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dgonzrice.bsky.social
Work: child and family well-being; disability; housing with services. Play: banjo, tabletop games, miniatures. Dad to a Deaf kiddo.
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Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

Top USAID officials are trying to create a false narrative that life-saving aid has continued despite Trump’s blanket halt to foreign aid. Our @nytimes.com reporting shows the exact opposite. USAID even issued an internal email to stop applications for waivers: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Sheer idiocy www.science.org/content/arti...

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

"Government Efficiency"

I'm proud to announce the Sign Language Interpreters in TTRPGs Directory is open for submissions! If you are a Sign Language Interpreter (any international sign language) and are comfortable with tabletop terms, language, & gameplay, please add yourself! https://bit.ly/3VSwr4b

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