Dave Pond

Carolina to KC, Christian, dad, content strategist, writer, camera guy, Oxford Comma supporter. #BLM #LGBTQIA Ally #tweetsaremyown (davepond88 at BS)

[OnsOranje @OnsOranje]

KANSAS CITYYYY! 😍🧡⚽️

(Yes, it's not even matchday yet)

#NothingLikeOranje #FIFAWorldCup #TUNNED

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is what Karoline Leavitt said about the Housing bill yesterday — the one that Trump refused to sign today.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The World Cup is proof that, if it weren't for our leaders, the vast majority of people around the world would get along just fine.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.

Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.

So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.

1/ Here it is - in one🧵

[Sam McDowell @SamMcDowell11]

10 am on a Thursday in downtown KC:

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Turns out following science is … good for national security

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Trump just killed a bipartisan affordable housing bill that passed the Senate 85–5 /the House 358–32 while people are drowning in rent, mortgages, inflation, & high gas and energy bills.
But sure, tell us all how this billionaire “populist” dickhead is fighting for working people.
MAGA got conned.

[Lids @lids]

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[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A message for MAGA Trump voters.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Hillary Clinton was mocked for warning us about Tulsi Gabbard. Turns out, she was right. About everything.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Just a reminder that Trump hasn’t released 6 million pages of the Epstein files.

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

My mom just got a prescription for a new wheelchair.

AFTER insurance, she's being charged 600. Luckily she has a second insurance that is covering that portion.

Looked up the exact model number on Amazon, it's only 250 bucks there.

The US healthcare system in a nutshell.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[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.

[Dave Pond @davepond88]

Will this be the year we see Luis Regnifo on the @Royals ? :)

Sign Hayden Juenger while you're at it...

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

Fun Fact: Republican think tank The Heritage Foundation found since 1999 there were 77 cases that undocumented immigrants illegally voted in our federal elections versus billions of votes. That's about .00000000678% risk of fraud.

FYI there was only 99 cases since 1982 according to the Heritage foundation.

138 Republicans illegally voted in 2025 election.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

🚨 BREAKING: Close Trump advisors have been informing him the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled, which he immediately denies to blame liberals.

[Robbie Harvey @therobbieharvey]

Man caught speeding by AI Traffic Camera goes off on City Council. “I wasn’t even in Pensacola!”

This is Jacob Rockwell speaking at a recent Pensacola City Council meeting about a red-light camera ticket he received. Problem is he was 25 miles away in another state.

Now listen as he explains how corrupt the system is at denying citizens due process.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: New Mexico Senior: “I really depend on SNAP for my food. If I lose the SNAP it’s going to be like I’m either going to get evicted from my house because I want to eat. People that are on the bottom of the economic spectrum get so little from the government, and the government is able to give billions of dollars to the military, to people like Musk. I’m more disgusted than I am angry and I think people need to stand up against all of this.”😢

[Maryam @hell_line0]

putting a baby in a freezer would kill it,... butt freezing embryos keeps them alive. That's why an embryo isn't a baby. Hope that helps...