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• @brittanyepage Brittany Page on bluesky

  “The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one... “I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money.  ” - Bill Gates www.ft.com/content/bdd9...  [image]

• @mikebaker Mike Baker on bluesky

  Bill Gates speaks about Elon Musk in a new interview:  —  “The world's richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children.”  —  Elsewhere, he says the international aid cuts will result in the additional deaths of millions of children.  —  www.nytimes.com…

• @melissaryan Melissa Ryan on bluesky

  “In the meantime, the world's richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children.”  —Bill Gates, not mincing words here. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

• @kencaldeira.com Ken Caldeira on bluesky

  About Musk:  —  “Well, he's the one who cut the U.S.A.I.D. budget.  He put it in the wood chipper, because he didn't go to a party that weekend. ...  In the meantime, the world's richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children.”  —  www.nytimes.com/202…

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  Smidgen of optimism is a welcome thing right now [embedded post]

• @tonytassell Tony Tassell on bluesky

  and here is the FT interview with Bill Gates on the USAId cuts in which he accuses Elon Musk of “killing the world's poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to US development assistance. www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

• @robertscotthorton Scott Horton on bluesky

  Everything that Bill Gates states here is correct.  There is blood on Elon Musk's hands... the blood of innocent children. www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

• @tdpattillo @tdpattillo on bluesky

  “The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one.”

• @stephenkb Stephen Bush on bluesky

  “People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them.  There are too many urgent problems to solve.”  Great interview with Gates by David Pilling:

• @mikhailalexa Alexa Mikhail on x

  Exclusive news for @FortuneMagazine following 8 months of reporting: The Gates Foundation will be closing in 2045 after pledging to double annual spending and commit a total of $200 billion- of which Bill Gates will contribute the majority of his wealth. https://fortune.com/...

• @billgates Bill Gates on x

  We have an opportunity to save more lives around the world than ever before—and I want to do even more to help. That's why I'm giving away virtually all of my wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next 20 years. [image]

• @billgates Bill Gates on x

  No mother or child should die from a preventable cause. No generation should live in fear of deadly infectious diseases. And no one should be denied the chance to thrive because of where they were born. https://www.gatesnotes.com/...

• @akshatrathi Akshat Rathi on x

  Bill Gates on Elon Musk: “The world's richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world's poorest children.” https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]

• @dwallacewells David Wallace-Wells on x

  Bill Gates on the real cost of the brutal cuts to U.S. foreign aid. [image]

• @dwallacewells David Wallace-Wells on x

  Bill Gates on the real costs of brutal U.S. cuts to foreign aid. [image]

• @gersonborrero Gerson Borrero on x

  “You could say this announcement is not very timely,” Gates says, but the timeline isn't short: He is committing the foundation to 20 more years of generous aid, more than $200 billion in total, targeting health and human development. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jerusalemdemsas @jerusalemdemsas on x

  .@BillGates on @elonmusk. [image]

• @stefanfschubert Stefan Schubert on x

  Bill Gates just announced he'll give away almost all his wealth in the next two decades and close the Gates Foundation in 2045 [image]

• r/news r on reddit

  Bill Gates to give away $200 billion by 2045, accuses Musk of harming world's poor

• r/TeslaModelY r on reddit

  Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts

• r/politics r on reddit

  Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts