack and you should call your attorney general

10 dems voted to censure Green. The democratic party simply can't stop shooting themselves in the foot

I check this periodically, and right now, there are over 1,000 results for "insulin" on gofundme

If you're in one of these states, please call your Attorney General and urge them to back out of Texas v. Becerra, which wants to make Section 504 unconstitutional. dredf.org/protect-504/

31 today. 30 was a year dominated by dealing with my new retinopathy but also filled with good things and new friends

As part of our Circus of Pharmaceutical Greed demonstration, I was very excited to design and make a satirical version of “insulin coupons”. Insulin coupons (aka Patient Assistance Programs) are big pharma’s favorite defense when we say that insulin is too expensive.

I spent the last week in DC with fellow advocates from T1International. Our time there culminated in over 45 meetings with congressional offices, urging members of Congress to sign a letter committing to enacting price-lowering measures for insulin #insulin4all

Some people will really tweet that line about "basic human empathy is what radicalized me" and then five minutes later tweet that people in red states don't deserve healthcare...

Any attack on Medicaid, SNAP, etc is a direct attack on the people of this country. Ridiculous we’re even having the conversation

Look ma! I’m being censored by a major corporation!

I know Reddit is not great, but there are some good diabetes communities there. However, they've been panicking that the insulin "price caps" will go away. So I wrote up a little thing about how there are no real price caps. www.reddit.com/r/Type1Diabe...

It’s Jan 23 and I’m on track to meet my deductible before the end of February. #t1d

Your daily reminder that the PRICE of insulin has never been capped in the history of the US bc both parties represent billionaires and both are on PhRMA’s payroll.

This is obviously bad

Kinda feels like the salute thing is meant to be a distraction

A Trump-saved tiktok is going to become more and more right-wing, either because his base will flock to it, or because the algorithm will push right-wing content to appease him. Or both TikTok might come back, but the TikTok the left us is dead

Banning TikTok seems an awful lot like the suppression of free speech, but what do I know

Thinking of all my California pals 😟

To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."

The last time the US invaded Canada, the White House was literally burned down.

Happy new year. Insulin should be free in 2025.

I do t normally like to post these, but I’m pretty proud of my Christmas graph

1 in 6 dollars spent in the US is spent on healthcare, yet we're still rationing insulin and dying from treatable illnesses

Luigi Mangione’s manifesto does something truly groundbreaking in the genre: it is edited for brevity

Thinking about Jimmy Aldaoud today, who was an undocumented immigrant with type 1 diabetes and of Iraqi descent (had never been there and didn’t speak their language). The Trump administration deported him to Iraq in 2019, where he died on the streets of Baghdad from DKA. Pure evil.

Fun Fact: way back when Taylor Swift only had like one semi-popular song, she did a small concert in my town and my dad's office organized it. He paid her $700.

A stand out quote- presented without comment

Dear people saying “wow I think this could actually lead to changes in the healthcare system!” NOTHING WILL CHANGE unless you MAKE THE CHANGE HAPPEN Organize, call your elected officials, support progressive orgs! The world doesn’t magically get better, you have to force it

I had a chance to speak with Bob Herman with STAT about how and why people are reacting to the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Read below: t.co/QewFi0ToJc

Your annual reminder: - Deposit only gum and garbage in Salvation Army buckets - Chain stores have already promised a donation, don't help them write it off their taxes by donating - Donate directly to charities with verifiable effects on communities - Falalalalala.

When companies like United Healthcare put profits over patients, use AI to deny service, blatantly engage in full-blown cronyism, etc... one can't be too shocked that they're reaching the limit of what the public can endure. And one can't be shocked at how that endurance ends

Spotify is fully invested in AI and that's why your wrapped sucks this year. no top albums, top genres, interactive parts, etc... all in exchange for an ai dj