Wonderlust Sunrise

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

Google is planning to release 64 MILLION Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes into neighborhoods in Florida and California.

This is reckless, irreversible biological experimentation on American communities and our ecosystems — with no off-switch.

Florida recorded just 6 West Nile cases last year. The risk is negligible, yet they’re proceeding anyway. These altered mosquitoes could disrupt birds, bats, and entire food chains with consequences we cannot undo.

Enough of Big Tech playing God with our environment and our health.

Tell the EPA to REJECT this dangerous experiment. (Link in comments.)

Public comments close tomorrow, June 5th.

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

Eli Lilly just told hospitals: hand over your patient claims data, or lose your discounts.

Here's the mess.

340B is a federal program. It forces drugmakers like Lilly to sell to certain hospitals at roughly half price. The idea was simple: take profit from big pharma, give it to safety-net hospitals.

Then the hospitals turn around and bill you and your insurer full price. They keep the spread.

So hospitals made 340B their whole identity. Look how it grew:

2010: $3.8B
2024: $81.4B

That's not a typo. The program is now bigger than Medicaid's entire drug spend. Hospitals are 87% of it.

That infuriates pharma. They even ran ads about it.

But here's their real problem. On the same prescription, a drugmaker can get hit twice: forced to sell cheap under 340B, AND forced to pay a big rebate to the insurer/PBM. Sometimes they lose money on their own product.

So Lilly wants claims-level data to prove they aren't being double-dipped. Hospitals call it illegal and want the feds to step in. Deadline to comply: 5 business days, or pricing gets pulled June 8.

And the middlemen are in it too. Michigan hospitals just sued CVS for allegedly keeping ~$240M in 340B money.

Get it now?

Pharma. Hospitals. PBMs. Insurers. They're all fighting over one pile of money. It's YOUR money. They're just arguing over who gets to keep what they overcharged you.

That's exactly why we opted out. No PBMs. No insurance games. Transparent cost-plus pricing.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

A scientist was hired by a chemical company to study its weedkiller. He found it was castrating and feminizing frogs. So the company stopped studying the chemical and started studying him. This is the documented story of atrazine. 🧵

[Goodable @Goodable]

In Wisconsin, a graduate was forced to stop on stage when his diploma couldn't be found.

That's when the school said a person traveled thousands of miles to deliver it to him.

It was his sister, returning from military service, for over a year. ❤️

[Dolly Spice- Jones 🌱🎵 @Herb_Minstrel]

Six weeks.

SIX FLIPPING WEEKS.

Lucy has not heard our voices. She hasn't slept on her rug. She hasn't gone for a ride in the truck. She hasn't been snuggled by her family, played with Lex, or run free in her own field.

SIX WEEKS.

She's been locked in a tiny cell, sleeping on concrete, likely wondering why we abandoned her.

SIX WEEKS.

She's eleven years old. She doesn't have endless time ahead of her. She could get sick. Her health could fail. Every day matters.

And while everyone moves at a snail's pace, without a care in the world, time keeps slipping away from MY DOG—the dog who was taken because a petty neighbor decided to call the authorities when she slipped out of her collar in our OWN YARD!

This wasn't some outrageous act! This wasn't a purposeful violation of anything and didn’t cause incident. This wasn't the terrifying incident the neighbors or government would like people to believe it was.

It was a normal, everyday occurrence that happened on our private property!

We could have lied. We could have denied it happened. No one had proof otherwise:

But that's not who we are.

So for six weeks, my Lucy—my eleven-year-old dog who stood watch over our family through deployment after deployment, who kept me company during the lonely nights when I watched the news and wondered if my husband would make it home alive—has sat in prison.

This is a sick abuse of the law, and an innocent animal is paying the price.

Not for biting someone.
Not for attacking someone.
Not for leaving and roaming the neighborhood.
For being in her own yard.

Let that sink in.

And because malicious neighbors refused to mind their own business, and because officials with the power to do the right thing have refused to exercise any bit of common sense, she remains there.

They make me sick.

The abuse of power makes me sick.

The character assassination makes me sick.

The lies make me sick.

The fact that people who have never met us, never spoken to us, and don't know the first thing about our family have spent years trying to destroy our peace makes me sick.

Enough is enough!

Let Lucy come home already! Is this really the hill anyone wants to die on? It’s a single dog. It’s an average family. Send her back and leave us alone. That’s all we want.

And for those who have participated in this injustice—whether through malice, cowardice, pride, or indifference, know this:

God sees every bit of it.
He knows the truth.
And one day, every one of us will answer to Him.

Until our Lucy is home and beyond. We will not stop fighting.

#savelucy

[Angela Stanton King @theAuntieAngie]

21 years ago, I sat in a prison cell and learned I was pregnant.

Every sign pointed toward abortion. Every circumstance said this baby would never have a chance.

But I chose life.

I saw value in my daughter before anyone else could.

What I didn’t know was that her birth would help change laws in America. Fifteen years after I gave birth while chained to a hospital bed with a sheriff standing watch, that story reached the highest levels of government. And @POTUS granted me a full and unconditional pardon and signed legislation ending the shackling of women during childbirth in federal prisons.

Today, that same baby walked across the stage as a graduate of MIT.

From a prison birth to one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Never let your circumstances determine someone’s worth.

There is value in life.

There is purpose in every child.

Go, baby. The world is yours. ❤️🎓
#MIT #Graduation #ChooseLife #Redemption #SecondChances #ValueInLife

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This is what the older generations should try and do more often

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

A single dose of doxycycline can decrease the risk of contracting Lyme disease after a tick bite from 3% to 1%.

Allergic reactions to doxycycline are extremely rare - the lowest of all antibiotics.

@US_FDA should make single-dose doxycycline available to the public without a prescription.

[LyraKeltica @Bernadette99797]

@XtexasgirlX @Ikennect Hanoi Jane is a traitor and should have been imprisoned back in 1972.

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

The US healthcare system is fundamentally broken, and it’s being fueled by a $10,000 price tag on a $6 medication. 💊📉

Glenda and I opened Forest Park Pharmacy three years ago to build something better. We had no idea we were walking into a financial minefield where the "math" simply doesn't add up for small businesses or patients.

Here is the truth about how Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are draining your wallet:

The Insurance Trap

After four months of operation, we realized we were making 2% less than the cost of the medications we dispensed. Our only income was insurance reimbursements, and they weren’t even covering the wholesale cost of the drugs.

The Great Copay Lie

We discovered that our patient’s copays were often higher than the actual price we would charge for the medication without insurance. You’re paying for a "benefit" that actually costs you more.

The "AWP" Scam

Ever heard of Average Wholesale Price (AWP)? It sounds like a standard metric, but it’s a phantom number. For example:

Teriflunomide: Our cost is $6. Our cost-plus price is $17.
Medicare pays: $3,700 per prescription.
Published AWP: $10,000.

Medicare is overpaying by $9 BILLION on just 50 common drugs because of these inflated metrics.

The Middleman Problem

PBMs (Pharmacy Benefit Managers) are hired to "control costs," but they take a percentage of the prescription cost. This means they are incentivized to keep prices high. The FTC estimates they take 41% of every dollar spent on generic drugs—and they don’t prescribe, manufacture, or dispense a single pill.

We’ve Had Enough.

We canceled every insurance contract and switched to a Cost-Plus Model:

✅ Drug Cost + 15% Markup + $10 Service Fee.
When we told our customers they’d save money by not using their insurance, we immediately lost 70% of our business. People are so conditioned to trust their "benefits" that they’d rather pay a higher copay than a lower cash price.

It’s time to pull back the curtain on the PBM disaster. High drug costs aren't an accident—they're the system working exactly as designed.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Also don’t remember. But it’s been living rent free in my head ever since. Puts a very important truth that you intuit when building companies in a very accessible form.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Nick Shirley says it’s getting harder to investigate fraud for a number of reasons

- He’s become very recognizable to fraudsters because of social media
- Fraudsters are on high alert right now because of his reporting
- Fraudsters are covering up the fraud
- some fraudsters are taking what they’ve stolen and leaving America

Impact

- The Federal Government shut down over 500 hospices in California. Not a single hospice has said, hey, open our hospice back up.

- In Minnesota, they froze $250 million of payments for childcare there. Not a single daycare sent a single receipt

- They just raided 22 daycares and other welfare programs. Not a single mother complained about her child not being able to go to a daycare.

The real problem is none of the politicians who have let it happen have been held accountable. Not a single one

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

Stanford University (@Stanford) has posted a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Data Analyst

Salary: $80,148

Nobody in California was qualified to analyze this data.

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

A guy in Alberta is selling tractors with zero computers. No software. No sensors. Just a diesel engine you can fix with a wrench.

400 American farmers tried to buy one after a single interview.

Sometimes the moat isn't more features.

It's less.

[Shawn Martin @rshawnm]

United Health Group (UHG) recently reported their Q1 2026 results, exceeding earnings expectations with $111.7 billion in revenue—a 2% year-over-year increase. They attribute their positive performance to “improved medical cost management.”

Just so we are all clear - medical cost management is code for prior authorization, downcoding, care denials, etc.

They take pride in denying care because it looks good on their earnings report.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

Reminder: Secret Service has been unfunded for more than 70 days now.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Stop. Trying. To. Kill. Our. President.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

Sheila McCormick, we have your expulsion vote ready to be called up on the 21st. Either resign or be expelled. Those are your two options.

So America is tracking: Sheila stole $5 million in FEMA funds.

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

The American healthcare system is reaching a breaking point and the recent UC Davis scandal is the perfect case study in why. One patient was charged $110,000 for a single infusion of Keytruda. Even after an "insurance discount" the final bill stood at $57,000.

To put that in perspective, the list price for the drug is approximately $12,000. This means the insurance company "negotiated" a deal that was still five times higher than the retail cost.

Keytruda is a massive revenue driver for Merck, generating $31.7 billion in worldwide sales last year alone. Nearly $19 billion of that revenue came from the United States. We pay the highest prices in the world for brand-name drugs while enjoying lower costs for generics. This disparity creates a massive incentive for Big Pharma to protect their monopolies. Merck currently holds 50 active patents on Keytruda in the US to stifle competition and keep prices inflated.

The price you pay for treatment depends heavily on where you receive it. On average, if you receive a Keytruda infusion at a hospital, the price is $21,600. If you go to a doctor's office, that price drops to $11,500.

Hospitals have access to 340B pricing, allowing them to purchase the drug for an average of $8,000. This leaves them with a $13,600 profit margin per infusion. When hospitals sue patients for unpaid bills, they are often fighting to protect these massive mark-ups on drugs they purchased at a fraction of the cost.

The system is being exploited at every level, from manufacturers to Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) to hospital administrators. PBMs often claim to lower costs, but they frequently negotiate rebates that benefit their bottom line rather than the patient's wallet.

At Forest Park Pharmacy, we opted out of this broken system. We believe in fair, transparent pricing without the games.