Andrew Robinson 🇺🇦 @Arob19

@SarahSevans2000 Agree with most: not selfish to go.

@RiaOtero Love him, the GOAT and a great human.

@RiaOtero 😂

Went out to lunch today with a friend. Our waiter appeared to be HS age perhaps one of his first summer job experiences. While he was taking our order, he accidentally knocked the communal water pitcher into my lap. He looked like he wanted to die. I laughed and said this is the coolest I’ve been all week! By the time we left my sundress still had huge wet splotches. Still left him a 20% tip. I strolled back to my car sopped but without a care in the world! Life is too short to be a Karen! TGIF peeps! 😘

Then I asked for a simplified version of the above : Here it is in plain English. Denver hired UnitedHealthcare to run its employee health plan. Denver pays the actual medical and drug bills itself — United just processes them. That’s what “self-funded” means. The problem is that Denver can’t see what it’s actually paying for drugs. 1. United buys the drug for one price and charges Denver a different price. It keeps the difference. Say the pharmacy gets paid $40 for a prescription. United bills Denver $100. United keeps $60. Denver never sees the $40. The contract says this out loud in three different places — it’s not hidden, it’s just written in language nobody reads. There’s no cap on how big that gap can be. 2. Drug companies pay rebates. United keeps all of them and hands Denver a flat number instead. United collects rebate checks from drug manufacturers. Instead of passing those through, it promises Denver a fixed amount per brand prescription (about $740 in 2023). If the actual rebate was $1,500, United keeps the extra $760. The contract literally says any rebates above the fixed amount belong to United. Denver has no right to know what the real number was. 3. United decides which drugs are “specialty” — and specialty drugs are where the money is. The contract defines a specialty drug as, essentially, “whatever United’s own specialty pharmacy sells.” United also reserves the right to reclassify drugs whenever it wants. Once a drug is labeled specialty and filled at United’s own pharmacy, it drops out of the normal price guarantees entirely. So the most expensive drugs are the least protected. 4. The most expensive drugs of all — the ones given in a doctor’s office or infusion center — have no price guarantee at all. The contract flatly excludes them. Cancer drugs, infusions, injections administered by a provider. Zero pricing protection. 5. Denver can’t shop around, and it can’t leave without a penalty. Denver isn’t allowed to negotiate directly with any drug manufacturer. It must use United’s mail-order pharmacy exclusively. And if Denver hires an outside vendor that steers employees to cheaper drugs or cheaper pharmacies, United can cancel all the pricing guarantees. If Denver ends the drug program early, United keeps every rebate it owes. 6. Denver can’t audit its way out of this. Denver is allowed one audit a year, capped at 300 prescriptions, using a random sample United has to approve. No auditors paid on commission. No computer-based searches for errors. You cannot find a pricing problem across hundreds of thousands of claims by randomly checking 300 of them. The audit rules exist to make sure nothing gets found. Is any of it illegal? Almost none of it. It’s a legal contract that Denver signed. The one thing that might cross a line: federal law since 2021 bans “gag clauses” — contract terms that stop an employer from seeing its own cost and claims data. This contract says United may let Denver see its pricing information, at United’s discretion. Federal regulators have said that “only if the vendor allows it” language is exactly what the gag-clause ban prohibits. And Denver has to certify to the government every year that it has no gag clauses in its contracts. The one thing Denver could actually do about it: Colorado banned this drug markup practice, effective January 2025, and self-funded employers like Denver can opt in. It’s an election, not a lawsuit. Somebody should check whether Denver ever filed it. The bottom line for an HR person: the drug program looks free. There’s no fee for it anywhere in the contract. That’s the tell. United isn’t working for free — it’s getting paid out of the drug prices, and the contract is built so Denver can’t measure how much.

@RiaOtero LOL

Putin Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans. Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent. The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation: Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan. To name a few. An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021. Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up. The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.

This is an absurd person to nominate to run DNI anyone who voted to confirm him cares absolutely zero about our national security and does not deserve the responsibility of being a US senator

BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, legislation that would give state attorneys general access to the Epstein files and authorize them to prosecute alleged Epstein associates under state law where applicable.

The Acting Attorney General is an unethical lawbreaker whose head is so far up trump’s ass he no longer understands the difference between right and wrong. @DAGToddBlanche will be investigated. And if the facts warrant, he will be prosecuted by a future Administration.

Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports

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BREAKING A federal judge NULLIFIES the purported “settlement” behind Trump’s $1.776B slush fund, finding there was never a “case or controversy” — and referring his attorney for possible professional discipline. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero. - He was here legally. - He was authorized to work. - He had Social Security Number. - He was NOT target of ICE investigation. - DHS: He did NOT try to kill ICE agents. He was executed in front of his 3 year old daughter.

ICE killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine. He was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number. His wife and 3-year-old daughter were in the car when ICE fired at least five shots into the vehicle. He was not the person ICE was looking for. An eyewitness says an SUV struck his vehicle before the shooting and heard him say, “I tried to stop.” The ICE agents involved were not wearing body cameras. PAXIS.app highlights a simple reality: when masked, unidentified people in unmarked vehicles try to ram you off the road, it can be extraordinarily difficult to know who they are or how to comply. That is why identification, body cameras, transparency and accountability matter. Without them, this is not legitimate law enforcement. It is fascism. Help people prepare for ICE encounters and deal with the aftermath: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS

How about instead the list of 200,000-300,000 Americans who needlessly died from Covid bc they fell victim to a disgusting antivaccine disinformation campaign and refused Covid vaccines. It was led by the Murdoch media empire, Fox News, News Corps, Rogan podcasts, the corrupt wellness influencer industry pushing ivermectin, and of course RFK Jr and his organizations. They killed Americans. All documented in two books, my 2023 book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-science @JHUPress and #ScienceUnderSiege our 2025 book with @MichaelEMann @public_affairs

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🇺🇸Marco Rubio in MARCH: "Goal of the war is to change the regime." 🇺🇸Marco Rubio in APRIL: "Goal of the war is to stop 🇮🇷 Iran from making nukes." 🇺🇸Marco Rubio in JULY: "Goal of the war is to return everything 'back to the way it was,' including the Strait of Hormuz." 🤣 Americans have elected a bunch of clowns

“Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention. Let it be known for all time that he knew exactly what Donald Trump was from the very beginning, and chose him over his country.” - Steve Schmidt

This tweet from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire: For the Salgado family, life will never be the same. At no fault of theirs, Mr. Salgado was chased by a unmarked vehicles. Before he could identify himself and speak as a Houstonian, he was shot and killed. We will use all of our resources to pursue an independent and transparent investigation.

@covie_93 @pcmaneri What a joke. Pathetic but not surprising.

Tom Dundon putting his entire family's names onto the Stanley Cup, before all the players and staff and even omitting equipment manager bobby gorman who’s been with the canes organization since they were the whalers in 1976 is just disgusting.

Kash Patel, not sure if you know this, because you are the definition of fedslop in human form, but you are prohibited from using your government position, title, public resources, etc. to endorse products or earn private profit. So, I find it interesting that you have a trademark for the term, "Government Gangsters" (so lame but on brand I guess) for drink cups and playing cards to "promote public interest and awareness of protecting civil liberties and opposing government waste and abuse of power". Ironic right? Since you are government waste. Anyway, Ethics Committee, you all may want to look into this. He has a total of five trademarks, all registered in his own name. Not his business or charity...his own name. lmao. Fedslop.

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