Reupping this because at this point everyone should be ready for the next turn of elections with a conservative twist, this time in the Vatican.
The first pope from the Americas, whose drive to modernize the Catholic Church divided opinion, has died in Rome aged 88.
Since COVID origins are again in the news, I will remind folks that determining the origins of pandemics w/ any precision has not been possible before the age of evolutionary genomics. Want some history? There's a whole syllabus here: www.academia.edu/83785948 #histmed #EpiSky 🧪🗃️
Global Health and Its Limitations: An Historical Perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by Jesse Bump.
US President Trump and Russian leader Putin are united in their distrust of Ukraine's President Zelenskyy, who won the 2019 presidential vote as a fresh-faced comic with no political experience.
Read more: aje.io/rl9pvf
Are we witnessing the end of US global economic leadership as we know it or is this just a tactical setback in a much longer game? #auspol #USpolitics
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It’s almost 3:50am in Rio right now, and I’m insomniac baking a gluten free, dairy free cinnamon banana bread. Anybody out there?
Avoiding IG cause as a mom of a 11 months old I haven’t had the chance to watch the last two episodes of White Lotus. Please, no spoilers over here!
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain recently discussed President Trump, President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Europe’s challenge in a series of conversations with The New York Times. “We have to treat this as a galvanizing moment and seize the initiative.” nyti.ms/4hAAPij
That’s no way to win a race.
Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law
The Global Times, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote that “the so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
Construção civil chorando a dificuldade de conseguir mão de obra. Salário médio para pedreiros é de 2300 reais. Por esse valor um bom pedreiro nem levanta da cama.
Na Revista Exame este domingo, íntegra de entrevista que concedi sobre geopolítica contemporânea. Falo de Ucrânia, Europa e Estados Unidos. exame.com/mundo/guerra...
More of this.
“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion."
If you are a foreigner, you probably should not visit the U.S., but if you absolutely have to, you should “enter” at a pre-clearance site (like Ireland or Canada) so that you’re denied entry in a place where the U.S. government won’t detain you or confiscate your property.
Here's the historical chart some people have been asking for (@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social)
oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons
Gov Hochul is attempting again to ban masks in NY.
Please call Governor Hochul and your NY State Senator and Assemblymember and urge them not to ban masks!
More info: covidadvocacyny.org/stopmaskbanny
#NoNYMaskBan #StopMaskBans
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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I've quickly come to realize having a baby in daycare does not mean you get the peace you need to work. You actually work with the hovering threat of daycare calling to pick him up for one reason or another. #parentsinscience
This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans "despite" court order.
Meaning, of course: "in breach of".
On the face of it, it looks like there is now a full constitutional crisis in United States, in that the executive is now freely ignoring court orders.
Crisis point reached.
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