Hearing from Community Partners International, which works from Myanmar to Bangladesh, that USAID cuts mean 14,000 people with HIV losing access to lifesaving meds and a total stop in all HIV and TB screening. So many people will die due to these chaotic, sudden, horrifically implemented cuts. - ThreadSky

johngreensbluesky.bsky.social • 5 hours ago

Hearing from Community Partners International, which works from Myanmar to Bangladesh, that USAID cuts mean 14,000 people with HIV losing access to lifesaving meds and a total stop in all HIV and TB screening. So many people will die due to these chaotic, sudden, horrifically implemented cuts.

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t3rrybowman.bsky.social•5 hours ago

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp...”

...and set them on fire.

radiomother.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Maddening and horrific. Thanks for disseminating this, John.

oneradlad.bsky.social•4 hours ago

It's a tough sell to love this message, but it deserves a signal boost.

the33rd.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Heartbreaking. Cutting aid reveals our disconnect, denying others’ humanity denies our own. Each life lost is a collective failure. Compassion must drive policy, recognizing we’re one. Urgent action needed.

davidkgrills.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Is there somewhere or someone keeping a tally of the farreaching negative outcomes, including loss of life due to these cuts?

jaysartcorner.bsky.social•5 hours ago

There is not a scrap of empathy or care in these sick people who are doing this.

salemtheeecat.bsky.social•2 hours ago

can citizens do anything? can we raise money and fund the medications and screenings?

djayjameson.bsky.social•47 minutes ago

Wow. Ya. That sucks. Sorry eh.

annealberhasky.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I know it won't make up the shortfall (obviously) but is it worth it/can we donate to Community Partners directly?

itsdanielarthur.bsky.social•4 hours ago

NGOs like Partners in Health, and orgs like Stop TB are good places to direct your money, but you’re right that philanthropy cannot come close to making up the gap (your money will still do good though 🙂)

naiadryade.dftba.social•4 hours ago

This is genocide.

parkerjamie.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Is this Christian values?

raukodraug.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Neither Trump nor Musk are Christian, so I don’t think Christian values… or really ANY values beyond the monetary value of what can line their pockets… are at play here.

parkerjamie.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Trump and Musk are who they are. It’s really about the tens of millions of Christians that supported Trump…what is more important their faith or Trump? Because there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence that those 2 are incompatible.

raukodraug.bsky.social•28 minutes ago

"What's more important their faith or Trump?" For many of them Trump. Evangelical Christians are calling Jesus' own word in the Sermon on the Mount too "liberal"... so, while they may call themselves Christian, they're actively turning their back on the faith.

https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak

wtf-means-wtf.bsky.social•5 hours ago

When will these people realize there won't be any more money to make when there's no more healthy human left for them to exploit?

estvm.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I'm outraged and grieving with you.

amanstans.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I believe the word we are looking for here is Eugenics and also applies to the cuts to your Medicaid program.

gwenid1701.bsky.social•4 hours ago

That’s the point. If you’re not white, male; American, and in the top 5%, you are not important to this administration. Therefore, you’re expendable. Their deaths don’t matter.

justinalpert.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Holy fuck....

thefaultyplan.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They're social darwinists John. They want those people to die. They think it's a net positive.

cellardoor64.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I genuinely don't think they are thinking even this hard about it. I think they're just chimps slashing and burning with no concept of the impact it has on other people and no care to learn.

njawbreaker.bsky.social•4 hours ago

That's rude to chimps, who actually care for and mourn their sick and dying.

thefaultyplan.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I disagree. Elon types want to outbreed the inferior stock.

starsiegeroks.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Great replacement theory. Rooted in the eternal battle of the racist, that battle being that throughout history, race and population has always been a battle to them, which means even those who are on "their side" are just numbers to compare against the "other".

cellardoor64.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I think they're motivated by only money: I think if they can stick some u.s. dollars in those hands and create some consumers on a Pfizer subscription plan then they don't care so much about the eugenics of it all.

thefaultyplan.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They're obsessed with outbreeding the others. Think: Elon's 13 kids. Why they support IVF.

jrobinsnest.bsky.social•5 hours ago

As a longtime aerofighter I think we've just been aeros long enough, fellow John.
This Robin feels more like an arrow.
Where can I fly.

starrytraveler.bsky.social•4 hours ago

❤️‍🩹😢

propertyofyeti.bsky.social•5 hours ago

All in the name of Musk escaping consequences and giving himself and Trump more wealth and power. Beyond indefensible.

notthesmartestguy.bsky.social•5 hours ago

They truly don’t understand why we’re mad. They think it’s a game and we will all meet in the afterlife for high fives.

presidentjefferson.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Resistant strains of tuberculosis will arise, and of course, travel. 19th century, all over.

satinchaira.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I really think that they’re like sadistic children burning ants with magnifying glasses and stomping anthills to watch them run. Not that any of us are ants, but they think we are.

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