You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

A line graph of estimated AIDS-related deaths from 2025 through 2040 in 55 PEPFAR-supported countries. The Y axis is estimated number of deaths and ranges from 200,000 to 2 million. The X axis is years and ranges from 2010 to 2040. There is a black line labeled “historical trend” from 2010 to 2025 showing a decrease in deaths from 1.2 million to ~420,000. Then in 2025 the black line splits into three scenarios: 1) a dashed green line showing deaths if USAID were to increase, 2) a dashed blue line showing deaths if USAID remained at 2024 levels, and 3) a dashed red line showing deaths if USAID stopped and was not replaced. In scenario 1 (funding increased) deaths continue to decrease from ~420,000 to 200,000. In scenario 2 (funding stays the same) deaths stay the same at 420,000. In scenario 3 (funding cut and not replaced) deaths increase from ~420,000 to 1.7 million.

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.

@altusaid.altgov.info

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A list of all agencies and programs the Trump administration is seeking to eliminate. An accessible PDF is available from altCDC. Email altcdc1@pm.me.

HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated

Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts.

These cuts will impact Every Single American.

Email altcdc1@pm.me for PDF and xlsx.

Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S. The Trump administration wants to send Americans to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.

Trump told us the plan today: The Trump administration wants the prison in El Salvador — and, perhaps, others — to hold Americans.

Importantly, Vance, Rubio, and Bondi did not appear surprised or upset by this news — in fact, it did not appear to be news to them at all. This is the plan.

Law Dork:

Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil"

"Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."

Free this man immediately.

apnews.com/article/mahm...

The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate” The national security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.

like @alexshephard.bsky.social said

newrepublic.com/article/1932...

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed for coronavirus vaccines, warned that a measles outbreak shows how confidence in science is being “undermined.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is beyond reckless. With measles cases spreading across TX and the U.S., we need scientists at the table, not folks pushing conspiracy theories. RFK Jr. is playing games with people’s lives.

This was always where it was heading. This is a horrorshow

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

This is so dangerous. It’s going to kill people. It HAS killed people. It’s killing people right now. I cannot believe this

Senate Democrats’ Choice: Block the Republican Spending Bill or Dissolve Congress The House’s continuing resolution would effectively hand over spending decisions to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

NEW from me: With House Republicans passing a partisan, damaging continuing resolution that gives Donald Trump and Elon Musk free rein to continue to strangle appropriated spending, Senate Democrats have to decide whether they will actively participate in their institution's own destruction.

What was childhood like before vaccines? The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.

Childhood in the centuries before vaccination was marked by illness, but also by grief and loss in a way that we tend to forget now that disease outbreaks are more of a rarity. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/WmCVmk

I think my biggest problem with the "debate" over whether Democrats should abandon trans people is how divorced from reality it is.

Republicans are banning gender-affirming care because they think kids are being rushed into surgeries. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

Like huh it’s almost as if this information is inconsistent with the government’s representations in court that Amy Gleason, not Musk, is in charge of DOGE, and that agency heads, not DOGE, are responsible for the cuts

The Counselor to the President, standing in front of the White House, talking about veterans of US military service: “Perhaps they’re not fit to have a job at this moment, or willing to come to work.”

Email shows Trump officials are lying to federal court, directing CFPB staff to ignore law An email sent Monday by a Trump administration official, obtained by Popular Information, explicitly instructs federal employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to not carry out act...

1. EXCLUSIVE

Popular Information has obtained an email, sent yesterday by a Trump administration official, explicitly instructing CFPB employees not to carry out activities REQUIRED BY LAW.

This directly contradicts what administration lawyers told a federal court.

Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.

Lindsey Graham is "challenging" the legality of Trump's foreign aid cuts SO QUIETLY that he is PUBLICLY SUPPORTING THEM

A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.

Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

INFLECTION: The Backlash Begins As Elon Goes Wild Against the backdrop of a month of chaos and destruction, something began...

"The moment was captured yesterday at what are now the more or less constant CPACs" 😆

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing.

This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it.

No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

Absolutely terrifying and totally unsurprising

Bannon: "The future of MAGA is Donald Trump! We want Trump in '28. That's what they can't stand. A man like Trump comes along only once or twice in the country's history. We want Trump! We want Trump!"

Reddit post from a terminated federal employee: "The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"