Important: A *Republican* Congressman, Austin Scott, just wrote to Marco Rubio urging him to address the problems I reported on below that are putting lifesaving treatment for severely malnourished children abroad at risk. He joins Dem Rep Seth Magaziner. Horrific stuff: - ThreadSky

gregsargent.bsky.social • 59 days ago

Important: A *Republican* Congressman, Austin Scott, just wrote to Marco Rubio urging him to address the problems I reported on below that are putting lifesaving treatment for severely malnourished children abroad at risk. He joins Dem Rep Seth Magaziner. Horrific stuff:

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detemple.bsky.social•58 days ago

once more with alt text

luv4calif.bsky.social•59 days ago

The fascist musk literally looks & acts like a villain from a Batman movie. Except Batman isn’t coming to save us. We the people are the heroes we’re looking for. Bernie Sanders says no one in Washington is going to stop this. It must be millions of Americans rising together in this moment.

deeball77.bsky.social•59 days ago

Absolutely the worst people to be in charge of anything to do with our nation.

gmg8.bsky.social•59 days ago

1/2 You all are supposing that Musk/Trump/Rubio care. They don’t. Trump called countries “shit-holes.” Musk called people on assistance “parasites.” Empathy- it’s missing- Elon wouldn’t even respond to plea about his own child’s health. They DON’T CARE. Cruelty is the point. Perhaps we need

gmg8.bsky.social•59 days ago

2/2 a modern day Jonathan Swift to adapt his “A Modest Proposal.” Where is the line? Will famine and disease wiping out thousands be enough? Will the resurgence of maladies that were being stopped be a wake up call? Does disease stay isolated in a particular region? We saw with COVID it does not!

carpenter22.bsky.social•59 days ago

Starving the kids deserves a big HANDS UP IN THE AIR from the man with no conscience.

gdd9000.bsky.social•59 days ago

It's probably not as easy to reinstate the funds as it was to shut them off, but I'm pretty sure if they really wanted to, the funds would have been restored by now. We need to accept the reality that they don't intend to restore the funding. And they don't care if the US companies go BK. GHOULS.

lesleya.bsky.social•59 days ago

Or worse, kids die.

gdd9000.bsky.social•59 days ago

Oh, I don't mean to discount/diminish that in any way. I mean, it's obvious that kids in other countries (and heck, US kids via measles) can drop dead with nary a worry. My point is that they dont care if they screw over US businesses either. They want to crash and burn this, then shoot protestors.

lesleya.bsky.social•59 days ago

I don’t have words for the harm being done to ordinary people right now, the US and its reputation abroad. Please stay sane and well.

gdd9000.bsky.social•59 days ago

Thanks. It is a battle every day, but we have to fight it.

lesleya.bsky.social•59 days ago

There’s a lot of us over here right behind you.

geeknomad.bsky.social•59 days ago

It would actually be fairly straightforward if the people who know how to run GLAAS/Phoenix payment systems weren’t locked out of the system and/or on forced leave and/or fired.

gdd9000.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yup. https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/27/elon-musks-ai-bola-and-marco-rubios-very-busy-month/

retiredmohel.bsky.social•59 days ago

Killing children for a tax cut: How Christian is that?

Apparently very Christian.

bkj741.bsky.social•58 days ago

At least what *they* call Christian. I call it something else

frangsbo.bsky.social•59 days ago

It is so Trump to not pay on a contract.

stacydepue.bsky.social•59 days ago

once again look at this f...in photo. small dick energy...kara swisher has their number...

chipster56.bsky.social•59 days ago

There is a special place in hell….

staidwinnow.bsky.social•59 days ago

The asshole voted yesterday to gut Medicaid, did he not?

csmith24.bsky.social•59 days ago

Rubio and the GOP clearly don’t care about children given how they treat them in America.

smce82.bsky.social•59 days ago

Maybe someone should tell him that the Republican Party has the smallest majority in the House since the 1930s, are trying to negotiate budget and Congress is an independent branch to the Executive

mstriplewillows.bsky.social•59 days ago

Compassion and humanity is the very last thing on musks mind. He couldn’t be bothered.

futureofcit.bsky.social•59 days ago

Thank you for keeping the USAID stop work emergency in the news and for writing about RUTF.

nmatt16.bsky.social•59 days ago

Genocide takes many forms. America has always been in the genocide business.

flipstostock.bsky.social•59 days ago

Poor Austin Scott about to get primaried for having a heart

feklar669.bsky.social•59 days ago

This is why I don't believe in Hell.

Someone this evil. The world's wealthiest person.

The Earth would burst open under his feet and belch fire, smoke, and demons to drag Elon back to where that special brand of evil belongs.

Hasn't happened = no Hell.

geeknomad.bsky.social•59 days ago

Plumpynut saves lives! And where are we on that prompt payment act thing… hmmm….

proflupton.bsky.social•59 days ago

And yet he also voted to cut healthcare spending domestically, which will also result in the death of children, no?

garysmith580.bsky.social•59 days ago

Guy is an ass****!

thisuserisdumb.bsky.social•59 days ago

petcharles.bsky.social•59 days ago

You spelled Krasnov wrong

belladonnamirage.bsky.social•59 days ago

Meanwhile I’ll bet his little bear has a pony

inklake.com•59 days ago

julesp1.bsky.social•59 days ago

Oh one of them has a heart ? after screaming pro life and then cutting services to help children

arrowintotheair.bsky.social•59 days ago

Austin Scott? GA-08 Austin Scott? That one?

Huh.

csilberman.bsky.social•59 days ago

Because of the peanuts? But he's fine with the House GOP budget resolution cutting all kinds of other services?

sue19721954.bsky.social•59 days ago

Murderers

ootek.bsky.social•59 days ago

Every single incident similar to this that involves death and suffering which you think is the magic bullet which will suddenly cause a reversal, won't.
They are in fact advertisements met with wide support.

At any rate thinking that Secretary of State Bambi is going to do something.............

mschristinak.bsky.social•59 days ago

“Pro-life”

area-educator.bsky.social•59 days ago

📌

coste1costello.bsky.social•59 days ago

civicliteracy.bsky.social•59 days ago

USAID Head Peter Marocco Promoting Christian Nationalist Agenda Favored by Hungary

https://globalextremism.org/post/usaid-head-peter-marocco/

scoobydoomi.bsky.social•59 days ago

This is horrific. MAGA doesn’t give a shit about starving kids, but they should care about the businesses in this country that will fail that have contracts with our government. This tactic is straight from Trump‘s playbook as a developer, never intend on paying the full amount of a contract.

epedder.bsky.social•59 days ago

He thinks if he can get away with stiffing people so can the government.

f-e-f-o.bsky.social•59 days ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1iy9qla/aoc_elon_musk_is_not_a_scientist_he_is_not_an

katecohenart.bsky.social•59 days ago

Please call your representatives and show up at town halls. Also join a group such as Indivisible

rh178.bsky.social•59 days ago

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=j2RFQ-PADQsk70A5

phxaznative.bsky.social•59 days ago

SpaceCadet Musk needs to be Deported

anneezkauai.bsky.social•58 days ago

But because they’re not entitled white kids, do their lives really matter?

bkj741.bsky.social•58 days ago

Apparently not 🤬

jpb36.bsky.social•59 days ago

I wonder if he gets a letter back from my local Republican reps who all told me that Trump has a "mandate" to do what he wants and that he supports those efforts which are all "within the law and power of the president"

highdesertkwc.bsky.social•59 days ago

Republicans are NOT pro-life and have NO Christian values. They are letting children around the world starve to death rather than fulfill USAID contracts given to American farmers to feed the needy. So the grain rots and farmers, who had contracts, go bankrupt! See any waste or abuse here? STUPID!!

stylemartian444.bsky.social•59 days ago

This is horrific. Unfortunately, for people like Elon, the cruelty is a feature, not a bug. They want the pain, the chaos, the utter agony. No suffering shall move them to act, only our courts and Congress can do that.

i2eye.bsky.social•59 days ago

😳😭🤮☠️

dana-m.bsky.social•59 days ago

Rubio thinks a bible verse will solve the problem.

averybullard.bsky.social•59 days ago

A letter? How many kids will die by the time it gets delivered and Rubio reads it? Pick up the fucking phone.

patpound.bsky.social•59 days ago

The kids are being harmed. The plea for Rubio’s assistance focuses on US companies who are losing or will lose money. Guess which one will attract the most attention.

thegrandfarque.bsky.social•59 days ago

I agree, but, whatever it takes to get them fed.

fatboyjma.bsky.social•59 days ago

This impacts US Producers (ie companies). They reached out to the Reps and said “hey, we paid for you to be there, fix this” and this is where we are.

tobellz.bsky.social•59 days ago

Rubio wants to help but he can't figure out how to get the Musk kids to stop unchecking the boxes next to the authorizations for payment.

He's just the Secretary of State. Weak. Powerless. Unlike the kid Musk hired off of a 4chan board two weeks ago.

judyhasthoughts.bsky.social•59 days ago

Musk is murdering those children. Crimes against humanity. Bring him to the Hague.

patrickww.bsky.social•59 days ago

This will have zero effect unless the Congressman is willing to use his vote to force change.

staidwinnow.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yup, he voted enthusiastically yesterday to gut Medicaid.

charlescolee.bsky.social•58 days ago

My understanding is that Rubio's State Department has repeatedly forwarded waiver requests - only to have Musk's pimple-faced Nazis intervene and deny them. This is both deliberately and horrifically racist.

idle-idea.bsky.social•59 days ago

And the part that gets me is that Trump and the rest of his mafioso’s don’t give a shit.

kimtul.bsky.social•59 days ago

When the disruption hurts Americans hard enough, they won’t have room for generosity for others abroad.

megabeth18.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yet he voted for the budget last night !!

Suffering for thee but not for my special gop district

drewville.bsky.social•59 days ago

Unimaginable cruelty to humanity.

epluribus.bsky.social•59 days ago

Sick fucks.

melissahbuckner.bsky.social•59 days ago

Notably, even with “waivers”, suppliers, US producers, growers, suppliers and truckers aren’t getting paid. In other words, in addition to starving people we normally help; Trump administration is hurting US businesses and their employees in GA and RI.

epedder.bsky.social•59 days ago

The divisions getting waivers need other USAID infrastructure to operate and those people aren’t getting waivers so it isn’t helping.

devon123.bsky.social•59 days ago

Marco is powerless. Musk is running the government.

marshapiercephd.bsky.social•59 days ago

Marco is a weasel who is letting this happen.

mountainlyons.bsky.social•59 days ago

Farritor and Kliger keep turning the payments off. DOGE kids need to meet up with law and order.

demsrock.bsky.social•58 days ago

Remember how much fun Musk had with his chainsaw?

kathleenzr.bsky.social•59 days ago

A side effect of ketamine addiction is light sensitivity

truly-blue2025.bsky.social•59 days ago

Oh THAT’S why the sunglasses at night. He looks like one of his stupid trucks.

surlybadger61.bsky.social•59 days ago

The problem with the Republican who now has questions is that he and his party publicly encouraged this cutoff of USAID. NOW they are hand wringing and manifesting crocodile tears in a lame attempt at PR. The GOP restricts liberty at home & abroad and doesn’t care if people die.

vegasgello.bsky.social•59 days ago

Coverage! Finally!!!

codeman38.zone38.net•59 days ago

Adding alt text for those who need it (my own nearsighted self included):

maiziedan.bsky.social•59 days ago

After years of asking, Elon decides to end world hunger by killing the hungry

ruegalande.bsky.social•59 days ago

There are only two parties these Congressmen care about in this scenario, and neither of them are starving children.

gregsargent.bsky.social•59 days ago

Not sure I agree with this. Long bipartisan tradition of supporting foreign aid. It's possible to care about the jobs these contractors create in the district and also think what they're producing is good for the world.

ruegalande.bsky.social•59 days ago

I agree that can/has been the case.My cynicism may be getting the better of me.It's hard to view them in any context other than contorting to preserve their seats, while at the same time, trying to remain in Trump's good favor.They sold their souls, now they're forced to grovel for some of it back.

gregsargent.bsky.social•59 days ago

Very hard to argue with any of this, alas!

randyhardy.bsky.social•59 days ago

Also exactly the kind of aid that Elon promised to personally fund to cure hunger if anyone could tell him how. Then people told him how. Then he claimed no one told him how, so he didn't have to do it.

joed55.bsky.social•59 days ago

GREAT Post. Musk should be prosecuted.

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•59 days ago

Truly. Locked under the fucking Hague.

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