Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o... - ThreadSky

anneapplebaum.bsky.social • 88 days ago

Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/hiv-usaid-freeze-doge.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social•86 days ago

Judge Chutkan: can one undo a death?

yakyogi.bsky.social•88 days ago

🎁#NYTGiftArticle

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/hiv-usaid-freeze-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y04.i73H.o_WGpfx_1Zcj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

rhayadar318.bsky.social•87 days ago

If that's the case, then why did the American people elect that idiot as their president?

rubyinwolfland00.bsky.social•87 days ago

I thought there had been a court order restoring funds ?? Ohhh they aren’t following court orders ?? Oh right .. they aren’t backing down they are just saying they’re backing down

benrosenzweig.bsky.social•85 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/benrosenzweig.bsky.social/post/3lhik4qgtic2a

scaypgrayce.bsky.social•88 days ago

I’m sure NYT and others are having the time of their lives, writing story after story about our country’s destruction. So refreshing after four boring years of Joe Biden.

jcm444.bsky.social•88 days ago

The CRUELTY is the point. These are really, really bad men.

mflower.bsky.social•88 days ago

Powerful presentation 😢🙏

The writer includes a constitutional call to arms:
"Mr. Musk’s assault appears to be operating outside of any lawful or congressional process, so Congress and the courts must intervene."

Read it here https://archive.ph/dvOot#selection-5777.0-5777.338

youtwitface.bsky.social•88 days ago

This was on the wish list of Putin. Democracy is not allowed to do anything for people. MAGA also believes this.

winenotwhine.bsky.social•88 days ago

If the NYT was serious about sharing this information they would remove the paywall. Most don’t subscribe and that limits the visibility, and keeps the truth in the dark.

vppark.bsky.social•87 days ago

📌

patndave4919.bsky.social•85 days ago

Billionaires sucking off the Government teat are Taking Food Out of the Mouths of the Poorest on Earth. And then having disdain for the people they hurt? This is Pure Evil.

frank1993.bsky.social•88 days ago

we are spending too much money on others. it is time for Europe and China and others to pick up the bill.

jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social•87 days ago

The cruelty is the point. They hate Black and Brown people and laugh at their misfortunes. The US is run by malevolent sadists.

mdit.bsky.social•87 days ago

The gop hates them so much they're willing to self harm as long as these people get the worst of it.

karlmv.bsky.social•88 days ago

Fight back. Never give up. 👌

svenunglaube1984.bsky.social•87 days ago

TRUTH or fake ?! MAGA Business Owners ! MAGA Enforcers ! Your Job at my Business Your voting for ........XxumX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

svenunglaube1984.bsky.social•87 days ago

Makeing OWN POLISH AND UKRAINIAN NUCLEAR ABM MISSILES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gordonvincent.bsky.social•88 days ago

The Rapist and the Deadbeat Dad are destroying America's reputation, such as it still was, around the world, on Putin's orders.

metrochimp.bsky.social•85 days ago

It’s gonna be rough on China having to come into all these countries with food and medical aid and demonstrate they’re the reliable ally and the US is actually a monstrous, murderous empire, but they’ll somehow manage.

mybookstand.bsky.social•86 days ago

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-trump-musk-foreign-aid-firings-a3af8ce6ef17878b718c8e2ed3bf98e4?user_email=176fdfd0e0c91d2fd47ecb2d5349160041d96380d170afed29bc43f3e8a3dda1&utm_medium=APNews_Alerts&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=NewsAlert_Feb23_2025_04:30PM&utm_term=AP%20News%20Alerts

oddball13.bsky.social•87 days ago

They see USAID as an easy propaganda win against the libs.

Their callousness concerning the short term consequences and ignorance of how this cost effective soft-power will negatively impact American interests for decades to come surprises me not.

jillynn.bsky.social•88 days ago

Pay wall.

yakyogi.bsky.social•88 days ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/hiv-usaid-freeze-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y04.i73H.o_WGpfx_1Zcj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
🎁#NYTGiftArticle

kayboom99.bsky.social•85 days ago

Thank you for the gift article. I had no idea USAID had such reach around the globe. What will happen to all the people who depend on these programs now that they’re laying off all the USAID workers? And what happens to the billions of dollars in their foreign aid budget? Billionaires’ pockets?

annbonemalone.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thank you!

harleyhoney.bsky.social•87 days ago

😂😂😂

communitycafe.bsky.social•87 days ago

🤍

antonia2024bsky.bsky.social•87 days ago

megidd.bsky.social•88 days ago

And now a Judge cleared the way for firings at USAID. Sad

micleanforest.bsky.social•87 days ago

Elon Musk just shared details on the USAID Haiti Scam exposing “$4.4B SPENT, SIX HOMES BUILT”

Of all the contracts, “Haitian companies got just 2%”

2016 Haitian Reporter, “The whole world has given billions.” They say Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton stole it

jeremyll.bsky.social•88 days ago

Helping starving or sick people around the world is the right thing to do, but it’s also just good for our reputation, and it benefits us if the rest of the world doesn’t despise us. American leaders used to understand the strength of soft power.
https://medium.com/@j.land8491/the-wise-part-of-conservatism-d6b058f3a498

pixelmountain.bsky.social•88 days ago

& it makes the world better for us, reducing spread of disease.

It’s beneficial to help prevent authoritarian takeovers, since they spread too.

Bonus: reducing poverty, hunger, & disease, & encouraging education help prevent autocrat takeovers.

Benevolence can also be selfish, in a good way.

elijahxmcm.bsky.social•88 days ago

Was it good for our reputation when Anne Applebaum and her friends decided to play poker the Russians using American chips, their bluff was called, and it was demonstrated to the world that we no longer know how to realistically manage great-power politics? Hundreds of thousands are dead

jeremyll.bsky.social•88 days ago

elijahxmcm.bsky.social•88 days ago

Why isn't the Asian skull larger than the others

tosawihi.bsky.social•87 days ago

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greenmamalama.bsky.social•87 days ago

Imagine having the
ability to improve and
save the lives of an entire planet
And instead
CHOOSING TO DESTROY HER PEOPLE!
THAT IS WHAT trump=musk ARE CHOOSING

bambinamomma.bsky.social•87 days ago

I know what they mean. I had friends who worked on an irrigation project in West Africa that was funded by USAID. I visited projects in Honduras and El Salavador that received USAID funding - digging wells in places where women had to walk a mile to get dirty water, schools for poor rural kids, etc.

sk8rbelle.bsky.social•88 days ago

I would love to read these stories but I won’t read nyt on account of them selling out.. is there another source, please?

elijahxmcm.bsky.social•88 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&t=10s

sk8rbelle.bsky.social•88 days ago

..is cool but we have to be realistic. Again, thank you. The intellectual stimulation is gratifying and has reawakened the quest for continued reductions in ignorance.

sk8rbelle.bsky.social•88 days ago

..had not thought far enough ahead in terms of the destructiveness of ever-growing consumerism and planetary impacts, as well as inordinate chasms with wealth distribution. This teaching prompts me to further explore how democracy can survive without dependency on Capitalism/Consumerism. Utopia …

sk8rbelle.bsky.social•88 days ago

Thank you very much for sharing this. I have great ignorance re: matters of Ukraine specifically, and Global Policies generally. I resonated with “..riding on the waves of optimism of the end of the Cold War” and was complacent in the excessive growth of Capitalism yet an inkling that Adam Smith…

laboomer68.bsky.social•87 days ago

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