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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 437 comments

Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

submitted 3 days ago • 710 comments

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

submitted 3 days ago • 95 comments

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 3 days ago • 862 comments

Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.

submitted 3 days ago • 218 comments

21 DOGE staffers resign rather than help use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services," according to a resignation letter obtained by the AP. Musk has largely tried to keep technical talent at DOGE, mostly laying off designers & product managers. apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

"In a Friday night purge, Donald Trump—America’s often ramblingly incoherent ceremonial commander-in-chief—fired three of this country’s top generals and admirals, the latest assault in weeks of efforts to install loyalists at top military and security posts." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I think people both within science and outside science don’t fully appreciate the miracle that were the Covid-19 vaccines. How much courage it took to get the sequence out, how much work had already gone into figuring out the best viral antigen and how best to present it. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 10 days ago • 257 comments

CDC "...ordered to shelve promotions it developed for a variety of vaccines, including..." an ad campaign urging ppl to get vaxxed against flu HHS asst sec. for public affairs informed CDC that RFK Jr. wanted ads that promote the idea of “informed consent” in vax decision-making instead. 🛟 medsky 😷

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

WaPo/Ipsos poll: 57 percent of respondents say Trump has exceeded his authority since taking office. More than 8 in 10 say he should follow court rulings. That includes more than 9 in 10 Democrats along with roughly 8 in 10 Republicans and independents.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

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 13 days ago • 862 comments

Your dynamic guide to which place is getting most screwed by Donald Trump

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

The Danielle Sassoon letter to AG Bondi is wow. If you have a tip about what’s going on in DOJ/SDNY, I can be reached on Signal at annabower.24 Read the letter: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 17 days ago • 212 comments

How America’s Allies Boost U.S. Intelligence And Why Trump Threatens That Cooperation

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Milo Minderbinder strikes again

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 19 days ago • 389 comments

Horrific. Reporters are beginning to collect the names of specific people that Musk and Trump have killed by abruptly terminating USAID—in this case Pe Kha Lau, a Burmese woman living in Thailand

submitted 19 days ago • 29 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 24 days ago • 169 comments

Following on the overwhelming response to last week's column, I wrote a second dispatch imagining how the Musk takeover would be covered by the US media if it was happening overseas, and they felt comfortable calling a spade a spade.... www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

This concise and informative excerpt from the New Republic’s Alex Shephard should get everybody caught up on the government coup currently in progress. Required reading.

submitted 25 days ago • 32 comments

What John Connor failed to mention was that the rise of Skynet started when someone asked the AI to eliminate as many government workers as possible. www.eenews.net/articles/mus...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

The Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court and hold the White House and they could pass basically whatever agenda they would care to enact, but they have instead decided on a unique strategy of letting someone unelected do crimes all over the federal government.

submitted 28 days ago • 41 comments

A new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship. But they really don't like the Gulf of America thing. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

submitted 34 days ago • 262 comments

It's basically Korean Central Television

submitted 35 days ago • 68 comments

A truly horrifying Monday. In tonight’s Law Dork, I tried to inform about the anti-trans and anti-diversity military executive orders — and also capture the spirit of why Monday, writ large, was so bad. Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-mali...

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

This is Musk's new pinned tweet. - It's Latin meaning "no one provokes me and gets away with it." - He attributes it to Sulla, the Roman general who marched on Rome, named himself dictator and launched a notorious reign of terror, executing much of the city's elite. - It's never linked to Sulla.

submitted 35 days ago • 316 comments

Today is a good reminder of two things: -the stock market (even the S&P) is now more tied to AI sentiment than the US economy -if you want mortgage rates to fall you need AI to bust

submitted 35 days ago • 19 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 36 days ago • 105 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 37 days ago • 310 comments

Trump, never one to be outdone, suggests displacing double the number of Palestinians that were displaced in 1948. Trump Wants Jordan And Egypt To Accept More Refugees And Floats Plan To 'Just Clean Out' Gaza www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tru...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Your WTF of the hour

submitted 39 days ago • 63 comments

you won't often see a judge come closer to calling a DOJ attorney a Nazi than Judge Coughenour does here: "There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?"

submitted 39 days ago • 46 comments

The Academy is flipping all the birds at the new U.S. administration. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

What John Connor failed to mention was that the rise of Skynet started when someone asked the AI to eliminate as many government workers as possible. www.eenews.net/articles/mus...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments