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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If @gilead.com made Lenacapavir available in every country, including Brazil, where this article is based, the fight wouldn't be so hard. But as long as we let corporations like Gilead monopolize publicly funded innovations, the virus will always have the upper hand. #PeopleOverProfits

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Rebecca M-O @reduplicater.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Crop art at the Minnesota State Fair! It is what it says it is - art made from various parts of crops, primarily seeds, lentils, and grains, occasionally leaves or flowers. For any non-Minnesotans viewing this, I'll start with mostly less political pieces. It's harder than you might think.

Untitled? by Jenny Lau
A red heart with radiating lines is in the upper half of the piece. In the middle are two loons, rising up out of the water to either fly or dance. The words "Forever - MN" appear in black at the bottom. The piece is edged in a wavy border. You can see from the seedlist that the inspiration was a Keith Haring drawing on a US "Forever stamp" where people instead of loons are dancing and holding up the heart.

Crops include white sorghum, red sorghum, french lentil, canola, wild rice, garlic skin, and millet. Any others have been cut off by the photographer's (my) carelessness.

Untitled? by Alice Hogan
In the center are two traditional portrayals of Vikings, with horned helmets. The left is a bearded man with a photo of Governor Tim Walz's face, and the right character is a female with long blond braids and a photo of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan's face. She holds a scepter topped by what might be a stalk of wheatand stands next to some miniature ears of multi-colored corn. Below them are the words "WELCOME TO MINNESOTA" in blue and green. Behind the two Vikings are a lake or river with swans, a pink house I don't recognize, and a stylized version of the Minneapolis skyline with some of its landmark buildings such as the Foshay Tower and the IDS Center.

The seed list is partially hidden and partially too blurry to read due to the photographer's (my) inability to take good photos.

"Pac-MN" by Meredith Keller
This is a 3 dimensional piece in that the yellow frame of it is moved forward and shaped as if it's an arcade game. The screen has a black background. The words "MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 2026" are written in the Pac-Man font at the top left. the rest of the screen has a map of the fairgrounds making the path that Pac-Man can follow, complete with yellow trails. Some of the yellow trails have the street names spelled out on the seeds. The screen also has red and blue ghosts, but instead of the normal bonus icons we see a pickle, an ear of corn, some pronto pups, and a chocolate chip cookie - all popular foods at the MN State Fair.

The seedlist shows yellow painted mustard seed in a Pac-Man shape, and the rest of the seeds are lined up for Pac-Man to eat: red and blue painted mustard seed, black canola, white, yellow, and green millet, white navy bean, yellow soy bean, and yellow split pea.

This entry was awarded a blue ribbon for first place in its category.

"Minnesota Welcomes You" by Megan Bell
Paul Bunyan, in brown laced up boots, blue jeans, and a pink and ight blue checked shirt and cap, is neeling on the ground. He steadies an axe against the ground in his left hand, while his right hand is outstretched to the viewer. The grass is green, there are autumn colored trees in the background, and a multicolored swirly sky is above. The words "MINNESOTA WELCOMES YOU" are in the foreground.

This piece was made with amaranth, hulled barley, black beans, canola, flax seed, millet, rye berries, and wheatberry. Most of these were painted.

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My helmet saved my life when I collided with another bicyclist. Fractured elbow, stitches in the leg, and broken glasses, but no concussion. Helmets are worth it! What's also worth it is that I was on a dedicated bike path, not a car-plagued stroad.

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Partners In Health @pih.org · 26/08/2026

“2,000 babies have been born at the MCOE since it opened in February, and all of them will have access to vaccination.” - @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=swwakmR1jgw

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The Great Thing about Infectious Disease

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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 26/08/2026

NOW today is the daaaayyy! Less than 6 hours until the deadline. Call your members of Congress! In Massachusetts, we're still looking to get @neal.house.gov, @trahan.house.gov, @repauchincloss.bsky.social, and @whipkclark.bsky.social, so if you're in MA district 1, 3, 4, or 5, that's you!

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@gilead.com your refusal to sell #lenacapavir at any price to @doctorswithoutborders.org is wrong and costs lives!! We need #2Shots$40Everywhere now!!! #tbfighter @tbfighters.org

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TAG - Treatment Action Group @treatmentactiongroup.org · 17/08/2026

We're hosting a FREE movie screening of "How to Survive a Plague" next month. Following the screening, panelists from different movements will share their ideologies and perspectives on community organizing. 🔗 www.treatmentactiongroup.org/htsap_moving...

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

But we can help them make better choices! Join @doctorswithborders.org and @tbfighters.org in calling on @gilead.com to make lenacapavir available in all low- and middle-income countries for less than $40 per person per year! #2Shots$40Everywhere #peopleoverprofits #tbfighter

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In addition, four middle-income countries excluded from the deal actually hosted clinical trials for lenacapavir and paved the way for its approval and sale. Those countries are Argentina, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil.

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In fact, @gilead.com only signed voluntary licensing agreements with 6 generic manufacturers, and these voluntary licenses exclude almost 40% of countries, including dozens of middle-income countries where HIV is on the rise.

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that forthcoming generics will make #lenacapavir available and affordable everywhere.

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I will never get over the richest man in the world taking medicine away from the poorest people in the world.

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We continue to lose countless visionaries in countries including Brazil, Mexico, and Peru because @gilead.com refuses to license Lenacapavir there. Gilead, step up and make LEN available to everybody, everywhere! #2Shots$40Everywhere

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy

Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...

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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 12/08/2026

Hey @gilead.com, any news on #2Shots$40Everywhere yet? Or are you still doing your best to screw over "everyone, everywhere"?

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Pharmaceutical company @gilead.com is denying access to lenacapavir in four countries that held clinical trials for the drug: Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. These places paved the way for this life-saving medication’s approval, and now they can’t get it!! Outrageous 😡

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

HIV prevention and treatment. It is truly a different world for people living with HIV today - but only if @gilead.com actually makes Lenacapavir available everywhere.

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

the last time I used a fax machine was when I worked in a healthcare setting in 2012. The last time I sent a fax was to Danaher, and I'm not afraid to crack open the ole fax for @gilead.com

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So did Merck and @gilead.com call each other up on the phone and be like, "hey, you've got that PrEP trial going on in Latin America? Us too. What if we... both? fucked over all the people who generously conducted those trials? Wouldn't that be so quirky lol? haha ok it's a plan, smooches"

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We straight up do not make isoniazid in the United States. So a tariff is literally just making it more expensive for Americans, in the hopes that perhaps domestic producers will come back because they can charge us double.

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Singingwriting (Josie) @singingwriting.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I had to remake my favorite Danaher meme for the #2Shots$40Everywhere campaign. @gilead.com why is so expensive and why won't you sell it to those that want to buy?

A cat with his mouth open yelling at a box of Lenacapavie Injection with the text "WHY IS IT SO EXPENSIVE?!?!"

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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · 28/07/2026

Hey @gilead.com! We'll take Yeztugo, aka #Lenacapavir, "Hot To Go" for #2Shots$40DollarsEverywhere! We're ready and waiting for you to put #PeopleOverProfits www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CBc...

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Why can't we get Yeztugo? (Hot To Go parody)

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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In Rio for #AIDS2026. Gilead has put up more promo banners than it has allowed people in Brazil to access lenacapavir. It's a grim echo of past AIDS conferences: we celebrate scientific breakthroughs inside a conference center while people outside still can't access the medicines being discussed.

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

shareholders are all begging @gilead.com to sell Lenacapavir to MSF and make it $40 everywhere

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

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cranberrymuffin.bsky.social @cranberrymuffin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@gilead.com Have you read this book? @tbfighters.org are asking you not to eat your classmates! #2Shots$40Everywhere #Lenacapavir youtu.be/ayYfs6lvAN8

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Gilead Sciences Learns Not To Eat its Classmates

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cranberrymuffin.bsky.social @cranberrymuffin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

An open Letter to @gilead.com from a local art museum- Why did you create the masterpiece that is #Lenacapavir if you don't want people to use it? We can end HIV with #2Shots$40Everywhere. youtube.com/shorts/IuqF_...

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Thoughts From Places- The Art Museum and Gilead Sciences

YouTube video by Caroline

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I call on @gilead.com to 1) reduce the price of lenacapavir to less than $40 per person per year in all LMICs 2) increase its global supply to match actual demand and 3) sell directly to MSF and others. HIV isn’t waiting… why is Gilead? (4/5)

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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 12/06/2026

I, for one, would love to see this finally passed and signed into law. In the one minute it took me to write this post, there were about 20 new cases of #tuberculosis, and 2 deaths. All of those were preventable. We need to #EndTBNow: www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

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Shaheen, Young Reintroduce Bill to Combat Tuberculosis Globally | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Todd Young (R-IN) reintroduced...

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Celeste Moss @celestevmoss.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

YEZTUGO (lenacapavir) is a new injectable form of long-acting PrEP that only requires 2 doses per year to prevent HIV infection, and 3 million people are expected to get access to the drug by 2028 via The Global Fund. Sounds great, right? (1/5)

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

is @jonbois.bsky.social going to cover this on charging the mound?

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

as we always say, FDDD is medicine

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

loling at the person in the article who said "there is no allusion whatever to the Holy Family" Diego Rivera's vaccination mural is another excellent entry for "has this person ever seen a baby"

A baby with a halo of blond hair stands in the center of the painting. A woman in white with a halo of a white nurse's cap holds the baby, while a doctor administers a shot to the baby's arm. Three men in the back hunch over scientific equipment. A horse, a cow, and some sheep stand in the foreground. Everybody is hunched in reverence toward the baby.

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees. The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the federal immigration jail in Aurora. | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees

The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the federal immigration jail in Aurora

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Singingwriting (Josie) @singingwriting.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Made a bingo card for the #2Shots$40Everywhere campaign! Share how you've told @gilead.com to lower their prices and sell to MSF!

A TBFighters' Gilead Bingo card with squares such as; emailed Gilead, Read about HIV, and more

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Jenn Marker @minimarker.dftba.social · 14/07/2026

You have a few more hours to get comments in! Join the overwhelming wave of people opposing this rule. We are stronger together!

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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 09/07/2026

Did #GileadSciences block me, or just fully delete their Bluesky account? I wanted to remind them to make #lenacapavir accessible to everyone everywhere. Now I'm worried they might forget! #2Shots$40Everywhere

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/07/2026

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY

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Tofu @tbfightertofu.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I know that bluesky is obsessed with Norway, but y'all cannot convince me to root for big baby raw milk man, so I'm gonna have to root for *voice crack* hurricane.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I think by saying "nothing is going to happen" you are basically ensuring nothing is going to happen. That sentiment is heard and understood by elected leaders who have the power and the means to make something happen.

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cranberrymuffin.bsky.social @cranberrymuffin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I feel fear when I stare into the eyes of the pizza ice cube. But not as great as the fear I feel when I think of all the harm being done by @gilead.com in refusing to sell LEN to @msf.org . #2Shots$40Everywhere

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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 06/07/2026

Mexico was one of the places that both participated in @gilead.com's #lenacapavir trials and are also being denied access to the drug they helped bring to market. Make it make sense‽

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Tori ✨ @tori.dftba.social · 06/07/2026

Mexico is one of the places @msf.ca says could benefit the most from #lenacapavir but @gilead.com thinks it’s fine to deny them access to this life changing medication Instead of addressing HIV where it’s on the rise, they’re…just going to let more people get HIV

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