AND ABSOLUTE YES!! What a groundbreaking, inspiring, and grounded campaign. New Yorkers, you know what to do!

Prince Harry, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Charlize Theron and Thuso Mbedu unite with UNAIDS and Hollywood filmmaker Ron Nyswaner to urge continued funding to end AIDS. Watch their message: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9u... Press release: mailchi.mp/unaids.org/2...

WHAT IS MIGRATION? Joining a migrant family through the deadly Darién jungle connecting South and North America vimeo.com/943626138

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

The world gone mad. Mad! This also sets a really bad precedent. The right wing lies are ludicrous and I think it is a really misjudged move to provide “evidence”. Even if the First Lady were anything but a cis woman, it’s nobody’s business. The Macrons have right to privacy like anybody else.

Queen

“3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt payments than on either health or education”

"People living with #HIV in fear as impact of donor funding cuts begin to show in #eSwatini" via @mailandguardian.bsky.social

I thought i couldn’t like guy more. And then he drops this. The message, the framing, the plan. He’s got it. New Yorkers, you’ve got your guy. It’s a fight worth winning.

Go get it!! From your library or independent bookstore (just not from Am*zon).

Obscene.

This why accurate journalism and reporting matters so much . After @npr.org reported on these individuals who faced death without access to ART after the US pulled foreign funding, the Zambian government stepped up, got in contact and providing life saving meds. A win! www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Love birds and on the East Coast time zone: sign up!

Ouch! "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow" @petridishes.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

📢 Happening tomorrow! Join @who.int's webinar highlighting its new guidelines on #lenacapavir for #HIV prevention + testing strategies for long-acting injectable PrEP. 🗓️ Thursday, 28 August ⏰ 13:00 CEST 🔗 Register for free now:

"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."

What does it say about us if hunting intelligent, sentient species for fun is/was ever socially acceptable?

#books are awesome.

get a library card get a library card get a library card get a library card get a LIBRARY CARD

Are you HIV+? Living in Europe? Currently on HIV treatment? Please fill in the Ask Us Europe survey that I’ve been working on with @shareeastlondon.bsky.social. We aim to ensure people with HIV have access to the best treatment and care. Survey at: bit.ly/4m5ktRm

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

A lovely tribute to pigeons. 🥰

If I were in the city, you’d have my vote. Libraries are sacred!

EXTREMELY proud to announce that my memoir, “Prescription: Ice Cream”, has been long-listed for the Sunday Times Literary Prize. If you’re interested in a story about working in the busiest hospital in the world, overcoming addition, or finding the meaning of life-check it out!

This of course makes me think about wonderful Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Gathering Moss, which filled me with awe and admiration for mosses and people who study them.

Thank you Mr Jackson. I couldn’t agree more (especially given our house is powered by renewables).

If you were forced to flee your home because of floods or wildfires, would you expect to be received with dignity and be supported? Yes? That’s exactly what all refugees everywhere deserve

A bit of a timeline cleanser. Enjoy some Alpine flora and glacier views #Switzerland

The Global Threat to LGBTQ Rights “The Fate of Legal Protections Is Tied to the Fate of Democracy” Ari Shaw www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Every time I read how people - unarmed kids, parents - are routinely shot at and killed when they try to access food, I shudder at cruelty. They don’t write about it enough. When they kill doctors, they kill hundreds patients too. Another Doctor Is Dead in Gaza www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This is criminal. No other words. Criminal. Poor leadership made even poorer by toxic masculinity that underpins a lot of this admin’s decisions.

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

Obscene. We need to return 90% and higher marginal income tax rate for the ultra rich, and invest in universal healthcare, education, social and food security and all other beautiful things that make life better for everyone.

Love this whole discussion. And yes, the spiders too.

Truly both remarkable and a no-brainer that if you take care of people, they will take care of themselves, eliminating triggers of violence.

Punishment apparatuses do not alleviate violence, care apparatuses do.It’s a lesson that’s plain in the data but we’ve been ideologically&philosophically attached to ineffective approaches that make us feel tough/moral.We don’t have to be, though. In the 21st c we should invest in things that work.

If women submitting to men was a natural way of being, they would not have needed laws, religion & violence to get them to do it.

When AI steals your water. Yes, I use AI now and then. But if I had to choose between outsourcing thinking to a machine and clean tap water, I choose water. We can live without AI. We can’t live without water. Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

The conventional wisdom says that checks and balances forestall the abuse of power. But our particular system constrains the public far more than it constrains elites. By obstructing ambitious political changes, it enables those who benefit from the status quo to protect their powers and privileges.

Every line is an indictment. How can the world allow this to happen? What Israel is doing is vicious genocide. “There is such a horrendous lack of painkillers that in a hospital—wall to wall people with wounds of war— you’d hear the children and their screams.” www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

- A new study finds that from 2007 -2023, children in the U.S. were 80% more likely to die from ages 1 -19 than their peers in other high-income countries. - Children in the U.S. were 15x more likely to die by firearms than children in other high-income countries. www.science.org/content/arti...

Zohranomics is an effective form of antifascist economic policy. The crisis of economic security that comes with basic questions of dignity & identity is being used by the far right. An agenda laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people is the way out.

We have mere hours to kill this abominable budget bill. 🚨 If you have a Republican senator, call, email, @ them. If you or your friends have senators in these states, do it NOW. ☎️ Call Congress: (202) 224-3121 Maine, Alaska, Kentucky, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, Kansas, Utah.

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism