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Today on Anthony Bourdain’s birthday, let’s honor Tony by sharing a meal…with a friend or with a stranger…and making sure they’re okay. @WCKitchen we are honoring him in a way by being next to the people of Venezuela after the earthquakes. Sharing food and hope. #BourdainDay

For criticizing him, Trump opened an investigation into me for “treason.” I’m not scared by that feckless thug. I’ve decided to call out his corruption louder than ever. See you at the movies, Mr. President. No need to buy a ticket. We’re making this free for everyone.

I think one of the biggest mistakes ever made, arguably in American history, was not putting Donald J. Trump in jail for the crimes he committed. The consequences of today are a direct result of the failure to imprison him for his 88 criminal charges.

🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani drops a massive bombshell! He announces a historic $1.2 BILLION expansion of free childcare, increasing seats from 2,000 to 12,000 across NYC. He is actively destroying the crushing costs of raising a family for the working class!

Today, I laid out my anti-corruption plan right outside of Susan Collins’s office: 🇺🇸Ban Billionaires & Corporations Buying Elections 💰Pass the "Collins Rule" (no funneling taxpayer $$$ to your spouse) 📊Ban Congressional Stock Trading 🪖Root Out Pentagon Corruption & Waste

BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu is publicly calling on the White House to answer growing questions surrounding reports that an unidentified 79-year-old man received exclusive access to a powerful experimental drug through the FDA’s compassionate use program. “The White House needs to come clean,” Lieu said. “Did Donald Trump get this special drug?”

We will immediately contribute 1 million dollars from the @LTFund to help Venezuela earthquake mayhem, supporting @WCKitchen who is already mobilizing! #ChefsForVenezuela Let’s hope is not as bad as it looks….🙏🙏

I'm a cardiologist. After 40, stop guessing about your health. These numbers tell you whether you're building a long, vibrant life — or quietly declining without knowing it. I run these on myself. I run them on every patient I care about. Most are cheap bloodwork. All are available now. And together, they paint a picture no standard annual physical will ever give you. Print this. Bring it to your next appointment. Your 60-year-old self will thank you. ꟷꟷꟷ 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻 Target: below 5 μIU/mL. Ideal: 3-4. This is the 10-year warning bell your standard panel completely misses. Your glucose and A1c can look "normal" for a decade while your pancreas is working overtime to keep them there. Fasting insulin catches insulin resistance 5-10 years before your A1c moves. By the time A1c rises, the damage is already extensive. 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗔-𝗜𝗥 Target: below 1.0. Calculated from fasting insulin and fasting glucose. The single best measure of insulin sensitivity. Above 1.0 and your metabolism is already under strain. Above 2.5 and you're insulin resistant — even if every other number looks fine. 𝗛𝗯𝗔𝟭𝗰 Target: below 5.4%. Not below 5.7% — that's the threshold where medicine calls you "prediabetic." By then you've been metabolically compromised for years. Optimal is below 5.4%. Blood sugar mastery is longevity mastery. 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗹𝘆𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲 : 𝗛𝗗𝗟 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼 Target: below 2. Ideal: below 1. Your metabolic health crystal ball. This ratio predicts insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk, and metabolic syndrome better than any single lipid number alone. A ratio above 3.5 is a red flag regardless of what your total cholesterol says. 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗕 Target: below 80 mg/dL for moderate risk. Below 60 for high risk. I've written about this extensively. ApoB counts every atherogenic particle hitting your artery walls. A 2024 analysis found 54% of patients had dangerous levels that standard LDL testing completely missed. If you only know your LDL, you're driving with one eye closed. 𝗟𝗽(𝗮) Test once in your lifetime. 100% genetic. 1 in 5 Americans are elevated. Triples heart attack risk independently of everything else on this list. Diet and exercise cannot lower it. The 2026 ACC/AHA guidelines now recommend everyone be tested. Most never have been. 𝗵𝘀-𝗖𝗥𝗣 Target: below 1.0 mg/L. You can have perfect cholesterol and inflamed arteries silently preparing to rupture. hs-CRP measures the fire behind the plaque. The JUPITER trial proved that finding and treating inflammation saves lives — even when lipids look fine. If this number is elevated, your mouth, your gut, your metabolic health, and your visceral fat are the first places to investigate. 𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗗 Target: 50-80 ng/mL. Not the bare minimum of 30 your doctor accepts. Suboptimal vitamin D is linked to higher inflammation, weaker immunity, increased cardiovascular events, worse mood, and poorer outcomes across nearly every disease I treat. Supplement D3 with K2 — without K2, calcium deposits in your arteries instead of your bones. 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲 (𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 + 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲) Men: optimal range 600-1000+ ng/dL total. Declining testosterone is an independent predictor of cardiovascular death in men. It's tied to insulin resistance, arterial stiffness, visceral fat accumulation, and systemic inflammation. DHEA-S drops 10-20% every decade after 30. Tracking these isn't about vanity — it's evaluating your body's systemic resilience. 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 Target: below 120/80. Aim closer to 110/70. Every point above optimal is cumulative arterial damage. Buy a home cuff. Measure morning and evening, seated quietly for five minutes, arm at heart level. White-coat readings in the office miss what's really happening. The smartest $40 investment in cardiac self-care. 𝗩𝗢𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘅 Men over 40: above 40 mL/kg/min. Women over 40: above 35. Cardiorespiratory fitness is the single strongest predictor of all-cause mortality — stronger than smoking, diabetes, or heart disease as individual risk factors. A landmark study in JAMA found that extreme fitness was associated with the lowest mortality with no upper limit of benefit. You can estimate VO2 max with a timed mile, a rower test, or a wearable. Get faster every year. 𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Target: as few as possible. Every medication you're on should be earning its place. I just wrote about five commonly prescribed drugs that do more harm than good with long-term use. Bring your full medication list to every appointment. Ask: "Do I still need this?" Deprescribing is one of the most powerful and underused tools in medicine. ꟷꟷꟷ Thirteen numbers. Most available through cheap bloodwork and simple tests. Get them once or twice a year. Here's what I want you to understand: these numbers don't just tell you where you are. They tell you where you're heading. A fasting insulin of 8 today becomes diabetes in five years. An ApoB of 120 today becomes a heart attack in ten. An hs-CRP of 3 today means your arteries are inflamed right now — regardless of how healthy you feel. The standard annual physical checks a fraction of these. It was designed to find disease that's already there. This panel finds the disease that's coming — years before it arrives. What gets measured gets improved. Optimize with the foundation I write about every week on this platform: Zone 2 cardio plus resistance training 3-4 times per week. High-protein whole-food nutrition. Sleep 7-9 hours — non-negotiable. Morning sunlight. Stress management. And the targeted supplements I've covered in detail — creatine, magnesium, CoQ10, D3+K2, glycine, omega-3, psyllium husk. The breakthroughs coming in the next decade — gene editing for cholesterol, cellular reprogramming, senolytics that clear senescent "zombie" cells driving inflammation and aging, GLP-1 drugs rewriting metabolic medicine — will be most powerful for people who've already built the metabolic foundation to receive them. The future of medicine is personalized. But it starts with knowing your numbers today. Print this list. Book the bloodwork. Own the data. Prevention isn't passive. It's the most aggressive thing you can do for the decades ahead.

The perverse truth is that there are six radicals on the Supreme Court intent on being members of the last Supreme Court America will ever have. Because when Trump seizes absolute power in 2028, there’s not going to *be* a Court anymore. These six traitors are dooming us all.

This makes me happy. Obama’s first bucket at the Obama Center. Build libraries. Build community spaces. Build things that will outlast the outrage cycle.

Many Americans plan to visit Obama’s Presidential Center! I believe President Obama’s legacy will draw people from across the country to Chicago. Will you be visiting? ✋

The most dangerous person in trump administration is a brainy fascist that nobody even heard of, pays attention to or worried about. Russell Vought is killing our democracy. Google him.

Most people who plant flowers for pollinators forget one thing: bees need water. Bees use water for more than drinking. They cool the hive with it. They feed it to larvae. Mason bees need it to make mud to seal their nest chambers. Some species make 80 water trips a day during nest-building. When safe water sources are scarce, bees often drink from pools, roadside puddles, or pesticide-contaminated runoff instead. The pollinator garden you built isn't complete until you give them somewhere safe to drink, and it's dead simple: 1. Grab a shallow dish. I use a terracotta pot basin but a bowl or even a plastic dish is fine. 2. Fill with stones, marbles, or pebbles so the bees have somewhere safe to land and drink. 3. Add water. Tap water is fine. It's okay if a leaf falls into the dish, bees are actually more attracted to slightly "dirty" water than they are perfectly clean water. That's it. Five minutes, a shallow dish, and a handful of rocks can turn a flower patch into a much better habitat for the pollinators you're trying to help.

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Judge Talwani in Boston has just entered an order, telling the administration it can’t use Trump‘s executive order to suppress the vote in the midterm election. I wrote about the EO & the legal challenges to it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-executiv…

BREAKING: NO MERCY! Mary Trump exposes her uncle's "perfect storm" of "psychological, emotional, physical, and cognitive decline" as well as his "swollen" appearance in a brutal takedown. If MAGA can't see it at this point, they're literally blind... "As bad as his physical appearance is, and it does suggest — this is not an ad hominem attack, I'm just saying, as you said, his cankles are cankling, his hands look terrible, they're swollen, they're bruised," Mary Trump said of Donald during an appearance on "The Joy Reid Show." In recent months Trump has been frequently seen in public with discolored hands, bandages, and obvious marks from needles or syringes. Simultaneously, he has grown more easily confused and incapable of stringing together coherent thoughts when speaking. The dementia is undeniable but the Republicans have their heads stuck in the sand. "He is incapable of staying awake," Mary Trump continued. "He's incapable of focusing on anything. His new thing is to tell people that nobody's interested in what they're talking about, and that I guess only happens if they're not talking about him." "All of those are bad signs in terms of his potential physical ailments," she went on. "And of course some of those like the hypersomnia and the lack of impulse control are also potential signs of cognitive decline. As many of you know, Alzheimer's runs in my family, hopefully it's going to skip my generation, but it does run in my family." "And I see similarities between my grandfather's behavior and Donald's behavior, my grandfather being Donald's dad," she said. "But we're dealing with a perfect storm here of psychological, emotional, physical, and cognitive decline, because for those who don't know, Donald has long-standing, like decades-long, severe, undiagnosed, untreated psychiatric disorders on top of everything else." The problem here is that Trump will never step down and his closest enablers will never break ranks. He could be literally comatose, facedown and drooling on the Resolute Desk, and his advisors would still be praising his performance as President. We cannot afford to wait until the wheels come off completely. This man has unilateral control of our nuclear arsenal. He can start wars, tank the economy, and assassinate people on a whim — and his brain is rotting inside his skull. It's time he was forced out of power and carted off to a senior facility. Please ❤️ and share to demand that the 25th Amendment be invoked!

OMG The death of Virginia Giuffre is now being investigated as a HOMICIDE

THIS is exactly what @ABC and others should have done to Trump instead of caving and giving in and paying him off with millions of dollars.

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BREAKING: The BBC has turned Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against them into a January 6 trial against Trump The BBC is arguing that to win his defamation case, Trump has to prove he did not foment or incite the riot.

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Judge Sullivan officially granted @KatiePhang's motion for a preliminary injunction after she sued the Trump admin for violating @RepThomasMassie's and my Epstein Files Transparency Act. Thanks to her tireless work, we're one step closer to the full release of the Epstein files and getting survivors the justice they've long deserved.

Many don’t know @KatiePhang is an accomplished lawyer in her own right. Let’s all cheer her on her case against Todd Blanche 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Rep Summer Lee is going to primary John Fetterman. Can’t wait