Diane Schawe

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

For years, hospitals kept Americans in the dark about the true cost of care. Families made medical decisions without knowing the price—and too often got hit with bills that drained their savings.

That ends now.

Under President Trump’s leadership, HHS is enforcing hospital price transparency with real consequences. @DrOzCMS and I have a simple message for hospitals: Post your actual prices. Come into compliance immediately—or face serious consequences.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Correct!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what’s making people angry, not “social media”!

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Property taxes on primary residences are a tax on unrealized gains, and the double standard around it is glaring.

You buy a house for $300k with your after-tax dollars. Years later the market rises and the assessor says it’s now worth $600k. Your tax bill goes up—even though you didn’t sell, didn’t refinance, didn’t pull out a dime of equity. You’re paying higher taxes every single year on “wealth” that exists only on paper. That is the literal definition of taxing unrealized appreciation.

Politicians and pundits scream bloody murder when anyone suggests doing the exact same thing to billionaires’ unrealized stock gains. “It’s unfair! They’ll be forced to sell assets!” Yet the same logic is applied to your family home without a second thought. If the principle is wrong for Elon Musk’s Tesla shares, it’s wrong for grandma’s paid-off house.

The common defense—“It pays for schools and roads”—doesn’t hold up as justification for this specific mechanism. Those services are valuable, but tying their funding to the fluctuating paper value of your home creates a system where success (a nicer neighborhood, inflation, or simple supply and demand) is punished with a higher bill. Once the mortgage is gone, you still don’t truly own it. You’re a tenant with extra paperwork, paying annual rent to the government based on an assessment you don’t control.

This isn’t about hating government services. It’s about honest funding. Tax actual economic activity—consumption via a broad sales tax, realized capital gains, or user fees for specific services. Shift the burden to people who are actively spending or transacting in the economy instead of penalizing ownership itself. Other countries and even some U.S. localities have shown you can fund local government without treating primary homes like perpetual leaseholds from the state.

Ownership should mean ownership. Not “you own it until the county decides your paper equity went up.” Abolish property taxes on primary residences. The current system is a wealth tax dressed up as a service fee, and it’s long past time we called it what it is.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is the PERFECT example of why foreigners should not be allowed to run for office

Zul Mohammed just ran for Mayor of Carrollton, Texas. He’s from Pakistan

“No vet has made any sacrifice. I want to make that clear. I do not support the US military. No, I do not support the United States. I look down on both entities. I want to make that clear”

I can’t think of a better example of why only natural born citizens should be allowed to run for office

Also he is a Muslim, which further enforces the classic “I do not support the United States”

We need new election eligibility laws

[Diane Schawe @FieryDi66]

It was moving to witness the appreciation and gratitude of the French to the U.S. when I visited Normandy (as well as other locations) last year on and around the anniversary of D-Day. Deeply moving.

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

The people of Normandy lined the streets to honor and celebrate the heroes of D-Day, 82 years later.

These men helped save the world from tyranny — and it’s incredible to see the French people continue to honor their courage and sacrifice.

[Diane Schawe @FieryDi66]

@PamRotella @elonmusk Uh, that isn't what he said.

[Russel P. Chitepo @UmpYouth]

@elonmusk The real question is: who decided that race should ever outweigh individual risk assessments in matters of public safety? Policies should protect lives, not chase statistics. Accountability starts with those who designed, approved and enforced them.

[Diane Schawe @FieryDi66]

@fred_barwell @marconiese @elonmusk Doesn't your phone have autocorrect?? Good grief

[Diane Schawe @FieryDi66]

@fred_barwell @PeteKoski0417 @elonmusk Ummm, what?

[Diane Schawe @FieryDi66]

I worked diligently for 35 years to help students understand this. The idea is overwhelmingly underappreciated or cared for, particularly in public schools (by students and faculty).

[Classic Learning Test @CLT_Exam]

Go ask a normal American student why school matters and you will hear something about college, career, or money.

Go ask a classically educated student the same question and you will hear words like wisdom, virtue, truth, beauty, or God.

That is the difference between education as workforce preparation and education as human formation.

America has spent generations funding the first vision while wondering why the second kind of person disappeared.

[Trooper Ben @TrooperBenKs]

Inside this small jar is sand from the beaches of Normandy…

Years ago, one of my followers who lived near the beaches gathered it up and mailed it to me. Since then, it has sat in my office as a reminder of June 6, 1944, and the sacrifice made by so many.

When I was still on patrol, I had a tradition.

Every year on D-Day, I would take this jar with me. It would ride along for the day. Just as a small way to remember.

Now that I’m retired, I still feel like that tradition needs to continue.

So today, this jar goes with me.
A little sand.
A lot of sacrifice.

Never forgotten. 🇺🇸

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Pete Hegseth calls out Sen. Elizabeth Warren right to her face,

"I don't do it for profit. I don't do it for stocks, and that's part of the reason why I'm able to be effective in this job, because no one owns me"

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Many of you may not know that I served for 8 years on the DOD honor Detail in Fort Smith, Arkansas as the electronic bugler.

Every time I stood on the Honor Detail and raised that bugle this was my view.

Not a crowd.
Not a parade.
Just row after row of white headstones stretching across the green hills of the Fort Smith National Cemetery.

From where I stood, I could see the stones of men and women who had worn the uniform long before I did. Some had fought in wars history remembers. Others served quietly and came home to ordinary lives before making one final journey to that sacred ground.

People hear the bugle and think it’s just a song. It isn’t.

When those first notes of Taps leave that bugle, time seems to stop. Families cling to one another. Veterans stand a little straighter. Even the wind seems to soften.

And as I looked through the curve of that brass instrument, all I could see were those headstones.

I often wondered about the lives behind them. The young Marine who never got to grow old. The Army medic who came home carrying invisible scars. The sailor whose grandchildren only know him from faded photographs.

For those few moments, it felt like it wasn’t just playing for the family gathered around the casket. It was playing for every single one of them.

As a Marine, I was taught that we never leave our own behind. Standing there, bugle in hand, looking across that sea of white marble, I realized that promise doesn’t end when the battle is over.

Your watch is over. Rest easy. We will remember.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

A Muslim man from Gaza openly admitted that the Palestinian desire to kill Jews is stronger than their will to live or build a better future for their children.

This is what the media in the West ignores about the people of Gaza because it damages the false image of Islam as a religion of peace.

According to Islam, murdering Jews as human sacrifices for Allah guarantees Muslims a place in paradise — along with virgin sex slaves for eternity.

The Western media deliberately hides these statements because they destroy the carefully constructed narrative that the conflict is about “occupation” or “land.” Once you understand that most Muslims in Gaza and Ramallah view the murder of Jews and Christians as a religious obligation rather than a political dispute, the entire framework of “two states for two peoples” collapses.

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is simply a fact