I know you’re joking Mr. Harriot, because I bet that, if you were approached at your Christmas party by someone trying to prank you (or just start it up with you), the entire gang of the Root would be behind you just like these women. Even Schmangela Shmelm. She might even be the one putting on the latex gloves.

Dora Milaje School of Wish-a-Motherfucker-Would

What was this dummy thinking, straight up. What were his intentions? What was he thinking the outcome was going to be? What kind of sad little man goes out of his way to make a service worker’s job harder, with a solid dash of sexual harassment? Fuck that guy. These women are awesome, and he’s lucky nothing more…

The Ann Coulter live show is off to an amazing start.

brown and black kids are treating as adults so early on. and even as children, not as human as white children.

America continues to be a centuries long garbage fire.

Sexual predator/child sex slave apologist #1.

What the fuck. I wish I had a table to flip.

Remember, our economy is designed to make a handful of sociopaths rich. That’s it. They are happy to live in Fiddler’s Green in that Day of the Dead movie as long as they can lord it over the hordes. Never mind that said hordes are zombies and it’s the literal apocalypse, THEY WON.

As a Canadian I just don’t understand it, your entire healthcare system. It makes no sense. If you put people in ruin due to medical costs, you lose their spending power. From a purely economy standpoint, it makes zero sense.

Yes because medical costs here are so high - high insurance premiums, high deductibles, and high post-insurance adjusted expenses. Even with a good salary, great insurance, and lots of savings, I am TERRIFIED of getting a serious illness or injury. And for those with shitty insurance? I cannot even begin to comprehend…

As a Canadian I just don’t understand it, your entire healthcare system. It makes no sense. If you put people in ruin due to medical costs, you lose their spending power.  From a purely economy standpoint, it makes zero sense.

Same. I thought they had gone rogue in hospital billing. 

a LOT of medical debt is functionally unrecoverable, because hospitals are required to provide a degree of care and people can’t always refuse medical care (that’s always a fun calculus, should I just die or should I rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical debt). The average recovery on medical bills from…

I was one of the people whose debt was forgiven with the help of this organization! I got a letter in the mail about two weeks ago, and thought it was total bullshit at first. Very grateful for this. I’m in North Carolina, though, and the debt was incurred in Phoenix, so I don’t think this organization works…

As a person in medical billing (my main job is making it so that people only have $50 deductibles and trying to get insurance to cover more) I can tell you that if your bill is sent to a collections agency we’ve given up on actually seeing that money. Simply because of having to pay the collections agency and the…

Yeah, the linked article explains it in more detail, and it is as you describe.

If they actually purchased $1.5 million in face value debt for $12,500, this must have been the worst sort of garbage zombie debt that the original creditors had long since given up on collecting and was being traded for pennies on the dollar by scam artists. 

Goddammit another misleading headline: totally thought this was going to be a Mr. Robot style hijack and am disappointed it’s just workaday folks doing good things for strangers. Borrrring!

that takes time, and makes for a stuck column of tanks in the meantime. If there’s one thing tanks don’t like, it’s being stopped somewhere.