Megan Blades
@turtlsalltheway.bsky.social
Nerdfighter by day, TBFighter by night;
Currently trying to survive my MSW
Currently trying to survive my MSW
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It’s #TimeFor5, @danahercorporation.bsky.social and it’s time for you to release that audit! It’s been over a year since you promised to release one! ⏰
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s #TimeFor5, @danahercorporation.bsky.social and it’s time for you to release that audit! It’s been over a year since you promised to release one! ⏰
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We had such a great time at the US #TBHillDay in April we're taking it up north!🇨🇦 Join us for the #LeadOnTB Advocacy Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept 25, 2025: bit.ly/LeadOnTB
August 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We had such a great time at the US #TBHillDay in April we're taking it up north!🇨🇦 Join us for the #LeadOnTB Advocacy Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept 25, 2025: bit.ly/LeadOnTB
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US #TBHillDay was legitimately one of the best things I’ve ever done. It was fun meeting so many other members of the TB Haters Club, and very inspiring seeing the difference a bunch of ordinary folks can make together, especially when trained by experts!
I highly recommend this to any Canadian!
I highly recommend this to any Canadian!
We had such a great time at the US #TBHillDay in April we're taking it up north!🇨🇦 Join us for the #LeadOnTB Advocacy Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept 25, 2025: bit.ly/LeadOnTB
August 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
US #TBHillDay was legitimately one of the best things I’ve ever done. It was fun meeting so many other members of the TB Haters Club, and very inspiring seeing the difference a bunch of ordinary folks can make together, especially when trained by experts!
I highly recommend this to any Canadian!
I highly recommend this to any Canadian!
Thanks to beanedict cumbfurbatch, I now have a nightmarish being made of beans cannon in my home brew world which my usual party will later have to reckon with. It was indeed something😂
Thanks to @turtlsalltheway.bsky.social, I just got to play a plasmoid made of beans in the shape of a Furby in an actual, real-life, game of D&D (D&DFTBA?), and it was wonderful.
Well, it was *something*, but I enjoyed it!
Well, it was *something*, but I enjoyed it!
June 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Thanks to beanedict cumbfurbatch, I now have a nightmarish being made of beans cannon in my home brew world which my usual party will later have to reckon with. It was indeed something😂
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Our elected officials are feeling the pressure, don't let up now! @PIH.org's call tool logged over 13k calls/emails last week leading up to the House rescissions vote. Let's send a loud message to our Senators to vote "NO" in the Senate: act.pih.org/global-h...
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Our elected officials are feeling the pressure, don't let up now! @PIH.org's call tool logged over 13k calls/emails last week leading up to the House rescissions vote. Let's send a loud message to our Senators to vote "NO" in the Senate: act.pih.org/global-h...
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🆘🚨”South Africa is the beacon… We have many important collaborative works going on there…To cut them off, I just I don’t understand it. It’s self-destructive behavior.”- Dr. Harold Varmus, a professor of medicine at Cornell University, Nobel Prize in medicine
#Tuberculosis
#HIV
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#Tuberculosis
#HIV
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“We are at risk of missing out on a generation of scientists — because people will leave"
Devastating impact of Trump cuts on South African scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @stephanienolen.bsky.social
Devastating impact of Trump cuts on South African scientists
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h... via @stephanienolen.bsky.social
South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🆘🚨”South Africa is the beacon… We have many important collaborative works going on there…To cut them off, I just I don’t understand it. It’s self-destructive behavior.”- Dr. Harold Varmus, a professor of medicine at Cornell University, Nobel Prize in medicine
#Tuberculosis
#HIV
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#Tuberculosis
#HIV
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On April 9th, over 200 TB advocates, experts, and survivors from nearly every state united at the U.S. Capitol for the largest-ever TB Hill Day, calling on Congress to step up and end a disease that still kills 1.5 million people each year.
Follow the 🧵 to learn more 👇
Follow the 🧵 to learn more 👇
June 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
On April 9th, over 200 TB advocates, experts, and survivors from nearly every state united at the U.S. Capitol for the largest-ever TB Hill Day, calling on Congress to step up and end a disease that still kills 1.5 million people each year.
Follow the 🧵 to learn more 👇
Follow the 🧵 to learn more 👇
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Your representatives are waiting on YOUR call! 📱 There are two advocacy sessions almost every day this week! Find the one that fits your schedule best: tbfighter.link/calendar
June 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Your representatives are waiting on YOUR call! 📱 There are two advocacy sessions almost every day this week! Find the one that fits your schedule best: tbfighter.link/calendar
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Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do.
They arrested and disappeared him.
They arrested and disappeared him.
Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do.
They arrested and disappeared him.
They arrested and disappeared him.
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Let's keep the #TBHillDay energy going! Join us in urging both the House and Senate to support the #Tuberculosis Dear Colleague Letter! Your rep's signature can make a big difference and help save lives. Contact them now! tbfighters.org/templ...
April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Let's keep the #TBHillDay energy going! Join us in urging both the House and Senate to support the #Tuberculosis Dear Colleague Letter! Your rep's signature can make a big difference and help save lives. Contact them now! tbfighters.org/templ...
TBFighters are everywhere!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tuberculosis could end if there’s more US public health funding, experts say
Resurgence could be on horizon as outbreaks pick up speed in US and abroad amid public health program cuts
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
TBFighters are everywhere!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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I spent today learning about global health at Tumaini Global Health's program at Depauw University. It fired me up to head to Washington D.C. on Tuesday to make the case for robust funding for human health both at home and abroad. Can't wait to see hundreds of TB Fighters on Capitol Hill!
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I spent today learning about global health at Tumaini Global Health's program at Depauw University. It fired me up to head to Washington D.C. on Tuesday to make the case for robust funding for human health both at home and abroad. Can't wait to see hundreds of TB Fighters on Capitol Hill!
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👇 Do read to understand what is happening due to USA government policies..
TB anywhere is TB everywhere!
#EndTB #FundingCutsCostLives
TB anywhere is TB everywhere!
#EndTB #FundingCutsCostLives
A MUST READ! Our colleagues from around the world share their on the ground experiences of how US folly of withdrawing funding from #Globalhealth is impacting the fight against #tuberculosis.
#FundingCutsCostLives #CommitInvestDeliver
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/30/h...
#FundingCutsCostLives #CommitInvestDeliver
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/30/h...
Tuberculosis is the world’s top infectious killer. Aid groups say Trump’s funding freezes will cause more deaths | CNN
Doctors and aid workers warn that the freeze to USAID-funded TB programs is likely to cause thousands of unnecessary deaths and a rise in TB infections worldwide, and create the conditions for an extr...
edition.cnn.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
👇 Do read to understand what is happening due to USA government policies..
TB anywhere is TB everywhere!
#EndTB #FundingCutsCostLives
TB anywhere is TB everywhere!
#EndTB #FundingCutsCostLives
I’m only 9 chapters into this book, however, I would greatly recommend this book to other social workers who are interested in learning about the challenges of racialization of disease and the health care systems which look to treat them. We belong in global health care efforts too!
March 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I’m only 9 chapters into this book, however, I would greatly recommend this book to other social workers who are interested in learning about the challenges of racialization of disease and the health care systems which look to treat them. We belong in global health care efforts too!
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"We won’t even know about the new deaths, because all the data collection was supported by U.S.A.I.D." It will be years before we understand the size of this crisis--and we may only understand it when highly resistant forms of TB come home to roost in rich countries.
Critical reporting from Stephanie Nolen on what the interruption of TB funding actually means for those living with the disease--and those caring for them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...
Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
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 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"We won’t even know about the new deaths, because all the data collection was supported by U.S.A.I.D." It will be years before we understand the size of this crisis--and we may only understand it when highly resistant forms of TB come home to roost in rich countries.
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Six days until Everything Is Tuberculosis. Preorder the book now as a statement of hope that the world will exist in six days.
everythingistb.com
everythingistb.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Six days until Everything Is Tuberculosis. Preorder the book now as a statement of hope that the world will exist in six days.
everythingistb.com
everythingistb.com
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This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
propub.li
March 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.
We’re starting a book club all about TB! It starts with Everything Is Tuberculosis on March 18th
Do you hate #Tuberculosis? Love to read? Well, we do too! That's why we're launching the #TBReaders Book Club. Starting with "Everything Is TB" by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, we'll read a book together every two months on Discord, social media, and right here! Join in at tbfighters.org/book-club
March 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We’re starting a book club all about TB! It starts with Everything Is Tuberculosis on March 18th
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So excited to moderate this @partnersinhealth.bsky.social webinar on World TB Day!
Please register!
act.pih.org/worldtbday2025
Please register!
act.pih.org/worldtbday2025
March 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So excited to moderate this @partnersinhealth.bsky.social webinar on World TB Day!
Please register!
act.pih.org/worldtbday2025
Please register!
act.pih.org/worldtbday2025
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The #TBReaders Book Club is live at tbfighters.org/book-club/! I'm so excited for everybody to learn why we need to #EndTB as we read Everything is Tuberculosis together. My review: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5yB...
TBReaders Book Club: Everything is Tuberculosis
YouTube video by TBFighter Tofu
www.youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The #TBReaders Book Club is live at tbfighters.org/book-club/! I'm so excited for everybody to learn why we need to #EndTB as we read Everything is Tuberculosis together. My review: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5yB...
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This is insane. They are going to destroy the entire planet.
March 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is insane. They are going to destroy the entire planet.
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The fight for #Tuberculosis funding isn't only for US citizens and residents! Every country should step up to create a more equitable world. Use our template adapted from @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social to let officials know global health matters—no matter where you live.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The fight for #Tuberculosis funding isn't only for US citizens and residents! Every country should step up to create a more equitable world. Use our template adapted from @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social to let officials know global health matters—no matter where you live.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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Fired USAid workers and HIV activists hold ‘die-in’ to protest Trump and Musk
Fired USAid workers and HIV activists hold ‘die-in’ to protest Trump and Musk
Dozens of demonstrators lie down in government office building to warn against dismantling foreign aid agency
Fired USAid employees and advocates for people with HIV staged a protest in a Capitol office building on Wednesday, warning that Donald Trump’s…
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Fired USAid workers and HIV activists hold ‘die-in’ to protest Trump and Musk