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USAID does (and should continue to do) a lot of great work abroad, while creating tens of thousands of jobs here in the US (all 50 states). www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... TY @cnn.com @jeffstorobinsky.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @sendickdurbin.bsky.social @afeighery.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Want to massively upgrade local sidewalks? Look to Denver. The city recently made sidewalk construction a job for the government – not individual property owners. 1,000+ miles of new & improved footpaths are planned. It’s a groundbreaking shift that other cities should study. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 862 comments

USAID funds unfrozen by judge

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

New filing: "Global Health Council v. Trump (usaid funding chaos)" Doc #21: ORDER granting in part and denying in part Plaintiffs' 4 motion for a temporary restraining order. See document for details. Signed by Judge Amir… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69628254

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Major victory🚨Judge just issued temp restraining order reversing the aid freeze at #USAID, State, and rest of USG. huge. Clear win, judge says programs must be reopened during the review… as we’ve been arguing judge agrees it is contrary to law on multiple levels. bravo to…

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Judge Amir Ali ordered USAID attys to tell him how many foreign assistance grants had been cancelled since the 2 suits before him were filed yesterday. Complying, USAID just released this 14-page list of >230 contracts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Judge Amir Ali just finished a 1.5 hour TRO hearing in 2 more suits re: USAID. Sounded like he'll likely issue at least some sort of TRO. He asked govt to provide by 7:30pm a list of terminations, suspensions and stop-work orders imposed since the suits were filed yesterday. ... /1

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

New minute entry in Global Health Council v. Trump (usaid funding chaos): Minute Entry for telephonic proceeding held before Judge Amir H. Ali: Motion Hearing held on 2/12/2025 re 4 Motion and Memorandum of Law in Support of Temporary… [full entry below 👇] View Full Case #CL69628254

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

JFK describes why he established USAID.

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 17 days ago • 168 comments

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 17 days ago • 147 comments

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it. www.science.org/content/blog...

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

A fellow Semester at Sea F00 alum who works for USAID recently said, “I never imagined my work would be vilified by the world’s richest man for being inherently humane.” Seeing my former employer, Global Refuge, targeted is soul-crushing. Judge. Jury. Executioner. No investigation. No due process.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old former camp counselor who called himself 'Big Balls' on LinkedIn before being tapped to do the bidding of a billionaire, held a call with SBA staff ..."

submitted 20 days ago • 181 comments

😂😂😂 Senator Van Hollen: "Elon Musk may get to be dictator of Tesla, but he doesn't, and he may try to play dictator here in Washington, D. C., but he doesn't get to shut down the Agency for International Development. "

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Hi - If you rely on federal data and websites and are now unable to access them, I would like to talk with you. You can reach me at [email protected], or on signal at lizzieohreally.31 Thanks!

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Permanently extending Trump's tax cuts will cost the US $400 billion per year, or 1.5% of GDP. USAID costs 0.3% of GDP. This is not about saving money.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it should be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

submitted 21 days ago • 404 comments

USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)

submitted 20 days ago • 86 comments

Letter from SFRC democrats on USAID.

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments

This might give some pause to anyone who thinks of Musk’s DOGE as just a dispassionate accounting firm trying to make everything run more smoothly.

submitted 21 days ago • 115 comments

Imagine you're a career federal worker with deep expertise in your field and a track record spanning multiple administrations of both parties. Then you're get hauled in front of this little twerp to defend your value to "the organization."

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

just an absolutely massive turnout in opposition of ICE in Los Angeles today

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

USAID websites have been shut down... techweez.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

THIS On point 🎯 Go @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social !

submitted 23 days ago • 41 comments

Holy shit! Democrats, if you’re looking for a fighter, you found one— @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social for DNC Vice Chair.

submitted 22 days ago • 1149 comments

The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening? In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control. Call it what it is.

submitted 26 days ago • 545 comments

Unclench your jaw. Relax your shoulders. Breathe deep from your diagram. Now scream again. Isn't that better?

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Liberals are all up in their feels because the ‘far-left’ Senator who yesterday bragged about Democrats doing deportations more and better than the GOP tweeted a warning that one of the significant facilitators of US regime change operations might lose some funding.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy just revealed that Trump is planning to ELIMINATE a federal agency tonight by executive order, which is unconstitutional and illegal. He specifically said “watch USAID tonight.” This is dictator stuff here folks.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

How you do'in, USAID-funded peeps! I had 4 medical procedures in 3 days because I'm downsizing my insurance tonight. I see you all!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Great article that explains the complexity of the USAID stop work order. I'm quoted, along with my excellent colleague, John Oldfield @johnforwater.bsky.social. Real lives are impacted by this. Human lives are not waste or glut to be cut. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/w...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Great article that explains the complexity of the USAID stop work order. I'm quoted, along with my excellent colleague, John Oldfield @johnforwater.bsky.social. Real lives are impacted by this. Human lives are not waste or glut to be cut. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/w...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments