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Please read this by @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social and others in the NYT about the damage being done by the 90 day US foreign assistance freeze. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o... (out of paywall version here: www.refugeesinternational.org/new-york-tim...)

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firing for "too much DEI" is plainly firing a woman and a Black man on the presumption only white men can be qualified. this is disgusting biogtry.

submitted 1 day ago • 251 comments

A Republican Senator wakes up ...

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1244 comments

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BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 3 days ago • 531 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1215 comments

This has been an absolutely crazy time, both at a macro level and at a micro level for my work life (as until recently, I was almost 100% devoted to USAID-funded projects at a grant-funded institution that disappeared overnight). Here is what I've been *attempting* to do

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 862 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 839 comments

Latest in the rumor mail from DOJ is one career public integrity. Lawyer agreed to sign the motion to dismiss in order to prevent the sacking of all of their colleagues. Absolutely brutal Stalinist stuff from the new administration.

submitted 8 days ago • 125 comments

This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 626 comments

NEW: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, will block USAID from putting 2,200 employees on leave later tonight, saying the rush to force them out of service could cause legitimate harms. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments

Marco Rubio is threatening to invade Panama and is leading Trump’s illicit scheme to eliminate USAID. Here’s why our style guide still calls for labeling him a moderate.

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

I thought Jared fixed this ...

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February 3, 2025

submitted 18 days ago • 112 comments

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

submitted 19 days ago • 1099 comments

BREAKING: Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz says he’ll place a “blanket hold” on all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running again.

submitted 19 days ago • 472 comments

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

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