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Since January 24, 14,482 adults and 1,541 infants have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program. USAID implements the PEPFAR program.
February 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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5-10 years ago a teenage girl said "climate change is a worry, we should do something" and it made lots of men's peenies do a sad little scream and retreat in to their abdomens forever.
"...if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk," VP Vance tells the Munich Security Group.
February 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
January 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Freedom of religion guarantees freedom for the entire belief spectrum, from atheist, to Pantheist, to None, to Buddhist, to Muslim, to Born Again, to whatever.
January 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I'm considering having the First Amendment tattooed on my butt. Whenever I'm attacked for supporting everyone's right to their beliefs I'll respond by inviting the attacker to kiss my First Amendment.
January 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Never forget, sometimes hope takes many decades to come to fruition.

Some trees take 25 years before they bear fruit.

Trees have much to teach us about the relationship between tenacity and hope.

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Waters of Resilience: Indigenous Action from California to Borneo
YouTube video by The Borneo Project
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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"Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. The criminal justice system cannot change culture and consciousness; that happens elsewhere."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit
This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Important new study shows that the best way to power data centers is with solar microgrids!
Also, 1.5 million Germans have hung solar panels off their balconies this year, and now Spaniards are copying them!
Also, kids in Montana win huge climate fight!
billmckibben.substack.com/p/three-smal...
Three small Christmas presents
Court rulings, data centers, and something nice on the balcony
billmckibben.substack.com
December 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Add to the list of never forget: Defenders do sometime win against even billionaire destroyers. bmf.ch/en/news/mala...
MALAYSIAN POLITICIAN’S DAUGHTER LOSES DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST SWISS NGO
Swiss Court intervenes in defamation lawsuit against the Bruno Manser Fonds and dismisses the plaintiffs' main legal claims - partial rulings reserved
bmf.ch
December 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Lots happening in the boundaries.
December 14, 2024 at 4:28 AM
After the election, "Bye bye Miss American Pie," kept popping into my mind.
It felt like they killed apple pie.
Like they found the kryptonite necessary to murder truth, justice, and the American way.
December 1, 2024 at 10:49 PM
When a government is elected through a campaign of lies, how will we know when they tell the truth?
December 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Never forget—
the life force is unstoppable,
on our little blue planet
(miracle of miracles)
love evolved,
the future is not written
and we are among those writing it.
You are powerful.
You are a seed.
November 18, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Hello, Blue Sky.
November 16, 2024 at 12:26 AM