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[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Not good for the narrative

[Skypics @Shorebound1336]

Take a look at these incredible moments we've had the privilege to capture! At Ed & Grace Photography, we go beyond just poses, expertly utilizing natural light and the unique features of the environment to create artful and compelling https://t.co/4rTpyrmAjp

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@EdKrassen It’s always democrats — who live behind gates — that want our Southern border wide open.

Shocker.

Thank you for exposing yourself.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

My comment is that according to the court document you apparently didn’t read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here.

My further comment is that it’s gross to get fired up about gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize.

[Skypics @Shorebound1336]

This saguaro seems to be making a break for it, dashing away from the swirling galaxies as if the universe itself just gave it a fright!#MilkyWay #Astrophotography #StackedImages #NightSky #SonyA7RIV #14mm #DesertStars #ArizonaNights #NewRiverMountains #LightPollution #DeepSky

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

So, let’s me get this straight. The Atlantic released the so-called “war plans” and those “plans” include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information.

Those are some really shitty war plans.

This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an “attack plan” (as he now calls it). Not even close.

As I type this, my team and I are traveling the INDOPACOM region, meeting w/ Commanders (the guys who make REAL “war plans”) and talking to troops.

We will continue to do our job, while the media does what it does best: peddle hoaxes.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@AugustCohen4 Jasmine Crockett is the leader of the democrat party.

The fact that you are enabling her to attack disabled Americans shows how far the democrat party has fallen.

[Skypics @Shorebound1336]

Fishbone Offroad rack ($1,000+) failed with cracks at all four corners. They offered only 50% off a replacement, ignoring safety risks. @FishboneOffroad
#JeepGladiator #OffroadGear

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

8/8 Noem's declaration.
Your move Judge. https://t.co/9GDCtLflzc

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

The ACA was the greatest piece of legislation ever passed? Spare me.

Such a claim is not merely hyperbolic, it is historically illiterate. The Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, was not a triumph of reform but a masterpiece of political theatre and economic distortion.

It did not fix the American healthcare system; it calcified its worst features.

The ACA entrenched a reimbursement model that favors bloated health systems over independent medicine.

Through CMS, Medicare reimburses more for services rendered in hospitals and HOPDs than independent physician offices.

The consequence?
A wave of acquisitions.

Once nimble and patient-focused, private practices were absorbed by not-for-profit health systems looking to maximize revenue through arbitrage, not outcomes.

This is not reform, it is rent-seeking on an industrial scale.

Second, mandated coverage inflated prices while distorting risk. One of the ACA’s proudest boasts, essential health benefits, became its most economically illogical mandate.

Insurers were forced to cover services like maternity care for men and pediatric dentistry for retirees. Risk pools were distorted. Premiums soared. The healthy were penalized to subsidize the inefficient.

In pre-ACA America, a healthy 30-year-old could purchase catastrophic coverage for a few hundred dollars a month.

Post-ACA, that same individual faces a $1,200 monthly bill for insurance they neither want nor need. The state declared, in effect, that every American must buy a Mercedes, even if they only needed a bicycle.

The claim that “50 million Americans gained coverage” is semantically clever and substantively hollow.

Coverage is not care. The expansion of Medicaid, a key pillar of the ACA, placed millions into a program that few physicians accept and that delivers subpar outcomes.

The middle class, meanwhile, found themselves with narrow networks, enormous deductibles, and unaffordable care, all behind the illusion of a plastic insurance card.

This is the Potemkin village of healthcare: coverage without capacity, access without agency.

Finally, the ACA codified a cartel. Section 6001 of the law effectively banned the creation and expansion of physician-owned hospitals. Why?

Because physician-owned facilities outperformed corporate health systems in terms of quality and cost. The empirical record was clear. So, instead of fostering competition, Congress, lobbied by the AHA and its allies, shut it down.

Imagine a world in which Amazon had lobbied Congress to outlaw any new e-commerce startups after 2010 under the guise of “market stabilization.”

That is precisely what happened in healthcare. The ACA chose incumbency over innovation. It outlawed the insurgents and rewarded the monopolists.

In sum, the ACA is not a monument to progress, it is a monument to protectionism.

It preserved the oligopoly of legacy health systems, empowered insurers by mandating the purchase of their products, distorted prices, crushed physician autonomy, and locked out competition.

To call it the “greatest” legislation of our time is to mistake technocratic complexity for genuine reform.

It was corporate statism painted in the pastel colors of progressive compassion.

#healthcare

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Since “Judge” Reyes is now a top military planner, she/they can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute High Value Target Raids…after that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare.

[Skypics @Shorebound1336]

@davidvance This isn't accurate. She was stabbed 6 times, not raped.
https://t.co/JDgG28E58X

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

The House is working overtime to limit the abuses of activist federal judges. Our @JudiciaryGOP will expose the worst offenders in a high profile hearing & we are preparing urgent legislative action, like the @repdarrellissa bill to stop unfounded nationwide injunctions.

[Skypics @Shorebound1336]

@MilaLovesJoe I did!

[jcomUSA @JcomUsa]

@SpeakerJohnson You post this as if you and @LeaderJohnThune have no control or ability to stop it.
The AG and FBI director will handle these criminals.
How about YOU do something about the rogue judges?

Once again the @HouseGOP And @SenateGOP fail the American people.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

GPS—5,134 mobile devices, NOT EVEN CLOSE TO 15,000!

87% having attended 7 or more Kamala Harris rallies, antifa/blm, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian protests.

Where were these attendees originally from?

700 devices originated from Illinois, 615 were from Washington, DC, 233 were from New York, 1,121 were from Georgia, 100 were from Pennsylvania, 104 were from the state of Washington, 845 were from California.

Approximately 1,000 are present at the university daily.

Using our cartel overlay after a tip from ICE…

Results?

534 mobile devices are likely associates of the cartels, while 202 are associated with trafficking NGOs, included No Más Muertes (No More Deaths).

[Jellenne 🇺🇸🌵🌞 @Jellenne]

@TonySeruga I know Mullett Arena quite well. Capacity is 5000 seats. Bernie is a liar. No surprise there as communists are.

[🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 @mrddmia]

Colorado Election Clerk, 69, Jailed for Trying to Prove Election Fraud May Die in Prison

https://t.co/4bQK5d4ijJ

[TrueReally @TrueReally7764]

@DC_Draino And this-