"in bombed-out Sudanese cities, Kenyan clinics and Mauritanian refugee camps, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable people" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... - ThreadSky

anneapplebaum.bsky.social • 18 days ago

"in bombed-out Sudanese cities, Kenyan clinics and Mauritanian refugee camps, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable people"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/04/africa-trump-musk-usaid-funding-cuts/

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thisdej.bsky.social•17 days ago

Can confirm. Had a call this morning with my Ugandan colleague who described members of his deep network in the local medical community as reeling, stuck, and fearful for their patients.

skipperbloomfield.bsky.social•18 days ago

This needs to be covered and shown to American citizens.

wolfwoman8.bsky.social•18 days ago

Can someone please film it and put it on US TV, YouTube and anywhere else. We use to show starving little babies and then people realized what was happening. I have not seen any news feeds with hordes of starving people. Now is the time!

kebidoor.bsky.social•18 days ago

Hmmm, wonder why the GOP doesn’t care a fig about any of that? What could it possibly be?

johnbean.bsky.social•18 days ago

📌

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•18 days ago

🥴

anonymouse-dev.bsky.social•18 days ago

Or, translated to plain english: people are dying.

kshpil.bsky.social•17 days ago

💔

avrilhowes.bsky.social•18 days ago

Heartbreaking. Do they know that ISIS is active in this area? And this just plays into their hands?

kejo.bsky.social•18 days ago

this will create an opportunity for China to take over these programs to make new allies, and more access to Africa's minerals and resources

kcroysdale.bsky.social•18 days ago

Trump did not kill enough Americans in the last pandemic, so he figured he could crash the healthcare systems of all the third-world countries to get a second try with a new pandemic.

rhedfish.bsky.social•18 days ago

Truly shameful and cruel. The administration that was offended by a priest urging kindness and generosity. Unbelievable.

calleycat.bsky.social•18 days ago

Apparently we are not the people we used to be. U.S. started these efforts to control nefarious actors and thereby providing control of developing mayhem. Also to promote good works, lift from squaller, develop self-order. Trump = destruction, to pocket money.

stevetownsend0.bsky.social•18 days ago

Apartheid nostalgists like musk and thiel don't view these people as human

antediluvian.bsky.social•18 days ago

Oh, man. It's touching to see that bag of needed flour with our flag on it. So cheap for us, and what it means to them.

searcy514.bsky.social•18 days ago

It's clear that the Democrats' military actions in the Middle East are all about driving up oil prices, but at what cost? Our safety and security are being compromised for their economic gains.

steevo57.bsky.social•18 days ago

He doesn’t care about the long term damage. It’s all about the here and now. Oh and himself!

webvixen13.bsky.social•18 days ago

I can't imagine being a soulless husk monster who is relishing in causing pain and suffering in the world. I dearly wish for the opposite reality! If only the world had compassion, care, empathy and fucking sanity.

joanmcrobbie.bsky.social•18 days ago

Elon Musk, who is gleefully “feeding USAID into the wood chipper,”could pay from his own pocket the entire $40 billion that’s being pulled from these millions of hungry, vulnerable people & still be among the richest men ever to walk the earth.

endlesscuriosity.bsky.social•18 days ago

That would require a heart and compassion. All of his money can’t buy that.

eheart.bsky.social•18 days ago

Christian Americans don’t care.

mrwong.bsky.social•17 days ago

The felon president literally doesn't care for humankind.

pbossy.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s going to cost the US so much more than the budget of USAID as China fills the void and America loses its influence around the world. A huge price (both political and monetary) will eventually be paid.

davetait.bsky.social•18 days ago

Trump's crew are OK letting these people suffer and die because they are poor and Black. When Elon's gremlins shut down federal transfers to Catholic, Lutheran and other NGO-run social agencies in the U.S., they'll be OK with that too, since those suffering will be poor and many will be Black.

jimbo75.bsky.social•18 days ago

“funding cuts” / NOT American, just Mr Orange Face Disease Camouflage .

psychicmilou.bsky.social•18 days ago

It's almost too late. We are watching the destruction of democracy. I shared my vision on my channel. I saw Russian boots in the Whitehouse. I think that's what's happening if people don't wake up and do something.

gtetonbeautiful.bsky.social•18 days ago

trump, musk and the muskrats, vance, johnson, thune, Rubio need to be airdropped into these areas without security details so they can see firsthand the devastation of their decisions.

epistemicrisis.bsky.social•18 days ago

The rate at which agencies and missions are being changed and deleted is mind-boggling. The last 16 days have been absolutely exhausting and I can’t imagine that we’re anywhere near the end of what Trump is planning to do.

kleinline.bsky.social•18 days ago

I feel the same.

If it helps, this made me feel better tonight.
https://youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?si=ANkEHSDzusPrNaC4

Logically, I know he's right - but my lizard brain forgets and starts screaming. A lot.

communitycafe.bsky.social•18 days ago

❤️‍🩹

cookievargas.bsky.social•18 days ago

it's exactly what they want.
The cruelty and fear is what they live for.
Not to mention it's on non-white people.

motorthing68.bsky.social•18 days ago

World's richest victimise the World's poorest........History will rightly not be kind to us for this.

orlamccool.bsky.social•18 days ago

It's the cruelty.

kitoko2013.bsky.social•18 days ago

Some years back I spent about two weeks in DR Congo, I came back with a whole new perspective on life. The Trump administration has no compassion for human life.

fotokayelless.bsky.social•18 days ago

Good thing we voted to get egg prices lowered. Wait, what?

roballemachtig.bsky.social•18 days ago

China will be their saviour. And will monopolize all the rare earth materials and other resources.

ideetje9.bsky.social•18 days ago

It is this cynical, yes.
USA will rob Ukraine blind and China gets Africa.
Fear the greedy sociopaths!

oscardavid25.bsky.social•18 days ago

Huge gift to China.

gunnarolufsen.bsky.social•18 days ago

Make America Great Again?

rugnerd.bsky.social•18 days ago

So! Canada, Greenland, Panama, Mexico, Somalia
Gaza… Where do we start? So many smaller weaker countries and so little time.

coloradogal.bsky.social•18 days ago

I am hopeful that the recipients of usaid, know this man does not speak for most Americans, we are doing so much to stop this man from hurting you and your family- please forgive us.

jgharbon.bsky.social•18 days ago

It's a game changer.
For China.

welshielady.bsky.social•18 days ago

He ought to be prosecuted at The Hague. Why should Americans continue to pay taxes if we have no government left to use it? I have zero interest in funding Trump’s sovereign wealth fund.

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