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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@donmoyn.bsky.social on the death of USAID, the US foreign aid agency that Elon Musk “fed into the wood chipper,” leading to 300,000 deaths, many by starvation. open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p…
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The Death of US AID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Amazing news! Global Fund Secures Access to Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug Lenacapavir for Low- and Middle-Income Countries www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025/…
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Global Fund Secures Access to Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug Lenacapavir for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) today announced it has signed an access agreement with Gilead Sciences to procure lenacapavir, a long-acting injectable for HI...
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Gilead Imposes Price Secrecy on Global Fund Over Breakthrough HIV Prevention Shot healthgap.org/press/gilead-imposes-…
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Gilead Imposes Price Secrecy on Global Fund Over Breakthrough HIV Prevention Shot, Blocking Transparency and Accountability
PRESS STATEMENTFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 9 2025Contact for more information: Asia Russell | +1 267 475 2645 asia@healthgap.org Susana van der Ploeg | +55 32 9921-7496 susanaploeg@abiaids.org.brGilea...
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 06/07/2025
🥗 Dismantling USAID was the ultimate betrayal of a promise, and it was mass murder. Unforgivable.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
DOGE’s destruction of USAID caused these deaths directly. groundup.org.za/article/mozambique-…
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Mozambique: These are the children the United States left to die
Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 10/06/2025
🥗 Let's talk about failure. open.substack.com/pub/makethem...
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Let’s Talk About Failure
How high should the cost be?
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 07/06/2025
🥗 Rep Cline (R-Va) voted for SNAP and Medicaid cuts, pain for his constituents. Letter to the editor from @results-virginia.bsky.social member Melissa Strobel Rep. Ben DECline thefnp.com/tncms/asset/...
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Even one death from USAID funding cuts is too many. But the death toll is staggering. Restore these programs at State. Now.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 29/05/2025
Yagana Bulama cradles her surviving infant. The other twin is gone, a casualty of malnutrition and the international funding cuts that are snapping the lifeline for displaced communities in Nigeria’s insurgency-ravaged Borno state.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 29/05/2025
When they got there,the guard told him that the clinic was closed because funding was stopped. Her seven year-old son died that night. That’s just one preventable death in an ocean of nameless faces that have or will die because of this administration‘s greed.
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Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees
Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say there are many thousands of cases like his.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
USAID programs cut by Sec. Rubio must be restored at the State Department ASAP. So much death already is inexcusable but it’s not too late to save lives.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
RESULTS Virginia expresses our deep condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Rep. Gerry Connolly. He served Virginia and America well.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Why the World Needs Africa to Be Healthy www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/w…
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Why the World Needs Africa to Be Healthy | Think Global Health
A firsthand account of HIV exposure explains how gutting aid to Africa will create global ripple effects
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 19/05/2025
🥗 ICYMI yesterday - I calculated how much states will be on the hook for SNAP benefits if Congress passes the House GOP SNAP state cost share plan. www.datawrapper.de/_/bj3Ci/
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Annual State SNAP Benefit Cost Share (in Thousands) | Created with Datawrapper
How much states will have to pay for SNAP. benefits, based on their FY 2023 SNAP payment error rates, if the House GOP Agriculture bill passes
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 19/05/2025
🥗 Anti-hunger advocates slam House Republicans' proposed budget cut to SNAP as 'unconscionable' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Anti-hunger advocates slam House Republicans’ proposed cut to SNAP
Experts fear slashing over $290 billion could result in many households in need losing a critical nutrition lifeline.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 09/05/2025
🥗 Stand up for SNAP! Perspective from Yolanda Gordon, RESULTS, who has lived experience with SNAP results.org/blog/standin...
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Standing up for SNAP: A call for compassion and policy that works - RESULTS
On Wednesday, May 7, 2025, under a bright blue sky, members of the press gathered to hear from elected officials and everyday Americans. The everyday Americans were all people whose […]
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Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“The world’s richest man is killing the world’s poorest children”. Overdue moral clarity.
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Siem De Cleyn @siemdc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Bill Gates said.
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Rita J @blueeyedbaby.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Bill Gates Accuses Musk Of ‘Killing Over A Million’ Children With USAID Cuts—Accelerates Charity Timeline Source: Forbes
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
DOGE’s destruction of USAID, and its many life-saving programs, was a shocking and horrific act leading to thousands of needless deaths… and counting. These programs MUST be restarted at the State Department.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 02/05/2025
Some good news heading into the weekend: "GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts
Republican lawmakers have told administration officials that pushing sweeping cuts through Congress will be difficult.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Restore PEPFAR! It has bipartisan support. "Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) telling colleagues she would have trouble supporting cuts to PEPFAR, an effort to combat HIV/AIDS abroad that other foreign-policy-minded senators also support." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts
Republican lawmakers have told administration officials that pushing sweeping cuts through Congress will be difficult.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 02/05/2025
🥗 the foreign aid cuts are hurting American farmers too. #agsky
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump’s foreign aid cuts must be reversed. USAID programs shut down must be reinstated at the State Department. People are dying.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 30/04/2025
🥗 My message to Senator Warner's aide Taylor Durbin regarding SNAP and Medicaid cuts: "We have to stop them. They cannot be allowed to succeed in making these cuts. The effects would be catastrophic."
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yesterday, we met with Senator Warner's staff @markwarner.bsky.social to raise the alarm on looming cuts to SNAP and Medicaid and to urge the Senator to fight to ensure that gutted USAID programs are reinstated at the State Department. Thank you @markwarner.bsky.social!
Screenshot of RESULTS Virginia's Zoom meeting with Taylor Durbin from Senator Mark Warner's staff. From top left to bottom right: Nancy Morgan, Melissa Strobel, David Tate, Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com, Kay Wood, Grace Higginbottom, Elizabeth Berry, Sue Shultz, Taylor Durbin, Bobbie van Haeften, and Kayla Ruiz.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 25/04/2025
🥗 Good god
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Trump’s Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/world/af…
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Trump’s Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Key Ways to Preserve USAID’s Children’s Programs Time is of the essence; lives hang in the balance. campaignforchildren.org/resource/ke…
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Key Ways to Preserve USAID's Children’s Programs - Campaign For Children
As Congress begins drafting legislation to fold the duties of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) into the Department of State, it is
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
For thousands of infants the damage is irreversible. But it’s not too late to save thousands more. Restart PEPFAR.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Once you shut off a program like PEPFAR, restarting it isn’t just flipping a switch. Also unclear whether they honestly intend to restart it. Meanwhile, people are dying and infants are being born with HIV that could have been prevented.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 06/03/2025
My latest, on the USAID destruction and the Constitutional crisis in which we find ourselves. open.substack.com/pub/makethem...
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Defend the Constitution
And the millions of lives that depend on it
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Killing 90% of USAID programs will kill thousands of people, or more. A shocking and heartbreaking action. apnews.com/article/trump-usaid-fore…
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Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We will redouble our advocacy and demand that Congress intervene to restore the USAID programs illegally shut down by the Trump administration. Countless lives hang in the balance.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 27/02/2025
Fighting TB is good for the world and also for America. Cutting these programs is self-defeating in addition to being chillingly cruel. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis...
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USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 25/02/2025
I’m running out of words to describe the shockingly devastating consequences of this administration’s illegal actions. RESTORE PEPFAR NOW!
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Choosing to keep PEPFAR funds frozen in the face of court orders to release the funds, knowing that the freeze would cause thousands of deaths and create HIV drug resistance, is profoundly evil. PEPFAR FUNDS MUST BE RESTORED IMMEDIATELY!
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Illnesses like TB and measles know no borders.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 21/02/2025
This is horrifying.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The freeze on PEPFAR funding alone already has cost over 12,000 lives. This is a dire emergency. pepfar.impactcounter.com
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PEPFAR Impact Tracker
Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Despite Sec. of State Rubio's assurances of waivers to the USAID stop-work order for life-saving humanitarian aid, it seems that none of that aid has resumed. We urge @markwarner.bsky.social and @timkaine01.bsky.social to fight to restore this critical funding. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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In potential showdown, aid groups demand court find USAID, State officials in contempt
Aid groups are urging a federal judge to find Trump administration officials in contempt to force them to reopen funding to global programs. USAID says it has a legal right to cancel aid contracts.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 15/02/2025
Even if the federal government destruction ended today, the damage already done will take decades to reverse. Much of it is irreversible. Already 9,600 adults and 1,000 infants have died as a result of freezing PEPFAR (HIV/AIDS prevention/treatment). pepfarimpact.vercel.app
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PEPFAR Impact Tracker
Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 15/02/2025
A 6-month cessation of HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa during COVID resulted in 679,000 deaths within one year.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 12/02/2025
🥗 #HandsOffSNAP
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 12/02/2025
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 13/02/2025
🥗 #HandsOffSNAP Also hands off WIC, Medicaid, school meals, Meals on Wheels, etc
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The illegal USAID stop-work order and agency dismantling is already causing preventable deaths. It must be reversed, and the agency restored.
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RESULTS Virginia @results-virginia.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Accurate. And we *have to* stop them.
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Randy Rosso @fooddatanerd.com · 13/02/2025
🥗 the magnitude of these Medicaid and SNAP spending cuts would be absolutely devastating.
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