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For once the Times eliminated their headline exonerative tense and accidentally stated something plainly! Indeed CDC's inaction and silence and funding cuts surely have expanded the cyclospora outbreak, lmao www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

C.D.C. Expands Cyclospora Outbreak Linked to Iceberg Lettuce to Nine States

Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania now join Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia in cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce.

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

I honestly believe that when he says 'no one has died' what he means is 'no one who is a person in my eyes has died,' meaning, no one who is from Europe, no one who is white. Given his anti Black racism and embrace of eugenics, lists of names don't matter. And she should have done her homework

There are many, many well-documented cases of the aid cuts being directly died to deaths, and it's unfortunate that the Economist’s editor-in-chief didn't bring those to this interview. Not that it would have swayed Musk, but it would've stymied his flood of bullshit.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Read our analysis of Merck's deal: healthgap.org/press/activi... and quotes from us in STAT News today

“The timing of the announcement is notable because Merck is striking these deals while its medicine, known as alimatravir, is currently undergoing a pair of late-stage clinical trials. By doing so now, the company believes it will help the generic makers plan for wide-scale production”

Do they realize how credulous, inaccurate and simpering they are and seem? I almost hope it's a calculated move because otherwise...

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎯

I also agree with Science that there is zero point trying to “argue” with or “debate with” or “find common cause with” MAHA/MAGA dudes: “These people want money and they want power and they want revenge, and no amount of evidence or reasoned argument is going to slow them down. Save your breath.”

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

What a craven, murderous liar. Along with Pete Marocco, Marco Rubio and Russ Vought-- Here is just one community for whom their lawless and depraved attacks on global health funding have slashed life saving programs: children exposed to HIV www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Musk still relying on conspiracy theories and lies when it comes to USAID. "USAID was the biggest funder of regime change. Also, its funding was not stopped it was moved to the State Department." "There were claims [that programs were shut down]. These claims were false, nonsense."

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Highly recommend Derek's analysis! It's so important to remember why the Administration is attacking science, because this helps us structure our responses accordingly. They want to steal this money, the human consequence means less than nothing to them, and we must not allow them to take it

🔥🔥🔥 www.science.org/content/blog...

$2.6 million in essential HIV prevention commodities (syringes, needles, condoms), in Ukraine were destroyed by Russia on Sunday night: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

telegraph.co.uk

After eviscerating lifesaving foreign aid, Trump is weaponizing State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) budget to shovel millions to anti queer, anti trans, racist, reactionary hate groups, including in rich countries. Congress has to stop this: www.propublica.org/article/huma...

Afrikaner and Right-Wing European Groups Would Gain From Trump’s New Human Rights Funding

Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.

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Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2w ago

What’s extraordinarily important about this story is…under the current Trump regime, Congress has 2x fully funded this lifesaving AIDS program under budgets signed into law. The money is there—gathering dust. Trump is refusing to spend it. Congress is spineless and people are dying

The Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global HIV program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3w ago

tl;dr: DOGE is shit

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 3w ago

She is complicit in the broad daylight execution of her constituent today; he bled to death in front of his family.

Susan Collins could have insisted on guardrails or measures to rein in abuses. She didn’t and now her state is being terrorized by ICE.

(over an image of Susan Collins) JUST LAST MONTH, SUSAN COLLINS VOTED FOR $38 BILLION IN ADDITIONAL ICE FUNDING

Asia Russell@asia-ilse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Deadline: 11:59 pm tonight to fight Russ Vought’s tyrannical attack on science and all federal grantmaking. It only takes a few minutes to comment—no less than science is at stake. All the resources you need are online here; www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/cri...

Critical action needed: Stop OMB's political review of federal grants | Defend Public Health

A proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks to take expert review of federal grants out of the hands of experts and put it into the hands of political appointees. This rule co...

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Wow, that's really high, but there is still time to submit, and get this number of opponents up EVEN HIGHER: www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/def...

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

When we fight, we win

This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...

Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 3w ago

Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.

Screenshot text: Between May 29 and July 9, roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov (and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published). The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided: about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it, with fewer than one percent marked as unclear. The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign. Support for the rule, by contrast, was almost entirely organized: nearly nine in ten supportive comments (about 2,500) came from a single form-letter campaign. Opponents mostly wrote their own comments; supporters mostly signed the same form-letter.

Karen R. Lips@karenrlips.bsky.social · 3w ago

techpolicy.press/the-public-r...

Wow, that's really high, but there is still time to submit, and get this number of opponents up EVEN HIGHER: www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/def...

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

techpolicy.press

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE must be eliminated. This is the most important question for candidates, because 1) it is and 2) it communicates your likely ambition regarding change and renewal for everything else poisoned by this administration: health care, PEPFAR, trans rights, genocide, separation of powers, due process ++

Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Say his name.

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump has said he wants to "end pediatric HIV" during his administration. He is doing the reverse: he is creating the conditions for a man-made surge in pediatric HIV. 1/

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

-Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, murdered by ICE -Neighbors kidnapped & sent to concentration camps where deaths are piling up -JIm Crow segregationist 'asylum' only for white Afrikaaners who falsify persecution and much more racist hell We have to keep fighting back. www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

inquirer.com

TAG - Treatment Action Group@treatmentactiongroup.org · 4w ago

I am thrilled !!! & looking forward to celebrating the power of AIDS activism w/ dear comrades at @treatmentactiongroup.org on Oct 15 at their 2026 soirée. Also I am grateful to be recognized as a 2026 honoree. If you've never been, you're in for great time. YOU WILL LEAVE INSPIRED ❤️‍🔥🔥🥳 🥂

🎉 Save the date! TAG's Research in Action Awards is October 15. Each year we honor the activists, scientists, and leaders driving the fight to end HIV, TB, and hep C. RIAA is our biggest fundraiser of the year, having raised over $5.5 million since 1997. 🔗 www.treatmentactiongroup.org/riaa2026/

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w ago

Trump paid Eswatini's king ~$5.1m in exchange for this unlawful, amoral human trafficking. Dozens of human beings just rotting in Eswatini prisons with no recourse to justice, in our name. 2024 reporting on Eswatini flagged grave human rights violations: www.state.gov/reports/2024...

Eswatini - United States Department of State

state.gov

A few minutes ago, two ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Eswatini, likely another third-country removal of immigrants to a maximum security prison there. Nineteen people have already been sent there on previous ICE flights in the last nine months. Only two have been released.

An FR24 map showing N588AT landing in Eswatini