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His family was on welfare for awhile so medications would be free. We do pay about 25% for prescriptions with Blue Cross insurance. Work insurance is no cost as well.

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a thing ICE agents should try to keep firmly in mind is that eventually everyone is going to know who is under the masks, and that’s going to be the first line in their obituaries

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As I sat on a bench a couple walked by and as both of them wore rings I thought to myself: they must love each other. And as I sat on that bench another couple walked by and as both of them wore masks I thought to myself: they must really love each other.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk is calling for Donald Trump to be impeached. Donald Trump is calling for Elon Musk to be deported. Both sides have a point.

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Call out the instigators Because there's something in the air We got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution's here And you know it's right And you know that it's right We have got to get it together We have got to get it together now youtu.be/qJae3Q2l-BY

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

something in the air www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/r/67b6f8c4

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Zelensky has promised to stop the war between Trump and Musk in 24 hours.

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Ordinary people on both sides of the aisle want the Epstein Files released in their entirety. Elites on both sides of the aisle are praying they never get released.

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Melon: time to drop the really big bomb - was Starlink used to manipulate the 2024 election?

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The WHO has officially declared the Covid variant NB.1.8.1 to be a “Variant Under Monitoring” which is a reminder that this pandemic continues to be many things but one thing it is not is under control. * The 273rd week of plague poems… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/p...

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I asked my aunt, the doctor, for her thoughts on a recent headline which read: “Measles Is Now Showing Up in Wastewater,” and my aunt, the doctor, responded: “Oh shit.”

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My friend, at some point we will be able to say “during the pandemic” and it will refer to the past. Yes, my friend, at some point we will be able to say “during the pandemic” and it will refer to the past. But, alas, my friend, that point is still somewhere in the future.

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My aunt, the doctor, told me a new joke. She asked: What is the proper term for a person who survives a wave of this pandemic? I was unsure, but I said: a survivor? And my aunt replied: no, the proper term is a surfivor. And then neither of us laughed.

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Mike Luckovich

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Doesn't matter who is president: It's clear that the US Government cannot entrust its space and satellite programs to a thin-skinned, drug-addled meglomaniac.

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The male loneliness epidemic could be cured by men talking to women as peers and not like Potential New Mommies See Free Labor. Be nice. Treat Her How You Want To Be Treated. You are empowered. The onus on fixing you is on you, not on lowered expectations of others.

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Forestfire smoke, measles, COVID ~ ALL AIRBORNE! N95s prevent the intake of harmful airborne nasties. I can remember my parents’ reaction to “because everyone else is doing it” re stupid stuff I wanted to do as a kid. They insisted on critical thinking. As an adult in 2025 I mask. It’s logical

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This is a big and important statement.

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You have ONE JOB in a democracy

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#BookSky

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It's extremely telling that Donald Trump's immediate reaction to a German person describing D-Day was to assume that they must be unhappy about D-Day.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

What if putting the stupidest people in charge was a mistake?

submitted 2 days ago • 205 comments

Musk is "going through a multi-year, drug-fueled nervous breakdown." And Trump "has all of the levers of the federal government... to hurt Tesla: He can rig tax credits against the company; cancel government contracts; reward competitors." @jvl.bsky.social on Trump vs. Musk: It's not an even fight.

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