#China’s Snub of US Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers #TrumpTarriffs www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Nazis out and proud in the USA. WTF

Taxes on unhealthy products like tobacco, alcohol, sodas and junk food discourage consumption. But industry got them dropped from the @UN declaration on #NCDs

just sitting here thinking about the courage and determination of E. Jean Carroll compared to the abject craven collapse of the pretty much every silicon valley CEO

#Mpox Cases Rise in #Ghana, #Philippines and #China – But Decline Overall While there was a small 7% uptick in cases over the past week, overall cases are down 76% since the peak of the epidemic. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @africanunion.bsky.social @panaction.bsky.social

How a single street connects South Africa to the continent and beyond: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

#China Ties Manufacturers’ Access to Pathogen Information to Host Country’s Commitment to #PandemicAgreement The complex talks are negotiating how to fairly & equitably share the benefits derived from utilizing genetic resources. ⬇️ ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @whowpro.bsky.social

UK has just had its hottest summer on record. Heat stress is something about ¾ of the globe faces in our #climatecrisis future.

#Zambia Launches Solar Clinic Project as Part of Ambitious #Gavi Initiative ☀️ “In places where one in four health facilities have no electricity, solarisation is more than a technical fix, it is a lifeline.” @sanianishtar.bsky.social - @gavi.org ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @unicef.org @who.int

Great piece by @kerrycullinan.bsky.social in @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social on the latest in AVAC's case against the Department of State in the foreign aid freeze, healthpolicy-watch.news/us-non-profi.... @publiccitizen.bsky.social #HIV #HIVprevention #PEPFAR

US Non-profits Vow to Fight on After Court Rules They Can’t Challenge #Trump Aid Freeze The Trump administration has closed #USAID, slashed the budget of #PEPFAR, and withdrawn from the @whowpro.bsky.social. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social @avac.org

RFK's #MAHA consists of anti-vaxxers and "wellness” groups opposed to #mRNA vaccines who formed an unlikely alliance with #Trump libertarian #MAGA supporters opposed to vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Will pesticides kill their alliance? healthpolicy-watch.news/will-pestici...

More lies from the Trump administration, which is led by people who think about their pockets today and not the impact of #climate on future generations.

REPORTER: We saw that Russia continued its violence into Ukraine last night, launching even more drones. What did you make of that? TRUMP: I think they're trying to negotiate

Africa’s #Mpox Response: Better Diagnostics One Year into Emergency “With limited resources, there is a critical need to be more efficient, working as one team, with one plan, budget, and monitoring framework" - Prof. Yap Boum #AfricaCDC ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @whowpro.bsky.social

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"#Kennedy’s delayed and tepid response [to #CDC attack] coupled with his own record of inflammatory claims, has only deepened the wounds and amplified a dangerous sense of betrayal among America’s frontline public health workers." - Jerome Adams

RFK's #MAHA consists of anti-vaxxers and "wellness” groups opposed to #mRNA vaccines who formed an unlikely alliance with #Trump libertarian #MAGA supporters opposed to vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Will pesticides kill their alliance? healthpolicy-watch.news/will-pestici...

#RFK case against #mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r... via @statnews.com

LA schools are educating kids about what to do when ICE is at the door or if #ICE agents take away their parents.

Back in early February before RFK Jr.’s confirmation, @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote an OpEd where we said, “Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines”. Republicans confirmed him anyway. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

every attempted explanation this guy gives for his decisions is total nonsense. just gobbledygook. www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-j...

The only crime wave in DC ⬇️

WHO Decries US Cancellation of mRNA Vaccine Research as “Unfortunate and Untimely” Scientists demand disclosure of data upon which the decision was made. Read More ⬇️ ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @hhsgov.govmirrors.com @childrenshealthdefense.org.web.brid.gy @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Collaboration Enabled South Africa’s Success in Tackling #Tuberculosis – But Funding Cuts Threaten Progress Half the world’s funding for #TB research & development comes from two sources: @gatesfoundation.bsky.social & US NIH. @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @ghs.bsky.social @bhekisisa.org

More Concessions for #Soda and #Alcohol Industries in Final #UN Draft Declaration on #NCDs However, tobacco control, hypertension & improving mental health care remain the cornerstones of proposed action to contain NCDs. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @whowpro.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int

Trump's EU Trade Deal "Win" Likely To Send Prescription Drug Prices Skyrocketing https://twp.ai/4ipy9o

US Democratic Senators have produced an interesting report on how "chaotic gutting" of #USAID, #TrumpTariffs etc "have been a gift to #Beijing" ⬇️ www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Donald Trump says he wants to keep Americans safe from fentanyl. Yet, he's once again putting lives at stake as he slashes and burns the very programs actually lowering overdose death rates and implementing recovery and health programs.

The #TrumpTarriffs are going to destroy #SouthAfrica's vehicle manufacturing: US exports already down 82% this year. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

“[Maxwell's] willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct, including some of the conduct charged in the Indictment, strongly suggests her true motive has been & remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes,” prosecutors wrote in a pretrial motion www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Mike Bloomberg calls out #RFKJr and all the Republican politicians who have enabled his anti-vaccine platform:

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

@who.int’s Tedros: US Rejection of International Rules on Health Threats is Based on ‘Inaccuracies’ “Using disease outbreaks for propaganda would be destructive and disastrous,” - @drtedros.who.int ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @seckennedy.govpeeps.us

In honor of Stephen Colbert, and before the show ends officially in May 2026, here’s one of his last monologues on Trump and Epstein

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

It's #MandelaDay, a day on which South Africans do community service to honour our late great leader on his birthday. I wonder what #NelsonMandela would make of the today's political shenanigans in his own party, the ANC, and in the world, where business transactions now 'trump' humanity.

Historians will sort this out in coming decades, but I think it's pretty incontrovertible that pseudo-liberal centrists in mainstream publications decided that the burst of largely youth-driven politics in 2015-2020 (BLM, trans rights, Palestine liberation) was a threat and a problem to defeat.

Trump's candidate for UN Ambassador wants US aid to be contingent on supporting US positions at the UN. passblue.com/2025/07/16/m...

So much for that “line.”

A powerful essay by @omerbartov.bsky.social that concludes, with care and precision, that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Others have reached this conclusion too. Bartov's piece explores some deep and important questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Controversial WHO Regional Director Placed on Leave Dr. Saima Wazed, Director of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office, has been placed on leave after Bangladesh’s ACC filed two cases against her for fraud, forgery, and misuse of power. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @who.int @drtedros.who.int

New Body Adopts Intense Timetable for Final Pandemic Agreement Talks IGWG met for the first time & chose Amb. Tovar da Silva Nunes & Dr. Mathew Harpur as co-chairs. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @who.int @drtedros.who.int @helenclarknz.bsky.social @panaction.bsky.social @theindpanel.bsky.social

Millions at Risk of HIV Infection and Death After US Funding Cuts, Warns @unaids.org “This is not just a funding gap. It’s a ticking time bomb,” - Winnie Byanyima ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social

SO WRONG: Some of the poorest countries have started paying millions to #lobbyists linked to #Trump in desperate attempt to offset US cuts to foreign aid, according to ‪@globalwitness.org investigation ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

NIH-funded Human Trials Outside the US Get Temporary Funding Reprieve In 2024, the NIH funded about 3,600 foreign subawards worth more than $400 million, according to @sciencemagazine.bsky.social. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @treatmentactiongroup.org @msf.ca

Do you know an outstanding climate scientist who also excels at communication and mentoring? Then you should nominate them for the 2025 Schenider Award! 🧪

Today is the 3 yr anniversary of the end of Roe vs. Wade. Abortion bans cost the US $133b/yr, w/ $64b/yr in economic losses in 16 states w/ abortion bans. They affect women's economic standing, increase child poverty; more families rely on federal programs. 🧪 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...