Dolly

GenXer who loves this country, 🇺🇸MAGA, MAHA, Texan, Wife, Army Mom, with a little serve and volley for the win.🎾

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

The lesson of New York City elections is that if you continue to allow millions of retarded foreign communists into your country, the communists are going to take over your entire country, block by block and city by city.

They will seize your homes and your retirement accounts and the inheritance you set aside for your children and grandchildren, and there will be nothing you can do to stop them.

You either stop the immigration and send them all back, or you lose your country and everything you own.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Democrats think they’re using Muslims to usher in socialism.
The truth is Muslims are using Democrats to usher in Islam.

[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.

[Anna 🇺🇸 @realAnn_29]

Ha! World Cup visitors are still losing it over everyday America here is another round of things that have them wide eyed and posting nonstop:

Self serve ice machines in every gas station and fast food spot. Europeans are filming themselves filling cups the size of their heads while saying this is witchcraft. One guy from Spain called it the most American invention ever.

Texas Roadhouse with the endless fresh bread and cinnamon butter. Visitors are clearing out multiple baskets before the entree even arrives. They just keep bringing more? For free? I am never leaving.

Pharmacies inside grocery stores. Walk in for milk walk out with prescriptions shampoo and a birthday card. A French fan said it felt like one building solved my entire to do list.

Massive parking lots everywhere. Stadiums malls even restaurants have seas of asphalt. People from dense cities are shocked you can actually park for free without circling for an hour.

All you can eat buffets and bottomless brunch. One Korean visitor posted from Golden Corral: I ate for three hours and they smiled at me. This country runs on abundance.

Recliner seats in movie theaters with huge screens and buttery popcorn the size of buckets. Visitors are comparing it to flying first class on the ground.

Sweet tea so sugary it makes your teeth hurt in gallons. Southern hosts keep refilling it and fans are politely pretending they can handle it while secretly vibrating.

Drive thru car washes that are basically theme park rides. Lights soap shows and your car comes out sparkling in 5 minutes. A Brazilian said even my car feels American now.

Amazon deliveries the same day or next morning. Packages just appear. One German posted a timelapse: Ordered at midnight here at 9 a.m. What is this sorcery?

Roadside attractions and random giant statues. The Worlds Largest Ball of Twine giant roadside dinosaurs or a 50 foot cowboy boot. Visitors are detouring for selfies like it is the Eiffel Tower.

Tailgating culture before games. Grills games music and strangers sharing food in parking lots. International fans are getting adopted by locals with brisket and beer.

And the random how yall doing today? small talk from cashiers Uber drivers and hotel staff. Many say they expected cold or rude instead they are getting genuine warmth and hope you enjoy the match!

At the end of the day we Americans do not always realize how much these little things stand out. We grew up with the scale the convenience and the casual friendliness so it feels normal to us. Seeing the world light up over it reminds us how lucky we are and makes us even prouder to share it with all of you.

Keep sharing your reactions visitors. This is the good stuff. 🫶🇺🇸

[Dolly @DollyPontiac]

@MaryBowdenMD Oh,
This explains so much. My church went as far as to offer the vaccine in their memorial parking lot once it became available for the children.
It broke something inside me.
I should have screenshotted the notification they sent regarding this offer.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Here is the problem with DEI programing. I was at the symphony and, unbeknownst to the ticket-paying audience, the program opened with a piece by a prestige woman French professor. People rolled their eyes when they saw it. It was indeed musical torture, utter rubbish, as expected.

It ended to a smattering of applause that stopped as quickly as possible, while a third of the Manhattan audience sat on their hands. Then the real program started and it was wonderful.

You think this tactic helps women in composition? It does the opposite. It discredits them, whereas it should discredit the tokenism of DEI programing. What a disaster. I swear that DEI has set back its very motivations toward equality by a generation or two.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

The double standard.
The truth is that photo ID to get into Obama's library is needed to get in free on Tuesdays (wait for it... to prove Illinois residency). Yep, just like with the Save Act - participation requires ID.
Nice that Obama believes that for voting, requiring voter ID "disenfranchises" black Americans, but requiring ID to prove residency to enter his library does not...

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

Remember that every single crime or car accident caused by an immigrant is 100% preventable and optional.

As a bonus, every *second* offense committed by an American is also 100% preventable

I'm just saying, there are simple ways to reduce rape, robbery, murder, scams, fraud, assault, DUI, and child abuse down to extremely low levels but no one's ready for that conversation

[Trisha Hope - National Delegate-TX @JustTheTweets17]

Prior to contracting COVID during the beginning of the pandemic I reached out to my primary care physician at UTMB. I asked what the treatment plan would be in case I became ill.

She said there was NO TREATMENT available, nothing zero. I said that’s ridiculous what should I be taking to best protect myself from getting it again no recommendation.

When my husband and I became very ill, I reached out to her again. Once again she offered no treatment and said if you are that sick go to the hospital.

After we recovered from a very bad case of Covid it was time for my wellness appointment . I purposefully kept the appointment because I wanted a sit down visit face to face with her.

She asked if I had had Covid, I said yes and proceeded to recite her response to me when I reached out. I really let her have it. When I left she was in tears.

The medical community with few exceptions abandoned their patients letting millions die. This too cannot go unpunished.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: NeverTrumpers

I have always found it very difficult to understood the philosophical underpinnings of self-proclaimed "conservative" NeverTrumpers.

No President in the history of the USA has done more to reduce the size, scope and power of the federal administrative state than Donald Trump.

Other than Ronald Reagan, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote capital investment, industrial growth, and improved economic standards for the average American than Donald Trump.

Other than Ronald Reagan and JFK, no President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote American patriotism and pride in America than Donald Trump.

No President in any of our lifetimes has done more to promote freedom of speech and freedom of religion than Donald Trump.

Last time I checked, the bedrock principles of American conservatism are limited government, capitalism, patriotism and liberty.

Donald Trump's policies are the very essence of conservatism.

So why are these people "NeverTrumpers"?

My theory is that they see conservatism as a club: a club whose entry credentials consist of elite prep schools, Ivy League universities, the "prestige" of being part of old-line institutions and media, and well-manicured pinkies in the air at afternoon tea.

And they don’t want Donald Trump in their club.

Donald Trump is none of what they are. He is from Queens. He has the wrong accent. He went to the wrong schools. He is crass and loud and bombastic. Although wealthy by birth, nothing pleases him more than getting down in the dirt with the workers who built his buildings. Despite his wealth, he is the everyman at heart.

There is only one logical conclusion: NeverTrumpers do not care the slightest about actual political conservatism. They care about being elite snobs, which is why they sacrifice whatever values they once proclaimed to hold so they could hate on someone who crashed the gate at their posh, private club.

They are Judge Smails and Trump is Al Czervik.

This is about social class and nothing else.

Treat those people with the righteous disdain they have so completely earned.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

The hijab isn’t a choice if you get beaten for not wearing it.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Two hours. That’s how long it took Colombia to count 90% of its votes. Over 23 million votes.

@GavinNewsom, congrats. You are an embarrassment on the international stage.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Hi, my name is Dutch Rojas.

I want to say how grateful I am that physicians cannot freely own hospitals anymore. It has brought so much freedom to medicine.

Patients love having fewer choices.
Employers love paying higher facility fees.

Doctors love being employees of the same systems they used to compete against.

And hospitals love reminding everyone this was done for “patient safety.

Just an incredible public policy success. Less supply = lower prices, that’s the model for success.

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

Thirty years ago, I was presenting strategy to a sporting goods client in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was Thursday afternoon when I finished the client work session and headed to the airport. The plan was to fly home, work Friday, and then drive to my parents' house that evening.

But standing in the airport at the ticket counter, I changed my mind. Instead of going home first, I switched flights and headed directly to my parents' home that night.

My mother and father picked me up at the airport. We had a late dinner, watched an old movie, and I worked into the evening on a proposal due the next day. Eventually, I said goodnight and turned in.

At 3:15 a.m., something awakened me from a deep sleep.

"Go be with your father."

That familiar whisper from the ever-present Source.

I walked into my father's study. He often battled insomnia and stayed up late. He was watching an old Gene Autry singing-cowboy movie from the 1930s. He smiled as I sat down to be with him. I pretended to review the proposal work I had finished hours earlier.

At 3:40 a.m., he suddenly glanced upward with a startled expression. His arms rose momentarily.

Eight seconds, and he was gone.

I pulled him from his chair and immediately began CPR, alternating breaths and compressions while shouting for my mother to awaken and call 911.

When I returned home from the hospital around 6:30 that morning, I knew life would never be the same without him.

I walked back into his study, simply to absorb the scene once more.

On his desk, his old clock had stopped — frozen at 3:40 a.m. It remains so to this very day.

Beside it lay his Bible, opened to the Psalms. A portion of a passage had been underlined from Psalm 17:3:

"You have tested my heart;
You have visited me in the night;
You have tried me and found nothing."

Happy Father's Day.
I still miss you, Dad.

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

I'LL SAY IT AGAIN:

IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL to charge a "convenience fee" for paying a bill online. The convenience is for the company. The fee is for you.

[Calvin @RealCalvin1]

There are 55 million visa holders in the U.S. That's 1 in every 6 people are here on a visa.

Read that again.

[Dawie_Smit_Boer @Mal_fkn_Boer]

Here you have a man that is fleeing his country of Birth today. A Country he had served. A country that has failed him.

He is at the airport as a Refugee. Waiting to board a plain to safety. On his way to America.

First thing he does, this morning is pin a American Flag on his hat.

Why? Because this is what America is getting from an White Afrikaner & Boer. True Patriotism. #america #refugee #southafrica

Show me ANY other immigrant or refugee that will do or show this.

@realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @POTUS @SecRubio @JDVance @jackposobiec @mattwalshblog @tedcruz @RepOgles @RepTroyNehls @newsmax @USEmbassySA @StephenM @nicksortor @timcast @StateDept @DeputySecState
@nicholis88 @RepRonnyJackson @jeff_zausch @SecWar @BrentBozell @nickshirleyy

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Every healthcare headline is now the same story:

Government underpays.

Hospitals overcharge.

Insurers deny.

Employers absorb.

Patients finance.

Physicians get blamed.

And somehow the solution is always giving more power to the people who built the maze.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A barbecue joint in Texas. The line started before the sun. I joined it in the dark.

By the time the doors opened I had stood five hours. I did not mind. A thing worth eating is worth waiting for, and the wait is part of the eating.

They served it on butcher paper. No plate. A slice of brisket, dark bark on the outside, a pink ring beneath, soft enough to pull apart with two fingers. Smoked eighteen hours over oak. Salt and pepper and nothing else.

A man named Earl ran the counter. He set a bottle of sauce beside my tray, the way you offer a guest a kindness.

I did not touch it.

This meat had been honest for eighteen hours. To pour sauce on it would call it a liar.

Earl watched me lift the bare slice and eat it as it was. He smiled. "That's how you do it," he said. He had been waiting all morning to see who would leave the bottle closed.

I took the bite.

There was smoke, and salt, and time. That was all. Nothing hidden in it, nothing covered up, nothing to forgive. It tasted the way a man's word should sound.

I closed my eyes. When a thing has no lie in it, you feel that too, somewhere behind the chest.

I ate the whole slice, and then a second, and did not speak. Earl did not make me. Some things are better in silence.

When I left, I bowed to the smoker, not the man. The man would understand.

So tell me, America.

You wait five hours and you leave the sauce on the table.

Is it the meat you came for, or the proof that it needs nothing?

And the cook who smoked it all night while you slept. When does he sleep?

[Matt Mackowiak @MattMackowiak]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 22, 2026

BREAKING: City of Austin Certifies Save Austin Now Outside Audit Charter Amendment -- City Clerk Certifies that At Least 20,000 Valid Signed Petitions Were Submitted

AUSTIN, TX — Austin City Clerk Erika Brady today notified nonpartisan organization Save Austin Now PAC that her office certified the Outside Audit charter amendment as having at least 20,000 valid signed petitions from City of Austin residents. The city’s review found that 21,131 signatures were submitted and 20,051 were valid, a resulting validity rate of 94.89%. The charter amendment will now be placed on the November 2026 ballot.

The charter amendment will require regular, outside, performance audits of the entire City of Austin budget for the first time in city history.

The first outside audit must be completed within one year of the contract engagement (with the independent contractor selected within 120 days) and which must be conducted every five years or no less than one year before any future tax rate election. The Charter amendment explicitly requires that the Independent Contractor commit to identify annual or multi-year cost savings that exceed the cost of the initiative.

The audit will cover the entire City of Austin budget, all utilities, and all vendors and subvendors. No audit of this kind has ever been conducted in Austin.

“The more than 20,000 Austin residents who signed our petition only want transparency, accountability and efficient spending for the high taxes that we pay,” said Save Austin Now co-chair Matt Mackowiak. “We appreciate the work of the City Clerk’s office in certifying our petitions in 20 days. The campaign phase begins now. If Austinites want to see their tax dollars spent wisely and efficiently, then we must pass this outside audit charter amendment.”

More information about Save Austin Now can be found at https://t.co/JSXB9Iu6ho.

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