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.@POTUS: "Under our leadership, America will also be a nation that dares to dream and to build again... For the 100th anniversary of our founding in 1876, America completed the Washington Monument and work began on the Statue of Liberty... For the 200th year, we built the National Air and Space Museum and renovated the United States Capitol. For our 250th Anniversary, we are likewise building new monuments to American Greatness. To serve every future president and First Lady, we are building the most beautiful Ballroom anywhere in the world right at the White House... And just across the bridge in front of Arlington Cemetery, we are building a totally magnificent Triumphal Arc to honor the 250-Year Triumph of the American Spirit."
This is who NYC is protecting and letting free back onto the streets
@NYCMayor why do you allow these criminals to be set free despite a track record longer than a restaurant menu?
🚨 Welcome to the lawless, dangerous, and illegal markets in NYC, where millions and potentially BILLIONS of tax dollars are lost each year. Where criminals arrested for drug dealing, assault, and resisting arrest are set free to commit their crimes once again.
The NYC Council says it loses over $1.7 billion in potential tax revenue. These vendors are primarily illegal migrants from Africa who make $10,000’s of dollars a week TAX FREE.
In a city that wants to "tax the rich" but turns a blind eye to open criminality and fraud, there is a problem. How can women feel safe knowing criminals arrested for assault are set free on the streets?
This isn’t about left or right, it’s about what is against the law. We all work too hard and pay too much in taxes for others to break our laws and defraud the system. Watch and share!
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There were many programs @DOGE protected that remain active at @StateDept today:
• HIV Epidemic Control: $1.3 billion for HIV prevention, treatment, and control efforts.
• UN Agencies / World Food Program: $7.4 billion for humanitarian food assistance and emergency response across dozens of countries.
• HIV Supply Chain: $7.6 billion for logistics and supply of HIV medications and related commodities.
• Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: $13.4 billion for disease control.
And just how exactly do u propose WE proceed?
We have elected our Congress to vote the will of the majority of the people.
Why is our Congress - House and Senate Republicans not taking this seriously and voting together on issues⁉️
Get it together Congress‼️
If you all tried as hard to vote for the will of the people the way Trump works every day - we would not have a problem.
There are MINI MAMDANIs popping up all around the country.
It is a dangerous thing — this is NOT a joke.
We are in a fight RIGHT NOW to save the Republic and EVERY AMERICAN needs to take this seriously.
Personal News: I am writing as a mother and living organ donor.
Twenty years ago this month, our youngest son Peter received a life-saving liver transplant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh @ChildrensPgh
With Peter’s permission, I’m sharing a photo taken with his older brother a few weeks before his 2006 transplant, when he was in liver failure.
Four years later, he won gold at the U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, Wisconsin. And here he is today—healthy, strong, and thriving.
What I didn’t fully appreciate in 2006 was that Peter and I were part of pioneering research aimed at reducing the risk of organ rejection in pediatric patients.
Even though I donated a segment of my liver to Peter—and as mother and son we are genetically similar—the new testing protocol still helped lower his chances of rejection.
Peter and I participated in a research project that developed a simple blood test called Pleximmune @plexision
It predicts the likelihood of rejection in pediatric patients by analyzing the unique immune chemistry of both the child and the donor.
The test also helps doctors determine exactly how much immunosuppression a child needs to keep rejection at bay.
Our family knows firsthand how valuable this early warning system truly is.
When Peter hit his growth spurt in his early teens, like so many pediatric transplant recipients, he needed increased immunosuppression.
The Pleximmune test predicted this need months in advance, giving his doctors time to adjust his care before problems arose.
The threat of rejection is a cloud that hangs over every transplant patient and family.
This test is making a real difference. It helps prevent rejection and can save tens of thousands of dollars for families and insurance companies.
This is where common sense matters.
In early July, the research team is preparing an appeal to Medicare @MedicareGov to price the Pleximmune test "fairly and consistently" with similar diagnostic tests.
Right now, only a small percentage of the cost of the test for pediatric patients is being reimbursed.
As the team told me, “Fair pricing is the lifeblood of a company’s ability to provide patients with more informed care and continued innovation.”
Today, Pleximmune has been used to test roughly 10% of children under age 21 who have received liver or intestine transplants in the U.S.
If you want to support this important work and help more pediatric patients and their families benefit...
Send a note to your senator, let them know to escalate the matter with Medicare so the appeal gets a fair hearing.
Catherine
Personal News: I am writing as a mother and living organ donor.
Twenty years ago this month, our youngest son Peter received a life-saving liver transplant at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh @ChildrensPgh
With Peter’s permission, I’m sharing a photo taken with his older brother a few weeks before his 2006 transplant, when he was in liver failure.
Four years later, he won gold at the U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, Wisconsin. And here he is today—healthy, strong, and thriving.
What I didn’t fully appreciate in 2006 was that Peter and I were part of pioneering research aimed at reducing the risk of organ rejection in pediatric patients.
Even though I donated a segment of my liver to Peter—and as mother and son we are genetically similar—the new testing protocol still helped lower his chances of rejection.
Peter and I participated in a research project that developed a simple blood test called Pleximmune @plexision
It predicts the likelihood of rejection in pediatric patients by analyzing the unique immune chemistry of both the child and the donor.
The test also helps doctors determine exactly how much immunosuppression a child needs to keep rejection at bay.
Our family knows firsthand how valuable this early warning system truly is.
When Peter hit his growth spurt in his early teens, like so many pediatric transplant recipients, he needed increased immunosuppression.
The Pleximmune test predicted this need months in advance, giving his doctors time to adjust his care before problems arose.
The threat of rejection is a cloud that hangs over every transplant patient and family.
This test is making a real difference. It helps prevent rejection and can save tens of thousands of dollars for families and insurance companies.
This is where common sense matters.
In early July, the research team is preparing an appeal to Medicare @MedicareGov to price the Pleximmune test "fairly and consistently" with similar diagnostic tests.
Right now, only a small percentage of the cost of the test for pediatric patients is being reimbursed.
As the team told me, “Fair pricing is the lifeblood of a company’s ability to provide patients with more informed care and continued innovation.”
Today, Pleximmune has been used to test roughly 10% of children under age 21 who have received liver or intestine transplants in the U.S.
If you want to support this important work and help more pediatric patients and their families benefit...
Send a note to your senator, let them know to escalate the matter with Medicare so the appeal gets a fair hearing.
Catherine
STUNNING: USAID + THE BIG GRIFT
Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.
Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.
Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ's Yemen affiliate.
Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ's cause.
Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.
This 1997 Aulaqi mugshot is for soliciting prostitutes.
Good catch first flagged Feb. 2025 via
@browne_pamela
@intelwire
Thomas Jefferson died on the 4th of July. Not just any 4th. The exact 50th anniversary of the Declaration he wrote. And on that same day, hundreds of miles away, his old friend and rival John Adams died too. You cannot make this up. Here's the story.
Everyone knows Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence at just 33 years old. Fewer people know the size of the mind behind it.
He was a relentless genius. He taught himself law, architecture, multiple languages, science, and farming. He designed his own home, Monticello, and kept refining it for forty years like he physically could not leave a good idea alone. He tinkered and invented constantly, including a better plow blade that he refused to patent because he believed useful ideas should belong to everyone, not be locked up for profit.
He was a book addict on a scale that's hard to picture today. He owned close to 10,000 books in his lifetime. And when the British burned the Capitol and destroyed the Library of Congress in 1814, Jefferson sold his personal collection of roughly 6,500 volumes to the nation to rebuild it. The Library of Congress today essentially grew back from his bookshelves.
He served as the nation's first Secretary of State, its second Vice President, and its third President. As President he pulled off the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the country in a single stroke, and sent Lewis and Clark to map a continent.
He founded the University of Virginia, designed its buildings himself, and was so proud of it that he asked it to be carved on his tombstone, alongside writing the Declaration and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Not one word about being President. He wanted to be remembered for what he built and what he taught.
And then the ending almost no one learns. He died on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day after the nation was born. Adams, dying the very same day, reportedly murmured "Thomas Jefferson still survives," not knowing Jefferson had already passed hours earlier.
Two founders, two old rivals turned friends, leaving the world together on the country's golden anniversary.
Thomas Jefferson. The mind that wrote a nation into existence.
Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can’t wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks! In the meantime, enjoy my pregnancy fashion (or lack thereof) and a good story with your kids on Storytime with the Second Lady.
https://t.co/UmdeTtU60L
An activist judge just blocked our commonsense restriction on using SNAP benefits for soda and junk.
SNAP is for food — not sugar bombs fueling obesity, diabetes, and skyrocketing healthcare costs for low-income families.
Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize junk food and drinks at the expense of American health.
This administration will keep fighting to Make America Healthy Again.
https://t.co/dxmSd6gU2d
Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for products that make people sick and then pay again for the medical care that follows. SNAP was created to fight hunger and improve nutrition, not to subsidize the chronic disease epidemic. Today’s ruling does not change the facts about the health harms associated with excessive sugar consumption. We will continue pursuing every available path to Make America Healthy Again.
On this day in 1780, the British made their last serious push into New Jersey, and a furious chaplain handing out hymn books may have been the reason they failed. This is one of the best Revolutionary War stories almost nobody knows.
Two weeks earlier, the British had burned through Connecticut Farms, and during that raid a soldier shot and killed Hannah Caldwell, the wife of local Presbyterian minister James Caldwell, inside her own home with her children nearby. The killing of a pastor's wife enraged the whole region. The British were trying to break American morale. They lit a fire under it instead.
On June 23 about 5,000 British and Hessian troops marched on Springfield, aiming to punch through to Washington's supply base at Morristown. Standing in the way were maybe 1,500 Continentals under Nathanael Greene and a few hundred local New Jersey militia. Badly outnumbered, defending their own homes.
Then came the moment that made the legend. American troops at the bridge started running low on paper wadding for their muskets, the stuff that held the powder and ball in place. Reverend Caldwell, the same man who'd just buried his wife, ran into a nearby church, grabbed armfuls of hymn books by the famous hymn writer Isaac Watts, and threw them to the soldiers shouting "Give 'em Watts, boys! Give 'em Watts!" They literally fired the pages of hymns at the enemy.
The outnumbered Americans held. The British took the village, burned most of it, then turned around and retreated all the way back to Staten Island that same night. They never seriously invaded New Jersey again. Historians call Springfield "the forgotten victory" because the war's spotlight moved south right after.
A grieving preacher turned a hymnal into ammunition and helped end an invasion. Sometimes the most dangerous person on the field is the one with nothing left to lose.
.@RegionsBank will light its downtown Birmingham headquarters red, white and blue this week for the Fourth of July and the nation’s 250th birthday.
“Every year, we receive feedback from people who love seeing the illuminations of the Regions Center, and we thought this Independence Day provided a great opportunity to launch a new design,” said Michael Branca, head of Corporate Services for Regions Bank.
“This is a milestone for our nation as we mark 250 years of independence, and we are proud to join our fellow Americans celebrating this special occasion.”
Read and watch more here: https://t.co/HKbCVCJkz0
#Alabama #Birmingham #Regions #America250
IT’S HAPPENING.
The Great American State Fair kick-off celebration with President Donald J. Trump starts TODAY!
America’s 250th is loading… 🇺🇸🎡
See you at 7 PM.
We have rediscovered at great cost what America’s first @USTreasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton taught us: the nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is neither truly sovereign nor truly prosperous.
As we approach 250 years of American independence, we would do well to remember that our founders left us more than a Republic—they bequeathed a roadmap powerful enough to sustain it for two and a half centuries and beyond.
Scam centers in Southeast Asia steal billions of dollars from American victims each year. The Trump Administration is united in its efforts to dismantle these overseas criminal enterprises, and Treasury will continue using its tools to disrupt the networks behind this egregious fraud and protect Americans.
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