Michael Chaitkin
@mchaitkin.bsky.social
Primary health care @gatesfoundation. Parent to one human and one goldendoodle. Happiest surrounded by trees. Opinions are my own.
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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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March 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
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Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
The process is such a depressing clown show
Wait...what? The Trump administration canceled most awards at USAID and is now asking organizations to tell them what they cut?
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Scoop: USAID asks partners for information on recently cut awards
Thousands of aid projects have been abruptly terminated — but for many, it's happened without the contracting officers that were needed to do so.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The process is such a depressing clown show
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Here's an early accounting by @snolen.bsky.social of the devastation wreaked by Trump and Musk on the lives of children around the world because of their destruction of USAID, ending programs fighting polio, malaria, AIDS, parasites and more www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Here's an early accounting by @snolen.bsky.social of the devastation wreaked by Trump and Musk on the lives of children around the world because of their destruction of USAID, ending programs fighting polio, malaria, AIDS, parasites and more www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
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If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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February 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall.
If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines.
www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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