Michelle O

good people do bad things. bad people do good things. Hope is not synonymous with wishful thinking.

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

BIG TIME BIG DAWG

🗳️ https://t.co/cdVTjmanhF

[Ashley Schendel @ashleyschendel]

Vacation culture has gotten a little out of control to me.

I live in southeast Tennessee, in the woods with my family and my dogs, and most of the time I do not have this huge itch to leave. We travel every now and then, but there is something really nice about actually enjoying the life you already have.

People act like you’re supposed to always be planning the next trip, the next flight, the next escape.

Then half the time you come home tired, behind, and wondering why you spent all that money to need a vacation from the vacation.

America is huge. Especially where I live, I can drive a few hours and see mountains, rivers, small towns, lakes, back roads, and some of the prettiest places in the country.

But honestly, some of my favorite days are just being home with my dogs, my family, the woods, and nowhere we have to be.

That feels like rest to me.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.

A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.

Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.

The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.

Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.

The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.

[꧁Bobbi꧂ @SaltyBitch_52]

How I want my husband to drive the boat vs how it’s going.
How many ladies out there can relate? 🤣

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

A new era begins for us.

Introducing The Black Jacket.

From this point forward, kids who complete the 50 Yard Challenge will earn a black varsity jacket as a symbol of their hard work, dedication, and service to their community.

We’ll also soon be introducing special patches and badges that participants can earn .

The inspiration behind the Black Jacket comes from the tradition of the green jacket awarded at The Masters Tournament, creating a meaningful symbol that represents excellence, commitment, and achievement within our program.

Kids of previous years that did the challenge , will be able to get one once we secure a sponsor for our jackets. If any company is interested in becoming a sponsor and having your logo on our jackets & shirts please reach out.

** I moved the flag to the sleeve . A patch saying “ I completed the 50 yard challenge “ will go on the right side once we get them in.

[Michelle O @ReadMichelleO]

As a Puerto Rican, I can’t explain why but I just know these are Hispanic women speaking Spanish.

[. @deityofnightt]

l've never seen anything more accurate

[B/R Walk-Off @BRWalkoff]

Cristopher Sánchez becomes only the SECOND pitcher since 1913 to go an entire calendar month without allowing a run

39 innings pitched, ZERO runs allowed 🤯

[Nate Bargatze @natebargatze]

It’s almost time. My first movie, @BreadwinnerMov, is in theaters nationwide tomorrow. This movie has been a long time coming and I’m thankful for everyone who helped make it happen. One thing that mattered to me with this film was making tickets more affordable. Growing up, going to the movies with my family was one of my favorite things to do. I remember it being something families could actually afford to do together without it breaking the bank. I wanted to bring that back for families which is why I created special, lower ticket pricing called the “Nate Rate.” You can check your local theaters website to see what your Nate Rate offer is. I can’t wait for y’all to see The Breadwinner in theaters tomorrow. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you.

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

A 4-year-old boy was at a barbecue eating when he suddenly grabbed his ear and started crying in pain. His ear exam was completely normal, so doctors sent him home with ibuprofen and numbing drops. Over the next several days he kept having ear pain, then developed fevers and stopped eating and drinking. Multiple exams still looked normal… until they did a CT scan with contrast.

They found a metal wire from a grill brush lodged in the tissues near his tonsil. It had broken off into the hamburger he was eating and gotten stuck. The ear pain was actually referred pain from the wire irritating the area near his eustachian tube. He ended up needing surgery to remove it.

The doctor’s warning at the end is important: Don’t use grill brushes with metal wires. Those little wires can break off into the food and cause serious problems — not just in the throat, but also in the stomach and intestines if swallowed.

I had no idea those wires could break off like that — I’d never even thought about it. I’m definitely never using a metal grill brush again.

Have you ever heard of grill brush wires causing problems like this? Or do you already avoid the metal ones?

[Jammles @jammles9]

This is when I knew Massie and MTG were working against Trump:

Something interesting came up while I was looking through campaign contributions to Thomas Massie.

Federal campaign finance records show several donors with the same last name Mahrouq making large political donations across.

The names include:

• Sam Mahrouq, a Texas auto finance and dealership entrepreneur connected to MEI Group

• Rania Mahrouq, a philanthropic partner and family donor

• Zaid Mahrouq, a North Texas business professional

• Raneem Mahrouq, a law student and community activist

• Mohammad Mahrouq

• Hussein Mahrouq

• Eyad Mahrouq

Several of these donations appear on the same dates and many hit the maximum federal contribution limits. That suggests a coordinated family donor pattern.

The same group of donors shows up funding politicians such as:

• Thomas Massie
• Marjorie Taylor Greene’s PAC
• Ilhan Omar
• Cori Bush
• Jamaal Bowman
• Keith Ellison

At the same time, donations also go to two political committees:

• Anti Zionist America PAC, which supports candidates critical of Zionism and United States support for Israel.

• Citizens Against AIPAC Corruption, a PAC created to oppose the influence of AIPAC.

But when the same donor network funds politicians on both sides of the political spectrum while also backing committees centered on a single foreign policy issue, it raises a red flag.

[Daily Mail US @Daily_MailUS]

Read more 🔗 https://t.co/xOKCHuwAFx ⬇️

[Son of a Butch @StriderkingV]

Buddy, that’s apples and oranges. Protecting children is a good thing, exposing them to career criminals is a bad thing. Empathy has been misdirected. Let’s clear this up. We are talking suicidal empathy, the kind that gets ppl killed. You can still have empathy, lots of empathy for criminals but still punish them and/or remove them from society so they don’t make their situation worse and protect innocent’s at the same time. You cannot argue doing otherwise is a good thing like taking children out of factories and putting them in schools.

[dog @Dog__Dog0]

King is trying to figure out how the basement stairs work.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ❤️

[Pastrami Mommy @ewelannawhite]

WAKE UP FREAKS A SPLENDID FAIRYWREN GOT CAUGHT OUT IN A RAIN SHOWER

[Harriet Sergeant @HarrietSergeant]

Are Chinese people in Britain chased down the street for what Beijing does to Uighurs? Are Russians here hunted for Ukraine? Are Afghans attacked over how women are treated back home? No. But Jews are singled out, blamed, and targeted for Israel. The hypocrisy isn’t even subtle.

[Michelle O @ReadMichelleO]

I’m sad to report, I’m actually amused by animals beefing on twitter

[Lion @LionInCrisis]

Giraffes always peeking over everything. mind your own business. fucking skyscrapers.

[📙 Alex Hillman @alexhillman]

Hot take: Pizza Hut could launch a BOOK IT for adults and raise the American literacy rate by full percentage points

[Michelle O @ReadMichelleO]

I hope this is true

[G R I F T Y @GriftReport]

Billionaire's son Anant Ambani has offered to give Pablo Escobar's escaped hippos a permanent new home in India rather than let Colombia cull them,

the four original hippos were imported by the drug lord for his private zoo at Hacienda Napoles in the 1980s, escaped after his death and have since bred into a population of up to 80 along the Magdalena River,

they've become an invasive species attacking fishermen, wreaking havoc on the ecosystem and reproducing out of control,

Colombian authorities have now approved a cull after years of failed neutering and relocation attempts proved too expensive and ineffective,

Anant, son of Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani, has submitted a full scientific plan to airlift the entire group to his giant Vantara wildlife rescue centre in Gujarat with veterinary-led capture, transport and a purpose-built naturalistic habitat,

he says these hippos didn't choose where they were born and if we have the ability to save them humanely then we have a responsibility to try,

Legend!