#Namibian journalist ‘shaken’ by arrest threat for asking the president a question anout ber family’s involvement in oil deal cpj.org?p=559590

🚨 Global health organisations warn the US has expanded the Global Gag Rule to all non-military foreign aid—threatening reproductive, humanitarian & LGBTQI+ health services worldwide. 🌍⚕️ ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @ipas.org @reprorights.org ights.org @msf.ca @kff.org 📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

Donald Trump is mentioned hundreds of times in the latest batch of Epstein files. Among the new documents is a list compiled by the FBI last year of allegations made against Trump by callers to its national Threat Operation Center tip line.

US Health Secretary #RFKJr is jeopardising the #immunisation of hundreds of thousands of children in poor countries by refusing to contribute to #Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, unless it removes a preservative he deems dangerous, without any science to back him. ⬇️

The Latest US Restrictions on Aid 'Bully' Recipients to Accept 'Extremist Ideology' & export #MAGA views, says critics. #GlobalGagRule @friendsofusaid.bsky.social @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/latest-us-re...

The #Taliban & #MAGA 'Christian' leaders think alike about #women and #reproduction. ⬇️

What kind of person posts 56 Tweets in an hour about someone who is getting under their skin? #Trump apparently has nothing better to do - and #Newsom is clearly rattling him

The Latest US Restrictions on Aid 'Bully' Recipients to Accept 'Extremist Ideology' & export #MAGA views, says critics. #GlobalGagRule @friendsofusaid.bsky.social @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/latest-us-re...

Grateful that we South Africans are being spared this: #Melania Trump Documentary Pulled From South African Theatres 😊 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/w...

Did you know that data protection should be part of your communication activities? It might not be the flashiest part of your work, but it’s super important! Use our practical checklist to ensure your work complies with EU data protection rules: link.europa.eu/dNq4jv 🧪 #SciComm

ICE recruitment efforts appear openly calibrated to catch the attention of white nationalists and other right-wing extremists: https://bit.ly/49I0bds

‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop

⚠️ Health experts warn it is unethical to withhold a proven vaccine from newborns! 🍼 The halted trial would have given only half of 14,000 babies a hepatitis B vaccine at birth — despite strong evidence early vaccination saves lives. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @by-cjewett.bsky.social 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

Hahaha. Canada, we love you. Honestly, not being invited is a badge of honor. Wear it proudly.

Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

YES. ICE is an extra-judicial paramilitary force that has recruited numerous far-right white supremacists. Immigrants were the initial target, but it's evident anyone who opposes Trump is now a target. Dictators start with a seemingly legitimate force (often 'bodyguards'), then turn it on civilians.

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

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It's been a year since #Trump took a 'Chainsaw' to #Global #Health. I've highlighted some of the human cost in my story, and a silver lining: @friendsofusaid.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info healthpolicy-watch.news/the-human-co...

One of the issues that has come up again and again in my reporting on misinformation and social media is the massive influence social media companies have on research in the field. Last night a preprint dropped that tries to get at this with some numbers. My piece in @science.org (and 🧪🧵 coming):

🌐 @who.int member states will debate how to handle the US attempt to withdraw after unpaid fees violated long-standing legal obligations. With no exit clause in WHO’s constitution, the decision has major implications for global health cooperation & stability. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

Yes. This is where MAGA’s stances on measles vaccine and Greenland come together for me: In both cases there is a failure to remember/imagine how bad the past was, bolstered by this naive and cruel belief that a “strong” body/country can just go it alone.

The WHO's executive board is coming up soon. Below are some of the areas of discussion ⬇️

While communities across the world grapple with floods, fires, and heatwaves, global leaders are flying into #Davos2026 to talk about the climate crisis and inequality by… PRIVATE JET?! It's time to #TaxTheSuperRich (and yes, that includes a levy on luxury aviation 😡)

🚨🚨According to a new CBS poll, 86% of Americans oppose the use of military force to take Greenland, and 70% oppose using federal funds to buy the territory.

YES! Many people in the US have finally realised that the paramilitary force Trump has set up has few guardrails and can easily be turned on them. ⬇️

I#Somalia has terminated all agreements with #UAE covering port operations, government institutions, security and defense cooperation, citing UAE's 'hostile and destabilizing actions' threatening Somalia’s independence and political stability' 🔗➡https://t.me/MofaSomalia/7097 #Somalia #Somali #UAE

No big surprise as #Uganda closes the internet ahead of elections as Dictator #Museveni forces yet another "victory" techcabal.com/2021/01/13/b...

⚠️ #SouthAfrica, #Tanzania & the #DRC are absent from new US health agreements—raising questions about geopolitics, elections, and minerals shaping global health aid. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @statedept.govmirrors.com 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

Writing this made me feel sick. If you read between the lines, this trial has little to do with the timing of hepatitis B vaccinations (already well established) and is mostly aimed at "proving" #RFKJr's hypothesis about autism and vaccines.

Not only does #RFKJr want to tamper with US newborns' access to #vaccines, but the US @CDC is backing a trial on newborns in #GuineaBissau that appears to be a fishing expedition looking for #autism @gavinyamey.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/controversia...

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

Trump & RFK Jr.'s coterie of bootlicking doctors are real pieces of shit, we argue in the British Medical Journal, essentially. Link: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

When my kids were babies, South Africa didn’t #vaccinate against #rotavirus. My eldest got it & it triggered epilepsy. #Kennedy is endangering US kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

Weird how white Afrikaners were offered asylum, but Nigerian Christians weren’t.

The prevalence of long term injury from #COVID is the same on the African continent as it is in the West. It's just underreported, under-diagnosed, or misconstrued as TB. I continue to chip away at this subject in this thread - @kerrycullinan.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/tani...

Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded after their appointments were abruptly canceled and rescheduled for months later, according to immigration lawyers.

Disgusting. Going on a fishing trip into confidential material because he can't fault the science.

#Meta censors #abortion and #queer groups: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This voting board at #UNGA is an accurate summary of where the US & Argentina stand in relation to the rest of the world on #GlobalHealth. How do you oppose measures to reduce #NCDs?

🔥 BREAKING: Shareholders of Cisco voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal presented at its annual meeting, by a tally of 99-1% of voting shares. Trump tirade against DEI turns to proxy advisors and shareholder democracy. www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

James Talarico: Three dudes — Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined. They're not just buying yachts and jets. They're buying power. Our healthcare premiums are about to go up because they want another tax break. It’s time to limit their power.

Recently, #Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has initiated an infringement procedure – and a petition has been launched: a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/

So much for #Harvard standing up to #Trymp. It just replace the head of its Health & Human Rights Center after claims it focused too much on #Palestinians www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Dr Demetre Daskalakis was Director of CDC's National Center for Immunizations until he resigned over the antics of #RFKJr. He argues the wall protecting public health from political interference in the US has fallen ⬇️ @friendsofusaid.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/the-wall-pro...

#Texas gets Supreme Court ☑️ for apartheid gerrymandering