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[MAZE @mazemoore]

Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.

[5150MoM @Jen64425033]

Love this kids face!!!

[Hoosier Enquirer @HoosierEnquirer]

Hoosier Enquirer Statement: We Are DONE Covering the WNBA

Effective immediately, Hoosier Enquirer is dropping all WNBA coverage.

The league’s pathetic, weak-kneed response — and outright tolerance — of the targeting, cheap shots, and resentment aimed at Caitlin Clark has crossed a line. Clark is the single biggest reason anyone pays attention to the WNBA, yet she’s been met with silence, excuses, and soft defenses while the league cashes her checks. Enough.

Flip the script: If this hostility, rhetoric, and physical nonsense were directed at a Black star player, we all know exactly what would happen. Cities would burn. Businesses would be looted. Murders and chaos would once again be excused as “mostly peaceful” protests.

That’s the toxic double standard staring us in the face. Blanket words and selective outrage do have consequences — they destroy credibility, fuel division, and prove the game was never about fairness.

Hoosier Enquirer refuses to play along. We’ll keep covering real Indiana stories with honesty and accountability. The WNBA can chase its declining relevance without us. We stand with Caitlin Clark.

-Hoosier Enquirer Team

[JD Vance @JDVance]

She bought a $50 dress for $8.75. America: meet your next director of the federal budget!

[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.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Today we salute you, Mr. Gas Generator Tesla Owner.
You dropped serious money on an electric car, then immediately solved range anxiety the old-fashioned way — by towing a roaring Honda generator behind it.
Stuck in Texas traffic on I-10? No problem. Just fire up the fossil fuel and let ‘er charge while you roll. Pure electric… with a side of gasoline.
Real Men of Genius.

[TSA @TSA]

If you’re visiting for a very large sporting event & you happen to discover RANCH while you’re here… pls pack it in your CHECKED BAG on the way home.

Thank you.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In this experiment, Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground.

This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"Trump's UFC arena is defiling the WH"

Those same people in 2020:

[Anthony Hanes @AnthonyHanes21]

@dcopechatter @popstarr65

[Donnie Cope @dcopechatter]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Tens of thousands of Spencer Pratt voters are now receiving rejection letters from the county clerk saying that their ballots were not counted due to signature irregularities. Yet, Governor Gavin Newsom just passed legislation that would make it illegal for anyone conducting oversight, to contest signatures that they deemed fraudulent. Democrats allow ballots to be signed with an X, a -, or a 🙂 to pass and count, but all of a sudden, only Republican signatures are being flagged for irregularities, rejected, and not counted. 🤔 One of these California Republican voters said that his signature has been on file for over 20 years and there has never been an issue until he voted for Spencer Pratt. Nithya Ramen has beaten Spencer Pratt by less than 3000 votes. There are at least 18,000 Pratt voters who received this letter saying their votes were rejected.