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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The more you know.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Should a country that kills athletes be allowed to participate in international athletic competitions? My vote is no.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If anyone else killed as many people as ICE, it would be called a killing spree, and a manhunt would be formed to bring them to justice.

It is INSANE that masked THUGS are given billions of our taxpayer funds to KILL PEOPLE.

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

"russia has castrated Ukrainian soldiers, russia has raped Ukrainian women, russia has abducted Ukrainian children" and the International Olympic Committee is letting them back in to international sports.

How @iocmedia can you justify this?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Hear me out…

Since we’re having such a hard time finding male candidates without a history of abuse, sexual assault, or rape maybe it’s time we started electing more women.

[Toni Mikkola 🏴‍☠️ @virtaava]

A country that beheads enemy soldiers has no place in the Olympics.

A country that rapes and tortures civilians and POWs has no place in the Olympics.

A country that bombs children’s hospitals, then strikes again when medics arrive, has no place in the Olympics.

A country that uses chemical weapons and banned munitions has no place in the Olympics.

A country whose troops drag POWs to death and shoot surrendering soldiers on camera has no place in the Olympics.

A country that is led by an individual wanted for child abductions and war crimes has no place in the Olympics.

A country that employs the Wagner Group, and is responsible for every massacre they commit, has no place in the Olympics.

Russia has no place in the Olympics.
Not under a flag. Not under “neutrality.” Not as individuals.

In 2022, 88% of Russia’s Olympic medals were won by soldiers. That’s not sport. That’s military propaganda.

If you see this, RT and like. Let the International Olympic Committee @iocmedia hear us.
Let the world hear us.
Let justice be louder than silence. #RussiaIsATerroristState

[Вестник @vesstnik]

@nytimes @TheAthletic Russia is a fascist terrorist state. Russia should have no platform at the Olympic Games.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 2018, Ubokobong Amanam lost his fingers in an accident. His family ordered a prosthetic from abroad to help him cope. When it arrived, it was the wrong color. Bright white, on Black skin.

His older brother John, a sculptor with no medical training, couldn't accept that. He spent over a year teaching himself silicone work, pigmentation, and mold-making, driven by nothing but the need to help his brother look like himself again.

In 2019, he handed his brother the first hyper-realistic dark-skin prosthetic ever made in Africa.

He had no idea he'd just started a movement.

Today, John Amanam's company, Immortal Cosmetic Art, has served over 5,000 clients in more than 60 countries. Every hand, ear, nose, and finger is hand-painted with visible veins and nails, built to be indistinguishable from real skin. He patented the technique in Nigeria in 2020, and runs a donation program so amputees who can't afford care still get it for free.

And he isn't stopping at cosmetic. His latest project, the Ubokobong Bionic Arm, uses electrical signals from the user's own muscles to move naturally, wrapped in that same hyper-realistic dark skin. Orders are already coming in from the US, UK, Australia, and Ghana, before it's even officially launched.

One brother's accident. One man refusing to accept "close enough." An entire industry finally catching up to the people it forgot.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

It was in Boston where Paul Revere rode to warn the patriots that the King's troops were approaching.

Last night in celebration of 250 years of America, Boston held a spectacular drone show, beautifully choreographed to an orchestral performance of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture."

The White House set off a record-breaking blitzkreig of 850,000 fireworks that filled the nation's capital with a nonstop bombardment of blasts, booms, smoke and flashes for 40 minutes straight. Undoubtedly stirring distress in veterans, pets and every wild animal in the area. All to satiate the ego of a president who wants everything he does to be "bigger" and grandiose.

250 years of America.

"Let the warning ride forth once more. Tyranny is at our door."

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Clarence Thomas argued the 14th Amendment was written narrowly for former enslaved people and doesn't apply broadly today. Using that same logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets and doesn't apply to AR-15's, but somehow, he's never made that argument.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Rep. @MarkPocan: Let me mention a few people who've died because of USAID cuts. Rovina Naboi in Kenya. Her daughter Jane died of starvation in a refugee camp because we cut back on their food. Yagana Bulama in Nigeria. A USAID-funded special nutrition program ended abruptly because of cuts to USAID. Two weeks later, one of her twin boys died. I've got a bunch more. Are you familiar with any of these stories?

Trump's Budget Director Russ Vought: I am familiar with the press that you are citing.

[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.

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: Let me tell you about the five arrests. They're not major cases. They are citations. If the DOJ wants to make this a major case and charge these people with felonies, they have to go to a grand jury. And though grand jury deliberations are secretive. In a closed room, you might hear the laughter outside the grand jury room. If they try to bring this case to a DC grand jury, it's not going to fly. 

At the reflecting pool, you have a smell that's emanating now that is reminiscent of a high school locker room. You have a police force and National Guard presence that is profound. It's like a jewel heist from the muppet caper is going to happen. You have so many police hanging out there, and it seems to be a misappropriation of resources.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[The Bull Moose Project @BullMooseProj]

Netflix just raised prices again. Twenty-seven dollars a month for a full subscription. That is up 50% in six years.

Netflix has a hundred million more subscribers than their closest competition.

This is Netfleecing:

[Bri Gillis @Bgilly13]

Dems have been looking for their message for years, and @AnnieAndrewsMD just did it (in under two minutes). Take note 📝

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Did you know that when Forbes gave out the first-ever title of "Technology Person of the Year" in 2021, they didn't give it to a fake astronaut, CEO, and aging, box-bodied, self-important white man.

They gave it to a 31-year-old female scientist from Mississippi.

Me.

They gave it to me.

#howyoulikethemapples

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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