Anna

I can’t understand how anyone could think this at this stage? But I do know more than one person who has told me they have a rapport with their chatbots. Which is impossible. Having this technology in the context of increasing atomisation and isolation of real humans seems doubly scary.

Welcome, American foreign policy scholars to the world of Russia experts in late 2021 and early 22, when so many people could not bring themselves to believe that a war would happen simply because it made no sense, there was no real threat, the President wasn't *that* crazy and didn't roll that way

Have watched a loved one spend months on an anti-malaria project in this region, only to see the dictatorship take a blowtorch to it by scrapping USAID. Yes, I am channelling that anger into action. Also: I am grieving for those who never stood a chance.

Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan.

No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.

Hard to argue that your focus as a government is security for people and then do this.

State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration The USAID initiative had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in helping Ukraine's energy grid recover from attacks from Russia.

Story here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sta...

Any remaining arguments against the rearmament of Europe just evaporated in front of the eyes of every single European head of state this evening.

YouTube video by moralapostel47 Wolf Biermann - Ermutigung

"Die guten Leute brauchen manchmal auch ein paar gute Leute, und die Ermutiger brauchen Ermutigung."

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:

- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more

#NIH #MedSky #research #science

are Republicans completely asleep, too terrorised to react? what is the win in dismantling the institutional infrastructure of US economic and ideological power abroad?

Following the CDC's removal of critical health data and the potential approval of RFK Jr. as Health Secretary, it is crucial to access accurate health information from independent sources such as the WHO, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, and peer-reviewed journals.

The wealthiest man on the planet taking away life saving aid from some of the poorest people in the world and bragging about it social media. Disturbing
#USAID #PEPFAR #StopHIV

Honestly what is going on. The richest man in the world and a crew of teenage lackeys are quite literally raiding US government departments, accessing personal data, meddling in federal payment systems and trying to kill USAID

The headline of the NYT right now is a trade deal with Mexico

greetings from UN, the good news is that the rest of the world is working to collectively agree on the terms of the 4th Financing for Development conference without/despite the US.

'coalitions of the willing' and strategic attempts to get the EU to do more are on the table

The next four years is just going to be a long series of people confidently telling you that you didn't just see what you just saw

New here after leaving X. I don't post much but great to find so many of the progressive global news/politics/arts/academia people I love to follow on here.