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The tuberculosis prevention charity I founded two years ago, Spiro, has a video up for this year’s #P4A2026

You can vote for one charity this year - please vote for Spiro so we can help save lives from TB!

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Palestine demo right now at Downing Street. Stop Starving Gaza

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

Human made mass starvation in Gaza. People being shot waiting for food.
This is utterly unconscionable.
I’ll be at the Downing St protest tonight.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Trump held up a printed picture of people lifting body bags and said, "These are all white farmers that are being buried.”

The image actually shows humanitarian workers burying bodies in the city of Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are not white, not farmers, and not South African.

And a kitty to add to the collection!

I’m a huge Eurovision fan.

It is a travesty they haven’t kicked out Israel who are literally carrying out a plausible genocide right now.
Absolutely shocking televote result.

Huge props to the Palestinian activists in the stadium despite the broadcasters editing out the boo and the #FreePalestine

Timelapse of the second half of the Palestine demo yesterday from just after Westminster bridge to Downing St hundreds of thousands came to say #FreePalestine

Some very good boys spotted this weekend. Bark-tivists!

#FreePalestine

Historian @willdalrymple.bsky.social speaking next to the colonial office where Palestine used to be run, saying this country has a historic responsibility to fix the harm it caused and work to establish a Palestinian state

Palestinians holding symbolic keys to commemorate the Nakbah and mark the 3/4 million Palestinians made refugees in 1948 and denied their right to return to this day.

Israel has launched yet another offensive against Gaza - with the death toll already over 53,000 people and no aid entering for the last 2 months.
Surely surely surely enough is enough. We are so far beyond any reasonable self-defensive right now, this is plausibly genocidal.

How depressing is that the new chants in rotation now are:

“Stop bombing hospitals”

And

“Stop killing children”

Just a basic plea

At the #Palestine demo in London today.

I’ve been going to demos like this for over a decade and I used to find them uplifting.

There’s a chant we used to do:
Gaza Gaza don’t you cry
We will never let you die

Just thinking of that now makes me cry. Because despite years it’s still happening

In the conversations critiquing how much is spent on humanitarian aid…

remember we all spend more on Netflix than humanitarian aid

#USAID was the largest bilateral donor to the #TB response, contributing 19% of international donor funding in 2022. We estimate that the elimination of #USAID funding may lead to 1,390,900 million additional episodes of symptomatic TB and 420,500 TB deaths over the next 10 years. 2/8

Malaria ends with us. Reinvest, Reimagine and Reignite.

Ending #malaria is not just a health imperative; it is an investment in a more equitable, safer and prosperous future for every nation.

On #WorldMalariaDay, let’s Reinvest, Reimagine, and Reignite so that Malaria Ends with Us.

Unreported World - Crisis in Sudan: The Fight for Survival A report on Sudan's forgotten conflict of displaced millions, war crimes and famine

Watched this unreported world report on Sudan

www.channel4.com/programmes/u...

Really sad but important. Also some really impressive people helping their communities as best they can

We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold This month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities.

@scientificdiscovery.dev writes on the devastating impact of foreign aid cuts from rich nations.

www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/we-dont-ha...

Project Resource Optimization

There have been devestating aid cuts. The team behind proimpact.tools have been working flat out to triage and identify the programs to save - lives are on the line

If you know any major donors or foundations looking to provide bridge funding this is the resource to share.

The Loud, Cruel End of America’s Fight Against Tuberculosis On March 24, the world will mark World Tuberculosis Day — though in much of the world, the alarm bells are already ringing. In Harare, Zimbabwe, Nurse Chiedza Makura starts her day with the same…

On World TB Day "The fight against TB isn’t over — unless we decide to let it be"

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Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week Israel continues to batter territory in renewed offensive as Palestinian officials say death toll of war has passed 50,000 Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week. There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow essential aid to flow or ease its new offensive in Gaza, which started on Tuesday with a wave of airstrikes that killed 400 people, mostly civilians, ending two months of relative calm. On Sunday, Palestinian officials said the total death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict had passed 50,000. Continue reading...

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

Judge finds Elon Musk and DOGE's shutdown of USAID likely unconstitutional U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed former and current USAID employees and contractors.

Gutting USAID is awful and illegal. Maybe the most terrible thing Trump / Musk have ever done.

www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f...

"There is no statute that authorizes the Executive Branch to shut down USAID... Congress alone has the constitutional authority to... eliminate agencies it has created."

It’s a real “looking sad, throwing batarang in the vicinity of the UN” time in global health right now

US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ Projects to detect, treat and research new ways to fight TB among those disrupted by sudden funding freeze Dangerous new forms of tuberculosis (TB) for which there is no treatment could emerge as a result of US aid cuts, a top doctor has warned. Dr…

US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’

Rubio's gutting of USAID is illegal and unconstitutional. There is no form of democracy anywhere of any kind that would allow the executive branch to unilaterally cancel budgets and programs passed by the legislative branch and signed into law. It's utter lawlessness.

Marie Antoinette, 1792 colourised

Vote for Spiro (my TB charity!) in #Project4Awesome here

bit.ly/P4A-Spiro

Keen to see if John Green will see our video!