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Former Open Society Foundation and UN. Co-Director Science of Implementation Initiative (founded by Paul Farmer). Did Russian Studies at Amherst and Georgetown.
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BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.

submitted 1 day ago • 491 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 20 days ago • 169 comments

🛑Closing down USAID is illegal.. 📜It's an independent agency with authorities legislated by Congress. ⚠️The president has no legal authority to unilaterally abolish or move it under the State Department. Excellent analysis by @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com bit.ly/4i2jeAH

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Greatest security breach in American history. Foreign hostile powers could start looting the Treasury, steal our money, cripple the country.

submitted 23 days ago • 20 comments

Subscribe to WIRED. Seriously. Right now. Give them your money.

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

"As global norms are set and scientific standards issued, the absence of the US [from WHO] will undermine scientific research, health security, and foreign policy," write Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3E74dP9

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

Excellent interview with Alex Soros.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

So happy to hear that President Biden will award George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom- so well deserved for his dedication to making the world a more open and more equitable place. Biden will award Medal of Freedom to Soros, Ralph Lauren and others

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

What a cool study and a powerful demonstration that Tuberculosis is largely a disease of poverty. In Brazil a large scale intervention which provided cash monthly to families living in poverty led to profound reductions in TB cases. Up to 50% among the poorest groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 55 days ago • 63 comments

Made the whole thing up

submitted 77 days ago • 342 comments

If we all find 100 posts to like every day, engagement and good will on @bsky.app grows exponentially. Is it worth a few minutes to make the platform stronger ?

submitted 79 days ago • 2543 comments

A statement from The Onion about InfoWars.

submitted 79 days ago • 452 comments

One of the best pieces I’ve seen on pandemic revisionism, Jay Bhattacharya, the Great Barrington Declaration & RFK Jr (who Bhattacharya campaigned for—he even spoke at his political rallies) By @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @kmpanthagani.bsky.social yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/hhs-picks-...

submitted 85 days ago • 19 comments

It is literally the case that NYT and WaPo are drowning out all content about Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth with coverage of Hunter Biden that completely ignores the corruption involved in the Hunter Biden investigation.

submitted 86 days ago • 23 comments

We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones. Conviction is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for reflecting deeply. It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.

submitted 86 days ago • 22 comments

It’s past time for new leadership. Pass the torch to the fighters.

submitted 87 days ago • 477 comments

Fantastic reporting from @janemayer.bsky.social. Hegseth would be dangerous as Secretary of Defense for a thousand reasons; he also has a record of gross incompetence as a manager. And the allegations of on-the-job drunkenness and sexual impropriety align with the earlier allegation against him.

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

From my segment today on @cnbc.com. We face a grim and avoidable resurgence of once vanquished childhood infectious diseases if we follow down the current path being taken in Washington.

submitted 90 days ago • 66 comments

With the broligarchs granted sweeping powers over the federal government, what happens now? My new piece in @theatlantic.bsky.social today reviews what they've been up to & how their bizarre political agenda stems from comic books & sci-fi. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 95 days ago • 54 comments

"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 93 days ago • 64 comments

Russian ballet star who criticized Putin falls to his death nypost.com/2024/11/18/w...

submitted 101 days ago • 45 comments