How cool is this? The condom over Jesse Helms’s house gets a big shoutout in this video sweeping through the history of American activism, narrated by Annie Leonard (former E.D. of Greenpeace USA).

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7d ago

Does protesting actually work? Yes — just look at history. My friend, activist and author Annie Leonard, explains why protesting is so important and why we must protect this powerful tool of dissent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvafufqH7g

Elon Musk, along with sold-his-soul Marco Rubio, are mass murderers.

Shortages of crucial HIV medicines due to aid cuts are a ‘warning’, say experts

More than half of organisations providing HIV care surveyed by International Planned Parenthood Federation said they had run out of stock at some point during past 12 months

theguardian.com

JULY 29, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement From David Schertler, Counsel for Dr. Anthony Fauci, Following Dr. Fauci’s Appearance Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

EXCITING NEWS – Nature Health Global is delighted to announce a SURPRISE dollar-for-dollar match “Challenge Fund” from an anonymous donor today naturehealthglobal.org/exciting-new...

Exciting News – Nature Health Global Receives A Surprise 1:1 Challenge Fund Gift – DONATE NOW And Double Your Impact! - Nature.Health.Global

The Nature Health Global Board is delighted to announce an unexpected $25,000 gift from an anonymous donor. The unrestricted gift is a 1:1 match Challenge

naturehealthglobal.org

Read every word. All 38 thread posts. Thank you, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social. History eventually finds the truth. Immerwahr will end up on its wrong side.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last yr.

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

They decapitated NIAID yesterday. Our best-in-world scientific establishment is in shambles. Jeanne Marrazzo and Cliff Lane -- please know that there's a huge community that feels forever in your debt.

Elon Musk’s holocaust. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment (Gift Article)

President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

nytimes.com

Much better article www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...

State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now (Gift Article)

Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.

nytimes.com

Peter Staley 🇺🇦@peterstaley.bsky.social · 2y ago

Amazing news. I’ve rarely felt panic like I did with PEPFAR’s shutdown. The meds for millions can continue for now. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Amazing news. I’ve rarely felt panic like I did with PEPFAR’s shutdown. The meds for millions can continue for now. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US issues new waiver for humanitarian aid amid freeze

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver on Tuesday for life-saving humanitarian assistance during a 90-day pause in foreign aid while Washington undertakes a review, according to a State Department memo seen by Reuters.

reuters.com

I never dreamed it would get this bad, this fast. Trump has started the clock on murdering 26 million people currently living with HIV.

Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries (Gift Article)

PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

nytimes.com

This is all very sad. AIDS Inc. kneels to Gilead.

Exposed Document Links HIV Leaders to ‘Betrayal of People with HIV’ - My Fabulous Disease

Several HIV community leaders signed a legal document in support of pharma - and in opposition to plaintiffs representing people living with HIV.

marksking.com

Really sad.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

By all means, let's try new ideas to improve public health, which surely suffers from status quo bias. But being being open-minded about cranks and grifters because any change is good? In what world are these people making careful policy choices?

This man knows his 🏳️‍🌈 history. Good 🧵

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know analogies between the gay-rights struggle and the trans struggle are inexact, but it's worth holding onto the fact that in the years right after Stonewall, anti-gay backlash was intense and virulent, and gay people suffered a number of legislative defeats and public-opinion setbacks. >

We can only hope/pray that this gets blocked in the courts.

Donald Trump ‘to kick transgender troops out of US military’

An executive order could be signed as early as Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, which would force 15,000 people out of their posts

thetimes.com

Slow. Clap.

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it's clear now that republican trolls are squatting here. i know it's tempting to engage, but i cannot stress enough that blocking is the only way to preserve this community. block and move on. block and move on. block and move on.

According to the NYT my old friend Michael Blake @blakefornyc.bsky.social is joining the crowded field running against Mayor Eric Adams. We were resident fellows at Harvard's Institute of Politics in the fall of 2016. Here we are during a fellows' reunion in 2017 outside the Iowa State Capitol.

Sign of the times, no more bluebird on the biorxiv engagement tab..

Somerville rightly slams an anti-trans LGB group.

Rob@glastronomer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Jimmy Somerville, magnificently telling the LGB Alliance to get it up em.

What a sycophant and know-nothing. I fear for and am depressed for colleagues at the @latimes.com. #PatSoon-Shiong is a disgrace and has embarassed himself with this tweet.

Yeah, @michaelmina.bsky.social’s quotes surprised me too, and not in a good way. After Deborah Birx’s comments on Face the Nation last weekend, it’s been a rough week for normalizing crazy.

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

Dr. Mina seems…unduly optimistic to me. “We are playing with fire with the shake-ups and choices, but at this point change is needed,” said Dr. Michael Mina… He said the agencies were often too slow... “At least there’s a better chance of positive change compared to complacency and more of the same”

I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.

Post you from a different era. Me during my junior year abroad, London School of Economics, 1981/82.

Jesus, Deb. Deborah Birx, obviously lobbying for a job in the Trump administration, calls RFK, Jr. a "very smart man."

Dr. Deborah Birx says she is "excited" for data-driven discussions in RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearings

Dr. Deborah Birx​, former White House Coronavirus response coordinator, said Sunday she is "excited" for the data on key health issues that will surface in Senate confirmation hearings for Robert F. K...

cbsnews.com

Be careful, Bob. You’re going to lose your core supporters, lab leakers like Nate Silver, Zeynep, and millions of MAGA cultists. They are deeply wedded to blaming a Chinese lab.

Trump's former CDC director makes bombshell COVID claim

Robert Redfield has been a proponent of the 'lab leak' theory which posits the disease came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Now Redfield says that the disease may have origins in Americ...

dailymail.co.uk

The thing about Twitter versus Bluesky is that the right needs liberals on Twitter to make it feel worthwhile, whereas the left doesn’t need conservatives on Bluesky to make it feel worthwhile.

We won’t be able to empty Elon’s sandbox — X/Twitter — until powerful Dems like the Obamas grow a pair and walk away from it like the rest of us. Come on, Barack, tap your inner activist.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social has a piece in the @nytimes.com today that takes complicated public health issues and runs them through the grinder of his brand of realpolitik. The topic? The support of Colorado's Jared Polis for RFK Jr. 1/

FYI. RFK Jr. has blamed AIDS not on HIV but on a "gay lifestyle" and poppers (classic homophobic AIDS denialism), and Tony Fauci. In his book, and on Rogan’s podcast, he praised Peter Duesberg, the founder of AIDS Denialism.

Joe Rogan and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Are AIDS Denialists

The anti-vax candidate and the endlessly gullible podcast host find common ground: On batshit HIV misinformation. Happy Pride.

bugeyedandshameless.com