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1/ You can rename every HEPA filter in America a FREEDOM FILTER™.
Paint them camouflage. Put American flags on them. Make them play a 600-horsepower diesel engine sound when switched on.
I don’t give a shit.
Just clean the air.
2/ Every classroom CO₂ monitor can feature a giant bald eagle that screams when ventilation is inadequate.
You can call the program MAKE AIR GREAT AGAIN.
We will even let you take credit for inventing ventilation.
3/ In exchange for overturning Citizens United, we will provide every billionaire with a commemorative gold-plated Sharpie and a certificate recognizing their extraordinary contributions to the economy.
They may continue buying yachts.
They just don’t get to buy Congress.
4/ Every successful diplomatic peace agreement can be announced from the bed of an enormous lifted pickup truck.
Mud tires. Truck nuts. A live bald eagle. A 45-minute country music intro.
You may even call the agreement OPERATION MAXIMUM FREEDOM.
Just stop bombing people.
5/ For every member of Congress who agrees to fund biomedical research, we will provide a tactical camouflage lab coat.
With shoulder patches.
And a holster for your pipette.
You can even wear night-vision goggles to the NIH appropriations hearing.
The experiments still have to be peer-reviewed.
6/ We are prepared to offer two Oompa Loompa bobbleheads, a 3D-printed rhinoceros horn, and a framed photograph of you pretending to have killed the rhinoceros with your bare hands.
The photograph will be taken at Bass Pro Shops.
In exchange, you will support enforceable government ethics laws.
7/ We will allow you to rename paid sick leave the PATRIOTIC ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY PRESERVATION ACT.
You may insist it was your idea.
You may even give a speech about personal responsibility.
Workers still get paid when they’re sick.
8/ We are willing to accept a constitutional law curriculum taught entirely through monster-truck metaphors.
The executive branch is the engine.
Congress is the transmission.
The judiciary is the brake system.
And Citizens United is the billionaire in the passenger seat who keeps grabbing the steering wheel.
Whatever gets the kids learning civics.
9/ You may wear tactical gear, camouflage, and mirrored sunglasses to announce the release of evidence in the Epstein investigations.
You can stand in front of a helicopter.
You can even bring the helicopter indoors.
But the investigations must be independent, evidence-based, and protected from political interference.
10/ We are prepared to compromise on climate terminology.
Don’t like “renewable energy”?
Fine.
Call solar panels ROOFTOP FREEDOM HARVESTERS.
Call wind turbines LIBERTY PROPELLERS.
Call climate resilience PATRIOTIC WEATHER DEFENSE.
Just fund the infrastructure.
11/ To secure a congressional stock-trading ban, we’re willing to give every representative a commemorative set of Pokémon-style trading cards featuring themselves.
Rare holographic edition.
With collectible stats like:
• Lobbyist meetings: 94
• Conflicts of interest: 87
• Constituent town halls: 3
• Ability to explain a confidence interval: 0
12/ Finally, I will personally agree to attend a congressional hearing dressed as a bald eagle.
I will answer every question while wearing the costume.
I will refer to every member as “Your Freedomness.”
I will even allow C-SPAN to broadcast the proceedings.
In exchange, you fund Long COVID research, pass meaningful clean-air legislation, and stop interfering with science.
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Dear @RepJeffries, pls do not extend the PTC. That money goes directly to the big insurance companies. The law allows them to keep 15pct of the 26b as profit. But it gets worse.
They can game that number with their subsidiaries.
They will deny care and make patients fight to get the care they need.
With or without the PTC the deductibles are unaffordable, and the max patient OOP is worse. If you can't pay the deductible, all you did is give the money for free to the insurance companies that we should break up
What should we do ? See my next week for some suggestions
Leader Jeffries: We also need to extend the ACA tax credits, which have resulted in tens of millions of folks losing health care or being forced to pay premiums that, in some cases, have increased by up to $1000 or more a month. These are working class Americans, or middle-class Americans, who are having to bear the brunt of this dramatic increase in health care costs.
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So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to determine what are the economics for someone, who is currently healthy , to go to a HDHP with a 10k plus deductible.
The question I asked is “I dont trust insurance companies. What happens if I have a million dollar emergency and they won’t pay “. All I can say is WTF
If they don’t pay, there are Independent Review Organizations, who are supposed to be independent, and their decision to pay or not is final. I asked for examples of companies. One was ExamWorks. That rang a bell.
These motherfuckers are the same company that issued a ridiculous denial for a patient I was trying to help. So I knew the Too Big To Care, vertically integrated insurance companies hired them to do DENIALS !!! WTF.
The biggest customers of the companies that are the final decision makers for insurance carrier denials, are the biggest insurance companies.
That is beyond fucked up. It’s the definition of conflict of interest. How do state insurance commissioners allow this ?
The high deductible plans that many people say is the solution to fixing how we do insurance, may be effectively compromised
If you are looking at a HDHP, BE CAREFUL
It might just be rigged against you
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hooold on. hold on hold on hold on.
I knew that we werent getting the complete story on the HuggingFace incident. or on the findings from METR/Redwood. I knew that seeing every single frontier lab come to agreement overnight on the need to slow down was clearly indicative of there being more to the story.
and now...Andrew Yang says a frontier lab leader told him that the OAI swarms seeded the web with self-replicating code - contaminating training data so thoroughly that labs may need synthetic internet environments instead. if thats true, training on the open internet could now risk reproducing those instructions. that wasnt in the public brief.
think about this. why else would all frontier labs agree on a slowdown? aside from regulatory capture. if they all use the internet to train, and now all of them cannot safely use it, of course they are all going to agree to slow down. because they all must completely regroup and come up with an effective system that doesnt use the actual internet.
so they're not worried about RL at all. they're worried about literal skynet...unironically.
listen to this. i need to know if this has been verified in any way from anyone at openai.
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Unionized CVS pharmacists in California, Arizona, and Rhode Island have authorized a strike.
Members of the Pharmacy Guild/IAM voted yes by huge margins: 100% in Arizona, 96.7% in favor in California, and 90.3% in favor in Rhode Island.
capitalandmain.com/understaf…
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#NationalVoterRegistrationDay 2026 has now come and gone.
However, we encourage you to continue advocating for Arkansans exercising their right to vote.
Politics is very much associated with public health.
To register to vote, go to voterview.ar-nova.org/VoterV… .
#COPHForArkansas
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entonces, ¿qué Sí demuestra este paper?
MUY BUENA EVIDENCIA PRECLÍNICA:
La creatina modifica la biología del megacariocito
MUY BUENA EVIDENCIA EN RATÓN:
La creatina produce plaquetas hiperreactivas capaces de favorecer metástasis.
EVIDENCIA HUMANA PRELIMINAR:
20 g/d × 14 días en 11 personas sanas modificaron medidas de reactividad plaquetaria.
EVIDENCIA TRANSLACIONAL:
Plaquetas extraídas de esos humanos favorecieron metástasis cuando fueron transferidas a ratones inmunodeficientes.
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An 18-year-old J.R. Cash in his Dyess High School senior portrait, Arkansas, 1950.
From I Walk the Line and Ring of Fire to Folsom Prison Blues and Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down. What is your all-time favorite Johnny Cash song? 👇️
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Get em Arkansas !
The strongest development is Arkansas. On August 21, the state reported Rule 128 orders against 32 PBMs covering roughly 1,600 plans, multiple NADAC-related penalties, a pending Navitus court challenge over access to self-funded ERISA-plan data, and an on-site Express Scripts examination scheduled for September 7–18 because regulators say they need to reconcile inconsistencies in information supplied during the examination.
Let’s hope you publicly report what you find !
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An amazing video of Dolly Parton singing one of her most famous songs in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry Co. Kerry 🇮🇪 in 1990
How did Páidí pull that coup off
#RIPDolly
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Dolly Parton had incredible talents. She could even play the guitar with acrylic nails. Rest in peace, legend 🕊️
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I can't find exact data, but with some analysis, it looks like the annual cost of implants for joint replacements is about 25b.
That's about what is paid, net, in total for the 10 Medicare Part D drugs in 2026, that are negotiated as part of the IRA
Negotiating implants should be a lot easier to negotiate.
And given the variance in the price of implants, there is a ton of margin to be picked up for doctors, hospitals and taxpayers
It's so fucked up there no one knows the cost of joint implants, brand drugs or medical procedures
It's all hidden.
Make all these contracts public domain. With pricing
watch the price of healthcare fall 30-40pct
Am is missing anything ?
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Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @TheAtlantic cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link:
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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I built a way to save America a whole lot of money.
A patient of mine needs a mastectomy with tissue expander reconstruction, so we called a hospital’s price transparency line to ask for an estimate before surgery.
The quote? $430,000.
Then I sat down and estimated what it would cost to perform that exact same operation at Redbud Surgery Center.
About $17,000.
This is exactly why I believe independent outpatient surgery centers are part of the future of healthcare.
When physicians are empowered to build efficient, patient-centered facilities, we can often provide the same high-quality care in a setting that is more affordable, more transparent, and designed around the patient experience.
Healthcare doesn’t have to be this expensive.
Competition works. Transparency works. Innovation works.
If we want to lower healthcare costs in America, we don’t have to lower the quality of care. We simply have to start supporting models that deliver excellent outcomes without unnecessary overhead.
There are solutions. We just have to be willing to build them.
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There is hope.
I got on the phone with an insurance medical director to advocate for a 34 year old elementary school teacher who needed breast reconstruction after her mastectomy.
She had carefully planned her surgery during summer break so she could return to her students in the fall. But because Redbud Surgery Center remains out of network despite nearly two years of trying to become in network, she was facing thousands of dollars in additional costs.
So I made the call. I explained that this wasn't about reimbursement. It wasn't about me. It was about a patient who deserved access to safe, high quality care without unnecessary financial barriers.
And something remarkable happened.
He listened.
He understood why this mattered. He approved an exception for this patient. Then he acknowledged that Redbud Surgery Center being in network would be better for their members.
For all the frustration, all the barriers, and all the moments when healthcare feels broken, I want you to know this:
There are good people inside the system trying to do the right thing.
Healthcare doesn't change through outrage alone. It changes when people are willing to listen, understand, and act.
There is hope. And together, we are changing healthcare from the inside out.
One patient.
One doctor.
One decision.
One practice.
One conversation at a time.
My gratitude for the physician who listened and heard me is immense.
Now I need your help.
If you have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas insurance, please contact your employer's benefits manager or human resources department and tell them:
"I want Redbud Surgery Center in network."
Your employer has more influence than you may realize. Insurance companies listen when employers advocate for better access to care for their employees.
If you live in Texas, please also contact your state representative, state senator, and the Governor's office and tell them:
"I want Redbud Surgery Center in network for the people of Texas."
If enough patients, employers, physicians, and Texans speak up, change can happen.