GeeGrownUp

The Bernie campaign, pandemic response and Russiagate were the last straws for my innocence. Sociopaths are in charge.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@uTobian The silence and huddling at home of humanities academics as the lockdown and mandates rolled out, particularly philosophers and ethicists, was an eye opener. Arguably the most impactful event of a generation and they had nothing to say!

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@ProjectConstitu There are no physics to explain why his shirt would puff up in the direction the microphone was pointed, except an explosion.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@irinamanna114k @ProjectConstitu @grok You’ve already reach your conclusion and you want AI to provide the rationale.
This is supposed to be some superior, sophisticated reasoning?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel wants you to believe that multiple UN reports and experts are lying. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights Israel…are all lying.

But you should believe the people who did this…

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@cjustcannot @RepThomasMassie You have lost the plot.

[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.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@ProjectConstitu You just explained it. She found out her husband had been shot and went to the airport. “airport, ready to fly to Utah, if she was supposedly rushing from the doctor after finding out her husband had been shot?”. Your logic on this in the X post is convoluted.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.

My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.

They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.

"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."

He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.

And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.

It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.

Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.

It's a real mess, man.

That guy sucks.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@sahbalsm Yes, from Illinois, USA

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a crime so dark it is difficult to comprehend

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

On June 5th Israel attacked the home of world famous Lebanese sea turtle conservationist Mona Khalil. Mona was hospitalized with burns and injuries to over 70% of her body.

Yesterday, June 19th, Mona died from her injuries.

This wasn’t an accident. They didn’t make a mistake. Mona’s home was also where she ran her sea turtle conservatory- which she aptly named the Orange House Project- because, after all, her house was painted top to bottom in a deep, bright orange, the color of a late summer sunset.

The Orange House Project has been in operation for almost 30 years. You can find it on Facebook and Google Maps, along with dozens of reviews from visitors over the years.

So no, it wasn’t an accident or a mistake. Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it bombed the Orange House Project on June 5th.

It’s exactly what they’ve been doing since the war with Iran started: ethnically cleansing all of Southern Lebanon so they can steal the land and occupy it for themselves.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Congats to the 22-year-old son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for raising $30 million on his new company with a $300m valuation.

His prior work -- as a Senate intern and then in the Congress Influence department at Andreessen, Horowitz -- is a testament to our meritocracy!🇺🇸

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@lach_nili Truth hurts, huh?

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@uTobian Moving to Berkeley, CA in 2020, historically famous for free speech and thought and lifestyles, was a trip to the twilight zone because of exactly this. The authoritarianism was unbelievable.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@IranArmySpoofX Yes. The people and the architecture are beautiful, from what I’ve seen. It sickens me we are trying to destroy them.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@ben_barbanel @infinite_jaz Liberal democracy?! That ship sailed.

[AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 @AMK_Mapping_]

@itamarbengvir How disgusting must you be that Twitter limits translations on your entire fucking language lmao.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@Euan_MacDonald @Andrewfi37 That wasn’t an ad hominem. He stated there is no evidence that the US treasury is obligated to fork over billions.

[Zionism Exposed @ZionismExposedx]

Do you remember 'All Eyes on Rafah'?

This is what Rafah looks like now, 2 years later. The IDF invaded Rafah in June 2024 and systematically destroyed everything that sustained life.

"Israel" is incompatible with humanity.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@rich_toronto You are blind. YOU are now the genociders and no one is coming after you. In fact, we send you $ to complete it.

[GeeGrownUp @gee_grown]

@newstart_2024 Like Erika Kirk crying, except she apparently overlooked real crying you have to blow your nose. Just dabs at her eyes.