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Possibly a few too many words in that sentence?

Charles Minard’s Infographic of Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia Watch this very explanatory video:   Related: Re-visions of Minard

Documented in one of the first really great infographics: socks-studio.com/2014/04/06/c...

It’s well documented that it became known as the Spanish flu not because it originated there, but because Spain was one of the few nations without wartime media censorship — so its newspapers disclosed its outbreaks when other countries hid them.

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley).

Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died

It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

You thought you heard a roll of thunder, but it was actually thousands of medical historians cracking their knuckles and rolling up their sleeves to revisit centuries of “dirty immigrant” canards.

Happy book birthday to @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social and BEYOND INHERITANCE, a book I was thrilled to blurb!

This is the correct take.

What We Don't Know, Can Kill Us: Part 2. Ronald Reagan's legacy lives on in many ways, good and bad. But Americans have forgotten too much about what he did with, and to, Iran. Here's why that matters.

Can't stress enough how important it is right now to listen to media voices who were actually in the room in past hostile engagements of the US and Iran. The current administration is defiantly rejecting historical knowledge and it's mind boggling.

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omg did you? So beautiful.

Just astonishingly ugly.

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Here I am again nagging you about this event in two days, which will be excellent even though it includes me! Weds 22 April at 6pm US ET, a livestreamed conversation with @jasongale.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com about his new book AFTER COVID. Sign up here: humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Arthur Holquin • Follow 9h • 0 When the Neophyte Corrects the Vicar of Christ On JD Vance, Theological Hubris, and the Gospel He Has Yet to Learn There is a particular arrogance that takes root in the newly converted - the zeal of the autodidact who, having just discovered the tradition, mistakes enthusiasm for mastery. JD Vance, who received baptism into the Catholic Church in 2019 at the age of thirty-five, has now committed the singular error of instructing the Bishop of Rome to "be careful when he talks about matters of theology!" We should sit with the full weight of that sentence. The Vice President of the United States - seven years a Catholic, formerly an evangelical, before that a self-described atheist - stood before a Turning Point USA audience in Georgia and publicly admonished Pope Leo XIV about theological precision. "If you're going to opine on matters of theology," Vance informed the successor of Peter, "you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth." The audacity is breathtaking. The irony is almost comic.

While Vance was dispensing theological warnings from a stage in Georgia, Pope Leo XIV was standing at the archaeological site of Hippo in Algeria - the episcopal see where St. Augustine served as bishop until his death in 430 A.D. Vance, who claims Augustine as his patron saint and frequently invokes him in speeches, was lecturing on Augustinian just war theology to a political rally audience. The pope he was lecturing - who served as Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine for more than a decade and holds a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - was planting an olive tree at the very ground where Augustine lived, prayed, wrote, and died. If God governs history with a sense of irony, this moment surely pleased Him. The occasion for Vance's correction was Pope Leo's statement that "God is never on the side of those who wield the sword." Vance responded by invoking the thousand-year tradition of Just War theory as if the pope were unaware of it. But Leo did not say war is never permissible. He said God is not simply enlisted as a combatant on any nation's side. That is not a negation of Just War doctrine. That is its foundation. The Catechism at §2309 is unambiguous about the conditions that must all be simultaneously met for a war to be just. Archbishop Broglio stated plainly on Easter Sunday that the war against Iran does not meet those criteria. Cardinals Cupich, Mcelroy, and Tobin, along with Archbishop Coakley, have spoken with notable unanimity. Cardinal Tobin put it plainly: Pope Leo "will continue to speak clearly against war and other offenses against human dignity and to call for authentic dialogue, because the Church's witness is grounded in the peace of Christ, not in partisan interests." That is episcopal fidelity. What Vance offered was its precise opposite.

The deeper problem is not merely that Vance is wrong about just war. It is the ecclesiological framework he is importing from American Christian nationalism into a tradition that explicitly rejects it. Vance told Fox News that "in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the president of the United States stick to dictating public policy." Let that formulation stand naked for a moment. The pope — who holds a universal pastoral office precisely because the Gospel speaks to every dimension of human life — is being instructed to confine himself to the sacristy, while the president is assigned the role of "dictating" the political world. This is not a Catholic understanding of faith and public life. Catholic Social Teaching from Rerum Novarum onward has always insisted that the Gospel is not a private spiritual comfort but a public moral claim. When Vance tells the pope to stay in his lane, he is not defending Catholic doctrine. He is betraying it.

JD Vance's forthcoming book on his Catholic faith is titled Communion. Its cover features a United Methodist church. I do not say this merely to mock. Symbolism matters in Catholic theology, and the symbolism here is telling. A book about Catholic unity, bearing Protestant ecclesial architecture on its cover, written by a man who publicly contradicts the pope on Just War doctrine - this is not communion. This is confusion dressed in piety. Archbishop Coakley said it plainly: "The Pope is not Trump's rival, nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls." Communion, in Catholic theology, is not a feeling of spiritual warmth. It is a participation in the Body of Christ that carries radical obligations — to the poor, the stranger, the enemy, to peace. It is a table the powerful do not preside over. They are guests at it, like everyone else. A seven-year Catholic who tells the pope to watch his theology, while defending an administration that posted an Al image of the president as Jesus Christ and refused to apologize, is not in communion with the tradition he claims to be writing about. He is in communion with power. And that, as Augustine himself understood deeply, is a very different thing.

A pretty comprehensive takedown of JD Vance by a Catholic priest, Msgr. Arthur Holquin

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The way you phrased this gives me an interesting question to ask! That there can be Covid sequelae (after) even while we continues to have infections (not post-).

I'm working on a story for @thesicktimes.org about RECOVER clinical trial results that have been shared so far (from the VITAL, NEURO, and AUTONOMIC studies), and am looking for people in the #LongCOVID and IACC communities to share what they think of the findings. DM or email me!

excellent!

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It's Friday and therefore time to remind you of an excellent event next week! On Weds 22 April at 6pm US ET, I'll talk to @jasongale.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com about his new book AFTER COVID, sponsored by @emorycshh.bsky.social.
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It’s true!

It is so exasperating to see the US media willfully make the same misframings around Trump as always: Unprovoked he attacks someone verbally and suddenly there is a “feud,” a “dispute,” a “battle” — that he has to win.

Colleagues: Come on. Be accurate about how one-sided these maneuvers are.

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

JD Vance's new book on Catholicism has a Methodist church on the cover Vice President JD Vance's new memoir, "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," features a Methodist church on its cover, sparking questions.

Resurfacing due to the JD Vance-knows-more-theology-than-the-Popesplaining: Vance's book about his adult conversion to Catholicism features a picture of a church.

Which happens to be a United Methodist Church.

It's a stock photo.

Sincere beliefs!

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Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Utah measles outbreak tops 600 cases, now most active in the US South Carolina officials once again reported no new measles cases.

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This meeting could have been an email

Hmmm

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For most of my life I thought, if there were a schism, the American Catholic Church would be more liberal than Rome.

Welp.