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I love this country and proudly support Donald J Trump for president of the Unites States of America #Trump2024

[Olivia Chowdhury @Oliviacoder1]

Apple hid a $200/year toolkit inside a free app called Settings.

You've had it since the day you unboxed your phone.

You've probably opened it twice — once to change your wallpaper, once to turn on Airplane Mode.

Here's everything else that's been sitting there. 🧵

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 AWESOME! In the face of leftist vandals, President Trump just CONFIRMED the incredible beautification of Washington DC

1,695 lights fixed
1,143 benches rehabbed/installed
500 instances of graffiti cleaned
250 truckloads of debris hauled from the Carp Pond at Constitution Gardens
152 homeless encampments removed
150.5 tons of pothole repair material used
134 rat-resistant trash cans installed
45 monuments and memorials cleaned
28 statues cleaned
22 fountains repaired
6 statues installed

🔥🔥🔥

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

If you support REMOVING JOHN THUNE…

REPOST THIS!

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

The king of trolling has come out to play. 🤣🤣🤣

[Red Line News @RedLineNewsUSA]

😂This guy is a LEGEND for flying a plane towing a banner that says, “Not a King. He’s your Daddy!”

Money well spent for whoever funded this!

[Kenny Webster @KennethRWebster]

Watch Fort Bend County Judge KP George get handcuffed after his guilty verdict today

He’s going to prison money laundering, but he also created fake social media accounts so he could pretend to harass himself for being Indian.

Pathetic.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚.𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗘.

Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes — not hours, minutes — the same clip, same caption, same outrage floods hundreds of accounts simultaneously. https://t.co/6HVdFLxeuU Labs tracked every amplification event in real time, and the data is damning.

The trigger quote — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 — was clipped and posted across hundreds of accounts almost simultaneously. Not after it trended. During the broadcast. Real breaking news takes time to spread organically. This had a running start.

Who amplified it? Look at the coalition:

Russian state TV (RT).
Iranian state media through HispanTV.
Hamas-aligned Quds News Network.
Turkish state broadcaster TRT.
Sputnik Brasil.

And simultaneously — Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Max Blumenthal.
Russia, Iran, Hamas, and MAGA dissidents.

All posting the same message. At the same time.

When does that happen naturally? It doesn't.

The charts tell the story precisely. Within 2 to 4 hours of the Tucker broadcast, tracked amplification events spiked to 30 — dominated by MAGA dissident amplifiers and Pro-Palestinian/Islamist networks firing in parallel.

The second chart shows how far the narrative traveled from what Kent actually said. By the time the amplification cycle was complete, the message had escalated from Kent's original claim all the way to "Israel controls America" — an approximately 85-90% departure from source material. That is not interpretation. That is narrative laundering.

The rollout wasn't spontaneous. Kent resigned. Tucker booked him within hours. Real whistleblowers are chaotic. They call journalists from parking lots. They don't have a media tour lined up before the ink dries on their resignation letter.

And here's what got buried in all of it: from 2020 to 2024, Joe Kent publicly and repeatedly called for destroying Iran's nuclear AND ballistic capabilities. That record was almost completely absent from the amplified conversation. Narrative laundering doesn't only determine what to amplify. It determines what to erase.

The FBI was already investigating Kent. He resigned to control the narrative. The speed, the uniformity, and the foreign state amplification are not organic. This was a coordinated information operation — and the people pushing it included both foreign adversaries and Americans who should know better.

𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮, 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻, 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. The largest for-profit hospital system in the United States.

One hundred and eighty-two hospitals. Twenty states.

I oversee a spreadsheet called the chargemaster. It has 42,000 line items. Each line item is a price. The prices are not real.

I need to be precise about that. They are not estimates. Not approximations. Not market rates. They are anchors. An anchor is a number you set high so that every negotiated discount feels like a victory. No relationship to cost. No relationship to value. A relationship to leverage.

My team sets the anchors. That is the job.

The price is correct.

Take a drug. Keytruda. Immunotherapy. Treats sixteen types of cancer. The manufacturer charges approximately $11,000 per dose. That is the acquisition cost. What the hospital pays.

My team enters it into the chargemaster. They do not enter $11,000. They enter $43,000.

That is the gross charge. The gross charge is a fiction. No one pays it. No one is expected to pay it. The gross charge exists so that when Blue Cross negotiates a 68% discount, they pay $13,760, and the contract says "68% discount" and both parties feel the transaction was rigorous.

A 68% discount on a fictional price produces a real price that is 25% above acquisition cost. That margin is where I live. My 2025 compensation was $26.5 million. Eighty percent of my bonus is tied to EBITDA. Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. It is also earnings before the patient opens the bill.

Same dose of Keytruda at the hospital across town. Gross charge: $12,000. Blue Cross rate: $10,200. Same drug. Same dose. Same needle. Same cancer. Different spreadsheet.

The CMS transparency data showed the ratio between the highest and lowest negotiated price for the same drug at the same hospital can reach 2,347 to one. Not 2x. Not 10x. Not 100x. Two thousand three hundred and forty-seven to one. For the same thing. In the same building. On the same Tuesday.

The price is correct.

Every drug in the chargemaster has twelve prices. Twelve.

Gross charge. Medicare rate. Medicaid rate. Blue Cross. Aetna. Cigna. UnitedHealth. Humana. Workers' comp. Tricare. Auto insurance.

And the self-pay rate.

The self-pay rate is for the person without insurance. It is the gross charge. The fictional number. The anchor. The person without insurance pays the number that was designed to be negotiated down from. They pay the ceiling because they have no one to negotiate on their behalf. Same drug. Same chair. Same nurse. They pay the price that no insurer in the country would accept.

I maintain a file. CDM line item 637-4892-PKB. Saline flush. Sodium chloride 0.9%. Acquisition cost: $0.47. We charge $87. That is an 18,410% markup.

The saline flush is used before and after every IV infusion. A chemo patient receiving twelve cycles will be charged $87 for saline fourteen times per visit. I know the math. My team built the math. The math is the job.

The price is correct.

In 2021, the federal government required hospitals to publish their prices. The Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Machine-readable file. Gross charges. Discounted cash prices. Payer-specific negotiated rates.

We complied. We posted the file.

The file is a 9,400-row CSV on our website under "Patient Financial Resources." Four clicks from the homepage. Column F: "CDM_GROSS_CHG." Column J: "DERV_PAYERID_NEGRATE." My team designed the column headers. They designed them to comply. They did not design them to communicate.

CMS reported 93% of hospitals now post a file. Compliance. But only 62% of the posted data is usable. That gap is where we operate. We are compliant. The data is published. The data is incomprehensible.

A researcher downloaded our file. She spent three weeks cleaning it. She called the billing department for clarification on 340 line items. They transferred her four times. The fourth transfer was to a voicemail box that was full.

She published her analysis anyway. Cardiac catheterization lab charges: $8,200 to $71,000 for the same procedure depending on the payer. The report received eleven views on our press monitoring dashboard. I saw it. I did not forward it.

On April 1, a new CMS rule takes effect. Hospital CEOs must personally attest — by name, encoded in the machine-readable file — that the pricing data is "true, accurate, and complete."

My name. Sam Hazen. In the file. Attesting that 42,000 fictional anchors are true, accurate, and complete. They are complete. I will give them that. Forty-two thousand line items is nothing if not complete.

A new analyst read the transparency data. She asked why the same MRI costs $450 for Medicare and $4,200 for Aetna in the same building on the same machine.

I told her the rates reflect negotiated contractual agreements between the payer and the facility. She said that doesn't explain the difference. I told her the difference IS the contractual agreement. She said that sounds like the price is arbitrary.

I told her the price is the result of a rigorous, multi-variable analysis that accounts for acuity, case mix, regional market dynamics, and payer contract terms. She asked if I could show her the analysis.

I told her the analysis is proprietary.

The analysis does not exist. The analysis is my team, in Q4, adjusting the chargemaster upward by the percentage the CFO wrote on a sticky note. The sticky note this year said "6-8%." They chose 7.4% because it is between six and eight and it has a decimal, which makes it look calculated.

She stopped asking.

The price is correct.

My insurance. The executive health plan. Not in the chargemaster. Administered separately.

I do not pay the gross charge. I do not pay the negotiated rate. I pay a $20 copay for services at our own facilities. Gross charge for my treatment: $14,200. Insured rate for our largest commercial payer: $8,600. I pay $20.

The executive health plan was designed by the Chief Human Resources Officer and approved by the compensation committee. I was not on the compensation committee. I was a beneficiary of it. That is a different thing.

I benefit from the system I price. I price the system I benefit from. These are two separate facts that happen to involve the same person.

HCA Healthcare was named the Most Admired Company in our industry by Fortune magazine for the twelfth consecutive year. That was February. The same month I sold $21.5 million in company stock and purchased zero shares. Fortune did not ask about the chargemaster.

I am Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare. I have 42,000 prices in a spreadsheet across 182 hospitals. None of them are real. All of them are charged.

Same drug: $12,000 or $43,000. Depends on which spreadsheet. Which building. Which contract. Which page of which PDF.

The patient who has no contract pays the most. The researcher who found the discrepancy got a voicemail box that was full. The analyst who asked why stopped asking. The executive who prices the system pays $20.

On April 1, I will personally attest that this is true, accurate, and complete.

The price is correct. The price has always been correct. I am the price.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I firmly believe that it is only you, Donald, who can achieve peace across the world.

I did not say that. The Prime Minister of Japan did.

Amazing.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

After last nights and the constant doxxing attempts and threats from people who want to attack me largely due to politicians and leftist hate filled rhetoric as I expose billion dollar fraud schemes stealing from taxpayers

I’ve decided it’s time to raise money for security cost once again unfortunately

You can donate here: https://t.co/jYsNT4Ftjn

If you cannot donate no pressure whatsoever, please like and share this so it can get in the eyes of those that can.

God bless,
Nick

[Steven Crowder @scrowder]

According to CNN's own data analyst @ForecasterEnten:
-MAGA grew from 28% to 30% since Trump's election win
-Trump holds 100% approval among MAGA
-90% of MAGA approves of US military action in Iran

MAGA is not dead. The movement shouldn't be defined by those who quit it.

[We Have It All @WeAreWoke1776_3]

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[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Bolton says Trump has no strategy. Chatham House says regime change can't be done from the air.

Then Iran called Washington — not London — and Trump picked up.

The regime changers are outside the room and can't even find the door.

[The Patriot Oasis™ @ThePatriotOasis]

🔥🚨 BREAKING: Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn will be in a RUNOFF due to neither hitting 50% in the Texas US Senate primary

PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD ENDORSE KEN PAXTON!

Eliminating John Cornyn would be big win for MAGA! 🇺🇸

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Dear Jasmine Crockett,

Waffle House in Dallas is hiring.

Sincerely,
America.

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

This is an amazing video, and it basically just confirms every suspicion I had about how little politically-active left-wingers think things through. It’s zero. It really is just, “I have to be rabidly adherent to what I’m told or I’m not a good person.”

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸Ok Dems I know you smarter than a 5th grader. I think.🇺�

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Gavin Newsom is facing calls to resign his office because his elderly parole program is about to DUMP a convicted CHILD abuser into the community

Sacramento Sheriff: "How is it OK to LET HIM OUT?!"

This is betrayal.