'The Continent' 236, 25 avril 2026: -Espoir:les Assemblées rivales libyennes votent un budget commun. -Témoignage: --Journaliste et internet à Téhéran. --Du danger des IAgen & businessmen US. -Photo: la ville lacustre de Ganvié au Bénin. -Sondage: large soutien à la vaccination des enfants. #Afrique

Today is Workers Memorial Day Over 5,000 workers die on the job annually in the US and around 135k die from occupational diseases "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." www.theguardian.com/business/202... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

A group of health organizations just finished a massive 36-country effort to vaccinate 18 million children who were missed during Covid. Most of those children had never received a single vaccine before We can still do good things www.who.int/news/item/24...

With sound 🥹

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Des violences ordinaires, acceptées par la société… … mais le problème soulevé dans le rapport relève des parents, non de l’enfant. L’illustration suggère le contraire.

Overcrowding, bad (no) medical care, not enough food, filth — these are average and expected in this country’s jails and prisons everywhere. ICE detention conditions aren’t below the norm — that’s the norm. That’s what 2 million ppl and their families experience every day.

What does it mean to put children in all policies? 🤔 Come to my talk at Monash University Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) on May 14th and find out! Spaces limited, register here: lnkd.in/gqHAjxuE

health policy timeline cleanse ☺️

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

Well now the press is finally being honest apnews.com/article/leba...

Every story has a quote left on the cutting room floor. For this one, it's this: Me: The U.S. has sequenced 1000 measles genomes from our outbreak. Virologist @eddieholmes.bsky.social: "This is 2026! There shouldn't be 1000 measles genomes. That's disastrous." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

This strike marks the start of the fifth week of Donald Trump’s reckless war in Iran, where strikes have already killed at least 230 children and injured an additional 1,800. trib.al/oIBUtwR

This is pretty crazy

Can't help but think of the pandemic and the Iran War as dress rehearsals for how not to do the green transition.

Play is the work of children. It’s how they process the world around them and practice adult skills. In the photo below, children in Gaza are reenacting a funeral procession in play. (The photo is a screenshot I took from an even more heartbreaking video via AlJazeera.)

I visited the pediatric vaccination unit at the regional hospital in the Buea, Cameroon today and it was packed! Mothers with their babies of all ages from newborns to toddler age waiting patiently for vaccination. It gave me hope, it warmed my heart. Most parents still value vaccination. #hopeful

Want to read 🤓 Also gorgeous poster 😍

Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings

I remember when the Women’s March was the largest single-day protest in US history ✊🇺🇸 People really fucking hate Trump and someday (soon I hope) we will succeed in ousting him and his fascist regime.

Homophobia and Transphobia is so crazy to me because its all based in people’s inability to mind their business

Saw the numbers and thought “that can’t be right” but no, 498 schools hit by US/Israeli bombs in Iran. 281 hospitals. sourced to the Red Crescent by Al Jazeera. Unspeakable

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

Love this 😍 Anne Hidalgo’s legacy is carried on! (Only quibble: Monsieur Grégoire, your helmet !)

I’m sorry but this is magnificent

I've organized & will moderate a webinar on the health & policy crisis of ICE detention centers April 30, 1-2pm ET, open to all Register/submit questions at: childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/t... I'd be grateful if you could circulate this Thx to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social for support

Everyone in my neighborhood looked so good today 😊 #EidMubarak 🌙

Good reminder

Israeli forces have killed or wounded the equivalent of a classroom’s worth of children every day in Lebanon in the past two weeks of Israel’s escalation against the country, the UN’s children’s agency has reported.

I’ve seen these changes with my own eyes 👀. Here’s hoping Paris other cities will carry on Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s visionary leadership.

"I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for..." Dolores Huerta's powerful statement on Cesar Chavez' abuse. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

The writing is on the wall. The UK is going to attempt to ban hormones for trans adults. This is just one of the steps they're taking to limit access slowly. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...

Get him

But qualitative researchers are the squishy ones 🙃

EXCLUSIVE: Senegalese proponents of a tougher anti-LGBT law discussed campaign strategy and mobilization tactics with a US-based "pro-family" group that ​calls homosexuality a public health threat. MassResistance is also working with anti-LGBT activists in Ghana. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Israel has killed an average of nine children per day in Lebanon:

“I dream of playing with my friends in a park without fear.”

The ignorance and inhumanity is heartbreaking

horrific

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Great read on the centrality of fighting the commercial determinants of health to the #PublicHealth endeavor. With a bonus deep-dive on metaphors for language nerds 🤓

I nominate A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet. Short but it sure does pack a punch.

Public health colleagues: discuss. This goes against my instincts but it’s true that being nice isn’t working.

One of the most grotesque war crimes in modern history And then they bombed the school a second time—killing survivors & rescue workers

WHO hub in the Middle East has frozen emergency assistance due to bombings. They've stalled shipments of medical supplies, eg $6m in medicines for Gaza & polio supplies to Afghanistan & Pakistan. WHO says >100,000 people displaced from Tehran & >60K from Lebanon. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

Short thread putting things back in order when discussing the Dubai airport closure:

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

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The @alliancehpsr.bsky.social has a new call for proposals on #healthtaxes in #Cambodia, #China, #Kenya, #Indonesia, #Nigeria, #SouthAfrica, #SriLanka, #Thailand, and #VietNam deadline 26 March ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...