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YouTube video by Willhelm von Nordbach "Oh-RE-Oles, OH-Rioles" (music from The Wizard of Oz)

Soundtrack for tomorrow's dictator display. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaj...

It seems like the world is waking up to this reality. Maybe it took Bill Gates to point it out. This is what should be discussed during Trump's Triumph of the Will parade on June 14. bsky.app/profile/sabi...

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.

When all this passes, the quick dispatch of PEPFAR and the sledgehammer blows to HIV prevention, treatment and cure programs are topics worthy of consideration by The Hague.

Seems to me that before we are frog-walked or disappeared into Trump's Dachau in El Salvador, half of America needs to boycott the T-shirts, knitted and crocheted clothing that amounted to $1.24 billion in imports from there. Sometimes the power of the purse is just the power of underwear.

Meet the 23-Year-Old Student Who Raised $25 Million in Democratic Losses

Dems have GOT to clean up this mess before the 2026 elections. Dems need small Blue State donors to persuade the fence sitters in "battleground states," so don't f*ck with us. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

Hope Springs Eternal....

Weekend protest at University Village Tesla, Seattle.

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

My placard at protests says Elon Musk is Killing Children, Save USAID, Save PEPFAR. Some might find this offensive to to the richest man in the world, who literally wears a child on his shoulders at photo ops. Here is a story that verifies exactly what the sign says:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Freeze Foreign Aid The move came after Chief Justice Roberts temporarily paused a trial judge’s order requiring the administration to release more than $1.5 billion.

When Alito is 'stunned,' the patient is showing signs of life. Huzzah! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

The Trumpster seems a little twitchy about this. Wonder if he's starting to realize that he's already neck deep in his own sh*t.

DOGE held an Oscar party and Big Balls "accidentally" threw Hulu into the chipper.

The Putinization of America Trump’s deference to the Russian dictator has become full-blown imitation.

Before the chess board is kicked over, and perhaps the game is over, a clear perspective from a well-placed source.

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

You are welcome, Elon. So now, would you mind taking your knee off the necks of starving children in Sudan, off the pipeline for HIV drugs in Africa, off the backs of non-rocket scientists and federal workers in the U.S. so that you can waste, fraud and abuse your way to Mars?

Opinion | America Has a Rogue President (Gift Article) The firing of three judge advocate generals is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of law.

Considering the source, read this guy and share if you can. (Published, incidentally, on the day the USA locked arms with Russia and North Korea in the UN.)
"America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond."

Waste, fraud, abuse, anyone?

Our bully president insults an entire nation, and Canada pushes back. Glad for our neighbors just up the road. Somehow this didn't feel like just a hockey game.

“I can’t buy medications with a waiver.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

Seattle, other presidents day.

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

If ignorance is bliss, we are in heaven.

The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede (Gift Article) A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.

For me, almost as unsettling as Elon Musk running the country is the behavior of large crowds. This is a really cool science story, with great visuals; and unlike the Muskovites, crowds seem, most of the time, to adhere to some sort of innate organizing principle.

Trump Orders Halt to Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of White Landowners (Gift Article) The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.

This.

Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment (Gift Article) President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

Trump Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza: Live Updates

Is it to early to consider the 25th Amendment?

Uganda confirms Ebola case in nurse in capital city Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital Kampala, in a nurse who sought care at a number of facilities.

What a great time for the US to pull out of the WHO and turn our medical research over to RK Jr. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/u...

Uganda confirms Ebola case in nurse in capital city Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital Kampala, in a nurse who sought care at a number of facilities.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/u...

Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries (Gift Article) PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

And now this pause appears to be permanent. We cannot let this happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

New Crusade To Lower AIDS Drug Costs / Africa's needs at odds with firms' profit motive The payoff is an array of costly new pills that since 1996 have helped slash the American...

With this SF Chronicle piece 26 years ago, I began coverage of AIDS activists trying to bring to Africa the same drug combos that saved their lives in the US -- the most important work I ever did. The movement led in 2003 to PEPFAR, saving 25 million lives. Now Trump has 'paused' funding of PEPFAR.

January 22, 2025 Marc Caputo of Axios reported today that Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes for that day’s events, including those who attacked police...

Dictator on Day One. America's Unforced Era...

My Friend Jules Feiffer An afternoon with one of the greatest political cartoonists of the past century

Noted in passing. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...