Jen Halligan

Natural Wellness Advocate | 📚🎮 nerd @bookandlatte | Centrist Free Thinker | Biotoxin illness #CIRS & #LymeWarrior 💚🏹

[autist @litteralyme0]

Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline

[Malwarebytes @Malwarebytes]

Meta has enabled a setting that allows anyone to use your public Instagram photos to create AI-generated images of you unless you opt out.

To opt out, click your profile -> 3 bars in the top right -> scroll down to "Sharing and reuse" and toggle off for both Posts and for Reels.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Everyone, stop what you're doing and watch this. It'll make your day 100x better

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Happy 250th birthday America! As a nation, we have so much history to celebrate, and at @NASA, we are just getting started. God bless the USA 🇺🇸

[U.S. Army @USArmy]

250 years of freedom, defended every day by our Soldiers.

Watch the Golden Knights perform a rare parachute demonstration by the Washington Monument.

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸💥

🎥 Staff Sgt. Daniel Gerlach and Staff Sgt. Clay Stevens

[Hubble @NASAHubble]

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?: Expanded Edition! 🥳

In celebration of America's 250th birthday week, now you can find *five* Hubble views taken on your special day.

Discover yours and let us know your favorite in the replies: https://t.co/QqEpU35JYQ

[NASA @NASA]

There will be more than just fireworks to see in the night sky this month!

You can look forward to these celestial sights in July:
- A lunar-planetary alignment
- A visiting comet
- A good look at Saturn and the Milky Way

Happy skywatching! https://t.co/6EP5GpvAQw

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

The land of the free. They taught the world to hate middle America - then the world came to middle America and people fell in love.

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

The Washington Monument will once again be lit up from July 1–5. 🇺🇸

Back by popular demand, it's one of many @Freedom250 celebrations on the @NationalMallNPS this week as America turns 250.

[Conservatron @Conservatron1]

Yes. America has it all.
Literally.

[Hy Bender @hybender]

Coolest use of a drone

[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.

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Happy summer solstice ☀️

Today marks the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest stretch of daylight. It’s the day the Northern hemisphere is most tilted toward the Sun. https://t.co/k0qPHyGw5l

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Pretty intuitive animation explaining seasons, equinox, solstice, length of day and night.

Today marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

[🎞️ German Valencia Garcia]

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[NASA @NASA]

The official FIFA World Cup ball went to space!

We're working to inspire the next generation by showing how space exploration inspires innovation in sports science — and everyday life. Learn more: https://t.co/CWbI8MFDtp

[NASA @NASA]

Summer, summer, summertime ☀️

June 21 is the summer solstice for folks north of the Equator. This is when the Northern Hemisphere reaches its maximum tilt toward the Sun and has its longest stretch of daylight all year. https://t.co/LmLttEnj9Y

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you're having a bad day, here's the exact moment that Charlie Brown adopted Snoopy 75 years ago.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69