WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

there is zero excuse for this

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.

Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Stephen Lewis Was a Singular Man on a Mission

“A man that during the AIDS epidemic managed to help save us, and his name will forever be written on Africa”

Merci @stephanienolen.bsky.social for such a wonderful tribute to Stephen Lewis

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...

Israel to destroy 'all houses' near Lebanon border Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the country's defence minister has sa...

Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the country's defence minister has said

👀 A new dawn, a new day :

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270+ organisations are still waiting for @vonderleyen to RSVP to the #AntwerpCounterSummit.

Will the President be bold enough to accept the invitation?

US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism From Zimbabwe to Zambia, US health deals are raising fears of a new era of biomedical extractivism.

"The US is now pursuing biological data and pathogen intelligence through policies that risk reproducing the power imbalances of colonial extraction in new scientific form...African bodies are not cheap, expendable commodities."
www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

A Motto for All Health Workers: Resist, Resist, Resist Doing our work and keeping our heads down isn’t a victory. We need to fight this regime every day, in every way.

My latest for @thenation.com. For those of us in healthcare, public health, science resisting is a duty born of our commitment to serve, make the world a better place. But our institutions don't make it easy. But we still have to do it in large and small ways. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Hannah Daly: Irish people are again paying a high price for our reliance on fossil fuels But renewable energy relies on resources that will never run out and cannot be cut off as act of aggression

In my @irishtimes.com op-ed today I argue that our climate law is the best framework we have for making energy secure and affordable, because it tackles the root cause of our vulnerability to energy shocks - our dependence on fossil fuels.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

The potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study In a modelling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income ...

New @plosmedicine.org

"eliminating all external funding for tuberculosis could lead to nearly 80 billion US dollars in additional household costs and more than 40 million extra households facing catastrophic costs"

journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Back in Parliament tonight to tell MPs we need to abolish ISDS - the toxic ‘corporate courts’ which allows oligarchs, multinationals and super rich investors to subvert our democracy. #ISDSfree

Great meeting @tradejusticemov.bsky.social

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X The Paris prosecutor's office said a search was underway at the French offices of Elon Musk's social media network X on Tuesday as part of an investigation opened in January 2025.

Paris prosecutors raid the offices of Elon Musk's X.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

“Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

Do *not* make me take O'Leary's side you prick!

Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it’s not true

Handy debunking of some often brandished US boosterism.

The US obviously presents a disastrous economic and political model; nothing to copy here

bylinesnetwork.substack.com/p/decline-wh...

Global health systems are being cut just as the Global South sends vast sums in debt repayments to wealthy states. Resources out, health capacity down. This makes no one safer.

#GlobalJustice #AMR

Rights groups slam UK pledge to resume Israel arms sales Business Secretary Peter Kyle indicated that the government could resume arms sales and restart trade talks if it enters the second phase of the ceasefire.

The UK’s existing arms ban to Israel was already riddled with loopholes, but the idea that the UK is now considering resuming ‘business-as-usual’ by resuming arms exports to Israel and re-opening trade talks is chilling.

www.newarab.com/news/rights-...

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

Alternative headline: humiliating and abusing women on X by digitally undressing them is now a privilege reserved to paying users.

And the banks. Whatever banks X uses are also liable for knowingly handling money that was made illegally

Afua Hirsch: Politicians looking to blame others for migration should look at themselves | Good Law Project The west has spread environmental and economic damage around the world. Now the people fuelling the politics of hate are making money from the apparatus of hatred, says Afua Hirsch.

"Instead of acknowledging migrants as the survivors of climate collapse – fuelled by the global north, which is responsible for 92% of excess global emissions – these political parties emphasise 'overpopulation' and 'opportunism' in the global south."

How is it not the Government's position - as put forward by Billy Kelleher - that the European Commission hits the immediate pause button on Grok while it's waiting for all these reviews and assessments?

The power is there.

Trump confirms he is a fascist and an imperialist of the first order. A mafia boss heading a rogue state. You cannot say we need to take action to stop Putin and continue to appease this terrorist. The world must stand up now.

One reason why UK #AidCuts are incredibly shortsighted.

Security is about a lot more than military spending, and diplomacy is also being cut

www.ft.com/content/f388...

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind:

Showing up at protests has real impact!