Vile: Mike Johnson now says GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using shifty language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is alive. 1/
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For our US Bicentennial in 1976, the Smithsonian hosted a 3-month-long ‘Festival of American Folklife’ on the National Mall 🫡 💓
It ran from Jun 16-Sept 6, drew 4.5M visitors & featured over 5K artisans & performers from across the country.
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@Suzierizzo1@Larue82300 OMG. I always suspected her killer was due to the incompetence of the police but I never even thought of the lab. In this age of science there was no way her killer couldn’t have been discovered.
I'm a cardiologist. I've spent twenty years as the person patients trust to interpret their bodies. And I need to tell you something that most physicians won't say out loud:
AI is about to change the power dynamic between you and your doctor. Forever.
Four days ago, OpenAI's o3 model diagnosed 18 children with rare diseases that the best human specialists at Boston Children's Hospital couldn't solve — some after nearly twenty years of searching. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Two weeks ago, WashU researchers proved that nine routine blood markers can calculate your biological age — and predict cancer risk years before any tumor forms. A free calculator. Available to anyone.
Last month, AI-enhanced coronary CT angiography detected inflamed arteries in patients whose standard stress tests said "normal." Patients who would have gone home reassured and wrong.
The pattern is unmistakable. The tools that used to require a specialist, a referral, a three-month wait, and a $400 copay are migrating into your phone, your bloodwork portal, and your own hands.
And I'm watching something in my practice I never expected.
Patients are walking in more informed than some of the residents I trained. They've run their PhenoAge score. They know their ApoB. They've read the study about Lp(a) before I've had time to bring it up. They come with questions so specific that the conversation starts at a level it took me years of training to reach.
This used to threaten physicians. It shouldn't. It should liberate us.
Because here's the truth about the old model: a 15-minute appointment where your doctor runs a basic metabolic panel, glances at the numbers, says "looks fine," and sends you home — that model was never good enough. It was just all we had. It missed 75% of future heart attacks. It caught cancer late. It told women with microvascular disease they had anxiety. It filed children with rare diseases as "unsolvable."
AI doesn't replace the physician. I've said this before and I mean it — the human moment, the clinical judgment, the hand on the shoulder when the diagnosis lands — that's irreplaceable.
But AI does something the old model never could: it gives you the ability to see inside your own biology with a depth and speed that was impossible a decade ago. To track your own numbers. To calculate your own biological age. To bring data to your doctor that elevates the conversation from "am I sick?" to "where exactly am I heading, and what do we do about it?"
The patient who walks in with their ApoB, their Lp(a), their hsCRP, their PhenoAge calculation, and a list of questions from the latest research — that patient doesn't threaten me.
That patient is the easiest person in my practice to keep alive.
Because they've already done the one thing most patients never do: they stopped waiting for permission to understand their own body.
I went into medicine because I wanted to help people live longer. What I've learned is that the patients who live longest are the ones who took ownership — not of my job, but of their own data, their own questions, and their own decisions.
The tools are here. The research is published. The calculators are free. The blood tests cost less than a dinner out.
You don't need to wait for your annual physical to find out what's happening inside you. You don't need permission to understand your own biology. And you don't need to accept "looks fine" from anyone — including me — when the science offers a deeper answer.
The revolution isn't coming. It's in your pocket. In your patient portal. In the published studies you can read yourself.
The only question left is whether you'll use it — or keep waiting for someone to tell you it's time.
Your body. Your data. Your life.
Take ownership. Your future self is counting on it.
BREAKING: In a landmark decision that could transform the federal government, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to allow President Trump to remove a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission purely for policy reasons, rolling back 90 years of legal precedent that had prevented at-will removal of independent agency officials and significantly expanding presidential power.
https://t.co/wQzZBPJo08
MAJOR BREAKING: In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states may count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day, even if they arrive afterward.
Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissented.
A federal court just delivered a clear message to Donald Trump. He does not get to seize control of our elections by decree.
The president has no constitutional authority over how Americans cast their ballots.
The court found zero evidence for Trump’s fevered claims of widespread fraud.
Because the fraud was always a fiction, a pretext to disenfranchise eligible voters who might inconveniently vote against him.
This is who Trump is. When he cannot win on the merits, he tries to rig the rules. When the Constitution stands in his way, he ignores it and dares the courts to stop him.
Wednesday they did. The right to vote belongs to the people, not to a president who treats democracy as an obstacle to his dominance.
I am grateful to the judges and state attorneys general holding the line. The fight continues.
@TheTNHoller@BadrobotLinda@SenThomTillis You missed the best, Trump drove the 8 - 10 ton beast along with his entire motorcade across the bottom of the reflecting pool reportedly before the coating had cured and with so much weight he damaged the base. #retatrutide
Over 100 former judges have now filed an ethics complaint against Acting AG Todd Blanche for weaponizing the DOJ for Trump’s personal and political gain. This is exactly why the Senate should reject him.
Tell your Senators to oppose Todd Blanche:
https://t.co/XG9fVpN0Fg
🚨 UPDATE: 8 people charged in Sex Ring “Underground Bunker” for Paying adults to Rape their Children and Pets — Ages 3-16. Trial delayed as mom pleads guilty and flips on co-defendants
In Bibb County, Alabama, eight suspects ran a sex trafficking ring out of an underground bunker where children as young as 3 were drugged, bound, and raped with adults paying to abuse them.
Animals were also targeted.
Rebecca Brewer and mother of some of the victims, pleaded guilty to sexual torture and nine counts of first-degree kidnapping. As part of the deal she agreed to testify against the other seven defendants.
The trial for the remaining suspects has been delayed while the case expands, including a federal investigation into at least one of them.
These monsters turned their own kids and pets into victims for profit.
How long will it take for every last one of them to face real justice?
BREAKING: NYT Confirms Trump Is Supervising Kennedy Center Tarp Removal As His Agents Appear to Be Indicating It May Stay Up Indefinitely—Effectively Taking *Kennedy's* Name Off the Center As Well As Trump's in One of the Most Petty and Vindictive Acts Ever Taken By Any President
🚨 BREAKING ACTION: John Roberts has hijacked the rule of law, rewriting the Constitution to shield executives and shield billionaires. Congress holds the power to impeach a judge who breaks their oath.
Force your reps to act. Send your letter today: https://t.co/yrqb1AFXim
Days after Republicans gave ICE goons another $70 billion, a U.S. citizen was pinned to the ground and tased while restrained, and witnesses threatened at gunpoint.
These disgusting abuses aren't slowing down.
They're being rewarded.
Don't look away.
ICE took a 31 y/o Haitian asylum-seeker into custody, drove her 30 miles away to a Pittsburgh office, put an ankle monitor on her, then sent her out the front door with no way to get anywhere or contact her family.
She froze to death at a bus stop. It's now ruled a homicide.