@donmoyn.bsky.social on the death of USAID, the US foreign aid agency that Elon Musk “fed into the wood chipper,” leading to 300,000 deaths, many by starvation. https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/the-death-of-us-aid?r=3np8hf&utm_medium=ios

Amazing news! Global Fund Secures Access to Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug Lenacapavir for Low- and Middle-Income Countries https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025/2025-07-09-global-fund-secures-access-breakthrough-hiv-prevention-drug-lenacapavir/

Gilead Imposes Price Secrecy on Global Fund Over Breakthrough HIV Prevention Shot https://healthgap.org/press/gilead-imposes-price-secrecy-on-global-fund-over-breakthrough-hiv-prevention-shot-blocking-transparency-and-accountability

🥗 Dismantling USAID was the ultimate betrayal of a promise, and it was mass murder. Unforgivable.

DOGE’s destruction of USAID caused these deaths directly. https://groundup.org.za/article/mozambique-these-children-usaid-left-to-die-part-1-the-abandonment-orphans-with-hiv/

🥗 Let's talk about failure. open.substack.com/pub/makethem...

🥗 Rep Cline (R-Va) voted for SNAP and Medicaid cuts, pain for his constituents. Letter to the editor from @results-virginia.bsky.social member Melissa Strobel Rep. Ben DECline thefnp.com/tncms/asset/...

Even one death from USAID funding cuts is too many. But the death toll is staggering. Restore these programs at State. Now.

Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.

When they got there,the guard told him that the clinic was closed because funding was stopped. Her seven year-old son died that night. That’s just one preventable death in an ocean of nameless faces that have or will die because of this administration‘s greed.

USAID programs cut by Sec. Rubio must be restored at the State Department ASAP. So much death already is inexcusable but it’s not too late to save lives.

RESULTS Virginia expresses our deep condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Rep. Gerry Connolly. He served Virginia and America well.

Why the World Needs Africa to Be Healthy https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/why-world-needs-africa-be-healthy

🥗 ICYMI yesterday - I calculated how much states will be on the hook for SNAP benefits if Congress passes the House GOP SNAP state cost share plan. www.datawrapper.de/_/bj3Ci/

🥗 Anti-hunger advocates slam House Republicans' proposed budget cut to SNAP as 'unconscionable' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

🥗 Stand up for SNAP! Perspective from Yolanda Gordon, RESULTS, who has lived experience with SNAP results.org/blog/standin...

“The world’s richest man is killing the world’s poorest children”. Overdue moral clarity.

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Bill Gates said.

Bill Gates Accuses Musk Of ‘Killing Over A Million’ Children With USAID Cuts—Accelerates Charity Timeline Source: Forbes

DOGE’s destruction of USAID, and its many life-saving programs, was a shocking and horrific act leading to thousands of needless deaths… and counting. These programs MUST be restarted at the State Department.

Some good news heading into the weekend: "GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Restore PEPFAR! It has bipartisan support. "Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) telling colleagues she would have trouble supporting cuts to PEPFAR, an effort to combat HIV/AIDS abroad that other foreign-policy-minded senators also support." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🥗 the foreign aid cuts are hurting American farmers too. #agsky

Trump’s foreign aid cuts must be reversed. USAID programs shut down must be reinstated at the State Department. People are dying.

🥗 My message to Senator Warner's aide Taylor Durbin regarding SNAP and Medicaid cuts: "We have to stop them. They cannot be allowed to succeed in making these cuts. The effects would be catastrophic."

Yesterday, we met with Senator Warner's staff @markwarner.bsky.social to raise the alarm on looming cuts to SNAP and Medicaid and to urge the Senator to fight to ensure that gutted USAID programs are reinstated at the State Department. Thank you @markwarner.bsky.social!

🥗 Good god

Trump’s Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/world/africa/sudan-usaid-famine.html

Key Ways to Preserve USAID’s Children’s Programs Time is of the essence; lives hang in the balance. https://campaignforchildren.org/resource/key-ways-to-preserve-usaids-childrens-programs/

For thousands of infants the damage is irreversible. But it’s not too late to save thousands more. Restart PEPFAR.

Once you shut off a program like PEPFAR, restarting it isn’t just flipping a switch. Also unclear whether they honestly intend to restart it. Meanwhile, people are dying and infants are being born with HIV that could have been prevented.

My latest, on the USAID destruction and the Constitutional crisis in which we find ourselves. open.substack.com/pub/makethem...

Killing 90% of USAID programs will kill thousands of people, or more. A shocking and heartbreaking action. https://apnews.com/article/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-cuts-6292f48f8d4025bed0bf5c3e9d623c16

We will redouble our advocacy and demand that Congress intervene to restore the USAID programs illegally shut down by the Trump administration. Countless lives hang in the balance.

Fighting TB is good for the world and also for America. Cutting these programs is self-defeating in addition to being chillingly cruel. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis...

I’m running out of words to describe the shockingly devastating consequences of this administration’s illegal actions. RESTORE PEPFAR NOW!

Choosing to keep PEPFAR funds frozen in the face of court orders to release the funds, knowing that the freeze would cause thousands of deaths and create HIV drug resistance, is profoundly evil. PEPFAR FUNDS MUST BE RESTORED IMMEDIATELY!

Illnesses like TB and measles know no borders.

This is horrifying.

The freeze on PEPFAR funding alone already has cost over 12,000 lives. This is a dire emergency. pepfar.impactcounter.com

Despite Sec. of State Rubio's assurances of waivers to the USAID stop-work order for life-saving humanitarian aid, it seems that none of that aid has resumed. We urge @markwarner.bsky.social and @timkaine01.bsky.social to fight to restore this critical funding. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Even if the federal government destruction ended today, the damage already done will take decades to reverse. Much of it is irreversible. Already 9,600 adults and 1,000 infants have died as a result of freezing PEPFAR (HIV/AIDS prevention/treatment). pepfarimpact.vercel.app

A 6-month cessation of HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa during COVID resulted in 679,000 deaths within one year.

🥗 #HandsOffSNAP

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🥗 #HandsOffSNAP Also hands off WIC, Medicaid, school meals, Meals on Wheels, etc

The illegal USAID stop-work order and agency dismantling is already causing preventable deaths. It must be reversed, and the agency restored.

Accurate. And we *have to* stop them.

🥗 the magnitude of these Medicaid and SNAP spending cuts would be absolutely devastating.