Mike Gatto

🏛️ 4 terms CA Legislature • 📺 TV Analyst @CAProblemSolver @AMarkFoundation @CAStateGuard O-3, LACERA, OSSML• I choose candor over expediency.

[Mike Gatto @mikegatto]

I’m fortunate to have a platform. Most families of murder victims don’t.

They suffer in silence. Even their close friends don’t understand what they go through.

I wrote this book to provide a little window into our lives.

https://t.co/bHDnFJM3w2

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One is 9. One is a little shy of 99.

They are 1st Cousins, twice removed. (They are almost the same height!) 😆

That they can talk is something I cherish, and speaks of the enduring power of family.

[Humanbydesign @Humanbydesign3]

American vs European food👇🏻

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@VoicesofWW2 Here’s the story as told by a history podcast: https://t.co/fHsdY7ecHu

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@Quantumwatch1 @VoicesofWW2 @mpfelton This one too https://t.co/fHsdY7dERW

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My son and I met this little guy tonight, in the wild. We feel complete.

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Gonna start a new saying:

“That lasted shorter than an Italian-American press secretary in the Trump White House.”

cc @Scaramucci

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House’s top spokesperson. https://t.co/PEd92ttNEY

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Imagine following nearly 13 million real people for more than 10 years just to see what cholesterol level helps them live the longest. That is exactly what Korean scientists did in a giant 2019 study. They tracked 12.8 million adults who had check-ups between 2001 and 2004, and they kept watching until 2013. More than 694,000 people died during that long stretch.
The results were clear and surprising. Cholesterol and death formed a U-shape. Very low cholesterol was linked to higher death rates. So was very high cholesterol. The sweet spot for the longest life was 210 to 249 mg/dL for most adults. That is higher than many doctors call “ideal.” Younger people had a slightly lower best range, but still not the super-low numbers often pushed today.
Because the study lasted so many years, reverse causality is less likely to explain the low-cholesterol danger. Reverse causality means a hidden illness might lower your cholesterol right before it kills you. With more than a decade of follow-up, early sickness cannot easily account for the extra deaths seen in people who started with low cholesterol. The pattern held across ages and for both men and women.
The huge number of people—almost the entire adult population of a country—makes the findings hard to ignore. Smaller studies can be wrong by chance. This one is massive. It shows that moderately higher total cholesterol, not the lowest possible number, went with the best chance of living longer in this large group.
In short, the biggest study of its kind found that cholesterol levels in the low-to-mid 200s were tied to the longest lives, and the long tracking time makes it tougher to blame the higher death rates at low levels on reverse causality alone.

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The abject failure of the Dodgers to hit sacrifice flies is horrid.

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@JamesMelville 2015

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Dear Campaigns:

You are too enmeshed in inside-baseball political culture if you send fundraising emails about your “FEC Deadline” a few weeks from Election Day.

You’re not “trying to show strength” on a filing deadline anymore. You’re trying to win. Just say that.

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@ArmandDAngour @razibkhan Among the British, the most striking Arab survival is the word “alcohol.”

It comes directly from the Arabic word al-kuḥl, meaning roughly “an alchemical essence.”

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@lefineder Rome had to know how many Samnites, Marsi, and Lucani it had to fight with supernatural fury in its wars. 💪

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@simongerman600 But no Gertrude

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@artsbydylan Agreed!

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Gabbagoo from terra di capotosta.

Smuggled in by yours truly.

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@gorchbey2 @iosif_lazaridis Respectfully, you don’t know your history. If you can’t explain why you count the Byzantines but not the Ottomans or the Bulgarians, then you don’t have a position.

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@gorchbey2 @iosif_lazaridis For starters, um, it still has…Spain. Still speaks Spanish.

Unlike the empires who claimed to be Roman but never held Rome…..

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@gorchbey2 @KernT2K4 @iosif_lazaridis My point is that the Byzantines (and Bulgarians, Russians, French, and Ottomans) called themselves the successors of the Roman Empire. They were not Roman. Not culturally, not geographically, not militarily, nit architecturally, not linguistically — nothing, after 610.

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@gorchbey2 @KernT2K4 @iosif_lazaridis “Look in the corner there. That’s George Washington’s axe!”

“Really?”

“Yeah, a few years ago we replaced the handle, because it was rotten. And then we needed to replace the head, because it was dull…

But that’s his axe, promise.”

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It transformed in AD 610: linguistically, culturally, militarily, territorially, even sartorially. The use of Latin was officially discontinued in 610. Ancient legions? Disbanded in 610. Certain styles and practices of emperors? Ended in 610. Significant territories in the west including, um Rome? Gone after 610. Watch the video: https://t.co/0N8p9Bi4SD