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Long Beach officials declare tuberculosis public health emergency – Los Angeles Times

Long Beach officials declared a public health emergency Thursday afternoon after one person died and nine others were hospitalized due to a tuberculosis outbreak in the city.

The city’s chief health officer, Dr. Anissa Davis, said the outbreak was localized to a single-room occupancy hotel, which health officials declined to identify.

As of Monday, a total of 14 cases had been identified. The health department’s tuberculosis control staff, however, has identified an additional 170 people who have likely been exposed.

Source: Long Beach officials declare tuberculosis public health emergency – Los Angeles Times

Rutgers and University of Minnesota reach resolutions with Gaza protesters | US campus protests | The Guardian

Students at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis reached an agreement with administration on Thursday to peacefully dismantle their Gaza solidarity encampment protest.

Rutgers and the University of Minnesota now join Northwestern and Brown University in successfully reaching an agreement to peacefully end its encampment protest.

The peaceful resolutions are in contrast to the scenes at other universities in the US where pro-Palestinian protesters have been met with police violence after university administrations called on law enforcement for intervention in breaking up the encampments. More than 2,000 pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested at campuses across the country.

Source: Rutgers and University of Minnesota reach resolutions with Gaza protesters | US campus protests | The Guardian

Loucure-se – O Outro Lado

loucure-se

Diziam que sofria de loucura crônica – alguém sempre fazia questão de ressaltar isso – nunca fez nada para desmentir.
De vez em quando, tomava lucidez fora de hora.
Tinha medo de não viver as histórias de amor que lia nas bulas disfarçadas de livros.
Ria quando lembrava dela. A buscava nos romances que lia. A cantava nas canções de amor.
Lembrava do dia em que estivera nos braços dela.
A madrugada, a partir daquele dia, passou a ter sentido. E as coisas ganharam o encantamento que eu via nos olhos dela.
Um dia, a loucura materializou-se em gestos e um mês qualquer tornou-se um de um vazio profundo.
Uma mistura do enlouquecer e da busca, sintetizou a falta.
Nunca mais soube dela. Mas, todos os dias lê as cartas, o horóscopo, o tarô…
Procura uma cigana que leia em sua mão a doce felicidade da volta.
Na mão, a linha do destino liga sua vida à dela.
Escreve poesias para não enlouquecer de saudades e cuida do jardim, apenas por desacato à flor.

Mariana Gouveia
*imagem: Tumblr

Source: Loucure-se – O Outro Lado

Relacionamento Abusivo – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Uma característica principal do relacionamento abusivo é a submissão. Alguém que, dentro da relação, irá ceder em muitas ocasiões para poder viver essa forma ” abusiva ” do que compreende como “amor”. É algo parecido com o que  diz a letra da canção ” São Amores” / Forró Muído, porque  no fundo, se você notar, são formas do amores que fere…”. Ao ouvir essa canção, eu pensei nessa  forma de amor que ” amarga”, e mais traz sofrimento do que, serve como algo grandioso  na vida do ser humano.

Marii Freire. Relacionamento Abusivo

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem: Autoral

Santarém, Pá 2 de maio de 2024

#relacionamentoabusivo
#submissãofeminina

Source: Relacionamento Abusivo – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Gaza: relatório de MSF denuncia “assassinatos silenciosos” : Linkezine

Além de bombardeios, civis morrem por doenças evitáveis e falta de acesso a cuidados de saúde

O sistema de saúde de Gaza foi devastado, com homens, mulheres e crianças em risco crescente de desnutrição aguda e com a sua saúde física e mental deteriorando-se rapidamente. As conclusões estão em um relatório* divulgado nesta segunda-feira, 29 de abril, pela organização médica internacional Médicos Sem Fronteiras (MSF).

Source: Gaza: relatório de MSF denuncia “assassinatos silenciosos” : Linkezine

The Governor of Kansas Vetoed Four Anti-Abortion Measures. Republicans Rammed Them Through Anyway. – Mother Jones

“By continuously finding ways to raise the issue and attempting to subvert the will of Kansans, these legislators are not representing the vast majority of those who elected them to office,” Gov. Laura Kelly told Mother Jones.

Source: The Governor of Kansas Vetoed Four Anti-Abortion Measures. Republicans Rammed Them Through Anyway. – Mother Jones

Art Institutes students get $6.1 billion in student loan relief, Biden announces : NPR

President Biden announced on Wednesday that the White House would forgive more than $6.1 billion on student loan debt for 317,000 borrowers who attended The Art Institutes, a private art school system in the U.S. that shuttered last year.

“This institution falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains of debt without leading to promising career prospects at the end of their studies,” said Biden in a statement.

“We will never stop fighting to deliver relief to borrowers, hold bad actors accountable, and bring the promise of college to more Americans,” the President added.

The relief will apply to students who were enrolled in the school system between January 1, 2004 and October 16, 2017, during which the U.S. Department of Education found that The Art Institutes made “pervasive and substantial misrepresentations to prospective students about postgraduation employment rates, salaries, and career services during that time,” according to a statement from the DOE.

Source: Art Institutes students get $6.1 billion in student loan relief, Biden announces : NPR

‘Gruesome’ videos cited by judge in sentencing Georgia man to 4 years in Jan. 6 riot – UPI.com

A judge on Thursday sentenced a Georgia man to more than four years in prison for assaulting Capitol police on Jan. 6.

Jack Wade Whitton, a 33-year-old former personal trainer from Locust Grove, Ga., had been caught on video striking police officers with a metal crutch in some of the most brutal fighting that took place at the Capitol that day.

Source: ‘Gruesome’ videos cited by judge in sentencing Georgia man to 4 years in Jan. 6 riot – UPI.com

Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah, source says | Middle East Eye

Israel is reportedly setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s military plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.

The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during the assault.

The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps.

“They [the Israelis] have set up or are setting up sophisticated checkpoints….They allow women and children to move, but fighting aged males are another thing,” the senior official said.

The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.

Source: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah, source says | Middle East Eye

Man, 60, Dies After He Couldn’t Access Chemo Drugs Amid Shortage

Jeff BolleWhile grappling with stage 4 cancer, Jeff Bolle continued coaching high school football for one last season. What a season it was as his team won the state championship.Courtesy Connie Bolle

In 2022, Jeff Bolle, of Milwaukee, learned he had bile duct cancer, which has a dismal long-term survival rate. At the time, doctors hoped that surgery and chemotherapy could prolong his life. He was in good health prior to his diagnosis, which made everyone feel optimistic.

He underwent surgery and four rounds of chemotherapy before the chemotherapy shortage stopped his treatment in May 2023 — two rounds short.

As the months passed and his cancer progressed unchecked, Jeff Bolle became sicker. In late September 2023, doctors realized “there was really nothing else they could do, which was hard to hear,” Connie Bolle recalls. There was no immunotherapy. There was no other chemotherapy.”

Source: Man, 60, Dies After He Couldn’t Access Chemo Drugs Amid Shortage