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submitted 18 hours ago • 1350 comments

Essentially ALL TB programs funded by the U.S. Government were officially terminated last night. Horrifyingly, that includes the Global Drug Facility that coordinates the vast majority of TB treatment and tests purchased globally. Shuttering the GDF will stop TB treatment for the entire planet....

submitted 21 hours ago • 577 comments

This piece breaking down what California receives (back) from the federal government for public schools is helpful for seeing in detail what's being threatened in every state. #EduSky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 6 days ago • 255 comments

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 193 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 18 days ago • 381 comments

Breaking News: President Trump has ordered a sweeping review of federal funding for all nongovernmental organizations in order to “stop funding to #NGOs that undermine the national interest” nonprofitquarterly.org/trump-issues... #nonprofitsky #npsky

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

submitted 23 days ago • 69 comments

Never called your representatives before? Not sure what to say about the issues you care about? @5calls.org is a great place to start - who to call and ideas and scripts of what to say on a wide variety of topics.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I knew they were gong to do project 2025, I just didn’t realize that Elon and his merry band of pre-teens would be the ones implementing it.

submitted 23 days ago • 285 comments

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 25 days ago • 213 comments

Lawmakers. You're not getting it. Make so much noise. Show up everywhere. Bring the FBI to arrest Elon even if you know they won't do it. Make a scene. Make accusations. Make threats. Throw sand in the gears. Refuse to cooperate. Take attention away from Trump & Musk. Be loud & public about it.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.

submitted 24 days ago • 238 comments

“Then the elected officials tried to walk into USAID headquarters, only to have security turn them away, allegedly on Musk’s orders. This is the moment where we remind everyone that ELON MUSK IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR A (REAL) GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE.” www.wonkette.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961? Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional? Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.

submitted 25 days ago • 168 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 25 days ago • 306 comments

What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.

submitted 26 days ago • 59 comments

“USAID is a criminal organization. It’s time to die.” Bullshit. I’ve spent most of my life on USAID projects and knowledge products, it’s an org that delivers countless services and support worldwide. Does it need reform? Absolutely. But this is disastrous.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I know why people are focusing on 47's fans. But I want to say that they don't matter now. There are so many people to engage who haven't paid attention to electoral politics for years but can be part of mutual aid & rapid response networks now.

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

submitted 26 days ago • 233 comments

Me on the PEPFAR waiver: “It is welcome news that this seems to be moving forward but the devil is in the details"...“The chaos, whether it’s intentional or not, has effects on actual people’s lives and livelihoods and survival.”

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

This is horrifying, to say the least…

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.” USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: Organizations that provide vital, lifesaving care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.

submitted 27 days ago • 32 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 27 days ago • 4415 comments

Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people. That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.

submitted 27 days ago • 246 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

submitted 27 days ago • 271 comments

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

submitted 29 days ago • 1667 comments

This is a reprint of an article I wrote when the first Trump deportations You can support my work but also please support these babies It shocks you for now ... it traumatizes us forever Trust me I know www.patreon.com/posts/to-chi...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

submitted 29 days ago • 234 comments

We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.

submitted 30 days ago • 108 comments

Good. Learn more about your rights when approached by ICE at www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 30 days ago • 77 comments

“Those we serve” - they’ve told us again and again who that is, why didn’t people believe them??

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

How can we help students make sense of #47 administration rhetoric? Engage them in free lesson for grades 7+⬇️ on McCarthyism by high school teacher & @rethinkingschools.bsky.social editor @ladyofsardines.bsky.social It rings true today. #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Organizations react to ICE raids in DeKalb, Brookhaven ICE agents arrested a parishioner at a Hispanic church in Doraville, and leaders across DeKalb County are responding to the arrests, calling for an end to the fear and instability caused by these actions.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The opposite of diversity is segregation. The opposite of equity is hoarding resources. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion. We need to name that these are segregationists who are excluding to hoard resources.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 33 days ago • 105 comments

Got my first contract cancellation email from a client whose USAID project is subject to a Trump stop work order. Feeling heartbroken for my colleagues and the people they are working with worldwide on so many important issues.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Dude. I'm Pissed. youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...

submitted 33 days ago • 1888 comments

As someone on here once said, when the grocery store AND the airport play your fav jams, it's time to incorporate a multivitamin into your routine

submitted 33 days ago • 38 comments

I’m in!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The Inspectors General refuse to leave until the action is taken legally, which they do not believe it was, and neither do senators like Chuck Grassley. This is what not backing down looks like. static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...

submitted 33 days ago • 310 comments