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Gates is both announcing he is speeding up the dispersement of his wealth in these awful Trumped times, but is also specifically exposing and attacking the billions is USAID that Elon and Trump have cancelled.

Food to rot, not delivered to children.

AIDS to spread.

People who are unaware of Trump Musk murdering children because billionaires own the press, WILL HEAR Bill Gates.

france24.com/en/americas/20250

Today in Labor History April 25, 1993: Over one million people marched in Washington, D.C., for gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender rights. This was in the era of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell discrimination within the military and Colorado’s constitutional amendment invalidating laws that protect LGBTQ rights. The marchers had seven basic demands. The 1st demand was a civil rights bill and ending all discrimination by state and federal governments, including the repeal of all sodomy laws. They also demanded more funding for AIDS research and treatment; an end to discrimination in adoption and child custody; full inclusion of all LGBTQ people in the education system; and an end to all discrimination and violence against LGBTQ people. However, in their platform, they also demanded these same rights and protections for ALL people, especially people of color, people with disabilities, women, nonbinary and trans people, and working class and poor people.

Cookbook browsing.....

PARTY!

A book released in the 1990's to aid the AIDS Council of Victoria, and bring joy to people in this frightening era.

"Not since angels first went horseback has there been such uninhibited celebration of the way we do the thing we all do best: get down and party! So pack away the curried prawns and aunty's pav with the organza memories of parties past - and welcome the turn of the millennium. Pages and pages of good looks, good people, good food and ninety or so highly entertaining recipes you'll need to heat up the action at your place. The people who put this cook book together did it for free - but they didn't do it for nothing."

I picked this up in a second hand shop a long time ago. I don't think I have cooked anything from the book, but it is a book of joy and delightful to browse the tiny finger foods of parties in the 1990's.

Many have called Trump the worst president ever. However, under his 1st presidency, he did not come close to causing the amount of death that occurred under the leadership of Bush Jr., whose War on Terror brought him into the top 20 of most murderous regimes in the history of earth.

But Trump 2.0 is set to be far more deadly. His cuts to HIV program funding in Africa, alone, is predicted to result in over 500,000 deaths of children, along with 2.8 million orphaned when their parents die of AIDS.

cidrap.umn.edu/hivaids/us-cuts

CIDRAPUS cuts to HIV programs in Africa threaten to set progress back to 'dark ages,' experts say

Just heard Anthony Fauci give an interview (part of a book tour) at the Free Library. When the host (NPR's Dave Davies) was given a hand signal about minutes to go, I was really shocked! could have kept listening to his stories, observation, and deep humanity for another hour easily.