Andrew Slaugh

BREAKING: Attorney General Rob Bonta just filed an emergency writ with the court of appeals to stop ballots from being counted. For those not aware, we are investigating a reported discrepancy of 45,000 votes.

This morning's email from a friend & colleague prompted me to re-watch this #CoSci presentation by Dr. David Diamond - youtu.be/BWxMKiI0ZWc?si… If you haven't already watched this (or even if you have!), it's well worth the investment of ~30 minutes of your time. @realCSF @LDLSkeptic #LMHR

@elonmusk You would be helping the Dems defind ICE. Why not offer to pay ICE's salaries? Then see how fast the Dems move to fund DHS so the law can be enforced.

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

@MarketPalmer_ Maybe they should take advise from the other 75%. Or, they just don't have a desire to build monetary wealth. Other things in life are more important.

Recently learned that 25% of 60-year old doctors have a net worth below $1 million. How…?

@LeaderJohnThune I would like to have someone bring forth any individual that they claim will not be able to vote under the SAFE Act. Show us the person!

Starting today, we are going to have an important fight on the Senate floor. Polling shows broad support for all of the issues included in the SAVE America Act. But never underestimate Democrats’ ability to get on the wrong side of what the American people want.

@PhilLeeX @SamaHoole What is important is your Triglyceride level. LDL is high to be able to make bile, so the protein can be broken down.

@SamaHoole Explain this. I've been eating a keto diet high in protein, veggies and fats for about 15 years. My total cholesterol has been around 265 for years. I recently switched from 90% ground beef to 80% and added a dozen whole eggs to my diet. My cholesterol jumped to 315???

On the morning of 24 September 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower felt what he thought was indigestion from a hamburger. He played twenty-seven holes of golf. By evening the indigestion had become chest pain. By the following morning, the President of the United States had been admitted to Fitzsimons Army Medical Centre in Denver with a confirmed myocardial infarction. The stock market, when the news broke, lost fourteen billion dollars in a single day. The nation wanted an explanation. Eisenhower's personal physician, Paul Dudley White, was one of America's most prominent cardiologists. He began conducting press conferences: regular, public, nationally broadcast medical briefings on the President's condition, his treatment, and what lessons the American public should draw from a healthy, active man being felled by a heart attack at 64. White's press conferences are, in retrospect, extraordinary documents of motivated reasoning. Eisenhower was smoking up to four packs of cigarettes per day at the time of his heart attack. He had been smoking heavily for decades. The evidence linking cigarette smoking to cardiovascular disease was, by 1955, available in the medical literature. It was not yet the settled consensus it would become, the landmark US Surgeon General's report on smoking and health would not appear until 1964, but the data existed. White, at his press conferences, did not emphasise the smoking. He emphasised the diet. Specifically, he directed American attention toward the work of Ancel Keys, a University of Minnesota physiologist who had been arguing since 1953 that saturated fat from animal products raised cholesterol and caused heart disease. Keys was unknown to the general public before September 1955. After White's press conferences, he was on his way to becoming the most influential nutritional voice in American history. Eisenhower implemented Keys's recommendations himself. He went on a low-fat diet. His physicians monitored his cholesterol obsessively: at one point concealing elevated readings from him to avoid causing him stress, which is a fascinating detail in a story about rigorous science. He cut eggs, cut butter, cut the fat from his meat. He ate margarine. His cholesterol went up.~ He kept having cardiovascular events. Multiple. Throughout the 1950s and 60s. He died in 1969, of congestive heart failure. The low-fat diet he had followed for fourteen years had not saved him. The cigarettes he had smoked for decades had, presumably, not helped. But Keys's hypothesis, launched into public consciousness on the back of Eisenhower's heart attack, gained the institutional momentum of a presidential medical case. By 1961, Keys was on the cover of Time magazine and on the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association. By 1980, the US government had issued dietary guidelines warning all Americans to reduce their fat intake. The hamburger that Eisenhower blamed for his indigestion became the cultural villain of the piece. The four packs of cigarettes he was smoking while he ate it were not discussed with the same urgency. This is not how science is supposed to work. It is, however, very much how this science did work.

@drjasonfung It makes sense that a medibolically healthy individual will have improved VO2 max, and grip strength amoung many other markers. Training grip strength with one hand while holding a cigarette or alcohol in the other is not the path to longevity. Attia lost me a long time ago.

Interesting article on how VO2 Max became a Medical Meme by sounding sophisticated.

Can we make it illegal to request a tip BEFORE any service is rendered?

@MichaelAlbertMD Antiseptic and antibiotics are the reason, not vaccines.

Global life expectancy in 1820–1850 was about 30–32 years. Thanks to VACCINES, antibiotics, and modern sanitation, global life expectancy today exceeds 70 years. Those advances are among the greatest public-health achievements in human history. So when people campaign against vaccines, they are opposing one of the very tools that helped double human life expectancy.

@JohnPalminteri It appears that he was trying to steel the detainee's back pack. You also forgot to mention that he grabbed the ICE agent. From what I hear every day, he was supposed to be shot.

During an ICE activity on Carrillo St. in Santa Barbara Friday morning, 80-year-old Doug Hayes, a local attorney, stepped in to move a backpack and from there the situation escalated. There was a crowd getting video and blowing whistles. (Video: Liz Arreguin via KEYT)

@SenRandPaul @IngrahamAngle Shifting taxes from income to products imported makes more sense. I'll happily spend more for products made in my own country and employ more workers versus giving handouts.

You do understand that by arguing in favor of tariffs—especially those imposed under IEEPA—you’re effectively advocating for a tax increase on working families and small businesses, right? You claim to support American workers, yet these tariffs cost the average U.S. household roughly $1,000–$1,700 per year, with about 90% of the burden falling on working Americans. Laura, come on.

Why not hold town meetings and see if the people of Kentucky agree with you that “loyalty to the Constitution” requires interpreting it to always shaft working people.

@RealJamesWoods It is corollary to a participation trophy.

In a nutshell (pardon the pun)…

@ThomasSowell Regardless of it being caused by humans or not, the green house effect has a huge positive effect on worldwide crop growth. This is feed more people.

John Kerry: "Every year now millions of people around this planet are dying because fossil fuel and methane emissions called greenhouse gas pollusion."

Define irony.

@SenWarren What rules? Specifically?

Today, Republicans in Congress tried to shovel billions to ICE without any restraints whatsoever AGAIN. Their bill doesn’t even make ICE follow the same rules that as local police officers. I voted NO.

@elonmusk The last I checked, we don't have any Senators named McCain or Cheny. We should be good to get there.

Please call your senator and ask for voter ID to be passed

@SeMaritza52475 @ksorbs Nor is it an issue in the 35 States that already require voter ID.

@ksorbs This is not an issue in the 195 countries where ID is mandatory to vote. I feel Democrats use arguments based on fear involving gender minority classes, like in drama series.

Rep. Hillary Scholten says the SAVE Act will prevent women from voting because they didn’t change their last names on their birth certificates after getting married. I was unaware that women could magically change their birth certificate.

@ksorbs Obama changed his.

@ChrisGloninger Idle time is not reduced to zero. Thus neither are emissions. Starting the vehicle results in higher emissions than at idle. The battery power used to start the vehicle must be recharged, which means starting the vehicle has an energy cost. Especially during short stops.

Lee, you hack, start/stop systems were invented by Toyota in 1974 and adopted by European automakers in the 2000s. They reduce fuel consumption by 5-8% and cut idle emissions by 100%. They restart in under 400 milliseconds… faster than your foot moves from brake to gas. Your car doesn't 'die.' The engine decouples from the drivetrain via a reinforced starter motor rated for 500,000+ cycles. This isn't Obama. It's thermodynamics. An engine burning fuel at zero mph does zero useful work. That's not politics. That's the first law. You're the EPA administrator and you don't understand combustion efficiency. Terrifying.

@micyoung75 I like how they used the word "mostly" to avoid making a blatantly false statement.

PBS breaks it down. The SAVE Act demands birth certificates or passports just to register, then photo ID to vote. Sounds like “security,” until you remember: millions of eligible Americans don’t have these documents on hand. Women with name changes. Seniors born at home. Rural voters without easy access to vital records. There’s no evidence of widespread non-citizen voting. But there’s plenty of evidence that these laws block real people. This isn’t protection. It’s precision-crafted exclusion.