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🧐 Context on Elon Musk funding Brad Schimel to ensure a GOP majority in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

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NEW: Marocco has tried shutting down nearly all USAID programs & freezing foreign aid. He’s led the charge to place nearly all USAID staff on administrative leave. Officials said they see the move as retribution against those who opposed his earlier work. By @annamaria.bsky.social + Brett Murphy

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Just inconceivable amounts of recklessness. There’s now nobody at USAID to make sure our aid doesn’t go to terrorist groups. And the only reason we know this is thanks to an Inspector General – one Trump hasn’t fired yet.

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

They control Congress. They control the Executive. The last check on their power grab is the judicial system – and that’s their next target. Will any Republicans speak out against this?

submitted 12 days ago • 86 comments

Community health centers are now starting to shut down across the country because of Trump’s executive orders. These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.

submitted 17 days ago • 440 comments

Why aren’t we looking into corporate welfare? In the United States, it costs taxpayers billions each year, with estimates ranging from $92 billion to $100 billion annually. Meanwhile, USAID costs only $40 billion. Hmmm… doesn’t add up.

submitted 17 days ago • 167 comments

Just heard a Minnesota anti-hunger group that supplies food shelves with fresh, nutritious food from Minnesota farmers still can’t access federal funding. They’ve had to pause some of their work. It’s causing a lot of uncertainty for families trying to figure out how to put food on the table.

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WATCH: “Rubio actually sent a letter to Biden asking him to INCREASE the USAID budget to counter Chinese influence.” CNN Busts Trump Secretary of State @marcorubio for being a huge USAID advocate before joining Musk & Trump in attacking it.🤔

submitted 16 days ago • 229 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 18 days ago • 1757 comments

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

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New on @MSNBC: The Trump admin has blocked access to secure communications for hundreds of USAID employees abroad — including many who work in dangerous war zones — according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. @NBCNews

submitted 18 days ago • 131 comments

how it started at USAID > how it's going

submitted 19 days ago • 167 comments

The Trump administration blamed the dismantling of USAID on its workers’ high levels of “insubordination.” Nothing like gaslighting America.

submitted 19 days ago • 196 comments

For the people telling us USAID was not created by an act of Congress: Google is your friend www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...

submitted 18 days ago • 239 comments

Call your Senator Rep Urge them to support USAID and Food For Peace. Good for Farmers, Good for America, Good for the world. This is a bipartisan ask, feeding hungry children and supporting farmers. Bob Dole supported it. dolearchives.ku.edu/research/top...

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Did you Know USAID buys from farmers through Food for Peace, a program of USAID, to feed hungry people around the world. Food for Peace not only provides a valuable market for family farms like mine, it allows us to show the spirit of generosity that defines being an American, and an American farmer

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News Conf @ USAID offices Feb 3rd www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqyt...

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All departments were affected, including offices that address HIV and AIDS, infectious disease and child health.

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First day chaos at MN legislature. Court upholds DFL house member win.

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How can anyone support the AfD?! Yet Musk and Vance do. Repulsive.

submitted 63 days ago • 498 comments

Hurry up #POTUS. The clock is ticking! #PublishTheERA #ERANow

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Good morning #Bluesky friends. Time for posts on this valuable sight to move beyond fomenting hate & rage to creating hope & action: ➡️ Focus on solutions, like advancing the #ERA - so that human rights are constitutionally guaranteed. #POTUS #PublishTheERA #ERANow #MN4ERA

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The largest private health insurance companies in the USA: - UnitedHealth Group: $215 billion revenue - Elevance Health (Anthem): $133 billion revenue - Kaiser Permanente: $126 billion revenue - Centene (Ambetter): 8.6% market share, $116 billion revenue - Humana: $100 billion revenue

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Direct government healthcare for all would be even cheaper because we wouldn't have to pay private third parties to adjudicate claims.

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