Valerie Koch

she/her/hers

[Valerie Koch @ValsABoss]

if u don't like conspiracy theories i don't like u

[Rio Veradonir @RioVeradonir]

Obama gave us marriage equality.

Trump gave us COVID and $6 gas.

[Queen Liza🩷🤍💙 @KrystalWolfyAlt]

In the USA if you get raped the government will sue you

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

The president cancelling tv shows he doesn’t like & memeing about it on social media is a dystopian nightmare.

10 years, the very thought of this occurring would have been uncontroversially anti-american.

MAGA has destroyed our country.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The kind of quote that used to end political careers

[foxy marxist ☭🔻 @FoxyMarxist]

we did not punish the confederacy enough

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

It’s not political to say stop voting for Republicans. At this point it’s self preservation.

[Bothered Boy🏴🚩Back on my Bullsh*t @BotheredBoy]

This is what people mean when they say that poverty is systemic and a class issue, and not because of personal choices.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than:

Walt Disney
Citigroup
CVS
Kohl's
Ticketmaster
Tesla
United Airlines
GoDaddy
Paypal
Palantir
Roku
HP
3M
PG&E
Halliburton

That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform.

[Praise @tufpraise]

“Testing positive for pregnancy” is an in interesting way to say “being raped and impregnated by ICE agents”

[James Li @5149jamesli]

AMAZING!! $51 BILLION DOLLARS later, we are back to where we were on February 28.

WINNING!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

RIP. One of the nation's most beautiful wilderness areas.

[Gray Maynard @GrayMaynard]

“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.”

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

EVERYONE SIGN THIS RIGHT NOW

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Imagine if Iran bombed and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in California, what would you call it? TERRORISTS

The U.S bombed and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran, the B1 bridge, why do you call it “PEACE”?

Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law

[Keaton Weiss @thatkeaton]

‘We can’t invest in America because we’re fighting wars’ is literally the opposite of what he ran on.

Biggest scam in modern political history, hands down.