Former nurse living with intractable pain for 15 years. Advocating for understanding, hope, and Tender Love & Care in the Pain Community. #ChronicPainWarrior 💜
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The Lose-Lose Trap of Chronic Pain in Healthcare
As a former nurse,
I’ve seen it firsthand: patients in agony, writhing
or screaming, desperate
for relief—or sitting quietly, trying to hold it together despite unbearable pain.
And yet, no matter how
they present, chronic pain patients often face a
lose-lose situation in healthcare.
If you’re calm, composed, and articulate about your pain, providers may doubt you. “If it was that bad,
you wouldn’t be so calm,” they think.
The label “drug-seeking” gets whispered, charted,
or assumed. Your pain is dismissed because you’re not “acting” like someone in agony.
But if you’re vocal—crying, anxious, loud, or desperate—suddenly you’re “faking it”
or “attention-seeking.”
The same “drug-seeking” label gets slapped on,
but now it’s because you’re “too emotional” or “hysterical.”
Your chart might note “exaggerated behavior,”
as if your distress isn’t real.
Either way, you’re judged. Either way, your pain is questioned. Either way, you’re less likely to get the care you need.
It’s a trap, and chronic pain patients know it all too well.
Chronic pain patients shouldn’t have to navigate this impossible trap—stay calm but not too calm,
show distress but not too much. They shouldn’t have to perform their pain “just right” to be taken seriously.
Healthcare needs to do better.
We need medical workers
to listen, investigate, and treat pain with urgency and respect.
To the chronic pain community: I see you.
Your pain is real.
You deserve care
—not judgment.
Have you faced this trap?
#ChronicPain #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #Spoonie #EndPainStigma #TLChronicPain💜
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BREAKING: House Republicans just successfully killed Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) impeachment resolution against Pete Hegseth (for now) by voting to refer it to the House Judiciary Committee in a 211-204 vote.
The only Republican to vote with Democrats on this vote was Massie.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. WSJ previously posted an aerial photo of Sec. Scott Bessent's house which might've HELPED IRAN geolocate it — with advanced threats prompting him to move to a military base
😡😡
"First came up back in 2025 in January when the Wall Street Journal published an aerial view of the secretary's Georgetown mansion that reportedly allowed his home to be geolocated."
"Recently, the threats reached a more advanced stage with Bessent leading the economic pressure campaign against the Iranian regime."
The Treasury says he will NOT be deterred.
Pray for Bessent! 🙏🏻
Publishing a bird's eye view of a cabinet secretary's home is reckless.
Bessent has led the economic war on Iran for MONTHS, with sanctions choking off the regime's cash and a naval blockade of Iranian ports on top of it. That's exactly why the mullahs want him gone.
He's not alone either. Rubio and Stephen Miller have also moved onto military bases or into protected housing.
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She has so much more hate to give, which is essentially her admitting she is full of hate for Trump AND the people that voted for him.
Watch what she says. And these are the people who say they are so “empathetic and full of love.”
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And so it begins. People will be punished for trying to enforce immigration law - prison sentences coming for those who dare to oppose the open border.
The acting U.S. Attorney in western Washington has told the chief judge his office will no longer defend many ICE detention habeas petitions. If no government lawyer appears within seven court days, judges may treat the case as unopposed. It's already happening: one judge has called a petition "intentionally unopposed" and ordered release within 24 hours.
Look at the reason he gave: The petitions are coming in such volume, "often copying from other petitions," that the office can't keep up. That's dozens a week and roughly 2,000 in that district since January 2025, and the border czar puts the national figure around 85,000.
I've been pointing at this model: 10 lawyers on a single Norm Eisen filing, AstroNGOs™️ stacked on amicus briefs. Template litigation at scale turns volume into a resource war the government can't staff. Whoever is behind a given petition, habeas is real and every detainee is entitled to an answer. That's exactly why the answer can't be release by attrition.
The fix is on the government's side of the ledger. Main Justice should surge lawyers to the districts that are drowning, use consolidated responses where petitions are copied, and press the bond-hearing question the Supreme Court is set to take up, which could resolve much of this volume at once. An unanswered petition isn't neutral. It's a policy decision made by whoever files fastest.
DOJ should not be set to relive the punishments of Sisyphus in Hades.
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In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.
An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.
His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.
Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."
On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.
The next night, he came back with about fifty.
After that, they let him go out alone.
He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.
On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.
Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.
His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."
Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.
He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.
An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.
On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.
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Brigitte Gabriel just said the quiet part out loud:
Jordan is already majority Palestinian… and still refuses them.
Why? Because they tried to overthrow the king. Hussein crushed the uprising and expelled tens of thousands.
Lebanon took them in. Result: civil war and the near-destruction of the only Christian-majority country in the region.
Kuwait took them in. They sided with Saddam. After liberation, Kuwait expelled them.
Egypt, after October 7, would rather watch Gazans die in Hamas tunnels than open the border.
Saudi Arabia has air-conditioned tent cities that can house a million people sitting empty 11 months a year… and still says no.
Every single Arab country that has lived with large Palestinian populations learned the same lesson the hard way.
Meanwhile the West keeps importing the problem and acting shocked when the results follow.
They know. We pretend not to.
That’s how you lose. 🇮🇱
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America: You should try peanuts in Coke!
Japan: Wait… this is actually amazing!
Japan, 12 hours later: Peanuts in beer. Peanuts in whiskey. Peanuts in sake. Peanuts in everything.
America: WE GAVE YOU ONE SNACK IDEA. CALM DOWN.
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I can’t even believe what I just watched
American college student shows his professor at the University of Michigan
I can’t believe people are paying for this insanity. The teacher is Dr. Laura Yakas, she teaches ‘Engaging Social Justice, Diversity, and Oppression in Social Work’
She’s literally singing about how horrible America is
When people say our college universities are liberal and Marxist indoctrination camps, THIS is what they’re talking about
This woman needs to be fired
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You’ve seen the maps: county after county with more registered voters than adult citizens.
I checked them against federal data for nearly every county in America.
They don’t prove fraud. They can’t. Here’s what they do show.
digitalgunny.substack.com/p/…
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Bradford digs in the same way I do or @DataRepublican does. I know that when the DHS ran their citizenship checker on registered voters, dead voters were like 10x illegal registrations (you're getting older as you read this, and you're going to die). That's fine, until you're blindly sending mail in ballots out... If 10% of your voter rolls are people who moved or died, that's enough to win every election.
Like I keep saying, they made cheating legal. – at Oregon, USA
You’ve seen the maps: county after county with more registered voters than adult citizens.
I checked them against federal data for nearly every county in America.
They don’t prove fraud. They can’t. Here’s what they do show.
digitalgunny.substack.com/p/…
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WOW 🚨 Muslim activist Ieasha Prime speaking at the Muslim American Society Annual Convention in America declares Islam will take over America and they fight and die for this
Fully translated she says:
“Could America ever become filled with Islam? Could Islamic values ever take over and rule here? Absolutely. God Almighty will make this a place where people declare “There is no god but Allah.”
When we look at the holy warriors, they say, “Oh God, give me another chance to fight for You. Even if I get killed for You.”
No matter what threats they face, we will not only survive, we will thrive”
What she’s describing is Jihad and being a martyr. Fighting and dying to further Islam
This isn’t being spoken in the Middle East, this is right here in America. Muslims right here in America are declaring America will become a Muslim country
We have to do mass deportations. We can’t allow this to continue
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They wore red cloaks to warn us about Gilead. Now some are trying on hijabs for the camera. White guilt has convinced a generation of Western women that criticising another culture is bigotry, even when that culture polices women the way Gilead did. Mahsa Amini died over a hijab. That's not empowerment. Compassion that can't tell oppression from culture isn't compassion.
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🚨 BREAKING: JOHN THUNE has been re-elected as Senate Republican Leader
Of COURSE he has. We've got a LOT of primarying to do in 2028.
Spineless RINO losers.
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Listen we have our own gay people in the Republican Party. We don’t care about him being gay. We care about him weaponizing the government against the Trump administration and conservatives.
Robert Garcia should lawyer up if he attempts to go after others just because of different politics.
