… and Molly is not alone. More than $2.6B of ongoing research has been canceled (with much more this week, at Harvard). With each cancellation: We are losing so much knowledge. Losing the next generation of scientists. Losing our ability to protect our health, both now & for the future. 🧪🩺😷

1. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. 🧵

Job loss can be a major form of trauma. If you’re in shock, feeling untethered, or worried about your life situation, finances, etc. please reach out to a friend, family member, someone in the community, or a hotline/chat to connect and talk about it. Dialing 988 is a good place to start.

If anyone at the Gates Foundation cared what I think, my advice would be to pivot away from shiny “innovations” and invest in helping to preserve the basic infrastructure of global health, starting with the Demographic and Health Surveys program.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

This is an informative thread and I’m feeling a little slice of hope. Not too much, but maybe like I can take a little sip of air…

If you need some hope, @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social has some to share ⤵️

McConnell being the lone no vote on any of this is like Godzilla offering to repaint a window sill after destroying Tokyo

Health workers, policymakers, students, educators, & researchers who use data, methods & findings from USAID-funded DHS Program published a preprint calling for restoration of access to data & continued operation of DHS Program website. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... cc @stephanienolen.bsky.social

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

Does cutting Medicaid align with a pro-life approach?

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

What seems missing is guidance on how evidence-based folks should talk to those whose brains marinated in RW propaganda for decades. Many TRIED & failed to “get our people”, maybe b/c we find facts compelling. Could guidance, more specific/rapidly responsive than Lakoff’s broad framing stuff, help?

“No American can be proud of a govt that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

My God, 600 trials at Hopkins now in jeopardy from Trump's draconian cuts to health research, including trials for cancer, pediatrics, & cardiovascular disease I guess cancer, children's health, and heart health are now too "woke" to address?

Not confirmed yet, but The DHS Program, which has operated for 40+ years collecting data in over 90+ countries and is the primary source of data for monitoring global health, is on the list of contracts to be cut. This is devastating on so many levels.

New: We are suing Trump to reverse the foreign aid freeze, on behalf of AVAC @hivpxresearch.bsky.social and the Journalism Development Network. Act up, fight back. www.citizen.org/news/nonprof...

Where is the real Robin Hood? You know, that D0GE mole with access to everyone’s bank accounts?!! Come on, just ~ 5% of Mu$k’s net worth would end homelessness in the US.

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The data not expressed here includes the number of deliveries that are paid for by Medicaid (44.7 % in 2023) and the percentage of funding for Children’s of Alabama which comes from Medicaid (50-57% depending on the year). Medicaid is critical to the healthcare of Alabamians.

Not only has survey preparation, collection, and data processing stopped, but so has the ability to request and download #DHSProgram data because the requests are handled by my colleagues who are furloughed. If (when?) USAID is permanently dismantled, this tremendous global good will be lost. 💔

keep it up

All US USAID staff living abroad are being “evacuated” back to the US by Saturday. Reckless isn’t the right word. Evil fits better.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I just made myself a website! Check it out! lindsaymallick.owlstown.net @owlstown.bsky.social Please add my academic website to The Owlstown Academic Gallery.🙏

Looking forward to hearing more about what we can do: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

The USAID website is no longer functioning.

I want to hear how you plan to help out in your communities. How are you helping your friends, family & neighbors? 🏘️ What are things we can do to help our mental health? Any Food 👩🏾‍🌾 growing tip? Anyone have useful💰saving tips? Don’t tell me what HE did today. Tell me what YOU did today.

I’m starting to compile a list of all the suggestions I’m seeing for things we can do to advocate for change - or at least stop the downward spiral we’re headed into. Please share any ideas you have/have seen here (or PM me). I’ll post some specific ideas that resonate with me later today.

If there was ever a time to speak up and act, now is it.

The White House just ordered that all Federal financial assistance, including grants and loans, be put on pause. In FY 2024, the Federal Government spent “more than $3 trillion on Federal financial assistance, such as grants and loans.”

I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means. A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.

<1% of the US federal budget goes to foreign aid, which saves maternal & child lives, prevents mass famine, combats infectious disease, etc. This 90-day pause will have disastrous effects-from destabilizing nations in critical need of aid to layoffs of US support staff. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Taking the opportunity to repost this since people hate it BECAUSE I'M RIGHT.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

To improve pandemic preparedness for #MCH & #nutrition, we can use vital statistics data to evaluate state efforts + outcomes during COVID. @mariethoma.bsky.social found that states w/ EBT for WIC (Women, Infants and Children) mitigated declines in enrollment over states w/ paper-based systems.

There's a huge tension building within public health over collaboration: can we work with the Trump Administration, at whatever few points of overlap in mission exist, to make people healthier? What this misses is the visibility and transparency of that play to the public, and its impact on trust

One of the early signs that the USSR was in deep trouble in 1980s was its suppression of health data. Now Texas follows suit www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Kathleen Toomey fired the ENTIRE Maternal Mortality Review Committee in Georgia after the being unable to pinpoint exactly who leaked the reports of the maternal deaths resulting from the state’s #abortion ban. Speak up and share widely-- we cannot stay quiet. dph.georgia.gov/kathleen-too...

After falling for decades, the childhood mortality rate has started to rise. What’s killing kids? Trauma, drugs and firearms. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b...

I'm so glad that we are rebuilding #AcademicTwitter and #ScienceTwitter! They were extremely important communities, and their decline was a genuine loss. I am grateful and hopeful that Bluesky is giving us the chance to rebuild these remarkable human networks. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

Are those who use the private sector more or less likely to have future unmet need for care? What about those who switch sectors across MCH services? Find out more today at 11:40am rm 101B #HSR2024 as we discuss Aligning the Private Sector and see other MOMENTUM talks ⬇️ usaidmomentum.org/hsr2024/

First day on #bluesky AND first day of a conference—how exciting! I’m in Nagasaki at the Health Systems Global’s #HSR2024, repping usaidmomentum.org/hsr2024/. If you’re here, too, stop by the MOMENTUM booth (17) or come check our presentations.

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