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Our hearts are with Myanmar today. Also filled with tremendous sorrow and shame for our country that USAID isn't there to help.

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

Remove the entire lying anti-American administration before they destroy everything.

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And the Wolf Chewed Up All the Children

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There and back again ... Lincoln on the "Know Nothing Party" of his era. www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...

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Next time someone claims this administration cares about protecting children or stopping trafficking clap back with this @theguardian.com article ⤵️

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#USA: the decision to end support for Gavi puts millions of children’s lives at risk. It's estimated that more than 1.2 million children may die as a result of this political decision. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-de...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The sharp decline in #ForeignAid support is already rolling back hard-won progress in children's health and nutrition. Here's what you need to know about the impact of funding cuts in Ethiopia, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Sudan and beyond:

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This week’s trail moment of Zen:

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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 206 comments

Excellent essays, though reading them now might lead to weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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DOGE Lackey Peter Marocco, Will Assume Responsibility For All Deaths Caused by Abrupt Termination of USAID Mathematician Tracks Deaths Resulting from USAID, Medicaid Cuts Tracking in real time based on loss of international aid programs combating HIV & tuberculosis www.bu.edu/articles/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

While Elon decries some property damage, he is overseeing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of South Africans. He is managing to eclipse the total killed in the Boer Wars and Apartheid combined. #boycottmusk

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

🚨NEW: This is horrific. Musk & DOGE closed the specialist unit at Yale tracking down Ukrainian children kidnapped & stolen by Russia. HOWEVER, it now emerges the entire database may have been DELETED, destroying years of research needed to find missing children. If so, there should be arrests.

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

Trump and his people target those that the Bible is most concerned about: children, the poor, immigrants, the sick and disabled, women, the vulnerable, and the earth itself.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

The list of #USAID projects that the Trump administration has cancelled runs to 368 pages and provides a rare glimpse of the extent of the US international influence. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social #HIV | #gavi

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What is the #USInstituteofPeace and why should EVERYONE care what happened there yesterday? It's an independent nonprofit organization that exists literally to STOP WARS. DOGE raided it yesterday and shut it down. 1/🧵 apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: There’s a massive Agent Orange site in Vietnam. USAID was funding a cleanup. Then Trump stopped work. Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

Even if authoritarianism doesn't bother you (perhaps you voted for it), you cannot be both pro-life and pro-Musk/Trump. One example:

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

submitted 15 days ago • 1313 comments

Sign of the day Tottenham, North London

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Paper Shredders and Burn Bags: The Vandalism of USAID Is Nearly Complete A new Trump administration directive calls on remaining USAID staff to purge the agency’s classified safes and personnel records www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s Department of Justice deletes link to study showing undocumented immigrants commit less crime than US citizens www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

submitted 18 days ago • 175 comments

Buildings where the people's business is no longer being done as directed by the Constitution are being repurposed as additional revenue sources.

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

NEW: Immigrants illegally in the United States pay about $60 billion in federal taxes. Guess what happens to that revenue when Trump starts using IRS data to target them for deportation. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-irs-...

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

OK FINE we are DOING THIS. Another 🧵as that sociopath Musk claims no one got hurt by the stoppage of foreign aid and his henchman Marocco prepares to LIE LIE LIE to Congress tomorrow. Can @propublica.org just testify instead please. We have shared so many stories about the harm 1/

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

A WIRED investigation reveals that billion-dollar scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands are enslaved—are using Starlink, the satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to stay online and keep their operations running.

submitted 25 days ago • 68 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 26 days ago • 2023 comments

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

submitted 25 days ago • 50 comments

Since February 26, an additional 1,322 adults (from 14,482 to 15,804) and 141 infants (from 1,541 to 1,682) have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program.

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

BIG NEW STORY: The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

submitted 27 days ago • 65 comments

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 27 days ago • 1104 comments

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

submitted 28 days ago • 285 comments

EXCLUSIVE One report warns aid cuts threaten the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Another finds security dangers, disease risks and tens of millions in new costs. Amid fears of White House retaliation, USAID’s watchdog is sitting on both Lisa Rein and @johnphudson.bsky.social report wapo.st/4ieQ69h

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

We'll post more on this in the future, but for now just sharing the devastating news that >90% of USAID contracts have been cut, including those for HIV medications, food kitchens, etc. People WILL die as a result. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 29 days ago • 48 comments

🚨🚨ACTION REQUEST🚨🚨 And short 🧵on why this matters USAID staff in Washington received word that they can go into USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building to retrieve their personal belongings. 1/

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me. "Starving children are waiting," one says. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

submitted 31 days ago • 180 comments

Luke Farritor is not “letting them die”, he is actively breaking the law and withholding life saving meds from the most vulnerable. He is actively killing people on Musk’s orders. This is a death squad. We won’t forget his face or his crimes. #vlakplas #doge #warcrimes

submitted 30 days ago • 88 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 32 days ago • 543 comments

History matters.

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Ok $200 million is the ENTIRE budget for USAID assistance to Bangladesh, a country hosting a huge share of refugees from Burma, dealing w climate disasters and going through a critical democratic transition this year

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Beautiful day for a run.

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Now that recent events have shoved off all the fence-sitters, here's a good read: commonslibrary.org/10-ways-to-b...

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