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PEPFAR has saved 25M lives ❤️ & helped 8M babies be born HIV-free 👶🏽✨ But this lifesaving program is under threat. This week, Sen. Rubio testifies on the State Dept. budget— & PEPFAR’s future is on the line. 🧬📉 📞 Call Congress: Save PEPFAR. Save lives. #SavePEPFAR

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Read what Reagan said about immigration and America just 36 years ago, and try to imagine any Republican saying it now. It’s become a gutter party. www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

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(Reuters) - Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

This is what pro-life looks like.

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I hope you'll read this Q&A I did with @naomiaklein.bsky.social. Klein offers a clear-eyed assessment of the end game of Trump's billionaire backers -- and what it may take to reclaim our future from these megalomaniacs.

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Some U.S. Catholic bishops have taken strong public positions against the Trump immigration plan, including El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who chairs the bishops’ committee on migration. religionnews.com/2025/05/01/r...

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"The volunteers are still in the field—for now. But the spine is gone. The trainers, the placement officers, the veterans who could see trouble before it came—that architecture is vanishing, one resignation letter at a time."

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Remember their names and honor them. open.substack.com/pub/thelastm...

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back! This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.

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over 100 people are rallying outside the albemarle county courthouse right now to protest the abduction of two local residents here yesterday by masked men with no warrant who claimed to be ICE agents

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

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I wrote about Khalil being denied a chance to be with his wife while she gave birth to their first child, all because Marco Rubio says Khalil's "expected beliefs" may be bad. I found multiple examples of Rubio talking about how important "being there" is for fathers. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/22/m...

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 32 days ago • 33 comments

Happy Easter to all Christians, East and West! A special blessing to all those baptized at an Easter Vigil tonight.

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USAID partners with the exact people dictators are trying to silence. - @friendsofusaid.bsky.social friendsofusaid.substack.com/p/why-kill-u...

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

I wrote a thing about how decentralization and democracy don't just go hand in hand. They're necessary components of the same system. For there to be true democracy there must be true decentralization. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/t...

submitted 36 days ago • 27 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

Yep. Youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts. Read our latest here:

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

I would like to see more government support for... a) the American car industry b) the American farm industry c) unregulated cryptocurrency primarily used by drug smugglers, grifters, and Peter Thiel www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wou...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

submitted 39 days ago • 26 comments

There are no more rules folks. When DOGE's illegal takeover of government systems is complete, we can no longer trust anything is safe in government hands. It should be really frightening to every American!!

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

This is almost exactly the annual budget of USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 46 days ago • 23 comments

Every half hour in Eastern Congo, a child is reported raped, according to @unicef. Yet Eastern Congo has been largely abandoned by the world, amplified by the USAID shutdown. www.unicefusa.org/press/child-...

submitted 42 days ago • 21 comments

Via @ncronline.bsky.social - ‘There is nothing American or #Catholic about failing to help suffering people. To ignore all the good works accomplished by #USAID to justify Trump's taking a sledgehammer to foreign aid is morally and intellectually dishonest.’ #Trump www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Lawlessness and shamelessness.

submitted 43 days ago • 119 comments

Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.

submitted 44 days ago • 86 comments

Himmler: "like a Ford assembly line, but with human beings."

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

"How could slapping a 104 percent tariff on German imports possibly lead to anything bad? What’s the Weimar Republic gonna do? Rapidly militarize?"

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The only sure way to keep Americans from rebuilding our government after this regime is to bankrupt the country. #resist

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I wrote a bunch of words trying to explain how economically incomprehensible the tariff stuff is. It explains how a 5th grader understands basic econ better than Trump and his economic advisors. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/03/t...

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