“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.” #MLK

Yet again, the problem here isn't the money. It's endorsing a new structure of international governance that ignores the concept of sovereignty and legitimizes Donald Trump's personalized leadership and enables his latest grift. bsky.app/profile/rose...

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Well, this is no good.

If fewer people are insured, costs don’t vanish. They shift: to hospitals via uncompensated care, to insured patients via higher prices, to the uninsured who bear the burden of ill health, and to taxpayers via bailouts and subsidies.

This demonstrates the importance of institutions like the African CDC who can work with governments to ensure ethical and just research and clinical trials and who can push back against the Neo-imperialism of the US and others.

Kennedy, obsessed with vaxxed/unvaxxed studies that would not be approved by US ethical review boards, planned to fund one in West Africa — one that would have caused unnecessary disease and death for extremely vulnerable children. After negative media attention, it was canceled. Coverage matters.

Almost all livestock in the United States is factory-farmed— It’s difficult to quantify animal suffering in a single number, but one metric often used to measure living conditions is the number of animals raised on “factory farms”.

The UN can host these meetings at other locations in Geneva and regional economic and social commissions in Addis, Bangkok, Santiago, and Amman. It needs to stop holding meetings in New York until people can travel to the US again safely.

FBI searches home of this Washington Post reporter- -Hannah Natanson. She also recently reported on Maduro and Venezuela. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

NEW: After doctors sent her home with a racing heart, Ciji Graham came to believe the best way to protect her health was to end her pregnancy. But new restrictions in NC and nearby states made finding an abortion provider difficult. www.propublica.org/article/nort...

If your Sunday Scaries feel just a little stronger than usual, fear not. Scientists have proven there's no way around it... from PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld

Excellent piece on Lynn’s “national IQ” dataset: “If you can convince people that “scientific racism” is an oxymoron – that science deals only in truth, and truth cannot be racist – then you can launder a centuries-old ideology of racial hierarchy through the prestige of science itself”

Lack of even basic knowledge about the people that they want to conquer is astounding.

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The Global South Coalition on SRHR and Development Justice is seeking sign-ons from organizations and individuals to an open letter to the UN SG and a Call to Action document focused on safeguarding SRHR within the UN80 reform process. Please share and consider signing here:

I've been doing some work recently looking at the impact of development injustices on low- and middle-income countries' ability to invest in their own development and the health and wellbeing of their populations. And there are so many, but one clear example is in the area of taxation.

Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

I'm watching my colleague Amanda Mustard's NYT Opinion video on the reality of CSA and incest and I strongly recommend you watch it too (🎁🔗)

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This is just as significant as Maduro’s seizure. The inability of governments to collect tax from multinational companies is a key factor in the relative poverty of the Global South. Trump’s USA has gained extraordinary exemption from a scheme to mitigate it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

they're doing it for gender, imo

This is the most plausible analysis I’ve seen given what we know. So can people stop calling what happened in Venezuela “regime change”? “Protection racket” with some “kidnapping” to instil fear seems more accurate.

“I do not defend Maduro. I point at him. But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.”

See: amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

I think this is quite a likely scenario, no apparent air defense response to the attack on Caracas, minimal resistance to the kidnap of Maduro which was obviously co ordinated by people on the inside, i've also heard that the PSUV didn't much like Maduro but tolerated him because Chavez anointed him

Haven’t seen analysis to this effect here, but this post from Alejandro Velasco argues that this is essentially a coup and have been hearing that many in Venezuela agree with this analysis.

I'm deeply sorry to the people of Venezuela. There is no opposition party in the United States to counter the fascist regime's actions and the population is easily demagogued.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

Here is a thing you should read, by @profdownes.bsky.social & Lindsey O'Rourke in @foreignaffairs.com: www.foreignaffairs.com/venezuela/re...

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Five real global health wins in 2025 1.HPV vaccination scaled faster than expected; 2. measles/rubella eliminated in several countries; 3. long-acting HIV PrEP (lenacapavir) approved; 4. progress on TB vaccines/diagnostics; 5. A promising new antimalarial. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Important thread from @loucharb.bsky.social on the attacks on funding for the UN's human rights architecture.

Global health discourse has spent 2025 treating the U.S. as withdrawing from the world. But that's not quite true: we're blackmailing countries for 25-year deals to own their data, and running unethical experiments on children in Africa. We cannot move forward as though the only problem is absence

Interesting thread from @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social. I'm going to add a few points that I think we need to pay attention to. First, is that access to funding through US Global Health Agreements is being made contingent on preferential access to natural resources and markets for US business.

Prasad, Makary and others who claim that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children are not telling the truth. According to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, the committee that worked on this question reported that there were ZERO deaths that they were certain were caused by the vaccines. Well worth reading.

46 civil society organizations published a letter to African government leaders on Wednesday expressing wide-ranging concerns around the data for aid bilateral deals - stating the terms are dictated by the U.S. and not by African interests. via @devex.com www.devex.com/news/rapid-u...

This is outrageous. And also, anyone who thinks that children's right to health is less political than Gaza... well... I have several bridges to sell to you...

"In the Trump 2.0 era, the reproductive justice framework is more important than ever, Ross and Fried argue in their new book, Abortion and Reproductive Justice: An Essential Guide for Resistance." www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com Get your copy 📚➡️ www.ucpress.edu/books/aborti...

Also, "performing abortions" is really just "emptying the contents of the uterus," which is a skill medical providers need to have independent of abortion!

This change would be disastrous. If you are taking care of pregnant women you need to know how to perform abortions even if you don't intend to perform them routinely. I have heard horror stories of doctors who have not been trained absolutely butchering women who have needed them in emergencies.

I'm very glad that the GPEI has raised $1.9 billion. But the fact that $1.89 billion of that money came from an unaccountable private sector, and that Pakistan pledged more than all north governments combined, says a lot about the state of global health right now.

My opinion of ACIP from yesterday has been supported by what I’ve seen so far today. ACIP in its current form is not a legitimate scientific body. It is an epidemiological crime scene.

The outcome of this vote will kill kids. Make no mistake

The ACIP decision to discontinue the recommendation for a universal hepatitis B birth dose vaccine will cause harm. As the federal government continues to fail children's health, families can rely on our nation's physicians to continue to put children's health first.

Name names. Shame on all the ACIP members who voted to strip the recommendation for the birth dose of the HBV vaccine. Call them out. Give them no peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...