Property power. “One in a thousand year riot costs.” #NoKingsProtest @adamtooze.bsky.social finds out what the insurance industry has to say.

#OtD 7 Jun 1954 mathematician and AI thinker Alan Turing, who had helped the Allies win WWII by cracking Nazi codes, died after being sentenced to chemical castration for homosexuality. Officially ruled suicide, but some suspect other explanations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1071...

Gaza’s hospitals only have enough fuel for three days: Health Ministry - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-hospitals-only-have-enough-fuel-three-days-health-ministry

Leila Soueif risks imminent death. #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll

US @GlobalFund cuts will destroy lives and fuel new epidemics of HIV, TB and Malaria in more than 100 countries. Trump Always Chickens Out#TACO when whipped by the stock market. But, he is happy to let millions die. groundup.org.za/article/glob... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

"A funny thing is that I tend to give all my novels the same title to begin with — Wrestling with God. Then while I’m writing, I realize, Oh, that’s not quite it..." Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in this excellent @theparisreivew.bsky.social interview by Namwali Serpell www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

This is Lydia Nabirye. A Ugandan, she was a mother and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She also lived with HIV w/support from a U.S.-funded program. The Trump administration eliminated the program in January. Lydia died two months later: forsaken.life/orals/lydia-... @unaids.org @asia-ilse.bsky.social

We cannot let Trump win. Where is the South African government? Our duty is to avoid conflict and the Global HIV Treatment Coalition wants to assist in building a people’s health service to deal with the systemic crises in the public and private health systems. groundup.org.za/article/hiv-...

Anna Stavrianakis outside the High Court this morning as Al-Haq and @glanlaw.bsky.social challenge the UK government over the continued export of arms making their way to Israel. The judicial review spanning four days will focus on the carve-out for F-35 jet parts.

Let the youth who understand justice lead. #India #Pakistan #Kashmir - Neither terror nor war but a mass anti-fascist front.

We @ukstoptrump.bsky.social are building a demonstration to show Trump what we think of him when he comes! We’ll bring baby blimps & big, beautiful crowds - please donate to help us here: stoptrump.org.uk/donate/

The @apha.org is correct. Robert F. Kennedy Jnr will cause harm to US health services, research and global health. We lived with denialism, pseudoscience and misinformation for almost a decade resulting in millions of people become infected and ill with HIV and then dying. Kennedy is worse.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "... we are a genuinely open society with free speech and media that many other democracies, especially Trump’s America, can be jealous of."

My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.

On March 27, Donald Trump ordered collective bargaining rights revoked for more than 1 million federal workers. Trump and DOGE are waging a war on the working class. Join the Federal Unionist Network on April 5th to fight back: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

Yes. @betoorourke.bsky.social is correct. Fascism cannot be fought with collaborators.

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

This is the nation of free speech, of the law, of respect the blue, of doing good, of working hard, of opportunity, of freedom, apparently. The whole thing is such a disgusting lie. Racism is such utter evil.

The economy has lost confidence in Cabinet

PEPFAR's congressional authorization is all but certain to expire tomorrow without renewal. Yet, that is nowhere near the biggest challenge facing a program that has saved 26 million lives: www.devex.com/news/why-pep... w/ insights from @jenkatesdc.bsky.social and @egpaf.bsky.social

#Trump & #Kennedy prepare America’s Lysenko moment. The pseudo-science peddled under Stalin and the restrictions on scientific research enters a new phase qualitatively more dangerous than the Soviet one. Solidarity with US scientists @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 workers across the country are standing up and demanding NO cuts to education and life-saving research. www.killthecuts.org

we will not let people die we must defeat #Trump & fascism 20 million people living with #HIV on death row. #USAID What do you say? groundup.org.za/article/will... @stephanienolen.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social

HIV activist @zackieachmat.bsky.social met with several civil organisations at Bertha House in Mowbray, Cape Town, on Wednesday night to discuss the looming health crisis caused by the USAID funding cuts. "We will not let our people die” he says groundup.org.za/article/will...

#Resistance is our answer. Beginning small but going deep into our communities and building the broadest coalitions. #HIV #USAID #Pepfar @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Remember Joe Lieberman

A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.

My experience growing up #queer in the #Muslim community. Thanks for a great edit @tanyapampalone.bsky.social

I love @BernieSanders for this but where are the women, Black people and youth? Bring @aoc.bsky.social @rashidatalib.bsky.social @ilhanmn.bsky.social and others to this movement. And, @benwikler.bsky.social Save the lives of 20 million people living with #HIV michiganadvance.com/2025/03/08/b...

From @francoisventer.bsky.social in Johannesburg. groundup.org.za/article/sout...

We are beginning to organise. Activists will need your support to ensure that we save lives. #HIV #USAID #Orphans Will you help? groundup.org.za/article/usai... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

I would say it differently. Issues to win people in the US especially the working and middle classes. Most important people to reach are those who did not vote whether they are Democrats, Independents, Republicans or the alienated. What do you say?

This is on #Trump #Musk #Vought #Rubio.

Permanent shutdown of all #HIV programmes. Time to organise a global day of action against US corporations bhekisisa.org/health-news-... Cruel. Evil. Fuckers.

The waiver on life-saving humanitarian services appears to have had little effect. Funding remains frozen for many projects that provided services explicitly covered by the waiver, such as antiretroviral (ARV) medicines for people with HIV. Read groundup.org.za/article/us-f... by Jesse Copelyn

In the 1980s, I gained significant knowledge from JSAS to make me a lifelong supporter. I tried to subscribe a few minutes ago the price is way beyond my reach especially because I am not attached to any academic institution. #academicfreedom @shireenhassim.bsky.social @seanjacobs

BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

HIV patients go weeks without medicines after US aid cut. Legal challenges have restored funding but damage has been done Read groundup.org.za/article/arv-... by Jesse Copelyn

Imam Muhsin Hendricks has been executed in the name of Islam. His cowardly assassins have not yet shown their faces because they are a cult of death and hate - a dangerous minority bent on the destruction of people and institutions they brand as anti-Islam. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The article is well-meaning but it is based only on the necessity of ethical leadership. But… The unequal financial, trade, investment, labour, contract, property relations and military power - imperialism empties all sovereignty and subjects the rights to life and health to the whims of “aid”.

Agree. Bad headline. The writer, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ does not base his arguments on the “right to political anger”. The word “anger” does not appear even once in the article.

On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

"It’s a long game and we have to stick together and we have to fight for those people who are being endangered right now, both people domestically and the people internationally in the PEPFAR programs." www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tag-executiv...

Our freedom is not for sale. The #MuskTrump presidency is trying to destroy the fundamental rights of all people everywhere. groundup.org.za/article/dona... We must build a global movement for justice, equality, freedom and dignity. #SouthAfricaIsNotForSale

USAID spends less than $50 billion a year on “foreign assistance” and most of it has been frozen and will be cut but it spends $820 billion on war. Let us be clear more people will die because of the “aid” cuts than war. Still, companies like Palantir are jubilant at getting more money.

The Ivan Toms Centre for Health which I attend for the management of my HIV has shut. Meantime #Trump and the White Supremacist #Broligarchs have decided to end all aid to South Africa but the only aid it provides is for HIV related services through #PEPFAR groundup.org.za/article/afri...