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submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

If you read just one thing today, read this ⬇️ #USAID #InternationalDevelopment #mediadev

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is disgusting behavior from a government agency.

submitted 9 days ago • 617 comments

Friends: people help each other because they care about each other (which is why DOGE will never help anyone. A couple of events this week to celebrate our caring #USAID community! First: USAID Picnic this Friday, April 25 at noon at the Washington Monument- all are welcome!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Stay loud stay visible stay brave

submitted 11 days ago • 404 comments

open.substack.com/pub/thelastm...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

This is who we are now?!

submitted 12 days ago • 331 comments

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

submitted 12 days ago • 777 comments

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

submitted 14 days ago • 443 comments

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History always has a lesson.

submitted 15 days ago • 645 comments

Are you a journalist traveling to or from the US? CPJ’s new border safety advisory outlines advice for how to protect yourself digitally from the Trump regime. #3E cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

USAID isn’t just about vaccines and farming., although that is legit. In post-Soviet states, it funded election monitors, anti-corruption orgs, and independent media. To Putin, that’s not charity—it’s subversion. It’s why he kicked them out of Russia in 2012. He sees it as soft power warfare.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Lisa Murkowski: “We are all afraid.” “Retaliation is real”. Oh, really? GOP senators helped create this monster and now they’re too chickenshit to stop him.

submitted 17 days ago • 842 comments

We are looking for a Teaching Fellow in #GlobalDevelopment with a particular focus on #Media and #Communication Deadline: 20th May 2025. Start Date: 1 Sept 2025 for 11 months See here for more details about the role - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT311/t... Please share with anyone who might be interested

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Um so who are the 5 that are left?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Now if it were a Tesla dealership...

submitted 18 days ago • 140 comments

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

submitted 19 days ago • 1855 comments

The President of the United States engaged in insider trading, and laughed about it. He is not exempt from the law. Where the fuck is Congress?

submitted 23 days ago • 2637 comments

Someone made a lot of money. The SEC shall investigate! Oh wait, no... it won't (forgot about that Feb 18 executive order for a moment).

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

submitted 25 days ago • 3061 comments

Ditto.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Crockett: "If we are gonna talk about efficiency, let's talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump's golfing has cost us approximately $26 million. And the last time I checked, we're not getting anything in return for that ... he decided he was going to golf instead of receiving four heroes."

submitted 26 days ago • 349 comments

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As a show of loyalty to the Kremlin, the Trump regime is opting to pull 10,000 US troops from Eastern Europe, specifically those currently stationed across Poland, Romania, and the Baltic, in an effort to weaken NATO defenses against Russia.

submitted 26 days ago • 172 comments

She was the first woman to lead US soldiers into battle. She had a command role in the Combahee River Raid. Her official status with the Maryland National Guard is Brigadier General. General Moses.

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

Turns out Ireland could single-handedly put a stop to this entire nonsense.

submitted 30 days ago • 143 comments

WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)

submitted 29 days ago • 483 comments

Reminder: as the Dow is tanking faster than 2008, and four dead servicemen arrive at Dover, Trump is golfing: with the saudis

submitted 30 days ago • 652 comments

And how exactly will that be enforced? Oh, that’s right. It won’t be.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Yup

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Bingo

submitted 31 days ago • 422 comments

RIP Wilson Center. Musk staffers visited the center, and shortly after, its leadership staff and senior government employees were ousted. Dozens of federal employees, about a third of the center’s workforce, were also slated for administrative leave.

submitted 31 days ago • 60 comments

Now that’s a screenshot. > @atrupar.com

submitted 31 days ago • 951 comments

"But, #tariffs are supposed to be taxes on other countries!!!" cried every sniveling MAGA who will see their cost of living shoot through the roof. If you voted for Trump based on "the economy," you were either an idiot or lying to yourself. #Trumponomics #Trumstagflation #Trumcession

submitted 32 days ago • 116 comments

St. Pierre et Miquelon getting the highest tariff rate in the world is just unbelievably demented.

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

whee

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

In case you still don’t understand, these are essentially taxes that American consumers will pay on goods from these countries.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

It took a lot of stupid to get here but we did it

submitted 32 days ago • 72 comments

but her emails

submitted 32 days ago • 152 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 33 days ago • 1021 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 198 comments

Trump’s tariffs = a TAX on YOU while Congress stays silent. This isn’t Liberation Day - it’s taxation without representation. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DoRo...

submitted 33 days ago • 230 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 33 days ago • 931 comments

This asshole was put in charge of firing everyone and making life and death decisions for #USAID. Americans have just lost thousands of deeply caring humanitarians and replaced them with garbage www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

submitted 34 days ago • 45 comments

this shit is over the top even by North Korean standards

submitted 34 days ago • 594 comments