Adam Leonard
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Adam Leonard
@ajleonard8283.bsky.social
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once upon a time we actually liked this guy in san francisco
October 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Oligarchy would be easier to take if billionaires weren’t so easily conned by obvious bullshit artists. John Oliver on the instructive example of Bari Weiss.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
m.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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God has no body but yours
No hands, no feet on earth but yours
No plague of frogs to condemn tyrannical rule but yours

- St. Teresa of Avila
October 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Just because something isn’t human doesn’t mean we should be comfortable abusing it. Kindness is a practice and directing violence toward tools instead of accountable humans is unproductive and morally corrosive. normalizing cruelty is dangerous and reflects poor human judgment #coaiexist #bc7f2a
August 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health
August 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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At week 48, an overwhelming 98% of participants expressed a preference for long-acting injectable ART compared to daily oral ART

- Joint Clinical Research Centre’s Cissy Kityo presents on “Long-acting ART in low- & middle-income countries” #IAS2025
July 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Sobering study on the devastating impact of aid cuts on tuberculosis incidence and mortality in low and middle income countries

Governments of highest TB burden nations will need to wake up and invest more!

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study
We estimate substantial potential impacts on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality due to reductions in international donor funding. Expanded support from domestic and international donors is essential...
www.thelancet.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Gayle-Bekker during opening ceremony #IAS2025 in Kigali shines a light on the power of Ritshidze’s community led monitoring program in South Africa, which has shown grave harms to the HIV response at the clinic level following #PEPFAR funding cuts—even as Ritshidze funding itself was cut 👇👇
July 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
What a Nutsy Fagan, as my nana would say
May 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We've been here before.
April 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....
April 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Not only is he lying about the studies being "narrow" or "invalid," he's also lying about them not comparing the vaccinated to unvaccinated. See Don McNeil's summary of the science, here:

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
April 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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While Trump enacts economic mayhem and his billionaire buddies get richer ... eggs are still getting more expensive.

The average cost of a dozen large eggs jumped 6%.
Eggs Prices Soar to Record High as Trump Destroys Economy
Eggs keep getting more expensive, even as the bird flu outbreak is slowing.
newrepublic.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Good piece on many university presidents' cowardly refusal to speak out against the Trump administration's ghastly, unlawful abduction and detention of Mahmoud Khalil in retaliation against his constitutionally protected speech. No surprise, but a shame nonetheless. slate.com/life/2025/03...
Why Isn’t the Entire Country Terrified by the Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil?
Universities are running scared. But this is no time to be timid.
slate.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
At less than 1% of the U.S. budget, USAID programs have saved countless lives worldwide and garnered goodwill. Now, because of a small man’s ego and billionaire’s apartheid penchant, people are being sentenced to death-even though TB is curable. This is abhorrent.
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally (Gift Article)
The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests or drugs, and risk spreading the disease.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Also…I’ve been to Lesotho 🇱🇸 So I know where it is (like lots of people), so President Chump is just an idiot
March 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We live in a fascist dictatorship full of spineless sycophants
March 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler.
Join Public Transportation Today!"

Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland
February 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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JD Vance Sets Out Little Heart-Covered Mailbox On Desk Just In Case theonion.com/jd-vanc...
February 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Top USAID officials are trying to create a false narrative that life-saving aid has continued despite Trump’s blanket halt to foreign aid. Our @nytimes.com reporting shows the exact opposite. USAID even issued an internal email to stop applications for waivers: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise
A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year.
Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Meanwhile, #republicans are defunding lifesaving care. Maybe DOGE’s slogan should be “The next pandemic…from the American people” www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
A Cohort Analysis Of loss to Follow-Up Among South African Youth Receiving Care for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) aged 13 to 24 represent a key and vulnerable population (KVP) in tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care globally, yet little is known about the epidemiology and treat...
www.jahonline.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
You know it’s a sick cult when parents would subject their daughters to close contact to a convicted sexual abuser and serial predator. Horrifying, yet sadly not surprising, at this deplorable juncture in American politics. #lockhimup
February 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
February 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Even if Los Angeles were low on water, Trump’s executive orders wouldn’t help with that, because the federal government’s canal system doesn’t actually deliver any water to the Los Angeles area.

From @gristnews.bsky.social via @climatedesk.org:
Trump's claim of routing water to Los Angeles is hogwash. It all goes to Central Valley megafarms.
"It’s an attempt to tie water supply to a natural disaster, but those connections don’t exist in reality.”
www.motherjones.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM