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@davidhogg111 We should “provide for the Common Defense” in the same way we currently “promote the General Welfare”, by providing weapons and training to every citizen. (To be clear I believe the Federal Government far exceeds their enumerated powers but let’s make that balanced at least.)

@elonmusk But it can't count characters when suggesting a post for X.

Grok gives great advice

@w_terrence Empowering their base that they are "doing the right thing" and likely ensuring they vote. Even though they can't articulate what the protest was about.

What did the No Kings protesters accomplish? Serious Question

@Indeductive @Rach4Patriarchy Here is the link for the article. They are two separate things. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC40…

People like you who claim to have won the argument didn't know the definition of the term and failed to score the point they thought they did *Lack of commitment* IS Infidelity She was right. You're wrong. Driena Sixto = 1 Rachel Wilson = 0

Most people don’t really know how to read a study and interpret data, and some people literally just lie about what their source material says, thinking you won’t check it. Always check.

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

@LeadingReport Good.

BREAKING: SCOTUS is about to consider upholding President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

@premium @elonmusk Autoplay is still happening.

@elonmusk If only it could get a character count right for a post suggestion. Losing faith.

Grok automatically translating and recommending 𝕏 posts from other languages is starting to work

I was just thinking the same thing.

@65FreedomLover @KathyMicha42842 @teammagakim @jason_meister @MNmurlz I see you ignored my other post. x.com/shellig/status…. Just because *you* got lucky and didn’t lose your job, didn’t make it right to try to impose that “choice” and completely upend the lives of many Americans without valid justification.

@shellig @KathyMicha42842 @teammagakim @jason_meister @MNmurlz The fact is, no one can make you do anything you don't want to do. You make the choice of giving in or taking your chances w/ a new direction. I didn't give in to my employer's demands. I thought I might lose my job too. But I took my chances, period.

Imagine throwing a “No Kings” protest after your party refused to hold a primary, coronated Kamala without a single vote, sued to keep RFK Jr. off the ballot, and attempted to remove Trump from state ballots only after your illegal lawfare scheme failed. If there was a modern day monarchy in America there would only be one party you could point to. The Democrats.

@65FreedomLover @KathyMicha42842 @teammagakim @jason_meister @MNmurlz The fact is, vaccination status was routinely asked for when hiring or keeping jobs—**regardless of profession**. Not just healthcare, it hit corporate offices, manufacturing, educ,, gov contractors, transportation, & more. Many large employers across industries required proof.

@KathyMicha42842 @shellig @teammagakim @jason_meister @MNmurlz Wrong. You still had a choice. You could have given up your profession & started over. You just weren't willing to. Perhaps the money was too good to give up?

This is the best takedown of "No Kings" I've seen yet. "You just hate what you're told to hate..." "I just wish the anti-authoritarian energy was present during actual tyranny." 🔥

And every single time I hear this argument I think about sexual harassment in the workplace. How is that (generally) any different? You must give in to your boss or lose your job and maybe never get a good recommendation or be black balled, is that your *choice*? Coercion is force.

@KathyMicha42842 @teammagakim @jason_meister @MNmurlz You weren't forced. You gave in to keep your job. You could've most likely pursued a different job or career if necessary. MANY did. I was going to let my employer fire me after working there for 20+ yrs. They decided to honor the SCOTUS's decision in my case. Thank God.

Hello Senator Thune, Wow. Just wow. Democrats didn't block Trump's nominees, @SenateGOP did. You had the majority. You failed. Republicans rejected Trump's picks. That's not on Democrats. We aren't Marxists; we believe in historical fact. And the fact is, you torpedoed @EagleEdMartin over manufactured outrage about January 6, while ignoring actual violence your constituents face. You don't get to revise the record. You own this. You talk about being the party of personal accountability. Stop attending lobbyist steak dinners and start showing it.

@washingtonpost The article does not have any supporting info on the "long-term" trend. "the buds didn’t reach the first of six bloom stages — green buds — until March 11, later than average" is not explained either... what is "average" for that? Terrible journalism.

Breaking news: Cherry blossoms at D.C.’s Tidal Basin reached peak bloom today. This was the seventh year in a row that peak bloom was earlier than normal, part of a longer-term trend driven by climate change. wapo.st/4dbGXPI

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

@DrJesseMorse @WallStreetApes There are Medical Cost Sharing Communities that offer a non-insurance approach for managing large and unexpected medical expenses like Sedera. I used them and HIPNation - primary care for a monthly fee without insurance, when I was unemployed and was happy with the solution.

@WallStreetApes I think there should be some type of special health insurance that only covers emergencies and health bills over $50k. Maybe it exists, but I think many Americans would purchase that over traditional insurance for the exact reason you just described.

American is a healthy 28 year old, he decided to skip paying for health insurance this year because the cheapest plan was $900 per month with a high deductible He had to spend 2 nights in the ER without insurance, he breaks down the bill “This is my receipt from spending 2 days in the hospital: - It totaled about $24,000 - My CT scan alone was $8,300 - Laboratory, 6,000 - IV therapy, $1,020, $4,000 in total And while $24,000 seems like a lot of money, let me show you something. This is what I'm actually paying, $2,478 because when you don't have insurance, these hospitals give you a discount. They discounted $22,000 off of this bill” “But if I had insurance, I wouldn't have gotten that discount. So it would've been a $24,000 bill billed to my insurance, and then my insurance would've said, ‘Hey, you have a $5,000 deductible. You need to pay $5,000 for this last emergency room visit.’ Then you tack on the $900 a month that I'd be paying for that insurance. I'd be paying $20K this year for healthcare. So the craziest part about this is even if I have another hospital visit, by the end of this year, I'm still gonna be paying less than I would if I had insurance. At minimum, my cost for healthcare this year would've been $20,000 with insurance. Right now I'm at $2,400.” US Health Insurance is a scam

@noahkaufmanmd @alt_w_v_g @KaufCare x.com/shellig/status…

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Went to the doctor yesterday My wife made the appointment She also filled out the pre-visit forms online All of them She said "did you go alone" I said "yes" My analyst drove separately When I arrived the receptionist handed me a clipboard With a Bic pen Attached to a string Like I was going to steal it The form asked for everything my wife already submitted online Name Date of birth Address Insurance I filled it out again Handed it back My analyst was already at the counter He leaned over the receptionist's screen Looked at it for three seconds Then looked at me He said "boss man, the headers have gridlines on" She minimized the window He sat down She said "have a seat, we'll call you shortly" I sat down at 2:14pm At 2:31 she handed my clipboard to another woman Who sat down at a computer eight feet away And typed everything I just wrote into the screen At 2:38 she came back Said she couldn't read one letter of my address An address they've had on file since 2022 An address my wife typed into their portal three days ago I spelled it out loud In a waiting room full of strangers Then sat back down My analyst had his laptop open I glanced at his screen He was on Zillow Looking up my home address The one I just spelled out loud He closed the laptop At 2:51 a nurse called my name Mispronounced it Four years She walked us to a room She looked at my analyst She said "family member?" I said "closest thing I have" She didn't ask follow-up questions She took my blood pressure Wrote it on a piece of paper Then typed it into a computer Then wrote it on another piece of paper Three records of the same number My analyst looked at me I looked at him We didn't say anything We didn't have to She said "the doctor will be right in" She left at 2:54 My analyst opened his laptop Built a model I said "for what" He said "the wait time" He projected the doctor would arrive at 3:38 The doctor came in at 3:41 Three minutes off He was disappointed in himself 87 minutes total in the building He said "so what brings you in today" I told him He looked at his chart My analyst said "you have his date of birth wrong" The doctor looked at him Then looked at me I said "he's right" The doctor corrected it My analyst said "the insurance ID is also off by one digit" The doctor put his pen down He said "and you are?" I said "he's with me" The doctor continued He said "let's keep an eye on it" That's what he said last year He said "alright, now the fun part" He said "I'm going to need you to drop the cargo shorts" I looked at my analyst My analyst looked at me He covered his eyes The appointment lasted four minutes I waited 87 minutes for a four-minute appointment It's 2026 We can launch a rocket into space and land it vertically on the exact square foot it left from But my doctor's office is using a string to protect a Bic pen I texted my wife from the parking lot She said "how'd it go" I said "they lost my address again" She said "I submitted it online three days ago" I said "I know" She said "did you bring him" I didn't answer She said "I'm switching doctors" First time we've agreed on anything all week Make common sense common again Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

COVID was a live-action replay of the Milgram experiment. No walls. No laboratory. No electrodes. Just a television, a daily briefing, and an authority figure in a suit telling people what to do. And the results were exactly the same. For those unfamiliar, Stanley Milgram’s landmark experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people, when placed under institutional authority and given clear instructions, would administer what they believed to be severe electric shocks to innocent strangers simply because someone in a position of authority told them to continue. The conclusion was uncomfortable and definitive. Obedience to authority, in the presence of sufficient social pressure, overrides individual conscience in the vast majority of people. COVID proved it again. At global scale. In real time. But the truly devastating part the part that I find most difficult to reconcile , was the medical profession. Doctors. Physicians. People who spent years “studying” human biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medical ethics. People who took an oath. People who knew or had every professional obligation to know that mandating an experimental intervention, suppressing early treatment, isolating the dying from their families, and dismissing adverse events without investigation was a profound violation of everything their training stood for. And so many of them did it anyway. Not reluctantly. Enthusiastically. Do as you’re told was not a private capitulation for most of them. It was performed publicly, proudly, wrapped in the language of science and responsibility and care by people who had abandoned all three the moment the institutional authority spoke. Follow the science became the most cynical slogan of the era. Deployed not by people following evidence but by people following orders and using the language of reason to avoid the discomfort of exercising it. Milgram’s most haunting finding was not that monsters do terrible things. It was that ordinary people do when the structure around them makes it easy enough. We just watched it happen again. And the lesson, as always, is the same. An obedient population is only as safe as the integrity of whoever is giving the orders. Think for yourself. Question everything. And never under any pressure, from any authority switch off your conscience because someone told you to.

@ShawnFleetwood @FDRLST At the port of entry, you are not yet IN the US... How is that confusing?

Justice Alito rips a left-wing attorney and Justices Sotomayor and Jackson for misrepresenting what the asylum statute at issue actually says. @FDRLST