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11/ I leave you with this boss photo of Stevie Wonder being arrested for protesting the South African embassy in 1985:
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10/ Apartheid existed for decades and then came crashing down rapidly. We didn’t know that its heirs would be wreaking havoc on this country four decades later, but history isn’t an unbroken line that goes up and to the right. Some of the bad stuff comes back and has to be fought again.
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9/ I've reported on some of these protests. And there was a lot about them that seemed notable.
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8/ A lot of boycotts fizzle, because they are too diffuse or confusing or contested. But there are signs that what Musk is doing, and people protesting what he's doing, is having a real impact on Tesla's sales/stock price:
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7/ Musk and Trump went after USAID "to start with what they saw as the weakest, wokest government agency, to slaughter it and hang it on a pike as a warning not to disobey the king." But there are other reasons:
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4/ It helps to be versed in Musk's backstory, and the backstory of fellow white South Africans oligarchs who are remaking OUR country to THEIR liking:
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3/ Now there are boycotts and protests of Tesla happening. In case you need a reminder why @teslatakedown.com and #muskorus organizing is happening...:
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Bottom line: Elon's vendetta against USAID and the federal workforce is shredding all of the systems that the USG has built up to protect the US homeland against global outbreak risks.
Scrambling to recall a few staff and issue some belated funding is just window dressing.
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...even as WHO is the lead on int'l support to the Ugandan govt.
WHO is really good at this - in large part because of USG investments in their emergency capacity over the past decade.
But Trump has withdrawn the US from WHO and cut off support. whitehouse.gov/presidential...