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.

Pope Francis obituary: humble reformer who clashed with conservatives

The first pope from the Americas, whose drive to modernize the Catholic Church divided opinion, has died in Rome aged 88.

Pope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88 Death of 267th head of Catholic church triggers period of global mourning and Vatican conclave of cardinals to elect successor

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The opening page of the course syllabus for "Emerging Diseases, Past and Present," taught at Stanford University in the Winter term, 2022. Link in post leads to the full syllabus.

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 Humanitarian themes, such as rights and entitlements to universal well-being, feature prominently in narratives of global health, even as many recent authors have pointed to systematic imbalances o...

Global Health and Its Limitations: An Historical Perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by Jesse Bump.

Apple might import more iPhones from India to side-step China tariffs Apple is considering importing more iPhones from India to side-step the 54% additional tariffs on goods imported from China that U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. The company sees this as a short-term measure while it seeks to negotiate with the Trump administration to get an […]

Apple might import more iPhones from India to side-step China tariffs

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.

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US LNG crippled as Australia seizes US$1.5b trade overnight What happens when the world’s second-largest economy suddenly pulls the plug on billions of dollars in US energy exports without warning, without negotiation and without a single public signal? You get a global energy market in shock and Washington scrambling for answers._

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

Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs New Civil Liberties Alliance says president’s invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful

Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs

Sent you a DM on IG!

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!

Keir Starmer in a gray suit, standing in front of industrial buildings. A headline reads: "Keir Starmer Talks Trump, Russia-Ukraine War and the Fragile Europe-U.S. Alliance." Photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Times.

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 Administration’s ‘unprecedented degree of resistance’ to judiciary undercuts its authority and weakens democracy Donald Trump’s second administration has shown an “unprecedented degree of resistance” to adverse court rulings, experts say, part of a forceful attack on the American judiciary that threatens to undermine the rule of law, undercut a co-equal branch of government and weaken American democracy. The attacks, experts say, threaten one of the fundamental pillars of American government: that the judicial branch has the power to interpret the law and the other branches will abide by its rulings. Continue reading...

Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law

How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill The Department of Government Efficiency is shuttering organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.

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.

Guerra pode acabar, mas Ucrânia dificilmente será pacificada, diz especialista em defesa | Exame Para Mariana Kalil, professora da Escola Superior de Guerra, presença de milícias no território dificulta estabilidade do país no futuro

Na Revista Exame este domingo, íntegra de entrevista que concedi sobre geopolítica contemporânea. Falo de Ucrânia, Europa e Estados Unidos. exame.com/mundo/guerra...

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Judge Kicks DOGE Out of Social Security in Huge Blow to Elon Musk Musk has been working to gut the Social Security Administration.

“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 pushing a last-minute subway mask ban in state budget talks The governor has expressed support for restrictions in protest settings, while many protesters say they need to conceal their identities to avoid retribution.

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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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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 to El Salvador despite court order Their arrival comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked a law Trump planned to use for the deportations.

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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