Lisa Askey

Mom, wife, friend & daughter. I am running in the 2026 Primary for Chandler (AZ) City Council. Make your voice heard - VOTE!

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

The FIFA World Cup is pretty much the best thing to happen to American Summer in generations… Such a renewal of energy & positivity. Man, I love this country! Thank you, world, for coming for a visit! ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

@Chris_Kelly24 He’s the absolute best! 😍

[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.

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

Perfection! 🇺🇸❤️⚽️

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

250 Years…and we are just getting started 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

@kaylieray13 @votewarren Congratulations Kaylie!! Thank you for working so hard on this issue!

[Andy Biggs @andybiggs4az]

Great news!

I’ve met with Kaylie and heard her inspiring story of standing up for women’s rights in sports.

Thanks to @votewarren and @AZHouseGOP & @AZSenateGOP for getting this in front of Arizona voters.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[D. Todd Christofferson @ChristoffDTodd]

In recognition of the 250-year anniversary of the founding of the United States of America as a free and independent nation, Elder Quentin L. Cook and I discussed the importance of religious liberty and its underlying significance for the restored Church of Jesus Christ.

We believe in religious liberty.

As the Eleventh Article of Faith reminds us, “We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.”

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This is hilarious

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

https://t.co/WtMxVdTmfV

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

@GinaSwoboda @patriotnheels Congratulations!

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

I LOVE THIS!

[Lisa Askey @LisaAskey]

@TheYellowSheet Congratulations, Linley!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The internet's newest obsession is this Japanese man who uses AI to insert himself into classic movies.

Sad he can’t be nominated for an Oscar 😂

Source: ai_am_furufuru IG

[Jesse Fox @jesse_k_fox]

To mom and dad:
A moment captured at the 152nd Kentucky Derby, two brothers crossed the finish line side by side and reached out to hold hands.

José Ortiz had just won riding Golden Tempo, beating his own brother Irad by a nose. That image says so much.

What made it remarkable was where Golden Tempo had been for most of the race: dead last. So far back the announcers barely mentioned him. He's what they call a deep late closer, a horse that lingers, waits, and makes his move when it matters most.

And sometimes, that's us.

Sometimes we feel invisible. Like the race is already decided and no one even knows we're running. But we keep going anyway. And sometimes, in the end, we win.

This was José's 12th Kentucky Derby. Eleven times before, he came up short. Then, finally, he didn't.

The day also held a different kind of story. Just before the race, jockey Alex Achard was moments from living his Derby dream when his horse, Great White, reared and fell. After inspection, the horse was scratched. This was his first Derby and just like that, disaster, gone. No second chance in the moment. Just loss.

That's life too.

My mom and dad watched the Kentucky Derby together for 50 years. Then my dad passed. For nine years, she watched it alone. But yesterday, they held hands again as they watched the Derby together after 9 years of being apart.

Two brothers at the finish line. A wife and her husband across the years. A jockey whose moment never came. A rider who waited twelve years for his.
Different outcomes. Same truth.
Life isn't just about winning the race. It's about enduring it, about pressing forward when you're invisible, getting back up after loss, and believing your moment can still come.

And in the end, win or lose in this life, we reach for the people we love.
That's the real finish line.