Lioness

Educator, cardiologist’s wife, MA International Administration. Nature lover, people tolerator, dairy intolerant ice cream eater. Calling out #moralvertigo

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@FmrRepMTG Frog table 🐸

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@JRJ2010 @kylegriffin1 Tell it to Robert Smalls

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@JRJ2010 @kylegriffin1 Expand your mind. Every empire that the world has known was built on a human pattern of conquer, enslave, and expand. The U.S. was no exception, but is the only one to correct course and pursue an ideology of freedom and justice for all. And we’re doing a damn good job at it.

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@WayneBerg14 @RealHousewifeMi Exactly. Economics 101! If people weren’t willing to pay the price wouldn’t be what it is. This is a parent problem, as usual.

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@lucky_stars_1 @afshineemrani @MegynKellyShow The majority of American women are not spending hours outside! Only women can fix that through making personal lifestyle choices. It means opting out of modern conveniences and choosing what is largely undervalued by our society.

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@anjewla90 @RahmEmanuel @AVALL_45

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@NickKristof There is a name for the logical fallacy that leads to that rationale. Let me rewrite that for you. After eliminating wasteful spending, he now directs it toward an actual purpose.

[Brian Costin @BrianCostin]

Cheers to Gov. Pritzker for being the best Governor in America. Illinois is #1!

#1 in Highest Property Taxes
#1 in Property Tax Task Forces
#1 in Highest Combined State and Local Taxes
#1 in Highest Cell Phone Tax
#1 in Highest Proposed Corporate Income Tax Rate
#1 in Units of Local Government
#1 in Fiscal Instability
#1 in Lowest Bond Rating for 13 Consecutive Years
#1 in Lowest State Pension Funding Percentage
#1 in Most Public Corruption in a Federal District (Northern Illinois)
#1 in the Biggest Gas Tax Increase Since 2019
#1 in Eliminating School Choice Programs for Families

@GovPritzker is proudly presiding over the most taxed, least solvent, and most dysfunctional state government in American history - he's #1 where it hurts the citizens of Illinois the most.

[Lioness @angelion7]

@4noura @academic_la Here’s your logical fallacy trophy 🏆

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@afshineemrani Thank you for this post!

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

Government schools spend $21,456 per child per year.

Imagine if that money went directly to families instead.

A teacher could set up a microschool with just 14 students and pull in $300,384 a year.

[Lioness @angelion7]

@koshercockney This is what people of conscience used to call savage. It’s still savage, it’s the people that have changed.

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@VinegarJoe3 @StellaEscoTV @CBSNews Mine and billions of others of people who believed he guided heroes like George Washington to fight for and establish this country (that gives you the right to have that very misguided opinion).

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@VinegarJoe3 @StellaEscoTV @CBSNews The creator quite literally guarantees the exact opposite.

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@VinegarJoe3 @StellaEscoTV @CBSNews The American tradition of resistance doesn’t align with Falestinian strategy. Land for peace doesn’t work. Coexistence doesn’t work. Hamas. West Bank Pay to slay. Inability to accept reality that Israel is here to stay and that they won. Learn to live in peace with your neighbor.

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@youngsteveng @anishmoonka Publicly defaming his wife to cover up an affair and taking her children from her does not qualify as household responsibility.

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

Israel doesn't train dogs to rape Palestinian inmates. That's a vicious, stupid lie pushed by a slimy little propagandist. But this newest blood libel is meant to distract you from the latest released evidence- including video recordings that *no credible person says are fake* of Palestinians doing the most sadistic, grotesque things imaginable on Oct 7- raping corpses while they are mutilating and murdering them, lighting genitals on fire, shooting out the eyes and genitals of helpless victims, forcing husbands to watch as their wives and children are raped and murdered-

And Palestinians did this on the *orders of their elected government* with months of planning to do exactly what they did. It wasn't spontaneous. The monstrous cruelty, the sexual degradation was the point. They knew Oct 7 wasn't going to win a war, or gain any territory. It was just an orgy of Jew hate and violence. The Palestinians were mass murdering, child rapist terrorists who did all this and were gleeful about it. They made phone calls boasting to their family members.

Did anyone in the Hamas government express remorse or regret about any of this? Or anywhere in Gaza? Of course not. They ordered it. They delighted in the extreme pain and cruelty of the Oct 7 operation against Jews.

So now some Americans, including ones who claim to be conservative, are taking the side of Hamas and claiming this was a genocide?

What do these people really think Israel was supposed to do in response to Oct 7?
Fight an imaginary "gentle" war?
No response at all?
Give up?

Childish thinking. Absurd moral preening. War is hell, but Hamas brought that hell upon Gaza.

[Lioness @angelion7]

@squirrelpsps @_ZachFoster @bungarsargon Read this piece by @HenMazzig asap. Don’t stop, don’t pass go. https://t.co/O9Jg6QDyt9