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Jose L
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Global health, human rights, diplomacy, democracy | @JohnsHopkinsSPH.bsky.social & @UniversityofGA.bsky.social alum | he/him/èl 🏳️‍🌈 | All views are my own
We enter the Signalgate chapter of history.
March 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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This is almost the entirety of JHUs funding.

If this does not get EVERY. SINGLE. UNIVERSITY. off their asses and find a spine, I don’t know what will.

They will not stop with Columbia and Maine and Hopkins. They are coming for all of higher education.

We all need to respond.

#GeneralStrike
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Uganda's Ebola outbreak has worsened — but the country’s ability to fight it has been severely weakened by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance, per recording of US officials obtained by @lattif.bsky.social @stephanienolen.bsky.social.

Eye-catching + worrying scoop.
As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear
Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Rep support for "a law that legalizes same-sex marriage throughout the US" was just 30% in 2022. So we're sampling error away from this one. I wouldn't say change.

today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Plus, Gallup offers important context for general views. Yes, a small shift among GOP, but not much.
March 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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On today’s front page: @fenitn.bsky.social went to rural West Texas, epicenter of a worsening measles outbreak that has already claimed the life of an unvaccinated child.

He found that some people are doubling down on their resistance to vaccines.
March 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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NEW: Nick Enrich, acting asst admin for USAID Global Health, was just placed on administrative admin leave by Trump admin. It comes after he shared a memo with USAID staff, including those on leave/fired saying it’s been impossible to implement Rubio’s waivers for lifesaving aid
March 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Over the last 48 hours, thousands of programs have been terminated — many of which had already been granted waivers to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid.
'God Bless America' and the death of 10,000 projects
'God Bless America' and the death of 10,000 projects
www.devex.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans.

Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
February 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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February 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM