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Vulture: The List Keepers. “Over the years, people in the middle of the crisis started keeping their own lists of the lost — those records were small personal acts of grief and tribute. Giving the dressers, the hairstylists, the assistant stage managers, the junior choreographers, the chorus boys, the makeup artists, the rehearsal pianists, the accountants, and the pit musicians who died […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/15/vulture-the-list-keepers/

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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.

"Breath of life" - Erasure

The one that goes "Take me I'm yours, now I'm coming up for air".

Fourth single from their "Chorus" album, and I'm afraid the one that's left no impression on me.

Until researching, completely forgot that Andy Bell has been living with an AIDS diagnosis since 1998. Next week, BBC4 has a weekend for a #TOTP host who was diagnosed before these miracle drugs were developed.

Oh, evening all.