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MAHA / MAGA Pronouns: Trump / Won

[Clinton @614clinton]

In a small rural town a police officer was making his evening rounds when he stopped at a used car lot after he noticed two little old ladies sitting in one of the cars.
He asked them if they were stealing the car. They said, "Heavens no, we bought it. The officer responded, "Then why don't you drive it away?" They both said, "We can't drive." The officer shook his head, and then asked,
"Then why did you buy it?"
They answered, "We were told if we bought a car here we'd get screwed, so we are just waiting."

[Rufus priv/acc @Free_Bee_TX]

@MidwesternDoc @VigilantFox 🎯

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Sleeping pills disrupt healthy sleep, making you 2-5X more likely to die. The FDA knew this, but instead banned the one safe sleep aid that was life changing for those who took it.

Here I show how to naturally restore sleep and how vital it is for health
https://t.co/SfWqZWFz2E

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Research shows many doctors who understand hospital birth choose to deliver at home.

Routine hospital interventions create complications leading to more interventions—often ending in avoidable C-sections. Here I reveal the hidden risks of hospital births
https://t.co/lgc1SFo1n7

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

🦋

[Ashley Louden @_withashley]

Former federal agent Dave Gaubatz went undercover at EPIC mosque in Plano.
His sworn affidavit found:
• Hardcore Salafist/Wahhabi ideology with 9+/10 Sharia compliance
• Violent Jihad books used by terrorist groups
• A leader stating non-Muslims can’t buy homes there without converting
• On-site school teaching these doctrines
Gaubatz called it a terrorist sleeper cell front & said its tax-exempt status should be revoked.

What is Texas doing about this?

Why is it this mosque is still able to operate, not only operate but hills courses on how to infiltrate into American politics.

We the people demand answers & a solution. & the solution is to shut down every mosque

#restorewhatmatters

@GovHotWheels_TX @GovAbbottPress @GregAbbott_TX @mayes_middleton @RobertKennedyJr @KenPaxtonTX @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Tulsi Gabbard just described the actual operating system of Washington and it’s somehow even dumber and more insulting than the conspiracy versions.

She needed one printed document for a 10 a.m. Oval Office meeting with the President. A mid-level staffer ... detailed from another agency ... decided he didn’t like what was on it, printed it anyway, then locked it in his desk and refused to hand it over. Her chief of staff went down. Her general counsel went down. Both got told to pound sand until the guy’s real boss at his home agency finally gave permission.

That’s the “deep state.” Not some secret society in a basement. Just some nobody with a desk drawer and a God complex who genuinely believed his personal veto outranked the Director of National Intelligence and the elected President of the United States.

This is what Gabbard means when she says they “thrive in the gaps between elections.” The voters pick a direction every four years. The permanent class decides which parts of that direction are even allowed to reach the Resolute Desk. They control the files. They control the information flow. And they’ve been doing it across administrations for decades because the only thing they actually answer to is each other.

The rest of us are just supposed to pretend the elections are real while these people quietly decide what the winner is permitted to know and act on.

Watch her whole speech if you want the full savage version. But the core truth is brutally simple: America votes. Then the people nobody voted for decide what happens next.
(article below)

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

Net zero starts with everyone else.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Help me out here, Kathy. You’re saying the electric grid can’t handle ACs in the summer, but you also want everyone to replace their gasoline cars with electric vehicles. How does that work?

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

Hope. 🙏💙🕊
We've been back in Scotland for a few days.
On the flight home, what struck me was just how welcoming Americans are. I had reservations before going because of Trump, ICE, Palestine, etc. But what we found was that it didn't matter whether black/white, left/right, rich/poor, all the Americans we met were extremely hospitable & welcoming. (Thank you!🙏)
I think if we could get more common people talking with common people, & get the politicians out of the way, we would have a much better world.
America, the football results didn't go our way, but to paraphrase Casablanca, "We will always have Boston." 😘
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇺🇸🌎🙏

[Rufus priv/acc @Free_Bee_TX]

@SamAntar 💯 on 🎯

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

Hey Ro Khanna: Speaking truth to power? Your party lectures about the ‘billionaire class’ while cashing checks from billionaire-funded political networks every election cycle. That is not speaking truth to power. That’s speaking from payroll.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247]

One of the craziest things about homeschooling is realizing how much of the school day is fake.

I was a classroom teacher for 20 years.

99% of the time in the classroom is spent correcting kids, waiting for the class to calm down, and giving procedures.

And then when they finally get to the work, it's is busy work and test prep.

None of it is real education.

Your kid can learn more in two focused hours at home than he learns in seven hours inside the government school machine.

And then he gets his childhood back.

That’s the part nobody tells you.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

Englishman SLAMS liberals in America who constantly bash the country.

“You all literally live in heaven on earth. I would give my left leg and cut off a hand to move to America. You have no idea how lucky you are.”

[Joe Tippens @JoeTippen]

He was 17. Sent to hospice. They told his family to prepare for the worst.
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). A brain tumor that's almost always a death sentence.

November 2025. Doctors referred him to a children's hospice. A place where children go to die.

His family refused to accept that.

December 2025. They started a protocol.
Ivermectin – 1.5mg/kg/day

Mebendazole – 2000mg/day

No clinical trial. No doctor's blessing. Just hope and a prayer.

Three months later? His world changed.
The boy who couldn't stand up straight before Christmas – he's walking without a cane.

The boy who dragged his left foot with every step – he's back at the gym.

His speech? Almost back to normal.

Getting out of bed used to be a very difficult task.

Now he's independent. Strong. Alive.

The same Canadian politicians who push assisted suicide are trying to criminalize his treatment.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to stop this.

She wants to block a child's "Right to Try."

But this boy's family didn't wait for permission. And now their son is not dying in hospice – he's living.

A child saved from hospice.
The system sent him to die. Ivermectin and Mebendazole brought him back.

This might be a world's first.

It definitely is a family's miracle.

👇 Share this. Someone needs to know hope exists.

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@chiproytx 🎯

[Chip Roy @chiproytx]

De-naturalize and deport.

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

My wife and I own a pharmacy. Last month we spent days trying to pry one prescription loose from a company that did everything it could to hold onto it.

The drug was everolimus. A generic. It treats cancer and protects transplant patients from rejecting their new organ. Not exotic. Not rare. A pill.

The patient wanted it filled with us because we're cash-pay and cost-plus. No insurance. No PBM. No secret markups, no games. Our price was $318. That's not cheap by our standards — most of what we fill runs under $20 — but it was honest.

Here's what that same prescription looked like on the other side of the counter.

In 2023, Medicare was paying about $6,645 for it. That's roughly 21 times our price for the identical medication. Medicare spent around $240 million on everolimus alone that year. If they'd paid our price, they'd have saved roughly $230 million. On one generic drug.

So how does an insurance company profit off a drug that expensive? Don't they pay for it?

No. You pay for it. In your premiums. Their job isn't to spend less — it's to keep your healthcare dollars circulating inside their own companies. And the tool they use is called spread pricing.

Spread pricing works like this: the middleman bills the health plan one price, pays the pharmacy a lower one, and keeps the difference. You never see it. On TRICARE, they pay an independent pharmacy like mine about $311 to fill everolimus. That barely covers our cost of the drug. Meanwhile the plan gets billed thousands. That gap — north of $6,000 on a single fill — is pure margin the middleman pockets.

Now here's the part they'd rather you not think about.

The pharmacy we were fighting was Accredo. Accredo is owned by Express Scripts. Express Scripts is the pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna. Same company, three masks. That nesting-doll structure isn't an accident — it's the whole design. When the pharmacy, the PBM, and the insurer are all one entity, they can shuffle money between their own pockets and call it whatever they want. The confusion is the product.

And this isn't a story about one weird drug. It's the business model.

The FTC has been digging into exactly this. In its January 2025 report on the three biggest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — staff found those companies marked up specialty generic drugs by hundreds and thousands of percent when dispensing through their own affiliated pharmacies. Just those markups generated more than $7.3 billion above what the drugs actually cost to acquire, from 2017 to 2022. One in five of the specialty generics they studied was marked up over 1,000%. Some cancer generics: over 3,000%. On top of that, the FTC pegged spread pricing on those same drugs at another $1.4 billion.

One example straight from the FTC's files: dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug. Costs about $177 to acquire. The PBMs paid their own pharmacies close to $4,000 for a 30-day supply. Same trick. Different drug.

And they steer the profitable ones to themselves on purpose. Pharmacies affiliated with the big three took in 68% of specialty dispensing revenue in 2023 — up from 54% in 2016. The prescriptions marked up more than $1,000 disproportionately end up at their own pharmacies, not independents like mine.

So when we called to transfer this patient's everolimus to be filled without insurance, it landed like we were asking them to set $6,000 on fire. Of course they stonewalled us.

That's why we fired them.

No insurance means no invisible $6,000 charge buried in a premium you can't itemize. It means the price you see is the price. Ours was $318. Theirs was thousands. Same pill.