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[Max @minordissent]

Europoors: if we stop using AC we will solve climate change

China: 1M sq ft indoor ski resort that has 10 MW of refrigeration running 365 days a year

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

George Washington's Spectacles:

At the end of the Revolutionary War, Congress was broke and owed back pay to many officers and soldiers in the army.

Rumors began to spread that to solve the problem, Congress would just disband the army and send them home without pay.

Some officers, influenced by anonymous letters known as the Newburgh Addresses began discussing radical action such as marching on Congress.

This raised fears of a military coup that could have destroyed the nation in its infancy.

On March 15 1783, new Newburgh New York, General Washington called his officers together at the Temple of Virtue - a large wooden hall built by the soldiers as a chapel and dance hall.

He arrived unexpectedly just after General Horatio Gates had opened the meeting.

Washington spoke to his men and he sympathized with the officers’ hardships including his own but firmly condemned any move against the civilian government.

He appealed to their patriotism, honor, and sense of duty. He warned against plunging the country into “civil horror.”

As Washington prepared to read a letter from Congress explaining the situation, he struggled to read the print.

Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of reading spectacles—the first time most of the officers had ever seen him wear glasses. He had only recently started needing them and had kept it private.

He paused and said:

“Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.”

The officers were stunned.

Here was their revered, seemingly invincible commander—now openly acknowledging his age, weariness, and physical frailty after years of shared sacrifice.

Many of them were moved to tears. The tension in the room dissolved. The conspiracy collapsed.

The officers voted to express their “unshaken confidence” in Congress and rejected any irregular or mutinous actions.

Washington later successfully lobbied Congress on their behalf, and the army received a settlement of five years of full pay.

The moment is widely regarded as one of Washington’s greatest acts of leadership.

Our country was founded and preserved by the greatest of men.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - Hospitals in the U.S. are advertising in Latin American countries, offering “birth packages” of up to $5,000 to foreigners to help them give birth in border states like Texas, allowing their children to be born as U.S. citizens following the new SCOTUS ruling.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

He got Ratioed!

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2006. Senator Obama slams the Bush Administration for not doing more workplace raids to catch and deport illegal immigrants.

It appears that the Democrat party has changed a little bit over the past 20 years. 🤪

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Islamic scholar in California, Uthman Farooq, has a message to Americans:

“You cannot stop Islam in America. This is NOT your country, this is OUR country. This is the land of Allah. If you want to live in a place with no Muslims, I suggest you go to hell.”

[Quadcarl @Quadcarl]

I know more about the two people that climbed the Empire State building yesterday than I do about these two guys.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

🚨🇫🇷 ATERRADOR:

Un tribunal francés dictamina que Ousmane Diallo, un migrante senegalés de 67 años, no puede ser considerado penalmente responsable del asesinato de Théo, de 18 años.

Ousmane se puso furioso en una tienda de teléfonos móviles después de que le dijeran que tendría que pagar € 93 por las llamadas realizadas a Senegal.

Apuñaló a Théo en el pecho durante uno de sus primeros días de trabajo.

El tribunal dictaminó que Ousmane padece una enfermedad mental y será enviado a un hospital psiquiátrico hasta que se recupere.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Another day and another invader beats a European half to death with a scooter.

You had enough yet?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

To find a hidden tumour, they inject you with radioactive sugar and photograph where it goes.

It works, reliably, because the cancer drinks that glucose so greedily it flares up on the scan like a bonfire while the healthy tissue around it sits dark. The entire technology rests on one fact nobody says out loud in the room: the tumour runs on sugar, and it will outbid the rest of your body for every last gram of it.

We have known about this appetite for the better part of a century. We built a vast imaging industry on the back of it. We use it today, in every major hospital, to hunt the disease down.

Then, having located the cancer by following the sugar, they bring round the lunch trolley. White toast. Tinned fruit in syrup. A carton of juice, a biscuit, and a leaflet recommending plenty of wholesome carbohydrates to keep your strength up.

We spend a fortune using sugar to find the thing.

Then we sit the patient down and feed it.

Read that twice.

[DR POOL @DRPOOLQ17]

🚨 BREAKING: Four MS-13 illegal aliens have been arrested in Maryland after they hacked a 14-year-old boy to d*ath with a machete

Brought to you by Maryland Sen. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, margarita-enjoyer with MS-13 Abrego Garcia.

HE SHOULD RESIGN.

[STORM NEWS 📰🗞️ @storm1news]

BREAKING: OFFICER WHO LIED UNDER OATH IN CHAUVIN CASE PICTURED USING SAME KNEE RESTRAINT TECHNIQUE IN 2014 RIOT

She was then promoted to Assistant Chief of Police of Minneapolis

14 officers have come out against her

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

My wife and I own a pharmacy. Last month we spent days trying to pry one prescription loose from a company that did everything it could to hold onto it.

The drug was everolimus. A generic. It treats cancer and protects transplant patients from rejecting their new organ. Not exotic. Not rare. A pill.

The patient wanted it filled with us because we're cash-pay and cost-plus. No insurance. No PBM. No secret markups, no games. Our price was $318. That's not cheap by our standards — most of what we fill runs under $20 — but it was honest.

Here's what that same prescription looked like on the other side of the counter.

In 2023, Medicare was paying about $6,645 for it. That's roughly 21 times our price for the identical medication. Medicare spent around $240 million on everolimus alone that year. If they'd paid our price, they'd have saved roughly $230 million. On one generic drug.

So how does an insurance company profit off a drug that expensive? Don't they pay for it?

No. You pay for it. In your premiums. Their job isn't to spend less — it's to keep your healthcare dollars circulating inside their own companies. And the tool they use is called spread pricing.

Spread pricing works like this: the middleman bills the health plan one price, pays the pharmacy a lower one, and keeps the difference. You never see it. On TRICARE, they pay an independent pharmacy like mine about $311 to fill everolimus. That barely covers our cost of the drug. Meanwhile the plan gets billed thousands. That gap — north of $6,000 on a single fill — is pure margin the middleman pockets.

Now here's the part they'd rather you not think about.

The pharmacy we were fighting was Accredo. Accredo is owned by Express Scripts. Express Scripts is the pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna. Same company, three masks. That nesting-doll structure isn't an accident — it's the whole design. When the pharmacy, the PBM, and the insurer are all one entity, they can shuffle money between their own pockets and call it whatever they want. The confusion is the product.

And this isn't a story about one weird drug. It's the business model.

The FTC has been digging into exactly this. In its January 2025 report on the three biggest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — staff found those companies marked up specialty generic drugs by hundreds and thousands of percent when dispensing through their own affiliated pharmacies. Just those markups generated more than $7.3 billion above what the drugs actually cost to acquire, from 2017 to 2022. One in five of the specialty generics they studied was marked up over 1,000%. Some cancer generics: over 3,000%. On top of that, the FTC pegged spread pricing on those same drugs at another $1.4 billion.

One example straight from the FTC's files: dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug. Costs about $177 to acquire. The PBMs paid their own pharmacies close to $4,000 for a 30-day supply. Same trick. Different drug.

And they steer the profitable ones to themselves on purpose. Pharmacies affiliated with the big three took in 68% of specialty dispensing revenue in 2023 — up from 54% in 2016. The prescriptions marked up more than $1,000 disproportionately end up at their own pharmacies, not independents like mine.

So when we called to transfer this patient's everolimus to be filled without insurance, it landed like we were asking them to set $6,000 on fire. Of course they stonewalled us.

That's why we fired them.

No insurance means no invisible $6,000 charge buried in a premium you can't itemize. It means the price you see is the price. Ours was $318. Theirs was thousands. Same pill.

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

Nailed it..

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

¿Por qué los musulmanes odian tanto a las personas que los acogieron como refugiados?

¿NINGUNA GRATITUD?

Una anciana blanca está siendo pisoteada por musulmanes en una parada de tren.

[Dei Civitas @DeiCivitas]

@dubslife1 The British police are only good at arresting elderly Christian grandmas for praying silently in public

[ΚΘΥΛΥ @Syntropical_Eng]

SoyBoy PoPos

[Dubs life @dubslife1]

Wait for it

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

British Humor. Pay for your Execution 🤣

[ΚΘΥΛΥ @Syntropical_Eng]

This is the same effect seen in the UFO or UAP videos that the ignorant perceive as the objects in the foreground moving at crazy high speed. The photographing craft is circling very far from the object and thus the angles are changing very slowly. However the background scenery is also very far away from the object and thus the same slow angle rate appears to be a high rate of speed.