Ruth Rouvier

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

Trump administration revokes $2.1M for Klamath River restoration projects The Interior Department says the projects no longer match its goals, but local leaders aren't convinced.

The $2.1 million would have funded seven projects along the Klamath River in Northern California. The Mid Klamath Watershed Council said the work included wildfire prevention, habitat restoration, and surveys of Chinook salmon.

Public Statement Regarding Terminations of U.S. Department of Interior Agreements — The Mid Klamath Watershed Council

Mid Klamath Watershed Council has a long track record of amazing work in the heart of the Klamath, but has now had $2.1 million in federal investment clawed back

www.mkwc.org/public-state...

"We are not being unreasonable to expect freedom from infection with a pathogen that will certainly further disable us when we step into a public space. We are not being unreasonable when we expect solidarity from nominally progressive people."

When I try to explain to people in Philadelphia exactly how bad the housing crisis is in California, I inevitably fail. I'd wager there are homeless students at *every* college (def@Cal). Homeless tech workers. People (like me) commuting 5 hours rt because we couldn't find housing in the Bay Area.

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

NUVAXOVID™ Vaccine Locator | Patient Site Find NUVAXOVID by entering a zip code in the vaccine locator.

For those who are deciding which covid booster to get (new formulations are in US pharmacies now), look into NUVAXOVID (Novavax). My inflammation-prone body handles it much better than either Pfizer or Moderna, and I'm not the only one.

It's at many Costco and CVS pharmacies!

Was lucky enough to win an ARC from @akpress.org , and have already found what I've read to be tremendous and timely. A gift of light, to ward off the darkness, and a reservoir of strength that we'll be able to tap into when we need reminding of our collective love and liberatory lineages.

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

The relationship between measures of individualism and collectivism and the impact of COVID-19 across nations The global COVID-19 pandemic has been characterized by marked variations in prevalence, mortality and case fatality across nations. The available evidence to date suggests that social factors signific...

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And the result was -

Circa 2021

"Individualism was positively correlated with COVID-19 prevalence, mortality & case fatality rates; conversely, measures of collectivism were negatively correlated with these parameters":

#RuggedIndividualism

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....

The Making of María Corina Machado | Caracas Chronicles She moderated her tone in the lead-up to July 28, but Machado is now engaging with the MAGA camp. How did she get here after 25 years?

She's appeared on Don Jr. s podcast, flirted with MAGA and was backed by Trump a few months ago

The real massacres that will result from these firings are yet to come, but they will come—and they may well maim and kill people in your family. They will certainly kill poor people elsewhere, adding to the already-massive international death toll amassed by the Trump regime.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

A man standing on top of the lower section of a large coast redwood tree that is egg-shaped in cross-section. He is holding up a very large chainsaw to try and line up his cut. The cross-section is buried up to 18 inches deep in organic soil from when it fell during a storm.

Same as previous image but now the man is bent over actively cutting a cross section with chips flying straight up in the air.

Two redwood sampling pictures from the archives. This tree cross-dated really well from 1996 to 450 CE.

It fell in a storm during the winter of 96/97 in the Rockefeller Forest area of Humboldt Redwoods State Park.

It was tricky to cut because it was partially buried in the soil from when it fell.

I love this, and I hope it catches on elsewhere.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Yes to this whole thread and: the point of understanding this context isn’t to diffuse blame but rather to impress upon all the breadth and depth of reform and repair needed.

Simply putting Dems back in charge doesn’t fix it. We did that twice already!

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

Wild fucking scenes here. This is Americaaaaa

Do National Guard commanding officers not have a duty to not violate a court order?

A guy dressed up as “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski holds a sign that reads “This aggression will not stand man.”

Broadview.

A protester holds a wooden shield in the street with the word “resist” spray painted on it.

This young person has gotten multiple warnings from state cops for defiantly moving into the street while most of the crowd has been pushed into “first amendment zones” on the sidewalk. Someone is playing “Springtime for Hitler” through a loudspeaker.

These absolute fuckers. In any decent country they would be the ones in prison. But we are an obscene country.

Wow this is a bleak day for national media

Oh my god.

A similar raid was carried out in suburban Elgin, when agents led by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem rode in a military vehicle and blew down the front door of a home where they detained six people, including two U.S. citizens.

Still thinking about this by the way paragraph in the Sun Times piece on the apartment building raid. Full story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

#KavanaughStop