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Mom of 4, wife, and patriot. Follower of Christ first and foremost, Daughter of LEGAL immigrants and Melter of snowflakes! I ❤️ USA #MAGA 🇺🇸

[Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 @seanhannity]

Iran demanded reparations. President Trump flipped it: "we're going to ask for money for the damage they've done over a 50-year period." The Cole. The wounded. The 52,000 protesters he says the regime killed. And the leverage: the US Navy controls the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran is broke.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

After four years being held in Iran, former Marine Robert Gilman had one wish when landing in America today.

CHEESEBURGERS!

Donald Trump does not disappoint.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Let me tell you about a woman I'll call Lisa. She was 50. She may be you.

Never smoked. Normal weight. Exercised regularly. Ate fish, vegetables, olive oil. No diabetes. No high blood pressure. Total cholesterol 221, HDL 68 — numbers that make a physician smile and say everything looks great.

Her 10-year risk calculator said 2.5%. Low risk. No statin recommended. See you next year.

Then she got a calcium scan.

Her score was 204.

Most women her age score zero. A score above 200 places her far above the 95th percentile — with roughly seven to eight times the event risk of a peer with the same "excellent" risk factors and a clean scan.

She had significant coronary artery disease at 50. The calculator had no idea. Her only conventional clue was buried in her family history: her mother had a heart attack and a stent at 62.

Here is what almost everyone gets wrong.

Cardiovascular disease kills more women than breast cancer, lung cancer, and chronic lung disease combined. It is the leading cause of death in women, and we screen relentlessly for the cancers while largely ignoring the thing most likely to kill us.

And the risk calculators systematically underperform in women. They were built around age, blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, and diabetes — and they badly underweight the factors that actually drive risk in a female body.

Let me walk you through the ones nobody counts.

𝟭. PREGNANCY WAS YOUR FIRST CARDIAC STRESS TEST

This is the single most underused piece of information in women's cardiology, and if you take one thing from this post, take this.

Pregnancy places extraordinary demands on the cardiovascular system. Blood volume rises by 40-50%. Cardiac output climbs. The vascular system is pushed harder than at almost any other point in life.

Some women pass that test. Some don't. And the ones who don't are showing you something about their vasculature decades before anything else will.

Preeclampsia — the diagnosis is high blood pressure and organ stress in pregnancy, but the underlying biology is endothelial dysfunction, the exact process that begins atherosclerosis. Women who experience it carry roughly double to quadruple the lifetime cardiovascular risk. Their risk of chronic hypertension afterward is dramatically elevated, and events occur meaningfully earlier.

Gestational diabetes — this is insulin resistance revealing itself under metabolic load. Up to half of these women develop type 2 diabetes within a decade, and cardiovascular risk climbs with it. It was never "just a pregnancy thing that resolved."

Preterm delivery, placental abruption, and delivering a growth-restricted baby all carry independent cardiovascular risk signals — likely because they reflect abnormal placental vasculature, and the placenta is a vascular organ.

Here is the failure, and it is systemic: most women are discharged after a preeclamptic pregnancy with no cardiovascular follow-up plan whatsoever. Their blood pressure normalizes, everyone exhales, and nobody mentions it again for thirty years.

If you had any of these complications, your cardiac surveillance should begin in your thirties and forties — not at 65. Blood pressure monitored. ApoB, Lp(a), hs-CRP, and fasting insulin checked. That history belongs in your chart as a permanent risk factor, and you may have to be the one who puts it there.

𝟮. PERIMENOPAUSE IS A CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT, NOT JUST A HORMONAL ONE

We talk about menopause as hot flashes and mood. What we rarely explain is that it is one of the most consequential vascular transitions of your life.

Estrogen is not merely a reproductive hormone. It is vasculoprotective, and it does specific measurable things:

It promotes nitric oxide production, which keeps your arteries dilated and the endothelium healthy. It favorably shapes lipids — supporting HDL and helping clear LDL. It has anti-inflammatory effects on the vessel wall. It helps maintain insulin sensitivity and influences where your body stores fat.

Then it withdraws.

And the changes that follow are not gradual background aging — they cluster tightly around the menopausal transition itself:

LDL and ApoB rise. Triglycerides rise. HDL becomes less functional even when the number looks unchanged.

Body fat redistributes from hips and thighs to the abdomen — and visceral fat is metabolically active, inflammatory tissue, not passive storage.

Insulin resistance increases, sometimes markedly.

Blood pressure rises, and hypertension becomes more common in women than men after this transition.

Arterial stiffness increases measurably.

And here is the part I want every woman in her forties to understand: these shifts begin in perimenopause — potentially years before your last period, while your cycles are still occurring and everyone including your doctor still thinks of you as premenopausal.

That is precisely the window when this is most modifiable, and precisely when nobody is looking.

Two specific things worth knowing: women who go through premature or early menopause — before 40, or before 45 — carry meaningfully higher cardiovascular risk and warrant earlier, more aggressive evaluation. And emerging data suggests that frequent or severe hot flashes may themselves correlate with worse vascular measures, meaning the symptom may be a signal rather than merely an inconvenience.

On hormone therapy: in November 2025 the FDA began removing the black box warnings, and the FDA Commissioner called the original decision one of the greatest errors in modern medicine. Roughly 50 million women were frightened away from treatment based on a misread of the WHI — in whose estrogen-only arm breast cancer risk was actually lower. For most healthy women starting within 10 years of menopause or before 60, the risk-benefit calculation looks very different than we were told. It is not a cardiovascular preventive therapy, and it must be individualized — but it deserves a real conversation rather than a reflexive no.

𝟯. THE OTHER FACTORS THAT DON'T APPEAR ON ANY CALCULATOR

Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis. Far more common in women, and chronic inflammation accelerates atherosclerosis at any age. A woman with lupus deserves the vigilance we'd give a diabetic.

PCOS — insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and elevated risk that starts in the twenties.

Migraine with aura, associated with higher stroke risk.

Breast cancer treatment — certain chemotherapies and chest radiation carry cardiac consequences that surface years later.

And elevated Lp(a) — the one to act on this week.

𝟰. Lp(a): TEST IT ONCE. THEN TELL YOUR FAMILY.

A genetically determined particle that drives plaque, clotting, and aortic valve calcification simultaneously. Set at birth. Essentially unchanged by diet, exercise, or weight loss. Roughly 1 in 5 people carry elevated levels.

The 2026 ACC/AHA guidelines now give a Class I recommendation to measure it once in every adult. Most people never have been.

Ask for it in nmol/L. Under 75 is lower risk. 125+ carries roughly 1.4x increased risk. 250+ doubles it.

And in women specifically: midlife levels above the 75th percentile predict higher event rates over the following thirty years. A blood draw at 45 forecasting your seventies.

If yours is elevated, get your parents, siblings, and children tested. It's inherited — your result is partly theirs.

𝟱. THE REST OF THE PANEL TO DEMAND

ApoB — counts every atherogenic particle rather than the cholesterol they carry. One analysis found 54% of patients had dangerous levels that standard LDL testing missed entirely.

hs-CRP — and here's a striking finding: in healthy women, a single midlife measurement of hs-CRP + LDL + Lp(a) together predicts 30-year risk more powerfully than any one alone.

Fasting insulin — under 5. It rises 10-15 years before glucose does, and almost nobody checks it. This is where perimenopausal metabolic change shows up first.

Plus HbA1c, kidney function, and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio.

𝟲. THEN ACTUALLY LOOK AT YOUR ARTERIES

A calcium score is the usual first step — cheap, ten minutes, low radiation, highly predictive.

But here is the trap for younger women, and it is critical: calcium is a LATE finding. Soft, non-calcified plaque — the kind that ruptures — is invisible to a calcium scan. And women calcify later than men, which means a woman's disease is disproportionately the type a calcium score cannot see.

CT angiography solves that. It visualizes the entire coronary tree, quantifies soft plaque volume, and identifies high-risk features that predict events.

And the detail that matters most for us: women have events at lower absolute plaque burdens than men, partly because our coronary arteries are smaller. Less plaque, same danger.

The SCAPIS study found silent atherosclerosis in over 40% of middle-aged adults with no known disease.

One more thing every woman should know: a normal stress test is not a clean bill of arterial health. It detects flow-limiting narrowing over roughly 70% — and women more often have microvascular disease, plaque in vessels too small for standard imaging to see. A woman can be having a heart attack with "clean" coronary arteries on catheterization. If symptoms persist despite normal testing, push for cardiac MRI, PET, or coronary function testing.

AND THE NEWS THAT'S GENUINELY EXCITING

For forty years, Lp(a) was the risk factor we could measure and could not treat.

That's ending. Five drugs in advanced development achieve 70-95%+ reductions. Two Phase 3 outcome trials — pelacarsen with 8,323 patients and olpasiran with about 7,300 — are reading out in the second half of 2026.

If positive, they'll be the first proof that lowering Lp(a) prevents heart attacks. That changes everything for one in five people.

WHAT TO DO THIS MONTH

Write down your full pregnancy history — every complication, by name. Write down your family history — which relative, which event, what age.

Get Lp(a) tested once. Add ApoB, hs-CRP, and fasting insulin.

If you're in perimenopause, this is your window. Get the baseline now, while the changes are still early and still reversible.

If anything is elevated — or you had preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, early menopause, or a family history of premature disease — ask about imaging. And if your calcium score is zero but your risk factors aren't, ask specifically about CT angiography.

Lisa's numbers looked perfect at 50. Her arteries did not.

The difference between those two facts is the difference between finding out in a scanner and finding out in an ambulance.

Stop accepting "your numbers look fine."

Ask them to look.

[France Résistance @FranceRsistanc1]

🚨BOOM🚨🐍💉C'EST OFFICIEL : L'ancien directeur du CDC Robert Redfield, SOUS SERMENT, A CONFIRMÉ qu'ils cachaient les effets secondaires des vaccins contre la COVID-19.💥🪃⚖️

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

TRUMP’S TRADE BOMB: Deficit CRASHES $100 BILLION

U.S. trade deficit just collapsed from $136B to $29.4B — lowest in nearly 20 years.

CNBC anchors left stunned, forced to admit Trump and Scott Bessent were right the whole time.

Reagan-level results. America First economics delivering.

The globalist free-trade scam just got exposed.

Share this. The media won’t.
#AmericaFirst #TrumpEconomy #TradeWarWin #MAGA

[daniel hanuka📟 🇮🇱 @LionsOfZion_ORG]

They murdered a medical professional, unlocked her phone using her finger, called her husband, and then began raping her corpse while he watched on a video call.

This is the Islamic Republic.

This is the story of Saleheh Akbari. And the world must know her name.

Saleheh was an operating room technician from Ardabil, Iran. During the January 2026 protests, she and her husband, Ahmad Khodaei, secretly helped protesters who had been wounded by regime forces and were too afraid to go to hospitals, fearing arrest.

They opened their home to the wounded. Saleheh treated them, bandaged their injuries, and helped remove pellets from their bodies.

The regime found out.

Security forces came to their home to arrest Ahmad. They attacked him, beating him with fists, kicks, and electric shocks.

Saleheh tried to protect her husband.

One of the regime’s men pulled out a gun and shot her in the heart.

Saleheh was killed inside her own home.

But even her death was not enough for them.

Her body was taken, along with her phone. Ahmad was arrested and abused.

Then came the part that is almost impossible to comprehend.

According to Ahmad’s testimony, members of the Revolutionary Guards went to Saleheh’s body in the morgue, gang-raped her corpse, and recorded the rape.

They then sent the images to her husband.

Read that again.

They murdered his wife.
They raped her corpse.
They filmed it.
Then they sent it to him to psychologically torture him.

Ahmad broke down. He posted a farewell message to his wife and attempted to take his own life. He survived after being taken to the hospital.

Saleheh Akbari was not armed.
She was not a terrorist.
She was a medical professional trying to save wounded people.

And for that, she was murdered.

Even after her death, the men of the Islamic Republic did not stop abusing her.

This is the Islamic Republic.

This is the root of evil in our world.

[𝕊𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝔼𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕖𝕣 🇺🇸 @nomandatesco]

Solomon: A CIA senior agent with thirty years of experience CONFIRMS:

“An intelligence agent, now retired, very senior. He looked me in the eye and said, the truth of the matter is, we took the playbook for psychological operations and information warfare that we would use against our enemies, and we turned it against the American people to undo the 2016 election and to make sure they didn't elect Donald Trump in 2020.”

“Not only harmed Donald Trump, they were harming the American public, the national security interests of the American public”

We need what happened in 2020 fully investigated, all the bad actors arrested & it needs to be on full display for the American People.

[Blondelady2024 @arva61138]

We have a truly beautiful first family!

[Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author @yesnicksearcy]

Looks like @comey did absolutely everything he is being accused of.

[Raven Moonstone @IAMJUSTICE555]

🚨 EARTH-SHATTERING BREAKING NEWS 🚨
A TOP FORMER FAUCI ADVISOR just got INDICTED for helping orchestrate one of the biggest COVID cover-ups in history!!!
David Morens and his co-conspirators FALSIFIED RECORDS… DELETED EVIDENCE… and ran everything through SECRET GMAIL ACCOUNTS just to CRUSH the lab-leak theory and protect the Wuhan cover-up!!
They deliberately hid the truth from the American people while millions suffered and died.
This man sat at Fauci’s right hand… and now the walls are closing in.
Will he flip and throw Anthony Fauci UNDER THE BUS??
Fauci could be NEXT.
The house of cards is collapsing.
Justice is coming. 🔥⚖️
Share this BEFORE they try to bury it again.

[Raven Moonstone @IAMJUSTICE555]

🚨🚨 THE HOUSE JUST KICKED A HORNET’S NEST OF CORRUPTION 🚨🚨
They just dropped subpoenas on 3 left-wing NGOs that took TENS OF MILLIONS from China-linked billionaire Neville Singham.
Shell companies. Hidden money trails. Possible funding of unrest right here on American soil.
This isn’t some quiet paperwork. This is the House ripping the lid off a foreign influence operation that could get VERY messy.
The cover is cracking. Who else is about to get stung? 🇺🇸
#Corruption #ChinaInfluence

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

This is:

The Chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board, Devin Nunes,

CONFIRMS: that Barack Obama ordered the raid on Mar-a-Lago because he was looking for this—his ICA report, the falsified intelligence report used to frame Donald Trump in an effort to overthrow the United States government in 2016.

@MariaBartiromo the Queen of journalism

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BOMBSHELL 🚨
EPA Chief Lee Zeldin just exposed a VIPER’S NEST OF FRAUD so deep it should shake the entire swamp to its core.
In a bombshell interview with John Solomon, Zeldin revealed he has already fired off SEVERAL CRIMINAL REFERRALS to the DOJ after uncovering how Obama and Biden officials systematically funneled $29 BILLION in green energy grants straight into the pockets of former cabinet secretaries, wealthy donors, and political activists — including Stacey Abrams.
Zeldin called it what it is: a major self-dealing scandal. Taxpayer money was being moved around like a political piggy bank for the elite.
They didn’t just waste your hard-earned money.
They stole it.
And handed it to their friends.
This isn’t policy. This is a brazen heist.
WHY THE HELL DOES ANYONE STILL PAY TAXES WHILE THIS KIND OF CORRUPTION GOES UNPUNISHED?
The vipers are finally being dragged into the light.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews
#Zeldin #EPA #GreenEnergyFraud

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

Elon Musk's Tesla and SpaceX are moving ahead with a massive semiconductor factory in Texas that, if completed as planned, would become the largest building in the world by square footage. https://t.co/a5BWSoukqZ

[Q Rising News @Trustintrump47]

This is one of the most important moments ever aired on CNBC.

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the media lied to millions of Americans about President Trump, and that after going back to the original source material, he realized he had been completely misled about Trump’s character.

PALIHAPITIYA: “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump.”

“And if you just go back to the source material, you should take away two things.”

“One, he didn’t say half the things he said, and two, why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character?”

“I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.”

“I took the time to learn about it. I admitted where…you know, the way that I met him was, I admitted on the pod, which, you know, has millions of viewers.”

“And I said, I got it totally wrong because I went and I watched Charlottesville.”

“And, you know, the first person to call me? President Trump.”

“And I got to know him and I put the phone down, I called my wife, and I said, we got it TOTALLY, totally wrong. We were lied to.”

“And then I got to know him and he is fantastic!”

FOLLOW: @Trustintrump47 , THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Shots fired!

[Shaggy @MAGAShagster]

It’s all true

[O’Keefe Media Group @OKeefeMedia]

BOMBSHELL: Undercover Video Shows Non-U.S. Citizens from Iran Allowed to Vote in Michigan Primary Without ID

The Non-Citizens Allowed to Vote Are Sex Offenders, on DHS's "Worst of the Worst" List, and Previously Arrested by ICE

Iranian Subject Confirms With OMG He Voted in the Last Three Elections and Intends to Vote on Primary Day

“All I know is you're [Afshin Masheli] registered to vote here. The rest of the information is not important to me.”

“Yes, this is the right place. You [Fazlollah Haritash] are registered to vote here.”

@DHSgov @AAGDhillon @ICEgov @WhiteHouse @WHFraudTF @AbdulElSayed @MichSoS @JocelynBenson @WayneCounty @TheJusticeDept

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here it is:

Devin Nunez VINDICATED.

Twenty CIA and FBI agents have blown the whistle, confirming that Barack Hussein Obama and his Chief of Staff, CIA Director John Brennan, created the false Russia hoax, doctored intelligence to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States in 2016, and locked the report in a CIA vault for nearly a decade.

On March 21, 2017, Devin Nunes traveled to the White House and informed President Trump that he was being overthrown.

The following day, March 22, 2017, he stood alone, holding an unexpected press conference confirming that Barack Obama had spied on Trump and the Trump campaign.

On April 17, 2017, Devin Nunes was forced to resign from the House Intelligence Committee’s Obama-Russia inquiry—because Paul Ryan is a treacherous piece of garbage.

Now, give the man the Presidential Medal of Freedom—at once.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Charlie Kirk was right, and now JD Vance e is saying it

Young people are turning to socialism because our country has been sold out to foreigners and now the middle class has been wiped out and can’t afford to live

JD Vance says it can be fixed

“A lot of Americans look at this rising tide of socialism and say, "How did we get here?" We got here by 40 years of bipartisan leaders selling our industrial base to foreign countries, allowing low-wage immigrants to come in and compete with Americans for jobs, by destroying the foundation of the middle class. That's how you got socialism.

How you fix that problem is by doubling down on Donald Trump's economic nationalism, not going back to the way we've done things for the past 40 years.

It's failed everywhere it's tried.

It's failed everywhere it's tried, and it always leads to socialism. It always leads exactly where we are. The only way to get out of it is to double down on the economics of the past 18 months.”

Charlie Kirk spoke on this SO MANY times and nobody listened

He warned if people couldn’t afford a home or even groceries they would turn to socialism. He warned American being replaced by low wage workers would make it worse

And here we are….