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Pete Marocco was the man in charge here.

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Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 10 hours ago • 159 comments

What I would have done this week: - Coordinated surge assistance to prevent bank system collapse in Bangladesh - Managed priorities btwn USAID missions & HQ - Finalized French version of new human-animal health trainings - Piloted said trainings in Guinea - Not received this stupid email #LetUsWork

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1440 comments

FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

MORE #FOIA news

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Almost certainly for Elon.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I think the older Dems are genuinely good at managing a raucous caucus and moving hill creatures around to where they need to be. Very good, in Pelosi’s case. But that’s just not the game anymore, that’s not what the moment calls for. And what replacements they have groomed aren’t ready either.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Really laughing at my December 2024 backup plan to speedrun a PhD over the next four years

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

No. New. PhD. Students. Direct hit on American innovation. On American competitiveness. On America.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

One aspect of doing a political purge of the military and civil service is you can't come back in afterwards and just revert to status quo ante policies. A counter-purge becomes a necessity before you can then restore usual norms and protections. The people he's installing can't be left in place.

submitted 22 hours ago • 30 comments

Staffing the security apparatus and justice department with loyalists and purging non loyal elements is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. It’s not a “shake up”; it’s power consolidation.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Some of us read that article by his first wife and had no need of further questions.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

USAID model succeeding on repeat. These are bad actors who don't comply with court orders and only use them to stall.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

NEW: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, DISSOLVES the restraining order that was preventing the administration from placing thousands of USAID employees on leave and DENIES a preliminary injunction halting further purges. A painful blow to the agency. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

In case you’re wondering what those 8% “cuts” at DoD are going to be used for.

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Essential U.S. aid that buys H.I.V. drugs, tuberculosis testing and emergency food for starving children: still frozen, despite what the Trump administration says. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Could be a fun time for a dem to introduce legislation on the maximum number of children one could have via IVF.

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

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments

All reporting on the USAID stop work orders and dismantling that mentions "humanitarian waivers" needs to be clear: "waivers" are PR empty rhetoric. Not a cent of US funds has gone toward USAID'S lifesaving humanitarian work since mid-Jan. Without money, there is no waiver, there is no saving lives.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Pete needs to be dragged into court. Dude won't be able to string two sentences together in front of a judge justifying job cuts and will just rant about woke babies or whatever. Whole ruse will fall apart.

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Grateful to @planetmoney.bsky.social for covering this - really good conversation with a Montana farmer on the way American food assistance seeds longer-term business partnerships www.npr.org/2025/02/19/1...

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The UN fact-finding mission in Bangladesh found “rampant state violence and targeted killings” committed by former PM Sheikh Hasina in her response to student-led protests last year. India must return her to Bangladesh or seek action by the International Criminal Court for these grave crimes.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Declaration that State/USAID will continue the freeze on foreign assistance despite last Thursday's court order.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t get over the fact that the GOP’s base is filled with people who honest to god believe in the possibility of an antichrist and yet nothing about these guys trips their radar.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 4 days ago • 1053 comments

Coverage of USAID in India is getting very messy very quickly and it is absolutely 100% a jointly coordinated disinformation campaign timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/probe-...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I suspect we’re going to be hearing more stories about failing farmers having their land bought for cheep—it’s not a coincidence. Is this why USAID was cut—to make way for billionaires?! Watch til the end and keep an eye on national parklands too. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 507 comments

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

submitted 4 days ago • 676 comments

Some good news! USDA has (finally) approved a bird flu vaccine for poultry flocks. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

A lot of your have read declaration in USAID case from Marcus Doe, which described being evacuated from Kinshasa. Doc 24-2 here. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619... A bunch of the other declarations are ALSO people who evacuated (including 24-4 a person w/3 under 10 kids who had to leave dog).

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

No one person is all powerful. One is only powerful with the cooperation of others. Lots and lots of people are complicit.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Pulling down my flights scheduled for during the inevitable shutdown because fuck that

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Deb Haaland is already running the most inventive and fun campaign of 2026

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments