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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

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By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

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 3 days ago • 433 comments

In Trump’s first cabinet meeting yesterday, Elon Musk pointed out some of the mistakes his team has made, including canceling Ebola prevention in Uganda. No to worry, Musk said, they “restored the Ebola prevention immediately, and there was no interruption.”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Breaking: Hours after Elon Musk reassured Cabinet that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda had only been “accidentally canceled very briefly,” the Trump administration terminated at least four of the five contracts for Ebola-related work in that country. nyti.ms/4ikHi1Q

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 3 days ago • 479 comments

USAID staff today were given 15 minutes to collect their personal belongings from the office (abcnews.go.com/Politics/usa...). You have to remember that the cruelty is the point.

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today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

submitted 8 days ago • 53 comments

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

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 11 days ago • 532 comments

This is absolutely the Twitter Files for the government. Elon wanted to humiliate his enemies. But what Twitter Files showed was generally careful governance, some bad calls, & stuff taken out of context by “journalists” who didn’t understand the basics. Same here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Meanwhile, the Trump regime fired hundreds of USAID PSCs in the middle if the night this morning, in direct violation of the temporary restraining order in AFSA v Trump.

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Elon Musk's DOGE goons have started posting the complete names and addresses of #USAID personal services contractors online--they're doxing USAID workers.

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 16 days ago • 852 comments

Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

USAID's inspector general was just fired for reporting about how Trump's attempted gutting of USAID destroyed monitoring and oversight of humanitarian food aid, putting $489 million at risk. If you worry about fraud and waste at USAID, you should be worried about this. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

This is an important thread that summarizes the latest round of falsehoods and distortions about USAID

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research. #Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 174 comments

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

submitted 22 days ago • 102 comments

Two victories today in the fight against #USAIDstopwork

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Over 200,000 records from USAID’s Development Experience Clearinghouse, a publicly available online repository documenting nearly 50 years of USAID’s projects, is gone. Taxpayer property stolen by Musk and his cronies. It’s a crime.

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

Among the many illegal actions taken at #USAID over the past few days, one of the most insidious has been the removal of USAID’s Development Experience Clearinghouse. This online portal held records of monitoring and evaluation documents for most of USAID's projects.

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 444 comments

In the last hour, men who refused to identify themselves have begun tearing down signage and American flags outside the Reagan building (USAID headquarters). Is the party of law and order endorsing vandalism of government property?

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Here's what's happened, if you're just tuning in: 1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments 2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal 3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team 4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system

submitted 23 days ago • 80 comments

We are up against Brandolini’s Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. wapo.st/4ht6mU5

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

submitted 23 days ago • 1711 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

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Trump and the GOP just gutted a major Catholic charity but apparently it’s liberals and Democrats who are anti-Christian and anti-Church

submitted 23 days ago • 140 comments

More poignant than ever

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whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly

submitted 23 days ago • 73 comments

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 24 days ago • 146 comments