This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

There are many ways you can participate in the massive day of economic disruption on Friday, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Nicholas Enrich has done heroic work with this book. SHARE it with someone who still doesn't believe what this regime is doing. #USAID www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

3/3. It’s hard for Trump to end a war when Putin is making so much money from it.

Is US foreign policy still meant to benefit Americans? Or peace? Or international prosperity? Those were the questions I asked after reading this article www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

We’re getting ready for a massive day of economic disruption on May Day. There are many ways you can take action, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

📚 Upcoming Virtual Book Talk with USAID Authors, Moderated by former USAID Administrator Samantha Power! 📅 May 11 from 12–1 PM ET on Zoom 🔗 More information, where to buy the books, and to register: tinyurl.com/MayBookTalk

Last night, over 300 people gathered at Politics and Prose to support a book talk on Nicholas Enrich’s “Into the Woodchipper”, moderated by Dr. Atul Gawande. 📲Check out the recording on our Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DXK-m0P... 📺 Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/8rfKjIudffw

🙏Thank you @repbonnie.bsky.social for holding Vought's feet to the fire 🔥 Not only did he reveal his utter lack of humanity, but also his complete disinterest in the actual work that USAID did. Worth a watch @aidonthehill.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com

You can safely ignore @washingtonpost.com and subscribe to @cgdev.org's excellent analysis instead. www.cgdev.org/blog/washing...

Really important findings here: treating US foreign aid collapse as an exogenous shock, tests across 44 countries show a 12% increase in conflict last year among the more aid dependent countries. Read with research on: health impact, corruption, etc. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ORBAN CONCEDES. Democracy is not inevitable but neither is dictatorship. #Hungary #resist www.reuters.com/world/hungar...

We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he cannot fully articulate, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected and closed the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Reminder that Congress can step up and stop this.

Elections can count ballots, but they do not always measure power.

This report is incredible. $165 billion of damage already, and the waste, fraud and mismanagement is still ramping up. How much are YOU willing to throw down the drain this year? #TaxDay

The U.S. is losing its top scientists—fast. An estimated 95,000 employees left federal science agencies in a 16-month period, and other countries are quickly creating new opportunities to pick them up. Read how this could have devastating long-term effects on our research and development pipeline.

Freedom is on the ballot in #Hungary www.reuters.com/world/europe...

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

From our partners at the USAID Alumni Association (UAA): We are delighted to spread the news that the UAA (usaidalumni.org) has expanded membership to all Institutional Support Contractors (ISCs) who worked for USAID for 18 months or more. Please visit their website for more information.

That all of these men and women were so empty of empathy and care and thought, they continue to openly support and even parrot this man as he called for and end to an entire civilization of 93 million people. It is unthinkable. It is unredeemable. It is criminal.

Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg. Read it. Then act. “Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests. TAT: [Attacking science | Hollowing state]

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Instead of funneling endless amounts of money into our bloated Pentagon budget while thousands of veterans face homelessness and hunger, let’s use those funds to truly take care of our veterans — ensuring every one has a home, food, and access to medical and mental health care.

It is historically normal for terrorists to go after the moderates who might dampen a conflict.

📕 OneAID is co-sponsoring the upcoming event with Nicholas Enrich to discuss his new book. 🔗 For more information: politics-prose.com/nicolas-enri... 📲 OneAID will livestream the book talk (www.instagram.com/oneaidcommun...) and upload the recording to our YouTube channel afterward. #USAID

We’re partnering with a former USAID Foreign Service Officer & now graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Social Work on a new study documenting the human impact of the dismantling of USAID. 🔗 read more: oneaidcommunity.org/2026/03/28/s... 🔗 www.tinyurl.com/usaidimpactsurvey

This seems particularly important for this week (and last) when so many people in the world embrace rituals and remembrances of fighting oppression, trying to walk together towards liberation, and love.

I have a crazy way of reporting on 'No Kings' that's different from the NYT...I go out and talk to protesters about what they think Sure, size matters, but so does the passion of a movement offering the 4-letter word that beats back dictators Hope My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Wow, this is frightening: 95,000 scientists and researchers, gone. Brilliant minds no longer working to protect, help, and save people and the planet. Don't take this sitting down.

Protesters at the No Kings event in South Elgin, IL were not messing around. 🍿

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people in DC are marching to Fort McNair where Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and other leaders of this regime are living to make it clear we want to #EndTheDCoccupation and #FireStephenMiller. #NoKings #NoKingsDC

TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS

Gupta: If we’re making choices, we’re making a clear choice right now about how to spend $200 billion over three months. That money could very easily be repurposed to fund a public option and provide healthcare to everyone in the United States who needs it for years.

⚠️ ICE/DHS is creating a humanitarian and public health crisis by concentrating people into camps in inhumane conditions Find out about ICE in your area: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/... Find an org near you that’s fighting back: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/membership/d... 🚫 🧊

A small handful of hideous old men incapable of anything but harm and destruction. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

It was always a bank heist. www.semafor.com/article/03/2...

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Oh sorry, did I say Trump? I meant Russell Vought actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

High level training typically means the basics and general idea. Not that they've been trained at a high level. But again, everyone in this regime thinks everyone else's job is easy that anyone could do it. There's zero respect for any work done in/for government at all levels

Americans opposing concentration camps. We are deciding now whether we want to be a country with concentration camps and ethnic cleansing.

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Yep. @newyorker.com @paulnoth.bsky.social