Damn. 💔✊ Full poem here: poets.org/poem/renee-n....

THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

DOGE's latest contract cutting means "around 300,000 kids, mostly in Africa" don't get food aid but these aid packages were manufactured by Americans workers and grown by American farmers. Musk is bringing death to the continent he was born in and helping to impoverish the nation he now lives in.

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Chesterton’s Electrified Fence. Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America’s nuclear weapons www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

Our pro bono project helping junior lawyers that have been displaced by Trump’s hiring freeze of federal attorneys has been a huge success so far. If you’re looking to hire a junior lawyer, ESPECIALLY A FIRST YEAR ASSOCIATE, please send me an email — [email protected]. No DMs, please.

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

“Elon Musk, after being selected by Mr. Trump to help recommend cuts to the federal work force, broadcast on X the names of several federal employees working in climate-related jobs. Those employees were then hounded online.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...

One of the things us “Bluesky Elders” have learned from our year & a half here is that this experience is what you make of it. Block trolls, don’t quote drag, mute jerks, mute topics that make you angry or sad, just go all in on self-moderation and this place can be so fucking chill. It’s worth it.