feelgood photo of the week
Apart from all the bullshit (insert link to absolutely any news website right now), some cool stuff happened on the US political front this week. President Obama visited the White House for the first time since he left office back in ’17, in support of a fix to the “family glitch”, a calculation bug in healthcare marketplaces that has kept a few million families from buying subsidized coverage. Of course, I’d love to see universal single-payer coverage, but this is definitely progress – more people getting health care is an unambiguous good.
The nice thing about fixing the glitch is that it’s easily doable under executive authority (it’s really just a change in how a clause in the law is interpreted by the program), so no Congressional involvement is needed. Boom. Done.
The thing that got me, though, was the historic nature of the photo included above – the first Black President engaging with the First Black woman Vice President – which gives me hope that we’re not all completely screwed in this current era. They’re also both ridiculously attractive humans, so the photo’s just gorgeous to behold.
Just wanted to share something positive, since that’s so damned difficult these days.
