Bill McColl
@caphilldcne.bsky.social
Harm Reduction, HIV and Public Health is my thing. I ride the bus, watch the Caps, Nats and Wolverines, play bocce, read and hike. DC is 🏡
Hey All: Thank you to everyone for such a nice birthday weekend. I'm still celebrating.
I'm very pleased. We've almost raised $4000 for HIPS and if you are so inclined here's the fundraising information once again: bit.ly/3IJE6QV. Special thanks to all who donated!
I'm very pleased. We've almost raised $4000 for HIPS and if you are so inclined here's the fundraising information once again: bit.ly/3IJE6QV. Special thanks to all who donated!
Bill McColl's 60th Birthday Fundraiser for HIPS
In honor of Bill McColl’s 60th birthday, he’s asking Friends and Family to support the work of HIPS.org. Instead of gifts, please consider donating to this fundraiser and help continue HIPS’ mission o...
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October 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Hey All: Thank you to everyone for such a nice birthday weekend. I'm still celebrating.
I'm very pleased. We've almost raised $4000 for HIPS and if you are so inclined here's the fundraising information once again: bit.ly/3IJE6QV. Special thanks to all who donated!
I'm very pleased. We've almost raised $4000 for HIPS and if you are so inclined here's the fundraising information once again: bit.ly/3IJE6QV. Special thanks to all who donated!
Hey Friends: stop by if you can! No gufts but i’d love if folks want to donate to HIPS DC! They are a great group serving very marginalized folks! www.punchbowl.com/parties/bed4...
Bill McColl's 60th Birthday
October 9, 2025 @ 6-9pm ET : I am going to host a little 60th birthday get together from 6 - 9 p.m. on Thursday, October 9th (my actual birthday is October 10th) at Queen Vic located at 1206 H St...
www.punchbowl.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hey Friends: stop by if you can! No gufts but i’d love if folks want to donate to HIPS DC! They are a great group serving very marginalized folks! www.punchbowl.com/parties/bed4...
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Kavanaugh Stops are the new Dompas laws.
October 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Kavanaugh Stops are the new Dompas laws.
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"She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie"
This passage nearly broke me.
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"She had tears streaming down her face, and she told me one of the ICE agents pulled out his cell phone, laughing, and took a selfie"
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Jon Stewart made a rare Thursday night Daily Show appearance to defend free speech. They nailed it!
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Jon Stewart made a rare Thursday night Daily Show appearance to defend free speech. They nailed it!
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Colbert spent the entire monolog on Kimmel and the FCC.
We Are All Jimmy Kimmel | The Easy Way Or The Hard Way | Trump Urges NBC To Cancel Fallon And Mey…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
September 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Colbert spent the entire monolog on Kimmel and the FCC.
Dear Friends and Family:
I’m turning 60 this year! Celebrating at 6 - 9 p.m. on October 9th at the Queen Vic at 1206 H Street NE, Washington DC 20002. Please stop by.
No gifts but consider donating to HIPS. please use this link : hips.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/bi....
Great org. Cheers, Bill
I’m turning 60 this year! Celebrating at 6 - 9 p.m. on October 9th at the Queen Vic at 1206 H Street NE, Washington DC 20002. Please stop by.
No gifts but consider donating to HIPS. please use this link : hips.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/bi....
Great org. Cheers, Bill
Bill McColl's 60th Birthday Fundraiser for HIPS
hips.app.neoncrm.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Dear Friends and Family:
I’m turning 60 this year! Celebrating at 6 - 9 p.m. on October 9th at the Queen Vic at 1206 H Street NE, Washington DC 20002. Please stop by.
No gifts but consider donating to HIPS. please use this link : hips.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/bi....
Great org. Cheers, Bill
I’m turning 60 this year! Celebrating at 6 - 9 p.m. on October 9th at the Queen Vic at 1206 H Street NE, Washington DC 20002. Please stop by.
No gifts but consider donating to HIPS. please use this link : hips.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/bi....
Great org. Cheers, Bill
PEPFAR and USAID cuts are already killing African children. Quilt sent from 30 organization coalition in Africa. Thank you John Meade for speaking!
September 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
PEPFAR and USAID cuts are already killing African children. Quilt sent from 30 organization coalition in Africa. Thank you John Meade for speaking!
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SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE - A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
Releasing this summer at: simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
Releasing this summer at: simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
June 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE - A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
Releasing this summer at: simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
Releasing this summer at: simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...
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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
This Trump terminated study helps prevent HIV among young people - not a priority for the Trump administration. Of course they took the opportunity to defame the study and life’s work of researchers, the value of LGBTQ+ kids and to sneer at the concept of anyone actually learning anything too.
Terminated and Defamed: Adolescent HIV Trials Network Attacked by US Government
"Please stand with us as we appeal this short-sighted and hopefully misdirected attack on our beloved network."
open.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This Trump terminated study helps prevent HIV among young people - not a priority for the Trump administration. Of course they took the opportunity to defame the study and life’s work of researchers, the value of LGBTQ+ kids and to sneer at the concept of anyone actually learning anything too.
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
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.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Important article from NYT calculating potential deaths from cuts to USAID and detailing some deaths that have already occurred. Shame! America is disgraced.
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.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Important article from NYT calculating potential deaths from cuts to USAID and detailing some deaths that have already occurred. Shame! America is disgraced.
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Quite so! Unfortunately, Russia controls the White House.
Russia today controls less of Ukraine than they did three years ago. Russia today controls less of Russia than they did three years ago.
Russia is not winning this war.
Russia is not winning this war.
March 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Quite so! Unfortunately, Russia controls the White House.
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"Mooney’s business partner, Chicago-based BJ McCaslin, told Postmedia News on Wednesday that he did not know why she was detained or what the status was of her working visa."
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility
Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.
vancouversun.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"Mooney’s business partner, Chicago-based BJ McCaslin, told Postmedia News on Wednesday that he did not know why she was detained or what the status was of her working visa."
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...
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Here's a lovely obituary for Grant Smith. He was a beautiful soul who engineered many of the drug reform & harm reduction laws we take for granted today. If you knew Grant and are in the DC area and would like to join us for a drink Friday night to honor him, please contact @caphilldcne.bsky.social.
Grant Smith Obituary (1980 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers
View Grant Smith's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Here's a lovely obituary for Grant Smith. He was a beautiful soul who engineered many of the drug reform & harm reduction laws we take for granted today. If you knew Grant and are in the DC area and would like to join us for a drink Friday night to honor him, please contact @caphilldcne.bsky.social.
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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Go ahead.
Let the people see you for what you are.
Let the people see you for what you are.
for the second time today, Tom Homan is on Fox News confirming that he asked the DOJ to investigate AOC
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Go ahead.
Let the people see you for what you are.
Let the people see you for what you are.
My sister has anxiety and prefers a quiet life. I’m meeting friends to go to the Capitol protest.
My sister will protest because she supports her non-binary, gay, diverse teachers, friends, family and students.
She is doing this by herself in Montgomery, AL . My hero. Thank you!
My sister will protest because she supports her non-binary, gay, diverse teachers, friends, family and students.
She is doing this by herself in Montgomery, AL . My hero. Thank you!
February 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
My sister has anxiety and prefers a quiet life. I’m meeting friends to go to the Capitol protest.
My sister will protest because she supports her non-binary, gay, diverse teachers, friends, family and students.
She is doing this by herself in Montgomery, AL . My hero. Thank you!
My sister will protest because she supports her non-binary, gay, diverse teachers, friends, family and students.
She is doing this by herself in Montgomery, AL . My hero. Thank you!
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Very disappointing and ominous that @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social and NBC executives chose not to make fun of Trump by name. I guess they (or their affiliates) are afraid of losing their broadcast licenses. It’s like if Cabaret refused to acknowledge the rise of you know who.
Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS
Brendan Carr, the new head of the Federal Communications Commission under President Trump, says the public broadcasters are being investigated for allegedly running commercials.
www.npr.org
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Very disappointing and ominous that @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social and NBC executives chose not to make fun of Trump by name. I guess they (or their affiliates) are afraid of losing their broadcast licenses. It’s like if Cabaret refused to acknowledge the rise of you know who.
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Calling your reps is only the 1st step. This excellent old Amnesty International advocacy video gives very practical next steps for turning that call into a relationship. It also offers great tips on how to keep the pressure up until you get what you want. This should be mandatory for civics class.
How to lobby your elected representatives
YouTube video by SKT DCA
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 8:02 AM
Calling your reps is only the 1st step. This excellent old Amnesty International advocacy video gives very practical next steps for turning that call into a relationship. It also offers great tips on how to keep the pressure up until you get what you want. This should be mandatory for civics class.