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keeping it light here for the sake of maintaining my health insurance during the purge
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8/ "Early impacts of the PEPFAR stop-work order: a rapid assessment" J Intl AIDS Soc onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... As of 2/9 "Of the 65 PEPFAR partners surveyed, less than 10% had restarted providing any services, and only 45% had received any official communications about the waiver."
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Trying to frame everything you write as though it's in a mediocre college admissions essay except you're over 30 which makes it extra cringe
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This is simultaneous to pulling down *all* of USAID's critical minerals work in Africa. It's not about reducing dependence; it's about conquest.
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I don’t think it’s a complete coincidence that the consensus pick for most impactful cabinet secretary in the Biden Administration — Gina Raimondo at Commerce — was someone who had *not* served in the Obama Administration, or even in Washington, DC.
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Granny's Tacos (get the chilaquil), Kemuri-Tatsuya for japanese bbq fusion, Patrizi's for pasta food truck, Ezov if you want to pay for really good Mediterranean
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Increasingly certain that if I had the power to guarantee life in prison for one person it would be Pete Marocco.
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I'm glad! Find information on sourcing in the FAQ here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I've been told it's all over the Sahel too following Rep Perry's bs comments about USAID funding Boko Haram. Probably in French, I'll look around for specifics
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Like, have never been so sure of anything in my life than that this was a due-out of the Modi/Trump meeting
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Oh man. Thinking of you and I'm especially sorry this experience overlaps with this point in time.
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This one describes the counter-Chinese focus of the Congo mission -- in part to push back on Chinese access to Cobalt.
As several others did, it describes the gut punch of Trump and Elon calling them criminals.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Vanderbilt has apparently paused doctoral student admissions (they fully fund everyone accepted). Expect quite a bit of this at wealthier institutions that typically guarantee funding.
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The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.