Maggie

Family and common good are my priorities. I believe in respect and enjoying life. Grateful for all! Glad if you follow me back, fine if you don’t. No DM.

[Maggie @MagPR4]

@Erling We will miss you so much! Keep being such a positive force.

[Maggie @MagPR4]

@banter44 @cooltxchick We all want a hug from him!

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Erling Haaland just scored twice to knock Brazil out of the World Cup. And the fuel behind the freight train is the most fascinating nutrition story in sports — because it quietly rejects almost everything the "performance nutrition" industry sells.
No protein powders. No shakes. No engineered supplements. Just real food — around 6,000 calories a day of it.
Beef heart. Beef liver. Tomahawk steaks. Sea bass. Eggs on sourdough. Raw honey. And milk he drives to a Cheshire farm to buy fresh from grass-fed cows.
He said it plainly in his documentary: "People say meat is unhealthy. Which meat? The one from McDonald's — or the local cow eating grass right over there?"
That distinction is the whole thing. And as a cardiologist, it's the distinction I wish every patient understood.
Here's the science under the eccentricity.
Organ meats — heart and liver — are the most nutrient-dense foods on earth. Beef liver is arguably nature's original multivitamin: staggering levels of B12, folate, vitamin A, copper, and iron in a form your body absorbs far better than any pill. Beef heart is loaded with CoQ10 — the exact cellular-energy molecule I recommend to patients, the one statins deplete, the one that powers every heartbeat. Our ancestors prized these organs and ate the muscle meat second. We reversed it, then wondered why we needed supplements.
His food philosophy, in his own words: "Eat real, with as few ingredients as possible." That is, essentially, the entire evidence base for cardiovascular nutrition compressed into six words.
Now — the honest caveats, because I'm a physician, not a hype man.
6,000 calories works for Haaland because he's a 6'4" elite athlete burning through it across a 50-game season. For a sedentary adult, that's a fast track to metabolic disease. Copy the principle, not the portion.
Raw milk carries genuine infection risk — the CDC and European food agencies warn against it, and I don't recommend it for most people. Grass-fed and pasteurized captures nearly all the benefit without the danger.
And that much red meat isn't automatically optimal for everyone. Your ApoB, your Lp(a), your genetics, your metabolic health all determine how your body handles saturated fat. I've written about this — same diet, different DNA, different arteries.
But strip away the extremes and Haaland is teaching a lesson worth learning: the "performance nutrition" aisle is largely a marketing invention. The most powerful fuel on earth isn't in a tub. It's food your great-grandmother would recognize.
There's a detail I love most. Despite earning £525,000 a week, he still cooks his own food. And before big home games, he eats his father's homemade lasagne — the same father, a former Premier League player, whose legacy he told himself as a boy he'd surpass. The man he's trying to eclipse is still in the kitchen, feeding the monster he helped build.
Talent gets you noticed. Discipline in what you put in your body — every single day, when no one's watching — is what turns a gifted kid into the machine that ran through Brazil.
Most people will just watch the goals and say "he's built different."
He is. Because he decided to build himself that way — one plate of real food at a time.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Coincidence? I don't think so.

For nearly 500 years, hundreds of millions of people looked at the most famous painting of God ever made, and none of them noticed what was hiding in plain sight.

Then, in 1990, a doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and realized that God is wrapped inside a human brain...

The painting is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, finished around 1512. You know the image even if you don't know its name: God reaching out from the heavens, His finger almost touching Adam's, the spark of life about to leap across the gap.

But look at the shape around God, the swirling red cloak that holds Him and the angels aloft. For five centuries it was seen as just a billowing robe... but in 1990, a physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that the red shroud is something else entirely: an anatomically precise cross-section of the human brain.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The outline of the cloak traces the outer curve of the brain. A fold in the fabric forms the Sylvian fissure, the deep groove that separates the brain's major lobes. The angel curled beneath God is positioned exactly where the brainstem would be, and the green scarf trailing down becomes the vertebral artery. Even the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm, where the nerves from the eyes cross, fall precisely into place.

This was not a man likely to invent such a thing by accident. Michelangelo had spent his youth secretly dissecting human corpses in a monastery in Florence, studying the body from the inside with an obsessiveness that, by one early account, exceeded that of professional anatomists...

So what did he mean by it?

Meshberger argued that the painting has been misnamed. He suggested it should be called not the Creation of Adam, but the Endowment of Adam. In the Bible, God gives Adam life. But in Michelangelo's fresco, Adam is already alive, his eyes open, his body lifted. What God is reaching across that famous gap to give him is not life. It is intellect. The divine spark of human thought itself, delivered, fittingly, from inside the very organ that produces it.

One of the most looked-at images in the history of the world may contain a message that took half a millennium to be read, hidden by a man who understood both the human body and the human soul better than almost anyone who has ever lived, and who seems to have decided to bury his deepest idea about us where only the most careful eye would ever find it...

[Maggie @MagPR4]

@marlene4719 I believe the poll. What is still hard to believe is he won the election.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Luis Suárez reacts to Uruguay’s arrival in the United States for the World Cup, where the squad faced sniffer dogs and rigorous security checks:

“I’ve been in football a long time, and I’ve seen tournaments all over the world. But what we’re witnessing here with the USA hosting this World Cup is deeply concerning. Take the Uruguay team arriving — world-class players like Manuel Ugarte, standing there with arms folded, looking utterly bewildered as sniffer dogs go through their bags like they’re common criminals. That image says it all. These are ambassadors of the game, not suspects at the border.

This isn’t hospitality; it’s humiliation dressed up as security. You’ve got a Somali referee, one of Africa’s best, denied entry despite a valid visa — a man who dreamed of officiating at the pinnacle of his career, turned away at the airport. African and South American delegations facing extra screenings, visa chaos for fans and officials from qualified nations. This is the ‘land of the free’ rolling out the red carpet? It feels more like a fortress with razor wire.

The beautiful game deserves better than being turned into a political football or a paranoid checkpoint. FIFA chased the dollars — and there are billions to be made, no doubt — but they’ve sold the soul of the tournament to a host that treats global football stars and supporters like potential threats. Meanwhile, American taxpayers and host cities are left holding a bill running into hundreds of millions for security and logistics that FIFA largely pockets.

Football has always been about unity, passion, and bringing people together across borders. Right now, under this hosting, it’s being strangled by suspicion and overreach. The world is watching these scenes and cringing. If this continues, it risks leaving a bitter taste that lingers far longer than any on-pitch glory. We needed a celebration of the game — not a showcase of division. Something has to change.”

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

How are we supposed to give a flying fuck that Elon is a trillionaire when the guy literally used his power to END programs that fed the poorest people on Earth?

Fuck that selfish asshole, and fuck his trillion dollars helping nobody but his damn self.

[Maggie @MagPR4]

@Fascinate_Hist 👍🏻

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Maggie @MagPR4]

@Supersonic_Red Thank you! I finally feel seen.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is not normal.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

trump calls the White House a “shithouse.” Calls a reporter a “bitch.” Screams at Iran: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards.” And not a peep from the media. Do not become numb to this. None of this is acceptable. How far we have fallen as a nation

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every fucking time.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every fucking time.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

It’s all just so fucking gross.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?

Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”

Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.

Silence.

Every single one of them refused to say it.

Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump PLASTERS HIS FACE on new U.S. passports, breaking with every modern precedent.

If your passport is due for renewal anytime soon, you may want to get that renewal processed as soon as possible, at least before the State Department begins issuing the newest editions of US passports.

Why? Well, no modern American passport has ever before featured a sitting president's image. In fact, no foreign passport features the head of state of any country in the world, either.

So, naturally, Donald Trump is about to change that — with his scowling inauguration portrait superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, all signed in gold, in what many Americans would consider the desecration of the 250th anniversary of America edition of US passports.

The Bulwark has learned that the State Department is finalizing a redesign of the U.S. passport to include Trump's likeness on the inside cover. A "limited run" of 25,000 passports is reportedly being planned. The White House confirmed the design by sending reporters a link to a Fox News exclusive.

A Georgetown University passport historian called the decision "wacky." That may be the understatement of the year.

The current passport's inside cover features Francis Scott Key watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry, alongside the closing lines of the Star-Spangled Banner. The back cover features the Earth, the moon, the Voyager spacecraft, and a quote from 19th-century activist Anna Julia Cooper: "The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class — it is the cause of humankind."

Trump is replacing that with his own face. Scowling. In gold.

This fits a pattern so obvious it barely needs explaining. Trump's signature will appear on U.S. currency. His face is on National Park passes. His name is on the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, a new class of battleships, a prescription drug website, custodial children's savings accounts, and the One Big Beautiful Bill. His personal branding appears on federal buildings. The White House East Wing was demolished to build him a ballroom.

And now his face goes in your passport. The document you need to leave the country. The document Caitlyn Jenner can't use anymore because of the Trump administration's policies. The document that the SAVE America Act would require every American to present before casting a vote.

Think about that last part carefully. Trump wants his face on the document you'll need to prove you're allowed to vote. The document that, thanks to his own policies, millions of Americans either don't have or can no longer use accurately.

The cause of freedom, Anna Julia Cooper wrote, is the cause of humankind. That Trump replaced her quote with his signature tells us everything we need to know about Trump’s attitude toward freedom.

Please like and share this post if you think your passport should represent America — not boost the ego of its narcissistic, dementia-laden president.

[Maggie @MagPR4]

@CultureExploreX I was thinking the same thing at Il Duomo, Milán.

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

This doesn't look suspicious in the slightest. Nope.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Back when Joe Biden was in office, every MAGA talking head was OBSESSED with the idea that the son of a president might be profiting off of the presidency. They were shocked, they were incensed, they were pearl-clutching until they broke those pearls. They demanded accountability…Let’s fast forward to today, shall we? That’s right. In the middle of a war that the president started, his adult son is the chief strategy advisor of a company that just so happens to be winning multi million dollar Pentagon contracts.”🙄🤦‍♀️