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On the Planet of the Apes just one dumb monkey

[Stupid Monkey with no checkmark @Oldgimp2]

@EJPointer @TifaAuntie I am reminded of a joke.

What is the difference between Katie Miller and a 747?

Not everyone has been in a 747!

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@TheRobRedFord @elonmusk @grok Fascists are wolf's in sheep's clothing. The German National Socialist party was not socialist.

[Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen]

@NobleOne Ashli Babbitt died of a fentanyl overdose.

[Stupid Monkey with no checkmark @Oldgimp2]

@mysteriouskat @justinamash You miss an important point. Flock cameras are not very secure, exposing data to malicious actors.

[Dr. Insensitive Jerk @DrInsensitive]

@elonmusk @SpaceX @gleesonjm Have you considered asking for help from a higher power?

[Stupid Monkey with no checkmark @Oldgimp2]

@RealBenjFulford Criminal activity!

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@travisakers Take it back!!

I haven't aged more than 4 years, 9 months and 22 days!

[Stupid Monkey with no checkmark @Oldgimp2]

@Osinttechnical It was. Debris falling from the sky at 200kph.

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@joncoopertweets

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@DakdaR22 THERE FIGHTING SATAN!!!!

First it was just Nazis. But now it's full on war with the big man himself!!!!

How do they escalate the rhetoric from here?

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Sixty-one years ago this week, Lyndon Johnson flew a thousand miles to sign Medicare into law. He didn't have to. The fight was already won in Washington.

Johnson went to Independence, Missouri, because twenty years earlier Harry Truman had asked Congress for national health insurance and been buried for it, the American Medical Association howling about "socialized medicine" until the idea was dead.

He wanted the old man in the room when it finally happened.

So on July 30, 1965, he sat at a table in the Truman Library, signed Medicare and Medicaid with Truman at his side, and enrolled the 81-year-old as beneficiary number one. His wife Bess got card number two.

"No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine," Johnson said that day. "No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years."

Then he gave the credit away, telling the crowd it was Truman who "planted the seeds of compassion and duty which have today flowered into care for the sick and serenity for the fearful."

That was Johnson. He had been a schoolteacher once in a dirt-poor Texas town, in front of children who came to school hungry, and he never stopped governing like a man who remembered their faces.

When one of the biggest landslides in American history handed him the power to do almost anything, he spent it on people whose only lobby was their families.

And here's the part nobody would believe today: eleven months after that signature, Medicare was up and running. Nineteen million seniors enrolled, with 1965 technology, index cards and typewriters and shoe leather.

Six days later, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. Medicare, Medicaid, and the vote. One summer.

Remember what came before it. Roughly half of America's seniors had no hospital insurance at all. A heart attack took the farm. A broken hip took the savings. Growing old in the richest country on earth was a dice roll, and everybody knew somebody who lost.

Today Medicare covers about 69 million Americans. Medicaid pays for about two of every five births in this country and most of its nursing home care. If you have ever loved someone old, poor, disabled, or newly born, these programs have probably carried your family.

Now the other July.

On July 4, 2025, Donald Trump signed the largest Medicaid cut in the program's history, at a party he threw for himself.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office counts more than a trillion dollars pulled from Medicaid and the marketplaces, and 10 million more Americans uninsured by 2034. He had spent the campaign insisting he "loves and cherishes" these programs.

The White House calls it work requirements. The CBO, which answers to no party, calls it ten million people losing their insurance.

Johnson flew a thousand miles so the whole country could watch a promise get kept.

Sixty-one years later the same fight is back, and it won't be settled at a library table with the cameras rolling. It'll be settled at the roll call, then at the ballot box. The people who took the insurance back have names, and every one of those names is up for a vote.

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[Stupid Monkey with no checkmark @Oldgimp2]

@lagunastarman @elonmusk They are going to get a bigger boat.

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@Kama_Kamilia Watch out! Do you hear a buzzing sound overhead?

DROP THOSE THINGS AND RUN!

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@BriannaWu @IonaItalia

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Last year ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox aired 8 hours and 25 minutes of climate coverage. All year.

Of 201 climate segments, 16 mentioned fossil fuels.

I was a chief meteorologist for 18 years. Hired to cover climate, then told to stop.
A minute a week was too much.

#climagechange #journalism #bigoil

[Stupid Monkey with no checkmark @Oldgimp2]

@MysterySolvents To take some voting machines for hackers to crack?

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@Angry_Staffer ITS VANDALUSM!!!!

THIS. GUY DID IT!!!!

[MinnJES | 🐦 Free fallin' 🪄🎩 🐰 @jes_minn]

@JamesTate121 @gma20182024 WE THE PEOPLE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!

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@LucasSa56947288 The pic is inside the room, not in the hall. We know this because of the bed.

But the room number sign is IN the room. They put the sign in the hall, not in the room.

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@mcuban I had my insurance company deny a claim because it had the wrong CPT code. Only to find that the doctor properly filed the claim with the correct CPT code and the insurance company changed it to an incorrect code so it could deny the claim.