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John Thornton's avatar

Gates's comment says says it all. Thanks for this essay, Dick.

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Evan Griswold's avatar

Musk and Trump could be charged and convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. The World Court should charge them along with the auttours of Project 2025.

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Richard Conniff on Nature's avatar

That would be well-deserved. Any normal human wanting to reduce US foreign aid funding for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, polio, and other infectious diseases, especially in children, would have given a warning and allowed a decent interval for other parties to step up and take our place. The way they did it was cold-blooded murder.

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Richard Conniff on Nature's avatar

Reader comment received by email: A disturbing story. The collateral effects of Trump 2.0 are delivering a delta of hate and indifference. Unreal that 3 1/2 yrs. of it still to come.

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Arthur Battram's avatar

the Cold Equations of science V. the inhumanity of the cowering child inside the big man

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