Tracy

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. -Atlas Shrugged

[Tracy @ByMyLifeMyLove]

@PatriciaHeaton I lost my brother 7.5 years ago to addiction. It takes my breath away how much I miss him.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Weird how the people outraged by the "hounding" of Jason Arday delight in and encourage the actual hounding of the person who exposed him.

Arday was not fired from his job or denied employment opportunities. On the contrary, he was given and retained jobs for which he was not qualified and was rightly criticised for lying.

Cofnas, on the other hand, is actually being denied jobs and fired from them for bring Arday's lying to light.

[Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas]

I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.

The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Some recent quotes from leftists:

“I am Guatemalan before I am American.” - Delia Ramirez

“America is a fucking disgrace.” - Darializa Avila Chevalier

“America is a shithole built on slavery and genocide and rape and oppression.” - Rashida Tlaib

- “I am ashamed of the U.S. Goddamn states.” - Ilhan Omar

“America deserved 9-11, dude. Fuck it. I’m saying it.” - Hasan Piker

[Kirsten Fleming @KirFlem]

Sophie Cunningham expressed a very mainstream opinion about biological sex in a very compassionate way.
Celeste Keaton yelled at teen girls for wearing a shirt she didn't like.
Kind of sums up the last decade of the "be kind" discourse.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Newscum and Fauci did this during covid. Never forget

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Notice the pattern between Biden and Platner, because it is the whole story. In both cases, the primary voters made a choice. In both cases, the party decided, after the fact, that the voters had chosen wrong. And in both cases, the same institution that lectures America about authoritarianism and “threats to democracy” moved heaven and earth to override the expressed will of its own electorate the moment that will became inconvenient. The people who cannot stop saying democracy is on the ballot keep discovering, at the decisive moment, that they trust themselves more than the demos.

https://t.co/q0XAVCnGq0

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.

The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.

Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.

So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.

Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.

Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.

[Casey Mattox @CaseyMattox_]

New England working to undo all the good will that the South and Midwest have built up. SMH.

[Tracy @ByMyLifeMyLove]

@PhilHollowayEsq @KeishaForGA @KeishaBottoms That’s like asking Kamala to get straight to the point

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

My wife and I own Forest Park Pharmacy, and we don't accept insurance. None of it. That decision is exactly why we could fix what happened to a patient today.

A family came in wanting to transfer their kid's antibiotic to us. The child had already STARTED the course. Then, mid-treatment, the insurance company decided the last 14 tablets suddenly needed a "prior authorization" before the other pharmacy could hand them over. A sick kid, halfway through an antibiotic, and the answer was "please hold."

The drug is linezolid. It's a generic. It's been generic for over a decade. It treats serious gram-positive infections — the kind you do NOT want to stop antibiotics in the middle of, because an interrupted course is how you breed resistant bugs and end up right back where you started.

So why the hold-up on a cheap, common generic? Follow the fake math.

Insurance and the PBMs behind them price drugs off a number called AWP — "Average Wholesale Price." People in my industry have another name for it: "Ain't What's Paid." It's a benchmark number, not a real-world cost. On paper, the AWP for just those last 14 tablets is about $2,500.

My cash price for the same 14 tablets? $18.

Read that again. The system that's supposedly "protecting" this family from cost is the same system that inflated an $18 medication into a $2,500 line item, then slapped a prior auth on it to "review the expense" THEY invented. They manufactured the problem, then billed everyone for the privilege of solving it — and made a sick kid wait while they did it.

This is the whole game. When a drug is priced honestly, there's nothing to "manage." When it's priced off a fantasy benchmark, you get spread pricing, PA paperwork, pharmacy phone trees, and delayed treatment — all dressed up as cost control.

Here's the part nobody tells you: roughly 90% of prescriptions are low-cost generics. For the vast majority of what people pick up every day, running it through insurance does two things — raises the real cost and risks delaying your care. That's it. That's the value-add.

That's why we fired the insurance companies. No middleman deciding your kid can't finish their antibiotics on schedule. No fake prices. Just the real number, on the shelf, today.

The medication was always cheap. The insurance was the expensive part.

[Tracy @ByMyLifeMyLove]

@FreddyLA7 Freddy is slowly becoming an American, giving Canada the grief they deserve 🇺🇸

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Ro is the number one stock trader in Congress.

Last year, he reported 4,300 trades with 59 million in total trade volume.

He also recently purchased a $9.5 million home in the DC area.

[CJ Pearson @Cjpearson]

WATCH: Jon Ossoff went to a church today and smeared Mike Collins as a segregationist.

Calling your opponent a racist is what a lying Democrat does when he's desperate.

Doing it at a Sunday service on Father's Day makes it even more disgraceful.

[OFootball @ofootball__]

After the game ended, Japanese fans stayed in the stadium to collect paper and waste.

Respect, Japan. 🇯🇵

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

The American South is one of the freest, friendliest, most prosperous, and yes least xenophobic places on the planet.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

listen up, we have to vote for the man with the nazi tattoo so he can stop the man landing rockets and curing the blind from making any more money, otherwise we’ll get fascism

you see how stupid you sound, yes?

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Tracy @ByMyLifeMyLove]

@realDailyWire @sistertoldjah This is what I envision my friends from Los Angeles being like when they visit me in GA