Jake Hoffman

I'm Jake Hoffman & I'm running for the FL State House in South Tampa. I DON'T sell insurance or wear khakis, but I'm running for office to insure Floridians keep the freedoms this country is founded on. That's the Jake For State House guarantee! DONATE: secure.anedot.com/b232654c-a67b-…

This @ogafroman trial may be then most entertaining thing on the internet right now. I can't believe he even has to stand trial for making songs about cops who wrongly raided his home. I would say it should get thrown out, but then the clips would stop 😂.

LFG 🔥

@bryan_johnson What does this mean for people with torn/repaired Achilles? Any substantive studies after repairs?

Your ankle is a window into your heart. A new study found that patients with a thickened Achilles tendon were nearly twice as likely to experience a major cardiovascular event within three years of a coronary stent procedure. An observational study retrospectively compared outcomes for 1362 participants with coronary artery disease undergoing PCI, examining differences between patients with and without Achilles tendon thickening (defined as ≥8 mm in men or ≥7.5 mm in women). Patients with thickened Achilles tendons faced a 99% higher risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) over three years (28.4% vs 17.9% for those with and without thickening, respectively). (MACE was defined as all-cause death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, stroke, and clinically driven target-vessel revascularization.) Thickened Achilles tendons were more prevalent in patients with the more severe, rapidly developing, and less stable acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (24.3% had thickened tendons) compared to patients with the more stable chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) (13.7% had thickened tendons). Among ACS patients, having a thickened Achilles tendon was a significant predictor, increasing the risk of a recurring major cardiovascular event within the next three years by 4.7 times. The findings suggest that Achilles tendon thickening may serve as a prognostic marker in patients with cardiovascular disease, with special value in predicting early recurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome. While the analysis did not include blood cholesterol levels and does not establish causation, one plausible explanation is that Achilles tendon thickening reflects cumulative exposure to elevated LDL cholesterol over many years. This may be especially relevant in familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder characterized by markedly elevated LDL cholesterol, in which Achilles tendon thickening is also used as a diagnostic criterion.

Today I’m excited to announce that I’m running for Hillsborough County School Board, District 2. After much thought, prayer, and encouragement from others, I’ve decided to step forward because the future of education in Hillsborough County matters deeply to me. I believe in strong academics, safe classrooms, parental involvement, and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Learn more:
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The first Alliance of Sovereign Nations Conference with over 38 countries in attendance. Thank you to @realannapaulina and @TPAction for hosting this important summit as a response against the globalist agenda conferences of the past.

Why is the Senate trying to install a backdoor legalization of Central Bank Digital Currencies?! We want a FULL, PERMANENT BAN on this unconstitutional invasion of privacy.

Thank you @DeanBlackFL & @Clay_Yarborough for leading the charge to eliminate DEl in local government! 👏 @CapitalYRs members signaled our support for the measure in the @myflhouse just last week We're happy to see the full @FLSenate & FL House are now set to vote on this bill!

YR Priorities are moving in the Florida Legislature! Thank you for your leadership Rep. @DeanBlackFL 🔥 floridapolitics.com/archives/77821…

@stevemagness At what part of this wholesome training do they begin to inject their ski jumpers penises with hyaluronic acid?

Norway is once again dominating the winter Olympics. And this is their youth sports program: Participation trophies for all kids. No keeping score until 13. No national travel competitions in youth sports. No posting youth results online. Motto: “Joy of Sport for All.” They let kids be kids. And it works. But…it’s the winter Olympics,right? Recently, they have had tremendous success in summer sports. Karsten Warholm demolished the 400 meter hurdles world record. Kristian Blummenfelt broke the Ironman triathlon record and won Olympic gold. His training partner, Gustav Ivan, won the 2022 Ironman World Championship. Casper Ruud reached world number two in tennis. Viktor Hovland is a top ten golfer in the world. Erling Haaland set the record for the most goals in a season in the Premier League. Beach volleyball champs, a surge of elite runners. By any metric, Norway’s elite athletes are achieving on a global stage. Yet, if we turn to their youth sports, their programs are the opposite of the US. Norway doesn’t allow for official scorekeeping until the age of thirteen. They dissuade early national travel teams in favor of local leagues. You can’t even post the results of youth games online without being fined. And almost sacrilegious in certain American circles, Norway doesn’t allow trophies unless everyone gets one. As Tore Ovrebo, Norway’s director of elite sport, told USA Today writer Dan Wolken, “We think the biggest motivation for the kids to do sports is that they do it with their friends and they have fun while they’re doing it and we want to keep that feeling throughout their whole career.” Their youth sporting model can be summed up with their chosen slogan, “Joy of Sport for All.” But not keeping score, giving out trophies, not being “win at all costs”...that’s anti-American! How can they be competitive? Research backs their approach up. 1. The fire has to come from within If you look at ​research​ on prodigies who eventually become standout adult performers, a deep intrinsic drive is paramount. Researchers found that intrinsically motivated football players were 3.5x more likely to make it to the next level, and athletes in general 2x more likely. The problem is that early success often pulls young people away from this inner drive. Kids start playing soccer (or violin or chess—this isn’t just about sports) because it is exciting and fun. As they improve, they gain accolades and praise from their parents, coaches, and teachers. They start winning trophies or seeing their names in online commentary. Without even realizing it, their intrinsic drive gets replaced by external validation and a need to please and impress others. The quickest way to kill that internal motivation? Hype achievements and be a crazy controlling parent or coach. The best way to create and maintain intrinsic motivation is to let kids dabble, explore, and find something with which their interests and talents align. Then, let them enjoy it without an undue emphasis on success. Praise effort, character, and teamwork, not results. This is easy to talk about but hard to do. Find ways to reward and incentivize the values you want to instill. That means not taking the easy road and talking about who set a new mile best or scored the most points, but instead highlighting who hustled during the fourth quarter, rallied after it seemed like the match was over, or displayed exemplary sportsmanship. 2. Go Broad over Specialization Even if the entire point of youth sports was to create future champions (which it’s not), we’d still adopt something similar to the Norwegian model. An ​analysis​ of over 6,000 athletes explored what separates athletes who reached world class and those who came up short. Those who reached world-class had during their youth: -More multi-sport than specialized practice -Started their primary sport later -Accumulated less overall formal practice -Initially progressed slower than national class peers Those who performed well when young, but didn’t progress: -Started their primary sport earlier -Specialized, engaging in more practice in one sport -Made quicker initial progress Norway doesn’t have 300 plus million people and an NCAA system to funnel talent. They have to develop theirs. And they realize the best way to do that is keep as many people in the system as possible. Why? Because you can’t predict talent development very well! Just go look at the age group record books. It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking early performance equals talent and potential. The kid running a 6-minute mile at 10 looks way better than the one running 6:45. But if the faster one is at track practice 5 days a week and the slower one rolls out of gym class in jeans and runs it off “fitness” from just playing, well I’m betting on the slower one! When we assess performance early on, we’re not measuring talent, we’re looking at training age and opportunity. And we’re crowning winners based on who started grinding first. America gets away with the insane achievement model because we can burn out 9 kids to get 1 survivor. Norway can’t afford to do that. They take the longer, more sustainable model. Rethinking Youth Sports: The whole point of youth sports should be for kids to learn, develop, have fun, and want to come back and play again next season! The best chance of developing a D1 scholarship athlete is essentially to do the exact opposite of what our current youth sports fiasco promotes. Even the poster child for early specialization, Tiger Woods, ​acknowledged​ it’s not a good thing for parents to push their kids too hard: “Don’t force your kids into sports,” he says. “I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Keep it fun.” While youth sports in America aren’t going to adopt the Norwegian model anytime soon, we can rebalance the equation. As I outlined in my book, it’s not getting rid of competitiveness, it’s rebalancing the equation to make sure that crazy mom, dad, or coach don’t extinguish the fire that makes great competitors (and sport fun!). In research on performance orientation and grades in school, a teaching environment that supported and emphasized mastery[PA1] , where students focused on the process of learning and comprehension instead of a comparison to others, was also linked to better grades. But it wasn’t the direct relationship that an outcome orientation had. Instead, in one study on college students, a mastery approach was linked to challenge-seeking, which in turn predicted end-of-the-year grades. In another study, mastery goals predicted higher levels of interest and enjoyment. Mastery works on our approach system without activating avoidance. It frees us up to take on a challenge and pursue our interests without getting bogged down by the pressure or judgment that often comes with an obsession with outcomes. The same findings hold true when looking at sport or the workplace. In a large meta-analysis that analyzed the impact of goal setting in sports, process-orientated goals had a large effect on performance. Outcome goals had little to no effect. These two paths represent a fast versus slow road to success. Both a mastery or outcome focus can lead to better performance, but the latter is akin to taking a shortcut. Obsession over outcomes is the most direct path to improvement, but it comes with some downsides that shift us toward avoidance. The slow path takes a longer, indirect route. It helps improve our performance not by focusing on the results themselves but by supporting the foundation that ultimately leads to better performance. It stokes the fire of enjoyment and interest to sustain our curiosity and work ethic over the long haul. It pushes us toward challenge-seeking so that when we inevitably hit a roadblock, we’ll take it on instead of trying to protect our ego. Both approaches work. One is more sustainable, providing success with less angst. Society has thrown us so far out of balance that we can’t even see the slow route right in front of us. We can either instill a love of sport in our youth, or we can turn sport into a burden where kids are exhausted, stressed, and scared. We’ve seen this go both ways, and the results couldn’t be more different. One leads to happy, healthy, and better young athletes. The other leads to burnout, family tension, mental health challenges, and quitting. As parents, volunteers, coaches, and community members, let’s all do what we can to minimize the latter and champion the former. -Steve

@dpshow @drewbrees WHO WAS THE DOCTOR AND HAVE THEY BEEN FIRED YET?!

"It's the New Orleans Saints and the Miami Dolphins. On paper, this was the easiest decision in the world – it's the Miami Dolphins all the way." – @drewbrees shares how he ended up in New Orleans.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Flamingo should absolutely be Florida's State Bird.

VICTORY: GAG CLAUSE DEFEATED! 🎉 Today was a resounding win for free speech and the MAHA movement in Florida. Because of sustained public pressure, national media coverage, relentless advocacy, and many voices showing up in Tallahassee, plus on the phones and sending emails... the disparagement clause was successfully stripped from the Senate farm bill (SB 290)! An amendment to the amendment was filed just moments before the Senate hearing, and it was adopted unanimously. This is proof that showing up matters. Lawful speech, transparency, and informed consent are not negotiable — and today, they were protected. You can’t Make America Healthy Again if people are afraid to speak the truth about what’s in our food and the impact it has on our health and the environment. That said, our work is not over. The disparagement clause still exists in the House version of the farm bill (HB 433, Section 47). As that bill continues to move, we will keep the same level of focus, scrutiny, and advocacy until that provision is removed there as well. Florida should be leading the Make America Healthy Again movement — not muzzling it. We’ll stay engaged. We’ll stay vigilant. And we’ll keep fighting until free speech and food transparency are fully protected in both chambers. Thank you to everyone who showed up! This was a true grassroots movement and collaborative effort with many organizations, different advocates working together. Let's keep up the great work!

@ABC @fleccas @RichardRatBoy1 multi-lingual sign language

Puerto Rican partially deaf performer Celimar Rivera Cosme, who will lead a "multilingual signing program" during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday, is readying to make history. abcnews.link/z5ZMVGY

@yoalexrapz They're amending more next week from my understanding.

@jakehoffmanfl Not true Jake! It has to be completely removed. It would still not be MAHA.

I just spoke at length with @dannyalvarezsr ,who's always been on our side, on this bill to understand it, I think the upcoming amendment to this old existing law is aligned with what MAHA is fighting for. They've heard the concerns and are adjusting. @G_W_Forum @standforhealth1

@yoalexrapz My life changed when I began importing all bread and pasta products. American soil is cooked.

@G_W_Forum @dannyalvarezsr @standforhealth1 My point was that there's additional amendments coming based on the advocacy over the last few days. And that Danny has always been an advocate for our issues.

@jakehoffmanfl @dannyalvarezsr @standforhealth1 Free speech exists to protect the public, not corporate or special interests. Expanding disparagement laws by redefining terms creates loopholes that chill truthful speech. Perishable crops have been covered under FL's libel law since the 90s. Why expand it now?

To piggyback off of yesterday’s bombshell glyphosate hearing in Florida—here is my recent lab work showing how much glyphosate is in my body as someone who eats ALL ORGANIC. This is a neurotoxin that American’s cannot escape from in our soil and water. It doesn’t wash off produce. It’s a known carcinogen.

@FLVoiceNews @CaseyDeSantis 📢 Import your pasta 📢

JUST IN: Florida’s First Lady @CaseyDeSantis says some bread tested by the state showed elevated levels of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, stressing it’s a weed killer “not meant to be eaten” and warning it should be kept away from children

@michaeljknowles The part where he has exactly one email where he says "that's not for email". And everything else is totally fine

What's the most interesting thing you've found in the new Epstein files?