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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Watching from the oldest Irish pub in Lisbon (no Spurs supporters group in town). COYS! 🤍💙⚽️

Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Pride, Promenade, & Protests! A great day of community activity in Baltimore. Celebrating the diversity of our community, taking back our public spaces, and solidarity with all of those who are being hurt by our current Federal administration. #NoKings #ProtestIsPatriotic 🇺🇸🚫👑

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@tbfighters.org had meetings with representatives from every state in the country today as a part of #TBHillDay and while a few months ago we would have been talking about how to wipe out TB, not it’s about restoring funding and minimizing the damage the cuts will have on health worldwide.

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Grateful I got to meet with staff from the offices of @alsobrooks.senate.gov, @hoyer.house.gov, Rep. Kweisi Mfume, and @vanhollen.senate.gov‘s staff today (and briefly with @repkweisimfume.bsky.social himself) about the impact that the funding cuts are having on tuberculosis treatment. #TBHillDay

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Lived in Colorado Springs during undergrad and never knew its history as a TB colony or that Dr. Quinn was based there.

Cynthia Stout, a history scholar, asserted that by 1900 "one-third of Colorado's population were residents of the state because of tuberculosis." (From Wikipedia - Tuberculosis treatment in Colorado Springs)

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Funding for USAID, NIH, CDC, and other public health programs that help address TB and other infectious diseases cost a penny or two of each $ of federal spending. These cuts don’t help solve the deficit, they put us and the world in a much dangerous situation. Talk to your elected officials.

The cover of John Green’s book “Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection”. Please read this book and advocate for the funding and policy changes to end this desease.

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

TB is a curable disease (and has been for decades) but it kills more than 1.25 million people each year. The cuts to TB funding will result in more drug-resistant TB, more death and misery, around the world and here in the US. We have the power to end this disease and have chosen not to.

• 150 million people have died since a cure for TB has existed
• 2 billion with latent TB infection globally
• 13 million with latent TB infection in the U.S.
• 155 million TB survivors in the world (~1 out of 50 people in the world)

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Thanks to @wearetb.bsky.social @partnersinhealth.bsky.social @resultsorg.bsky.social @tbfighters.org and so many more for leading the training and to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for bringing me and so many others into this movement with his book #EverythingIsTuberculosis and his other work.

Author, philanthropist, and NerdFighter John Green speaking during the #TBHillDay training at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Spent this afternoon at GWU learning more about Tuberculosis to be an effective advocate when meeting with staff for my Congressional representatives tomorrow. The federal funding cuts to domestic and international public health, and particularly TB, are having devastating effects. #TBHillDay

TB in the USA in 2024
• TB case counts increased from 8,320 in 2022 to 9,615 in 2023 (15% jump - largest in a decade!) and in 2024, we saw another 8% increase to 10,347.
• TB incidence rate increased to 3.0 cases per 100,000 persons. In 2022 it was 2.5!
• Cases of TB disease increased among nearly all demographic groups in 2024; however, persistent disparities remain, as TB continues to disproportionately affect groups that have historically experienced greater obstacles to health.
• Recovery from pandemic-related healthcare disruptions, worldwide increases in TB, and increases in post-pandemic travel and migration are likely contributing to these increases, but really - TB anywhere is TB EVERYWHERE!

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Grateful to see so many friends out at protests in Baltimore, D.C., Denver, and around the country. More things going wrong than could fit on our sign but it’s essential to speak out in multiple ways (demonstrations, letters, calls, etc.). #HandsOff

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Loved hearing @elaineweissauthor.bsky.social speak about her new book “Spell Freedom” at the Pratt Library with #BlackGirlsVote last night. Stunned her talk at the Carter Library was cancelled. Clearly need to bring Citizenship Schools back. www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv... elaineweiss.com

Photo of Elaine Weiss, author of Spell Freedom and The Woman’s Hour, being interviewed by Natasha Murphy, Chief of Staff for Black Girls Vote, in the Wheeler Auditorium at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. The two women are sitting on a stage with a sign language interpreter and there is a crowd of people in the audience listening to the talk.

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I’d recommend more info on the “Unmarked Crosswalks” section saying that drivers are required to stop or yield to people crossing any place a sidewalk extends across the street. This image from @hsrcinfo.bsky.social is more helpful than the one you have from www.meaforensic.com/jaywalking/.

A graphic showing that unmarked crosswalks extend across roadways from any sidewalk facing the street or road. The graphic is from the National Center for Safe Routes to School, based at the University of North Carolina’s Highway Safety Research Center. The graphic can be found in context at http://apps.saferoutesinfo.org/lawenforcement/resources/review_the_facts.cfm

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Tuberculosis has been killing people for thousands of years, around 1.25 million worldwide each year. We’ve had the ability to cure TB for decades, but fail to eradicate it because the testing and treatments are expensive (profits over people). @tbfighters.org @partnersinhealth.bsky.social 7/7

A photo of a page from Vidya Krishnan’s book “Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History” with the quote “Poverty is the disease, TB the symptom.” highlighted. The book describes how discrimination based on race, caste, religion, and class create conditions that allow tuberculosis to thrive and similarly how wealthy companies and political leaders choose not to direct the resources necessary (or to price testing and treatment affordably) so that the deadliest disease in human history and currently, can be wiped out. At this point it isn’t really tuberculosis killing people, it’s the system of poverty and affluence that we have created, where some people get medical care and others don’t, condemning millions to die needlessly every year.

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I was inspired to read “The Saint of Bright Doors” after a character in @kevinhearne.bsky.social’s latest book (“Candle and Crow”) read it. It is an amazing novel of fantasy and magical realism, different than anything else I’ve ever read. I’m now reading “Phantom Plague” about tuberculosis and… 1/7

A photograph of the non-fiction book “Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History” by Vidya Krishnan and the novel “The Saint of Bright Doors” by Vajra Chandrasekera, both checked out from Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library, sitting on a bedside table.

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Thrilled the Enoch Pratt Library has Everything Is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social now in their @libbyapp.bsky.social. I’m looking forward to getting my preordered signed copy, but it’s SO much easier to read when you always have the book with you, and this is an important book.

Screenshot of my Libby library app showing audiobook and ebook versions of author, vertical video sensation, and public health advocate John Green’s forthcoming book Everything Is Tuberculosis on hold and anticipated to be ready in “~15 weeks” or “several months”.

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Loved seeing the salt in the bike lanes in Baltimore and Washington as I rode through both.

Photos of salt in bike lanes in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore in advance of the snow anticipated on Monday, January 6, 2025. Also shows a pedestrian crossing at a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) on K Street NW in Washington, D.C.

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Bike and transit to talk about bikes and transit (among other things) #TRB #TRBAM

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Patrick McMahon @patrick-mcmahon.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This will be the first time in a couple decades that I haven’t attended the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting. But I’m going to be coming down some of the evenings and hope to connect with friends in town. Also looking forward to all the #TRB multimodal commentary on @bsky.app #TRBAM

Collage of photos of Patrick at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting over the last several years, some in the convention center and others outside or at CaBi docks.

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