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finally, we're living through precedented times

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

New data from UNICEF’s latest SMART survey in Um Baru locality, in Sudan’s North Darfur, reveals that more than half of children assessed were acutely malnourished. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

PubMed has competition from Germany. That’s a very good thing www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/p... via @statnews.com

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Now Online! Radiographic Manifestations of TB: A Primer for Clinicians, 3rd edition View and/or download the publication: www.currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/products/rad... A print version is scheduled for 2026. #Tuberculosis #Radiology #TBSky #GotCurry #CurryTBCenter

Another shake-up of scientific leadership is underway at NIH after a policy clash over the alleged dangers of funding a study that would alter seasonal flu viruses. That grant is now suspended, Science has learned, and the leader of the NIH division that oversaw it has resigned.

Well things are finally looking up wait no that’s just the child mortality rate my bad

There are hidden risks in changing vaccination policies. When some are vaccinated and some aren’t, infections move to older children and adults, including pregnant people—raising risks for those most vulnerable, such as varicella or rubella causing congenital infections and stillbirths.

Malawi now spends more on debt servicing than on health. 🚨With public debt at 86% of GDP, fiscal pressure is undermining social protection and food security efforts. ✍️Dingaan Mithi @newhumanitarian.bsky.social 📖⬇️ & 🙏

Exploring the fate of mosnodenvir, a potential anti-viral for Dengue… A canary in the coal mine for ID drug development? #IDSky www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

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What do we call this kind of intentional death? 200,000 more children under five are projected to die around the world this year compared with 2024 – the 1st time this century that has happened – after international aid cuts from countries including the UK www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Can confirm. Worked in an Ebola center in 2015 in Sierra Leone. Saw many extraordinarily fit young people die in front of my eyes.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

My trainees are sick of me saying that we have the second worst health care system ever created. (The first being USA pre-Obamacare.) Here is a stellar summary of our many problems, where indeed money has become the mission.

Small bits of hope in dark times.

Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB." Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH. 🧪 1/

The state of infectious diseases - they are not going away - Ebola in DRC - VHF in Ethiopia - Lassa in Nigeria - RVF in Senegal - Polio in Germany - Oropouche in S America - Cholera - Chikungunya - COVID19 - Measles - Influenza A bad time to demolish public health and funding for science

I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action. Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways. www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

Hasta la victoria siempre.

Malnutrition is devastating people right across Sudan. More must be done to end this crisis: 🔴 Unimpeded and safe access for humanitarians 🔴 Increased funding to respond

Updated WHO guideline on TB & undernutrition now out!

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USAID fed the world and fought disease. Its destruction fed only power. The soul of American service was traded for control. Today Elon Musk, the butcher of USAID, got a trillion dollar paycheck from Tesla.

Always fun to be on ID consults and see a great case and then tag along while the trainees write it up!

The late Gore Vidal’s tongue in cheek quip about the United States having one political party with two right wings seems a propos.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

By orders of magnitude.

In #Sudan, “the deadly combination of hunger, disease and displacement is placing millions of children at risk,” warns UNICEF. Here's what you need to know about the crisis and how our colleagues on the ground are responding:

A statistic that continues to live rent free in my mind: half of all international shipping is just moving fossil fuels around.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 Attacks on medical personnel, facilities and services are increasing and are deliberate www.bmj.com/content/391/... #Gaza #Ukraine #Sudan #Congo #Yemen #Afghanistan #Haiti @msf.ca