Emily Thomas

mom/runner/board certified sports PT

[Emily Thomas @ethomasguxc]

@realDonaldTrump Nah brah. We want evidence-based policy and elected officials with a baseline level understanding of human decency, the scientific method, vaginas, logical fallacies, and inequality. Also pockets. We really want pockets.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

One of the most important lessons running taught me:

How to work hard for a very long for something far in the distance.

You don’t build a great Track season in May. You build it in the cold, dark months no one sees.

Delayed gratification is one of the most transferable skills

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[sam🐝🌈 @lvndrwine]

one of my least controversial opinions is that, during summer, schools should be converted to extracurricular community centers for kids (that still provide breakfast and lunch) instead of being left empty for months.

[Sasha @servingcapreal]

could a country in severe decline do THIS?

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

If you want to "raise a D1 athlete" here's what works:

1. Stop trying to raise a D1 athlete

Support your kid. Let them play whatever they want to play. Drive them to practice

But it's got to come from them. They've got to want it. You can't force it.

2. Have great genetics

[LeisureTime TV @Leisure_TimeTV]

Shocker. Graduates dont love AI as much as the boomers using it to replace their jobs.

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

It did tbh

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

We're going to spend the rest of our lives learning over and over that it was all just an elaborate stock market grift

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

It is insane that these trucks are legal. If you can't see an entire Lamborghini because your lifted front hood has blocked out the entire horizon, how are you going to see a child running across the street?

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

It's not run slow to run fast...

It's run a lot of easy to give you the foundation and capacity to handle and absorb all sorts of moderate to hard training.

They work in concert. You don't just magically get faster by lots of easy. It supports the rest.

[Casey Kay @caseykaytv]

Rebuilding the #LadyVols.

From not a single person returning, to now 9 players on the roster (this far).

Who's committed to the Lady Vols over the last few weeks, their background, confidence in Coach Caldwell & more.

"I felt the confidence in her, I know what she's building"

[Sam Alberti @sam_alberti]

who thought it would be a good visual to show a literal grandmother who still has to do gig-labor to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

Only YOU can prevent forest fires, because he's dismantling the United States Forest Service

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Women's bodies be like "first we're gonna punish you for being old enough to have babies, then we're gonna punish you for every month you don't have a baby, then we're gonna punish you for nine months when you make a baby, then we're gonna punish you for feeding the baby, then we're gonna punish you for when you try to stop feeding the baby, then we're gonna punish you for being too old to have babies. and then you die."

[Emily Thomas @ethomasguxc]

If I could retweet this 1000x, I would

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for nearly 30 years, and a few patterns have become impossible to ignore. One is that many musculoskeletal problems in adults aren’t sudden injuries. They’re the moment when declining capacity and awful metabolic health finally reveals itself.

Over the decades your strength fades, muscle mass declines, as your aerobic capacity tanks. Tendons and connective tissues lose substance, stiffness, and resilience. For years the body compensated... quietly. Then one day a knee hurts during a run to get the train, or shoulder aches reaching overhead, or a back tightens lifting something simple.

At that point the story usually becomes more about structural damage. An MRI gets ordered. Welcome to high-tech, low-medicine. And the MRI almost always finds something. A meniscus tear. A rotator cuff tear. A disc bulge. Why? Because by midlife these findings are extremely common — even in people with no pain at all. If you have a tear in one shoulder, image the other shoulder... you probably have the same tear there. But I digress.

Once the scan appears, the narrative changes. The image becomes the diagnosis. Now the patient believes something is broken, and the focus often shifts to fixing what the MRI shows.

What often gets lost in this is the reason the symptoms appeared in the first place. Many so-called “atraumatic” orthopedic complaints are not purely mechanical failures. They are the moment when reduced strength, declining tissue capacity, and sometimes broader metabolic health issues finally reach a tipping point. Our tissues change over the decades... get over it.

In other words, the MRI didn’t create the problem. Well... it sort of did in this scenario. But all the MRI showed was something that was already there.... because of your age, lifestyle, health and so on.

The real driver of symptoms is often loss of physiologic reserve. Less muscle. Less tendon or aerobic resilience. Less tolerance for load, etc.

Once the MRI enters the picture, the risk becomes overtreatment. This is probably the number one reason people have surgery. When in many cases the most powerful intervention was never the scan or the procedure.

It was rebuilding capacity.

Strong muscles stabilize joints. Aerobic fitness improves metabolic health and tissue perfusion. Gradual loading restores tolerance.

But people often don't take PT seriously prior to surgery. They often take PT very seriously afterwards. Therefore, PT is probably the reason you feel better, despite the surgery.

The irony is that the treatment many people ultimately need is the same thing that might have prevented the problem in the first place.

Staying strong. Staying active. Maintaining the reserve that protects our joints/tendons/muscles/abilities as we age.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

The ex-DOGE employee who walked off with a thumb drive of Social Security data and took it to a private company told a whistleblower he “expected a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed illegal.” If that isn’t a window into the Trump administration, I don’t know what is