"Dusoma Foundation Fundmaxxing- when you don't just fundraise for yourself, you try to get money for everyone around you." - Dusoma.org

Over the last three years, New Mexico has had more oil production than any other state, and that includes Texas. Yet, one in six residents live below the poverty line, and the average family income is about 20% less than the US median. So, one of two things must be true: either the largest oil boom in recent American history hasn't generated any lasting wealth, or that wealth has gone somewhere that we can't see.

The truth is New Mexico hasn't wasted its fortune. In fact, it has saved almost $66 billion. But that leaves an even bigger question: why has saving $66 billion not created any visible prosperity? Why can't we see any of that wealth when we drive through places like Hope?

To understand that, we need to go way back to where it all started. When New Mexico entered the Union in 1912, its economy was built largely around sheep and cattle. Back then, oil was not a meaningful part of the state's economy, and New Mexico didn't begin producing oil commercially until 1922 when drillers struck the Hogback field in northwestern New Mexico, triggering its first oil boom. By the 1970s, the industry had begun to decline. The oil wasn't gone; rather, it was becoming harder and more expensive to reach with the technology available at the time.

Then, around 2010, a breakthrough took place. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing—two major technological improvements—allowed operators to turn a well sideways and drill horizontally into the thick shale that lines the earth beneath New Mexico. The results were extraordinary. Because of this boom, New Mexico is now bringing in $36 million a day.

So, where has all that money gone?

To answer that question, follow one barrel pumped from Eddy County. Eddy County has state trust land. A private oil company—in this case, Mewbourne Oil Company—drilled the well, brought the oil to the surface, and sold it to suppliers. But that company doesn't own everything beneath the surface. The state of New Mexico owns the earth beneath the rigs and everything within it. So, the oil company owed the state a royalty—a percentage of that barrel's worth.

That royalty doesn't get stashed into some big vault or pocketed into a state official's bank account. Instead, it flows into three different public trusts where the money is invested and set aside to grow. There is a system of public funds that now holds almost $66 billion. One of these, the Early Childhood Education Fund, was opened in 2020 with $300 million; thanks to oil and gas revenue, it now holds $11.7 billion.

This refutes the common narrative that corrupt lawmakers are wasting the money, pocketing it, or letting private corporations run off with every dollar. New Mexico did not lose its oil money, and politicians didn't steal it. The money simply changed form: it went from petroleum beneath the earth to financial assets owned on behalf of the public.

But that leaves a much harder question: if New Mexico has invested so much of its oil fortune into public funds, why has that wealth been so difficult to see in places like Hope?

One reason is simply how the modern oil and gas industry works. Oil can generate enormous revenue without creating enough jobs to raise incomes across an entire state. Technological advancements in oil drilling over the past decade have been significant. Thanks to automation and AI, drilling technology is more productive and requires fewer people than ever. One crew can drill much farther, and one well can physically reach more oil. This productivity is valuable to a government that taxes production on barrels of oil, but it leads to a strange outcome: the wealth can make the government rich without employing enough people to make the surrounding communities rich.

Another barrier is time. The extraordinary scale of New Mexico's windfall is relatively young—around five years old—while the problems this money is being asked to solve are much more systemic. New Mexico's public balance sheet became rich much faster than its institutions could become strong. Money does not automatically equal capacity.

For example, New Mexico could approve a new irrigation system for Hope to help revitalize a once-thriving farming community. But before anyone receives that system, it must be designed, land must be surveyed, permits approved, engineers hired, and contractors selected to bid on construction. This same structural delay applies to education, healthcare, and childcare—all areas the state has historically struggled to maintain.

The change New Mexico expects to see from its oil windfall will never look as dramatic as an oil well producing thousands of barrels a day; it must be measured in decades. However, that is a risky approach. Oil is a volatile commodity, where even a $1 change in the price per barrel over the course of a year can lead to a $57 million shift in annual state revenue. New Mexico faces a precarious battle: it needs to capitalize on the oil boom while the commodity is strong, but if it sets too much aside for a rainy day, it could balance its budget for decades while failing to build the institutions that allow ordinary people to flourish.

Revitalizing Hope does not mean returning it to a mythological golden age. Prosperity might mean something more modest, like investing in an irrigation system to help return farmers to the region, or hiring more teachers so the local school can provide a better education. Oil revenue will not instantly reverse the trajectory Hope has been on for the past 50 years, but it can offer residents newfound optimism about what may happen there.

So where did New Mexico's oil money go? It's in the bank. Now, New Mexico faces a much tougher problem: turning a rich government into a prosperous society.

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10 Things to Know About CHRISTUS Health and Reproductive Ethics

Everything below comes from published documents — the hospital’s own policies, the Catholic bishops’ published directives, peer-reviewed research, and news reporting. Sources are cited for each item. No speculation, no anonymous claims.

1. CHRISTUS St. Vincent operates under the “Ethical and Religious Directives.” Santa Fe’s regional hospital follows the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs), a governance document the hospital cites on its own ethics page. The ERDs are issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — bishops, not physicians or medical boards.
2. The directives were just updated — and tightened. The 7th edition of the ERDs was approved in November 2025. Among the changes: sharpened definitions of prohibited procedures and stricter limits on cooperation with outside providers.
3. The rules apply to you whether or not you are Catholic. The ERDs are institutional policy — binding on the hospital and everyone practicing in it, applied to every patient who walks in. Your own faith doesn’t change what the hospital permits. A Jewish patient whose tradition plainly allows a D&C, a Protestant patient, an atheist patient — all receive care under the bishops’ rules. As Catholics for Choice puts it, the directives govern the institution, not the patient’s conscience. This is worth sitting with: it is not a question of a hospital’s religious expression alone, but of patients being required to receive care under a religion that is not their own.
4. Sterilization is prohibited – including tubal ligation and vasectomy. Directives 52–53 prohibit “direct sterilization” (USCCB ERDs). Locally, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that CHRISTUS St. Vincent does not offer vasectomies. For patients, this can mean, for example, that a tubal ligation requested during a planned C-section – routine at secular hospitals – is not performed.
5. “Abortion” is defined more broadly than most patients expect. Directive 45 prohibits “the intentional ending of life from conception to birth” (USCCB ERDs). Because the definition turns on fetal life rather than viability or maternal condition, it can shape how pregnancy complications — including some miscarriage management — are handled.
6. Research documents different miscarriage care at ERD hospitals than at secular ones. The ACLU’s report Health Care Denied and research from ANSIRH at UCSF (including Dr. Lori Freedman’s published work) document cases where patients with pre-viability complications, such as ruptured membranes, experienced delayed intervention while fetal heart tones remained — a delay pattern specific to hospitals following the directives.
7. An ethics committee can be part of your care decision. Directive 37 requires Catholic hospitals to maintain an ethics committee or equivalent ethics consultation (USCCB ERDs), and pastoral (chaplaincy) care is built into the ERD governance model. Published research from ANSIRH documents physicians at directive-bound hospitals seeking ethics or mission approval in obstetric decisions that, at secular hospitals, are made between doctor and patient.
8. The hospital is also limited in referring you elsewhere. Under Directives 26–27 and 70, Catholic institutions may not refer patients for services contrary to Catholic teaching (USCCB ERDs; executive summary). So a restricted service may come with no roadmap to where you can get it.
9. Emergency contraception after sexual assault is conditional. Directive 36 permits treatment for sexual assault survivors only to prevent ovulation or conception — not anything that could act after conception (USCCB ERDs). In practice, that condition governs whether and when emergency contraception is provided.
10. No New Mexico law requires the hospital to tell you any of this in advance. Some states (Washington, Illinois) require hospitals to disclose religiously restricted services on websites and intake forms (National Health Law Program). New Mexico has no such law. Federal law (EMTALA) still requires stabilizing emergency care at every hospital, regardless of affiliation. And if you were denied care or a referral at a religiously affiliated New Mexico hospital, the ACLU of New Mexico is collecting accounts. One in six U.S. hospital beds is now in a Catholic-affiliated facility (ACLU/MergerWatch). For northern New Mexico, that includes the only regional hospital. Knowing the rules before you need care is not alarmism — it’s informed consent.

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Detailed Analysis & Primary Sources

1. CHRISTUS St. Vincent operates under the “Ethical and Religious Directives.”

• Status: True
• Source: CHRISTUS Health / CHRISTUS St. Vincent Ethics Policy Page; United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
• Details: CHRISTUS St. Vincent publicly confirms on its institutional website that its clinical ethics framework is grounded in the ERDs, which are authored and maintained by the USCCB.

2. The directives were just updated — and tightened.

• Status: True
• Source: USCCB Plenary Assembly Minutes (Nov 2025); National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC).
• Details: The USCCB approved the 7th Edition of the ERDs during its November 2025 meeting. Updates included explicit bans on gender-affirming medical interventions, tightened restrictions on cooperation and referrals for prohibited procedures, and clarified definitions surrounding reproductive technology and end-of-life care.

3. The rules apply to you whether or not you are Catholic.

• Status: True
• Source: USCCB ERDs (Preamble & General Principles); Catholics for Choice.
• Details: The ERDs dictate institutional policy and clinical scope for all facilities and healthcare professionals operating within the system. They apply uniformly to all patients regardless of personal religious affiliation, conscience, or preferred standard of care.

4. Sterilization is prohibited — including tubal ligation and vasectomy.

• Status: True
• Source: USCCB ERDs (Directives 52–53); ACLU Health Care Denied Report.
• Details: Directives 52 and 53 strictly prohibit direct sterilization (procedures whose direct effect is rendering a patient infertile, such as elective tubal ligations or vasectomies). Post-partum tubal ligations following planned C-sections are not performed in ERD-compliant hospitals.

5. “Abortion” is defined more broadly than most patients expect.

• Status: True
• Source: USCCB ERDs (Directive 45, 7th Edition).
• Details: Directive 45 defines procured abortion as the deliberate killing or early removal of a human being from conception to birth prior to viability. Because medical management of early pregnancy loss (miscarriage) often involves the same medications or procedures used in elective abortion (such as D&C or misoprostol), this definition directly impacts miscarriage protocols when fetal cardiac activity is still present.

6. Research documents different miscarriage care at ERD hospitals than at secular ones.

• Status: True
• Source: Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH, UCSF); Dr. Lori Freedman (“Bishops’ Rights vs. Patients’ Health”); ACLU Report: Health Care Denied.
• Details: Published qualitative and quantitative studies by Dr. Lori Freedman and researchers at UCSF ANSIRH document patterns where physicians at Catholic facilities are restricted from intervening in pre-viability pregnancy complications (e.g., premature rupture of membranes) while a fetal heartbeat remains, leading to delays in standard-of-care care until severe infection or hemorrhage ensues.

7. An ethics committee can be part of your care decision.

• Status: True
• Source: USCCB ERDs (Directive 37); American Journal of Bioethics / ANSIRH Research.
• Details: Directive 37 requires Catholic hospitals to maintain ethics committees or consultation services. Published research confirms that obstetricians at ERD-bound hospitals frequently consult ethics committees or mission administrators to receive approval before initiating interventions in complex pregnancy complications.

8. The hospital is also limited in referring you elsewhere.

• Status: True
• Source: USCCB ERDs (Directives 26–27, 70, 7th Edition Revision).
• Details: The ERDs prohibit institutional “material cooperation” with actions deemed morally illicit by the Church. The 7th Edition reaffirmed that providers and institutions are barred from facilitating or providing direct referrals for restricted services such as elective abortion or direct sterilization.

9. Emergency contraception after sexual assault is conditional.

• Status: True
• Source: USCCB ERDs (Directive 36).
• Details: Directive 36 allows treatment for sexual assault victims to prevent ovulation or fertilization, but expressly prohibits medications if they could act after conception (preventing implantation). In practice, this requires clinical testing or protocols to establish that ovulation has not occurred before administering emergency contraception.

10. No New Mexico law requires the hospital to tell you any of this in advance.

Details: States like Washington (WAC 246-320-141) and Illinois require health facilities to publish public disclosures of restricted services. New Mexico currently has no statutory requirement obligating religiously affiliated hospitals to disclose service limitations prior to admission or treatment. Federal law under EMTALA continues to mandate stabilizing emergency treatment for emergency medical conditions across all Medicare-participating facilities.

Status: True

Source: National Health Law Program (NHeLP); Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).

ANNOUNCEMENT: Following the court's July 8 dismissal order granting one final opportunity to amend, I filed a Second Amended Complaint on July 13, and on July 15 the court ordered AbbVie to answer or otherwise respond by July 29 - meaning the case, which would otherwise have converted to a dismissal with prejudice, remains active.

My whistleblower case - Case 1:25-cv-12737 Born v. AbbVie - will be continued.

"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine." - Turing

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No Uber? Call the Stones.

If you've ever landed in Los Alamos and opened Uber only to find no drivers available, save this number. Have you ever tried to reserve an Uber and been willing to pay $75 to go 3 miles ... and it still didn't work?

Then I heard about these folks on Next Door and I literally called them, the nice person answered the phone, we talked like a bunch of humans and he had me at my location within a couple hours, even with traffic (falling stone) problems.

This is the future. Highly recommended. If you need a ride in Los Alamos, either locally, like to Smith's or LAMC, you can call them and we'll see, hopefully awareness will help this nifty business. They also obviously do Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

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Support local businesses. And next time Uber lets you down (Uber doesn't work in Los Alamos, NM), you already have Plan B.

LOS ALAMOS, NM — Kathryn Born, a Los Alamos resident, humanitarian AI advocate, and Executive Director of the Dusoma Foundation, has filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against multinational pharmaceutical giant AbbVie, Inc. (NYSE: ABBV).

The lawsuit, updated for the fourth time in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that AbbVie retaliated against and wrongfully terminated Born after she internally reported that the company was "cooking the books" on its high-profile Research and Convergence Hub (ARCH) software platform.

According to the complaint, Born—who served as AbbVie’s Training and Communication Manager for ARCH—discovered that the company was publicly and internally misrepresenting the platform's capabilities to secure funding and prestige. The suit alleges that AbbVie falsely credited the platform with a major rare-disease scientific discovery that was actually performed by hand using conventional research, inflated its active user metrics by counting cumulative totals over five years, and claimed the platform incorporated cutting-edge generative AI capabilities that did not actually exist on the platform.

After reporting her concerns to AbbVie’s Office of Ethics and Compliance, Born was placed on a performance improvement plan and terminated in September 2025. She is seeking damages under the Illinois Whistleblower Act.

Names have been anonymized to totem animals, per Puppet News Network protocols.

For more details, the full second amended complaint can be viewed at Dusoma.com.

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I've been doing legal research for 6 months with ChatGPT... until 2 days ago, I used to just use Claude for a final sanity check. Then with Fable 5, within 2 hours, I exported all the analysis from ChatGPT, re-imported all my evidence, including zip files of emails and just started over. Now it handles the whole workflow and I just sit there for hours explaining the case, answering questions, and making decisions. It's incredible. This thing, in 2 years, will be getting wrongly convicted prisoners out of death row.

"The Energy Department has underestimated the potential deadly consequences should plutonium escape the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, which produces bomb cores for America’s nuclear weapons, a study published today by independent scientists found.

The chances of a leak are considered minuscule. But one is possible, especially following a natural disaster like an earthquake. Plutonium could escape from protective work stations inside a building called Plutonium Facility 4, or PF-4, and ignite. Then, if one or more of the building’s safety systems fail, radioactive plutonium particles could enter the outside air and spread through the surrounding communities in a plume of smoke.

The Energy Department, which manages the country’s nuclear weapons production, had previously concluded that a so-called loss of containment at the lab could spread about one kilogram of plutonium, a radioactive metal, leading to nine cancer deaths on average in the surrounding area. But modeling in the new study, published in Science and Global Security, showed the potential for much worse: Hundreds of people who inhale or ingest particles from a leak could eventually die from cancer, the researchers said.

And in the most serious possibility modeled in the study — if more than one kilogram of plutonium escaped — the town of Los Alamos could become unlivable and radioactive particles could spread across state lines. As many as 3,200 people could eventually get cancer, the researchers estimated, leading to about 1,000 deaths. The remediation of land could run up to an estimated $150 billion."

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While I live a quiet life in Los Alamos, my Chicago case continues. Maybe we'll do another puppet show after 7/18 when the response is due!

Coding a Federal Case: The Multi-AI War Room

The case- Born Vs. AbbVie, Inc – 1:25-cv-12737 – has been weighed in on -AbbVie’s motion to dismiss has been granted WITHOUT prejudice, and we have one more chance to amend. Although it’s bleak, at least we can finally be honest about our methods and be transparent. I am my own pro se plaintiff and I’ve been using AI—and it’s gotten me this far, so already it shows that people can save thousands of dollars. I’ll likely still lose, but so would my former lawyer. I won’t say anything disparaging, but I would have lost the case and tens of thousands of dollars. This way I just lose the case and get to publicize it.

I think what we may be seeing -and this is why I’m showing this to lawyers and people on LinkedIn -is that we might be hitting the limits of what LLMs can do today.

So I’m doing an experiment. I am continuing on with my usual process, which is using multiple AIs and -painstakingly, one paragraph at a time- working on a response in the next week. I spend about 4 hours per paragraph. I ask for legal textbook excerpts, and I really try to learn the “legal logic layer” and I never put in something I don’t understand. In federal litigation, a Rule 12(b)(6) motion is basically a compiler checking your source code for fatal errors. The judge pointed out the exact syntax errors in my legal theory- specifically, how trying to anchor a state-law claim to federal investor-protection language created a terminal conflict that crashed the case. Amending isn’t about rewriting the story; it’s about cleanly divorcing the internal deception I uncovered from the federal preemption trap, keeping the focus entirely on a breach of corporate honesty and the Illinois Whistleblower Act.

The bedrock of my research is my custom Marla-AI.ai chatbot, which I loaded with over 50 pages of raw case history. I uploaded every single court docket entry, alongside a 30-page master narrative I wrote from memory right after I was fired—documenting everything from the architectural defects of ARCH to the 8,000 tickets submitted by frustrated scientists.

With that data securely vectorized, I use ChatGPT’s Canvas tool as my builder to rapidly prototype the raw factual layout under a strict 8-page limit. Then I spend hours on each paragraph – learning the logic, researching every idea – I then feed that output to Gemini and start all over. I tell it to roleplay as a Harvard Professor and rip it to shreds. More hours. More back and forth – it’s what AI teachers refer to as “having the AI’s argue with each other.” So I will say to ChatGPT “Gemini says your wrong on XYZ and we’re going to lose.” Finally, I pass the draft to Claude for a brutal judicial audit to catch any remaining logical gaps before throwing the final version past a couple of incredibly smart people in my inner circle for a human reality check. It’s a workflow that allows a single individual to match the horsepower of a massive corporate law firm. To survive this far is a major accomplishment for whistleblowers everywhere.

10 Prompts You Can Ask Your Marla Chatbot About My Case

To let your inner circle explore the massive wealth of data you’ve uploaded, they can use these specific questions to prompt your chatbot:

1. The Core Defect: “What were the actual technical flaws with the ARCH platform that caused Kathryn to raise red flags in the first place?”
2. The Scientists’ Frustration: “What did the 8,000 internal help tickets reveal about how AbbVie’s chemists and biologists actually experienced the software?”
3. The “Metrics” Scheme: “How exactly did the ‘Excellence Awards’ program work, and how was it used to fake user adoption metrics?”
4. The “Holly” Tool: “What was ‘HOLLY,’ why did Kathryn build it, and how did AbbVie management react when she demonstrated it to leadership?”
5. The Retaliation Timeline: “Can you trace the exact timeline from Kathryn’s first formal report to HR/Ethics in March 2025 to her termination in September?”
6. The Judge’s Critique: “What were the main reasons Judge Jenkins granted the motion to dismiss the previous complaint on July 8, 2026?”
7. The Corporate Mismatch: “What are some specific examples of the mismatch between AbbVie’s public statements about AI and the reality Kathryn observed on the ground?”
8. The Warning Signs: “What performance metrics or praise did Kathryn receive before she was suddenly placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)?”
9. The Whistleblower Strategy: “Why is shifting the case to the Illinois Whistleblower Act (IWA) a better legal strategy than focusing on Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)?”
10. The Human Story: “Based on Kathryn’s post-termination narratives, what was the personal and professional turning point that made her decide she had to stand up to corporate compliance?”

Marla BattleBot is here: Chat with HML: Born Vs. AbbVie, Inc – 1:25-cv-12737

https://dusoma.com/marla-ai-for-pro-se-plaintiffs/

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This is Gemini's Description, what do you think? I'm an outsider and I did not understand the low and slow motto. That's hilarious.

Española's title as the "Lowrider Capital of the World" is accurate, as is Espanola known throughout the globe. It's deeply rooted in local history, cultural pride, and generations of incredible automotive craftsmanship.

While Southern California (specifically East L.A.) often gets historic credit for birthing lowrider culture in the 1940s and 50s, Española took that seed and grew it into a defining regional art form.

The Birth of a Culture: Bajito y Suavecito

The lowrider movement originally emerged as a creative, political, and cultural counter-statement by Mexican American youth. While mainstream post-WWII American car culture was all about speed, drag racing, and hot rods ("go fast, go high"), Chicano culture flipped the script: "Bajito y Suavecito"- Low and Slow.

In Northern New Mexico, this philosophy found the perfect home. Driving slow wasn't just a style choice; it was a way to cruise Riverside Drive, show off your meticulous work, socialize with neighbors, and reclaim the streets.

What Makes Española’s Scene Unique?

Española didn’t just replicate California style; local customizers gave it a distinct New Mexican soul, blending automotive engineering with traditional regional craftsmanship.

• Generational Family Traditions: In Española, a lowrider is rarely a solo project. It’s common for three generations—grandfathers, fathers, and daughters or sons—to spend years together in a garage rebuilding a '64 Chevy Impala or a '50s bomber. It is an inheritance of skills.
• Devotional & Cultural Artistry: Look closely at the intricate paint jobs on a classic Española cruiser. Alongside the classic metallic flakes, pinstripes, and candy-colored lacquer coats, you will often see highly detailed, airbrushed murals. These murals frequently depict religious iconography (like the Virgen de Guadalupe), local landscapes, or tributes to ancestral heritage, effectively turning steel and chrome into rolling canvases of regional history.
• Mechanical Innovation: The valley became a hub for technical mastery. To achieve that signature hydraulic hop or a seamless drop to the asphalt without scraping the frame, local builders engineered complex custom suspension setups using aircraft surplus parts, multiple car batteries, and specialized pumps.

The Official Title

For decades, Española claimed the title proudly but informally. The crowning moment came in 1994, when Lowrider Magazine officially named Española the "Lowrider Capital of the World," cementing its status over much larger metropolitan areas.

Today, the city embraces it fully. If you drive into the area, you'll see a official city proclamation celebrating the culture, and Riverside Drive remains a legendary strip where these moving sculptures come out to play, proving that a car can be a community's greatest piece of shared heritage.