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[wrgailmard @allnewmistakes]

@Stonekettle Unshakable trust and belief that one man alone has The Answer despite overwhelming factual contradictions is the definition of a cult.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Thank you, Dr. Fauci, for your invaluable, brave, patriotic service during the pandemic despite the knuckle-dragging anti-science right-wing Covidiots showering you with death threats as you simply tried to save as many lives as possible.

#FightTheRight

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

If you made $53,000 a day or $20 million per year since Jesus was born you would still not make the profit Shell made last year.

It’s time for Shell to Stop Drilling and Start Paying for the climate damage they’ve caused.

#MakeShellPay #actonclimate #climate #energy #renewables

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Months earlier in Vienna, he had a chance to escape. He received a visa to move to the United States. He was a respected psychiatrist with a loving wife and a growing practice. Moving meant safety, but it also meant leaving his elderly parents behind to face the Nazis alone.

One day,Viktor Frankl saw a small piece of marble on his father’s table, saved from a destroyed synagogue. It had a single line carved on it: "Honor your father and your mother." Frankl chose to stay.

Soon after, he was arrested and sent to a concentration camp.

The guards took his coat and tore up the manuscript hidden inside it—years of psychological research destroyed in a second. They shaved his head and replaced his name with a number: 119,104. To the guards, he was just another body waiting to die.

They did not realize that by taking away his possessions, they forced him to rely on the only thing they could never touch: his mind.

He was moved from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz and finally to Dachau. Life in the camps was brutal. Men slept crowded together on wooden boards, lived on thin soup, and worked in frozen mud. Frankl noticed that physical strength was not what kept people alive.

Many strong men gave up and died quickly, while frail men somehow survived.

The prisoners called this the "giving up disease." It followed a predictable pattern. A man would stop washing, refuse to stand, and finally pull out his last cigarette to smoke it.

Cigarettes were like money. You could trade them for soup to live another day. When a prisoner smoked his cigarette, it meant he had given up on tomorrow. He usually died a few days later. Frankl remembered a line from the philosopher Nietzsche:

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

Frankl decided to fight back in a quiet way. He reconstructed his lost book in his mind while marching in the freezing cold. He imagined standing in a warm university room after the war, telling young students, "I want to share with you what the human spirit can endure when it finds a reason to keep going." He also thought constantly about his wife.

Even without knowing if she was alive, speaking to her in his heart gave him strength.

He spent his evenings helping other prisoners find their reasons to keep going. He sat beside exhausted men and asked them a direct question: "What is waiting for you?" One man spoke about his child living overseas. Another talked about a series of books he needed to finish writing.

Frankl looked at them and said, "That work is waiting for only you, and no one else can do it for you." He reminded them that their stories were not over yet.

When the camps were liberated in April 1945, Frankl was barely alive. He soon learned the tragic truth: his wife, parents, and brother had all perished. He was entirely alone in the world.

Instead of letting despair win, he sat down and wrote his experiences in a book titled Man’s Search for Meaning.

Frankl lived a long, rich life until 1997, learning to fly airplanes in his sixties, climbing mountains, and remarrying. His story teaches us that even when we lose everything, we still keep the final human freedom: the choice of how we respond to our circumstances.

When you feel lost or overwhelmed by difficult times, look around at the people you love, the small joys in your daily life, and the dreams you still want to pursue. Hold onto those reasons tightly, because your story is still being written, and your purpose is waiting to be found.

>We Are Human Angels<
Authors
Awakening the Human Spirit

We are the authors of 'We Are Human Angels,' the book that has spread a new vision of the human experience and has been spontaneously translated into 14 languages by readers.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You are going to see a lot of SCUMBAGS making money off of vaccine lies like RFK Jr. it's a big business. Call them out.

[Dr. Filippo Cademartiri @FCademartiri]

# We've Spent Decades Predicting Risk. Maybe It's Time to Start Seeing Disease.

For years, preventive cardiology has debated two competing philosophies:
**Treat based on risk factors.**
Or...
**Treat based on imaging.**

This editorial argues that the new **2026 ACC/AHA Dyslipidemia Guideline** may finally bring the two together. Imaging guided treatment of subclinical atherosclerosis—We’ve come a long way!.pdf

The proposed strategy is simple:
Estimate risk with **PREVENT-ASCVD**.
Refine uncertainty using **risk enhancers**.

Then, when needed, look directly for **subclinical atherosclerosis** with coronary imaging. Imaging guided treatment of subclinical atherosclerosis—We’ve come a long way!.pdf

## The Critical Point
The most important message isn't that **CAC** has become more prominent.
It's *why*.
CAC is no longer viewed simply as another risk marker.
It is a marker of **actual disease**.

The guideline goes even further, recommending treatment intensity according to **plaque burden**, incorporating incidental CAC from routine chest CT, and introducing a selective role for **CCTA** in patients likely to harbor substantial non-calcified plaque.

The figure in the editorial illustrates this shift beautifully: LDL-C targets are no longer driven solely by estimated risk, but increasingly by the **amount of coronary atherosclerosis already present.** Imaging guided treatment of subclinical atherosclerosis—We’ve come a long way!.pdf

## My Take
This is exactly the evolution many of us have been waiting for.
For decades we've treated **the probability of disease**.
We're now beginning to treat **the disease itself.**
That doesn't mean abandoning risk scores.

It means recognizing that wide areas of UNCERTAINTY exists, **biology should trump probability.**

## Where PCCT Fits
Today's guideline uses **CAC** as the gateway to imaging-guided prevention.
Tomorrow, I believe that gateway will become **plaque-guided prevention**.
Photon-Counting CT has the potential to move beyond calcium alone by providing a more complete assessment of plaque burden, composition, and biology.

Perhaps the next revolution in prevention won't come from a better risk equation.

It will come from seeing atherosclerosis **earlier, more completely, and more biologically.**

**Treat the plaque. Not just the predicted risk.**

#PreventiveCardiology #CardiacCT #PhotonCountingCT #PCCT #CoronaryCalcium #CoronaryCTA #Atherosclerosis #TreatThePlaque #PrecisionMedicine

[AZvettegirl 🏒⛄️😸💙 @azvettegirl213]

@CalltoActivism @CheriJacobus

[Capone🇩🇪🇺🇲🌻🇺🇦💙🇪🇺 @Capone2434]

@CalltoActivism Are we sick of this BS yet?

[Andrew Hyman @AndrewHymanEsq]

@sciencegirl This quote dates back the 19th century.

https://t.co/EWRmjR1qEj

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Kindness

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Covid was deadly

Our ICU trebled capacity over night

I was there

You weren't

You will not rewrite history

[wrgailmard @allnewmistakes]

@culture24823 Happy birthday 🎁🎈!

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

For 14 years, Dan Simpson spent his evenings delivering pizzas around Boise, Idaho after finishing his regular job. It was a routine he never expected anyone to notice.

On March 28, 2026, one delivery turned into something unforgettable.

The customer had ordered a Diet Coke, but the Domino's store had run out. Rather than arrive empty handed, Dan stopped at a nearby convenience store, bought the drink with his own money, and delivered it without charging a single extra cent.

When the customer offered to pay him back and leave a bigger tip, Dan smiled and declined.

"That's already a good tip," he said.

The customer later learned Dan was only weeks away from retirement after 14 years of delivering pizzas as his second job. The Ring doorbell video was shared online, and people across the country were moved by the quiet kindness of a man who never expected anything in return.

There was another detail Dan didn't know that night. The customer and his wife are visually impaired, and his decision to stop for that Diet Coke spared them a difficult trip to the store.

What Dan thought was just a quick stop meant far more to the family than he ever imagined.

Thousands of strangers came together to thank him the only way they could. A GoFundMe raised 171,635 USD, giving him a retirement he never expected.

All because one delivery driver believed that doing the right thing was simply part of the job.

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

If you support Native American people’s, history &amp; culture Say.. “Yes".❤️

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. The fact that religions can be so shamelessly dishonest, so contemptuous of the intelligence of their adherents, and still flourish does not speak very well for the toughmindedness of the believers."

— Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain "A Sunday Sermon"

[Keith @keetmuise]

Imagine how mad people would have been if after years of knowing how HIV was transmitted, the government told people to learn to live with it, stopped testing people, stopped screening blood, ended gloves and clean needles, and told everyone that despite people still dying, and being chronically ill, that HIV and AIDS had become mild. You would not have gone along with it.

We have instant communication and data sharing abilities, the most advanced tech in history, and almost 500,000 pieces of scientific material to guide our policies, yet WE DO NOTHING!

They told you that the world being sick all the time was the only way forward, they didn’t even want to try for our kids, because it would cost too much, not because a better way wasn’t possible, but because people being health wasn’t worth it.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

When #Climate scientists are terrified by what they see coming we should be too.

There is no time to wait. We're in a #climateEmergency. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #rewilding via @ClimateHuman

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

Since I posted about plaque, my inbox hasn't stopped. The same questions over and over — from people who were handed a scan and no explanation.
So I wrote the manual I wish every patient received that day.
What every scan actually measures. The blood tests almost nobody orders. When to be aggressive, when to wait. And the step-by-step protocol to stop plaque — and reverse it.
Free. No paywall. Nothing to sell you.

https://t.co/OYIhTzmIYY

[wrgailmard @allnewmistakes]

Many happy returns of the day, dear Emily!

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

enjoy your special day, Emily!

[IntegralAnswers @IntegralAnswers]

1/ Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. is not an obscure internet influencer. He is an accomplished microbiologist whose work in bacteriology and immunology earned genuine scientific respect long before COVID.

But science doesn’t ask whether someone is credentialed.

It asks whether their hypotheses accurately predict reality.

Five years later, we can compare Bhakdi’s major COVID vaccine claims against what actually happened—not with politics, but with clinical trials, pathology, immunology and population data.

Let’s do exactly that.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Has anyone else been vaccinated/boosted about six times and survived? Thank you, Dr Fauci!