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Your Salty Chaplain
@yoursaltychaplain.bsky.social

America is one of the richest, most powerful nations in history. Yet many Americans have been led to believe that we're on the verge of financial collapse. Sure, we can do better. But the extent of scarcity mindset gripping this country is unreal & will cost lives as they sit back &watch this occur

J. Smith
@jooltman.bsky.social

I found this interview extremely informative. bsky.app/profile/jool...

J. Smith@jooltman.bsky.social

For a good explainer about what's at stake, listen to this week's New Yorker radio hour which features @agawande.bsky.social, formerly global health head at USAID. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...

wnycstudios.orgAtul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”; Plus, Federal Workers Standing Up to DOGE | The New Yorker Radio Hour | WNYC StudiosGawande, until recently a senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., explains the agency’s importance, and what its undoing by DOGE will bring. Plus, the federal workers behind We the Builders.
ysosidious.bsky.social
@ysosidious.bsky.social

I don’t approve of this. I see it as a betrayal of our values. I do worry how many other citizens agree with this cut. How many are happy to “save taxpayer money” by letting these people die. And are no other countries stepping in to keep these programs afloat?

Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

“The specific countries where we estimate the largest number of lives saved are Nigeria and South Africa, both at around 150,000 lives saved per year from US foreign aid, almost entirely due to PEPFAR support for HIV/AIDS in South Africa’s case, and largely so in Nigeria [...]”

cgdev.orgHow Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save?We present some estimates for lives saved by US assistance worldwide, with illustrative estimates by recipient country. Our core estimates are for deaths prevented from HIV/AIDS, vaccine-preventable i...
Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

“we estimate the cancelled awards represent somewhere over 34 percent of USAID programming. And notably, “life-saving” program areas like maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis are not spared from major cuts.”

cgdev.orgThe USAID Cuts: Little Sign of Mercy for “Life-Saving” Health ProgramsThe bottom line: we estimate the cancelled awards represent somewhere over 34 percent of USAID programming. And notably, “life-saving” program areas like maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, ...
Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏
@fiona-webster22.bsky.social

And we have as yet barely begun to reckon with the addutional lives that will be lost to TB! (See gift link.) I really appreciate your posts & reposts, Saloni, so I'm following you. Check out my daily 🧵of editorial cartoons, pinned to my profile, to see if you want to follow me back.

theatlantic.comThe World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get WorseBy retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.