Those protesting are American heroes fighting his depraved violent attack on multiracial democracy. May Roberts know no peace www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Global HIV/AIDS, health advocacy and policy. Fighting for health justice and access to medicines for all. Executive Director @HealthGAP
@asia-ilse.bsky.social@asia-ilse.bsky.socialpublic health nerds getting nerdy about an ambitious 8-point plan to use their power to save lives and flatten health inequities. MORE OF THIS
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialit is illegal, that is why they are calling it illegal
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He is violating the law and shredding separation of powers, and reporting like this enables it, @npr.org
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialwww.wsj.com/pro/venture-... here you go
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@asia-ilse.bsky.socialSee reply rejoinder surjoinder above!
@asia-ilse.bsky.social@clancyny.bsky.social helpfully pointed out it was an AP story running in the Sun, so…
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialWorse! My typo combined with a shitty lede from the newest paper that should even more know better Fix your shit Washington Sun. This read so poorly I assumed it was the Washington Post
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialIt’s not ’contested’ it’s ILLEGAL. (That’s why it’s rare.) As determined by the GAO no less Fix your shit, Washington Post
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialand RFK's $17 million detail is about half of the budget for the 16 awards--for infant and maternal mortality and morbidity—that he cancelled from the Office of Minority Health with no justification. He steals from the vulnerable to try to project dominance
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialsecond in what has happened with the Office of Minority Health--more important that the outrage of RFK looting the OMH for personal security he doesn't need and is already anyway funded by the federal budget, is that he capriciously cancelled $38 million in awards to improve Black peoples' health
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialthe pattern is, illegally gut (or end) an entity you despise (the Office of Minority Health, USAID, CFPB) and then steal what funding is left, for your personal entourage
they are trying to project power www.the-independent.com/news/world/a... but they look like what they are--racist cowards
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialthis was widely covered in February, www.motherjones.com/politics/202... in 2025 he also stole $5 million from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2025 for personal security
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialthat's because Russell Vought, another evil eugenicist extremist, stole money $15 million from USAID funding to pay for his security detail www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialthere is so much to say here, first RFK Jr stealing $17 million for a massive security detail from an office to flatten inequities in health outcomes among Black and Brown people probably rings a bell, right? (gift link)
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialcf: Rubio will absolutely be lying about this once he is running for Pres & Trump is sidelined and/or dead. Dem consultants will want candidates to 'move on.' Without detailed accountings flooding the public record, used by activists to demand change, it will be as if DOGE carnage never happened
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialFOFAmaxxxing
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialMusk erased billions in lifesaving health programs. Are we supposed to look away and "turn the page"? Hell no This is not mainly about punishment or vanquish though--it's for generating EVIDENCE about what DOGE did, educating people, and using that to fight for new policy that secures justice
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialMusk is guilty of grave crimes: mass murder by disrupting & eliminating lifesaving US global health programs. the next Congress boldly dragging Musk is NON NEGOTIABLE: for building people power, shifting Overton window back, & designing the next global aid program in the interest of humanity
@asia-ilse.bsky.socialICE is a machine of and for cruel and unusual punishment.