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Rachel Maddow
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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..."
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Indivisible ❌👑
4 days ago
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...
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Anne Applebaum
5 days ago
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...
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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/health/pepfar-hiv-aids-zambia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d1A.IkUh.U9Jpudo4m25h&smid=url-share
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Nicholas Enrich has done heroic work with this book. SHARE it with someone who still doesn't believe what this regime is doing.
#USAID
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What It Was Like Inside U.S.A.I.D. Before He Blew the Whistle
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/books/review/into-the-wood-chipper-nicholas-enrich.html
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A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/politics/usaid-former-employees.html?unlocked_article_code=1.clA.hqEm.hL0zhdPP9zNP&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Timothy Snyder
11 days ago
3/3. It’s hard for Trump to end a war when Putin is making so much money from it.
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Anne Applebaum
11 days ago
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...
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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/politics/trump-syria-khayyat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cFA.ZO_a.-r4JHX7s9JTb&smid=url-share
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Jon Cooper
11 days ago
“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.”
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
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Indivisible ❌👑
12 days ago
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:
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Anne Applebaum
14 days ago
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...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/04/inside-kennedy-center-shutdown-drama/686801/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xDLJM23SXratNn6C59_f6M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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OneAID
14 days ago
📚 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
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OneAID
14 days ago
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
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Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
15 days ago
🙏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
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You can safely ignore
@washingtonpost.com
and subscribe to
@cgdev.org
's excellent analysis instead.
www.cgdev.org/blog/washing...
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The Washington Post’s Optimistic Read on Aid Cuts Doesn’t Hold Up
A recent Washington Post editorial reports some good news about sub-Saharan Africa: the regional economy grew by an estimated 4.1 percent in 2025. The editorial argues that this demonstrates that whil...
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/washington-posts-optimistic-read-aid-cuts-doesnt-hold
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Prof. Carl LeVan
17 days ago
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.
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Aid, Interrupted: Conflict Dynamics Following the USAID Suspension in Africa
Foreign aid withdrawal may put the political stability of aid-dependent states at risk, yet short-term conflict responses to donor-side aid disruptions remain p
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097746
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ORBAN CONCEDES. Democracy is not inevitable but neither is dictatorship.
#Hungary
#resist
www.reuters.com/world/hungar...
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Hungary election results live: Orbán concedes to Magyar's Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority
Veteran nationalist leader Viktor Orbán conceded defeat after a landslide election victory by the upstart opposition Tisza party, in a setback for his allies in Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump'...
https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-election-2026-live-viktor-orbans-fidesz-faces-challenge-opposition-peter-2026-04-12/
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Robert Reich
18 days ago
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.
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The Last Mile with USAID
19 days ago
Elections can count ballots, but they do not always measure power.
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Indeterminate Prognosis: Democracy in the Operating Room
The night before Hungary votes, the instruments are ready. So is the hand that holds them.
https://thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com/p/indeterminate-prognosis-democracy
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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
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The Partnership
20 days ago
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.
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Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y1A.wXHp.0kI4A46GkMeC&smid=url-share
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Freedom is on the ballot in
#Hungary
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Kevin Collins
20 days ago
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
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OneAID
20 days ago
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.
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Lynn Stahl
22 days ago
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.
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The Tennessee Holler
23 days ago
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
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Max Berger
23 days ago
BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office
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Alt US Forest Service
26 days ago
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.”
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Trump Action Tracker
27 days ago
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
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Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk
Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/climate/forest-service-research-stations.html
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Karen Attiah
26 days ago
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.
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Robert Reich
27 days ago
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.
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Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leav
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/02/nx-s1-5750814/veterans-mortgages-foreclosure-va-rescue
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Timothy Snyder
28 days ago
It is historically normal for terrorists to go after the moderates who might dampen a conflict.
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OneAID
29 days ago
📕 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.
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OneAID
about 1 month ago
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...
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www.tinyurl.com/usaidimpactsurvey
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv
about 1 month ago
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.
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Will Bunch
about 1 month ago
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...
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What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history | Will Bunch
The “No Kings” movement brushed off its doubters with a record turnout that gave protesters hope in an age of insanity.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-no-kings-protest-record-20260329.html
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Stand Up for Science!
about 1 month ago
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.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤
about 1 month ago
Protesters at the No Kings event in South Elgin, IL were not messing around. 🍿
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Free DC
about 1 month ago
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
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Mark Hamill
about 1 month ago
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! 🇺🇸 ✊
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Acyn
about 1 month ago
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.
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Alt CDC (they/them)
about 1 month ago
⚠️ 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...
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Organize and Advocate to Abolish Detention
Across the country, people are uniting to protect immigrant family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. ICE’s detention centers are everywhere, which makes federal policy a local issue in communities nationwide. Detention Watch Network advances federal advocacy to end immigration detention and supports local member and state-wide campaigns through information sharing, strategy development, public education and communications.
https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/organize-advocate
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A small handful of hideous old men incapable of anything but harm and destruction.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
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How U.S.A.I.D. Birth Control Meant for Africa Was Ruined
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/europe/usaid-contraception-birth-control-belgium-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.9O29.gM4VF-avEC_r&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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It was always a bank heist.
www.semafor.com/article/03/2...
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Exclusive: State Department sends $1.25B from other programs to Board of Peace
The administration is drawing on funds used for international disasters and peacekeeping to fund Trump’s Gaza effort.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/26/2026/state-department-sends-125b-in-foreign-aid-to-board-of-peace
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Miriam Cosic
about 1 month ago
This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two:
#war
#climate
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Adam Kinzinger
about 1 month ago
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.
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The LaGuardia Crash Will Be Blamed on One Controller. That's Not the Whole Story.
3,000 controllers short. WWII-era radar still in use. And a lone controller managing two emergencies at midnight. This was preventable.
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamkinzinger/p/the-laguardia-crash-will-be-blamed?r=kjv0f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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NIH Vigils
about 1 month ago
Oh sorry, did I say Trump? I meant Russell Vought
actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...
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AltStateGov
about 1 month ago
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
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Timothy Snyder
about 1 month ago
Americans opposing concentration camps. We are deciding now whether we want to be a country with concentration camps and ethnic cleansing.
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Timothy Snyder
about 1 month ago
“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna
In the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/10/19/immigrant-detainees-hungry-in-ice-detention/86163312007/
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Yep.
@newyorker.com
@paulnoth.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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