Jim Scott

[Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey @wakeupnj]

New Jersey Towns are quietly handing retiring top cops & officials massive payouts while your property taxes explode

Demarest Police Chief collected nearly $500K (including pay for 18 months he didn’t work). North Bergen chief cashed $466K. Dozens more got $100K–$250K+ in banked leave. Average in a recent sample: $146K+.
Towns carrying $600M+ in unused leave with nothing saved to pay it
https://t.co/DAD44d1TSr

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Donald Trump in his own words. Do you think they should’ve impeached bush?. but not him. 2008.

[Jim Scott @BinaryCFO]

@Yash25571056 Covid brain impairment is real. If you don’t realize this, you probably have it.

[Neo @Realneo101]

Iraqi authorities raided a Shia MP’s house and found stacks of dollars and gold bars.

47 officials and parliament members got arrested in a big corruption sweep.

They already recovered over $100 million.

This is just one house...

Imagine how much more the IRGC-linked militias and their guys have been taking from Iraq all these years.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

I love 340B.

As a nonprofit hospital administrator, I consider it one of the great miracles of American healthcare.

It started as a program to help vulnerable patients access medicine.

Then I found the spread.
I buy the drug at the 340B discount.

I bill the commercial plan at the regular rate.
I keep the difference.

The patient still has a deductible.
The employer still gets the renewal increase.

The manufacturer still gets blamed.
I get a new tower and a bonus!

That is called fulfilling the mission

And the best part?

I do not have to pass the savings to the patient.
I do not have to pass the savings to the employer.

I do not have to lower premiums.
I do not have to prove the vulnerable patient ever saw the benefit.

I just say “access,” put “community benefit” in the annual report, and everyone nods like I am running a soup kitchen with oncology margins.

That is the business model.

Rural when I want the subsidy.
Urban when I want the commercial rates.

Nonprofit when I want the tax exemption.
Monopoly when I negotiate with employers.

Charity when Congress asks questions.
Private equity when I buy physician practices.

Mission when the reporter calls.

Manufacturer gives the discount.
Employer pays full freight.

Patient pays out of pocket.
Hospital keeps the arbitrage.

Then I build a cancer tower and call it hope.

And when Congress gets too curious, my lobbyist calls it protecting access…

-Rojas out.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Popular Muslim family therapist Dr. Mona appeared on the UK’s Muslim Brotherhood TV channel to discuss the intergenerational transmission of the trauma that Jews inflicted on Muslims. According to her, Jews used to hunt Muslim children to consume their blood during Passover.

She described this as a trauma that forced persecuted and oppressed Muslims to live in fear and hide their children in basements. According to her, this is part of the reason that victimized and oppressed Muslims resisted and then raped, massacred, and annihilated entire Jewish communities across the Middle East and North Africa.

This is prime-time programming for children and adults.

Blood libels. Medieval Jew-hatred. Justification for genocide.

Are all cultures equal?

The West must stop importing this toxic ideology. Halt Islamic immigration and deport the radicals.

Share this to expose Islam!

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

“Islam has a problem with gays, democracy, bacon, dogs, music, Christmas, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Christians, women who show their hair, people who leave their religion, and even people who draw pictures of their prophet, who, by the way, married a six-year-old. But if I have a problem with Islam, for some reason, I'm an Islamophobe.”

[ISLAMIC-NEWS @THEFACESOFISLAM]

The Wars Of Apostasy And Bloody Succession In Early Islam (632–661 C.E.)

When Muhammad died in 632 C.E., Islam did not enter any period of peaceful reflection or orderly spiritual leadership. Within months, large parts of Arabia rose in open revolt. Tribes that had submitted to Muhammad while he lived now refused to send zakat (the obligatory alms-tax) to Medina or accept the new central authority. Rival claimants to prophethood appeared. Local leaders declared they had pledged only to Muhammad personally, not to any permanent state.

Abu Bakr, hastily chosen as the first caliph at the Saqifah meeting, responded with immediate violence. He branded these groups apostates and launched the Ridda Wars. Even tribes that continued to pray and claim Islam were attacked if they withheld the tax money. Abu Bakr openly stated he would fight anyone who tried to separate prayer from zakat. This turned Islam into a one-way system enforced by the sword from its very first years after Muhammad.

The man Abu Bakr relied on to carry out much of this terror was Khalid ibn al-Walid. While Muhammad was still alive, Khalid had already massacred members of the Banu Jadhima tribe who were attempting to submit peacefully. Muhammad disavowed the action but took no serious action against him. Under Abu Bakr, Khalid executed Malik ibn Nuwayra, a Muslim tribal leader who hesitated over the tax. That same night, Khalid took Malik’s widow as his wife without observing the required waiting period. Umar demanded Khalid be punished for murder. Abu Bakr refused, declaring he would not sheathe “the sword that Allah had drawn.”

These actions stand in direct contrast to the biblical standard. Jesus never used force or threats to keep followers. When some turned away because His words were difficult, He simply asked the twelve if they also wanted to leave. Scripture records God sending the prophet Nathan to confront and condemn King David for arranging a man’s death to take his wife. In early Islam, a man who did something disturbingly similar was protected and glorified as the “Sword of Allah.”

The Quran itself reveals the underlying doctrine. The early statement in Quran 2:256 that “there is no compulsion in religion” belongs to the Meccan period. It was later overridden by Medinan commands such as Quran 9:29, which orders fighting People of the Book until they submit and pay the jizyah (poll tax on non-Muslims), and verses that demand harsh treatment of those who turn away. The Ridda Wars simply applied this logic internally against fellow Arabs who resisted full political and financial submission to Medina.

From 632 to 661 C.E., the first four caliphs oversaw relentless internal suppression, rapid military conquests across Persia, Syria, and Egypt, growing corruption and nepotism, and finally open civil war among Muhammad’s own companions. This was not the behavior of gentle shepherds guiding a voluntary community. It was the conduct of warlords consolidating power through blood.

The Christian congregation described in the New Testament spreads through preaching, sacrificial love, and the power of the Holy Spirit. No armies, no forced taxes, no crucifixions or beheadings of those who hesitate. The first thirty years after Muhammad show clearly that the spirit driving the early Islamic state was not the Spirit of Jehovah revealed in Christ.

These foundational events explain why Islamic doctrine has consistently produced conquest, harsh apostasy laws, and resistance to genuine religious freedom wherever it gains power. The pattern was set in blood from the very beginning.

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[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

A pharmacy in Hancock, Maryland just closed its doors after 21 years.

Their reason? "These PBMs are killing us."

Let me show you exactly how that happens — because it's not what most people think.

A pharmacist posted an audit on a prescription he filled back in December. Here's how these audits work: if the PBM finds *any* mistake, they don't dock you a little. They claw back the *entire* reimbursement.

In this case, they claimed the doctor's address was missing from the prescription. An administrative detail. A paperwork technicality.

So they took back $1,343.

Here's the brutal part. The drug itself cost the pharmacy $1,337. The pharmacist had already bought it. Already filled it. The patient already walked out the door with it.

The drug is gone. The script is filled. And the insurance middleman reaches back in time and reclaims virtually the entire amount — over a missing address.

The upside on that prescription was $6. The downside was $1,337.

That is the actual math of running a pharmacy that takes insurance. You risk thousands to earn pocket change, and a clerical nitpick months later can wipe out the entire transaction. Multiply that across a whole store and you understand why the lights go off.

Meanwhile, UnitedHealth made $90 billion.

Nobody — not one patient — wants their insurance company behaving like this. But I only know of one way to stop them.

Fire the middleman.

That's what we did. No PBMs. No insurance games. No surprise clawbacks months later. Just transparent cash pricing you can see before you ever walk in.

[Jim Scott @BinaryCFO]

@erichustls AI

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

This is so great.

[Peter Baum @baum_p]

FACTS
There has never been an archaeological find connecting those claiming to be indigenous Palestinians to the area they call Palestine

There has never been a language known as Palestinian nor a language unique to those today identifying as indigenous Palestinians

Those today identifying as Palestinians speak and write in Arabic but there is no sound for the letter ‘P’ in Arabic so what do they call themselves in their mother tongue if they have one

There has never been a Palestinian currency unique to those identifying today as Palestinian

There has never been one war , battle or conflict fought by those identifying themselves as indigenous Palestinians against any foreign or domestic invaders since time began until the 1960’s

There has never been an indigenous Palestinian leader until an Egyptian called Arafat promoted himself to that role in the 1960’s

There has never been a building either still standing or destroyed built by those identifying themselves as indigenous Palestinians since time began until the 1960’s .

There has never been a book written by any person identifying as an indigenous Palestinian since time began until the 1960’s

There has never been a Palestinian flag nor emblem nor identifier unique to those identifying themselves as indigenous Palestinians since time began until the 1960’s

No traveller to the geographical area now claimed by those identifying themselves as indigenous Palestinians ever recorded a Palestinian people since records began in 3000 bc until the 1960’s

There is no record of anyone identifying themselves as an indigenous Palestinian King , Queen, Prince , Princess , Religious leader , President, Prime Minister , Imam, Soldier, Sailor , Tinker , Tailor , Butcher, Baker or Candlestick maker since time began until the 1960’s

Over ninety percent of those identifying today as indigenous Palestinians are Muslim and claim the geography is theirs according to their Islamic faith . However neither Palestine , Palestinians nor Jerusalem which they claim as their religious capital are ever mentioned in the Quran which actually bestows , bequeaths and promises all of the land to the Jewish people. Therefore the Palestinians mock and defy Allah and Mohammed and are Islamophobic

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

A true medical miracle just happened. Daniel Cressy, 23, just became the first person in Louisiana—and the entire Gulf South—to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease using CRISPR gene editing.

Doctors collected his stem cells, edited them with Casgevy to boost fetal hemoglobin production, eliminated the diseased cells, and infused the corrected cells back into his body. The result?
No active sickle cell disease.
No more debilitating pain crises.
No more hospitalizations defining his life.
And perhaps most remarkable of all: his dream of becoming a commercial pilot, once blocked because of sickle cell disease, is now back within reach.

For decades, medicine treated the symptoms. Now we can edit the underlying DNA. Read that again. We are living in an age where a genetic disease can be rewritten at its source. One young man's future was restored.
Thousands more may follow.
Functional cure achieved.
Functional cure achieved.
Future rewritten.
What an incredible time to be alive. 🧬✈️

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: Ilana Gritzewsky, who was held hostage by Hamas, just took the floor at the United Nations to confront Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women. Her dramatic testimony:

Special Rapporteur, your report speaks about violence against women. Why is there no mention of Hamas?

On October 7, terrorists stormed our Kibbutz — murdering, kidnapping, and burning.

I was beaten and mutilated before blacking out.

I woke up half naked with seven terrorists standing over me, not knowing what happened to me in those lost moments.

I went through days of pain and horror in captivity, and even now the feeling of being powerless and violated still lingers.

I came back with a broken hip, a broken jaw and a shattered soul.

People see my face and think I’m free. But freedom is not a switch. Trauma doesn’t vanish once you are released.

Now, every air-raid siren, and every rocket from Iran, throws me back into that hell.

On October 7, and in captivity, Jewish women were raped, abused, and humiliated.

And you, Special Rapporteur, you chose silence and denial.

Ms. Alsalem, you said there was no evidence of sexual violence on October 7.

I am standing here today — not as a report, not as a statistic.

I am a woman who survived. I am the living proof of sexual violence by Hamas.

When I and other Israeli women begged not to be raped, why were you silent?

Please look at me. Do you believe us now?

Will you apologize?

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

This.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Banger

[Jim Scott @BinaryCFO]

@SullyCNBC Fewer accidents transiting to work and fewer lost days from coworker sickness probably more than offset these observations. The best tech and accounting teams have been working remotely for the past 10 years.

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey: The Story About Listening to Everyone

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

Charlie Kirk, leading up to his death, was extremely vocal about what he saw as the threat of Islam to the West.

The day before he died, Kirk posted: "Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America."

Charlie Kirk was far more outspoken about Islam than he was about Israel. There is just as much evidence that his views on Islam led to his death as there is that his shifting position on Israel did: NONE.

Yet shameless bad-faith actors - some of them even Kirk's own so-called friends - continue to push that narrative because they despise Israel and are willing to exploit a tragedy to advance their agenda.

It's hard to imagine a more disgusting and exploitative bastardization of a man's legacy than this.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

My speech to class of 2026

Graduates, look around you. Behind you sit the people who carried you here—parents who worked shifts you never saw, grandparents who crossed oceans and buried old dreams so you could chase new ones, the teachers who believed in you first.
You did not arrive alone, and you will not build your life alone. But here is the first hard truth, and I will not soften it: from this day forward, your life is your responsibility. Not your professor's. Not your government's. Not the people who came before you. Yours.
I know that isn't fashionable. You are told you are a product of your circumstances. And in a sense, you are. The wounds are real. The unfairness is real. But hear this, because it may be the most important sentence I say today: your circumstances explain you. They do not define you.
Life is unfair—to everyone, in different ways. Some of you were handed money and inherited anxiety. Some were handed poverty and inherited grit. There is no life without a wound, no story without a scar. The only question that matters is: what will you do with what you have been given? Greatness has never come from the absence of hardship. It comes from the response to it. Nobody owes you greatness. Greatness is earned.
We have confused freedom with the absence of obligation. But freedom without responsibility is not freedom—it is chaos with better marketing. A river without banks is not free; it is a flood. The most miserable people I have met were not those with the heaviest burdens, but those with no burden at all—no one to answer to, no one to show up for. So hear me: responsibility is not a burden. It is the source of meaning. The weight you choose to carry is the very thing that makes you strong enough to carry it.
And let me say what runs against everything you've been sold: happiness is not the goal. You were told to chase it—and an entire generation organized itself around feeling good and ended up feeling worse. Happiness is a weather pattern; it comes and goes. Meaning is a structure. You build it, and you can build it in the middle of a storm. Viktor Frankl learned this in the worst place a human being has ever stood: the ones most likely to survive were not the strongest, but those who still had a why. Chase happiness and it runs. Build meaning and happiness follows it home.
Which brings me to suffering. You've been taught to read pain as a malfunction. I offer a different lens: suffering is often not the breakdown—it is the build. No muscle grows without being torn. No steel becomes strong without fire. The grief that gutted you taught you compassion. The rejection that crushed you redirected you toward what you were actually built for. The wall you cannot get over is often the wall that builds your legs.
A warning about the glowing rectangle in your pocket. It offers a counterfeit of everything—connection, achievement, applause. And it runs on a single poison: comparison. You scroll past someone's wedding and feel lonely, past their promotion and feel like a failure. You compare your unedited insides to everyone's edited outsides. So stop performing your life and start building it.
After watching people live and die, here is what I've learned about the ones who got it right: they built. Businesses that employed their neighbors. Families that outlived them. Faith strong enough to hand to their children. They did not wait to be served—they served. The deepest joy is not being celebrated; it is being useful.
A century ago, Theodore Roosevelt said the credit belongs not to the critic, but to the one in the arena—face marred by dust and sweat and blood—who strives, who errs, but who spends himself in a worthy cause. History remembers the people who carried weight, not the ones who complained about it.
Wilma Rudolph was born poor, struck by polio, told she would never walk—and in 1960 she ran out of the Rome Olympics with three gold medals. Her legs did not start strong. She made them strong.