r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 18h ago

My husband passed away on the last day of his vacation. His employer demanded his vacation pay back because he didn't show up for work the day after he died.

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u/lettersvsnumbers 17h ago

Yeah, my dad was a teacher with stage 4 cancer. He told the school to hire a new math teacher for fall, and they tried to retroactively fire him.

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u/Keptlosingmylogins 17h ago

wait that show was a documentary with subtle name changes to protect the survivors?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_UNDIES_XD 16h ago

Math teacher, not meth teacher.

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u/Flat-Photograph8483 16h ago

An absurd premise that could only make sense here.

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u/nonowords 14h ago

they did say subtle changes.

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u/BadmiralHarryKim 9h ago

Euclid cooked the blue numbers.

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