Marrying my Spaniard, after quite a long time together, means making permanent what had already felt timeless. I love this man!

Virginia Culver Snyder, 1941 to 2025. Reporter, friend, irascible aunty. We hope we can someday be as tough as you.

A summer sojourn to the Spanish Pyrenees to see ski towns, eat tapas, bike, hike, and dance. Worth another visit and soon...

Evaluator effects Evaluators leave heavy footprints in the projects they assess. This post asks if this can be done thoughtfully and inclusively, instead of accidentally.

I felt at home in Edinburgh - one branch of my family tree in vivid color. Also whisky, walking, and history, dolloped with some Harry Potter flashbacks.

Wide open Skye It takes time to arrive at the Isle of Skye, so it makes sense I needed a bit more time to write about the experience. What a trip!

Trying to be objective benefits no one except the powerful. Instead, let's open our evaluation practice across perspectives and ways of knowing.

Without good language and translation, there is no field work. There is only colonialist claptrap serving researchers' needs and wasting respondents' time. Don't do that!

I'm not so sure a foreign aid "rethink" is what we're itching for at the moment, but I'm happy to keep talking. I'm an evaluator, after all.

Reliving my beloved career, pondering identity, and figuring out what's next after the gutting of USAID.

Ffs.

What a scumbag. Wow, Indiana, great choice of Senator - can he punch a baby, too?

YIKES! 👀 A terrifying account of what ketamine did to this former addict’s brain: Changed her beliefs, made her an unreliable narrator of her own usage, psychosis, well-constructed delusions, suicidal thoughts, disassociated states, self-grandiosity, conspiracy theories. 🫥 tinyurl.com/ketamusk

Pleased to relay that @propublica.org now offers SecureDrop— in addition to our Signal tip line and postal mail—as a way to reach our reporters with information: www.propublica.org/tips/

Posting this censorship video on my activism @resistrebelrevolt.net got me reported by trolls as spam. 😵 It was shared 700x, with 150 comments showing appreciation to the constitutional lawyer who gave expert testimony on how conservatives were gaslighting us on free speech. 👏🏼 She's 110% right! ✊🏼

This must go VIRAL! Start now!!!

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Why a focus on rigor - such as RCTs - may not capture development impact, and implications for agencies and funders. kericulver.com/2025/03/20/f...

This from a man who wielded a chainsaw and laughed about feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Poor baby.

Are those little sweaters standard issue for Finnish chickens?? Adorbs.

If he doesn’t understand why the hate and “violence” against him, he is more sociopathic than I gave him credit for. Vile, monstrous, hideous scumbag.

This is the biggest scam in American history, Trump and Elon should be in prison.

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

So close... and yet...

The guy who stole money from kids with cancer, and as president gutted cancer research for children uses a child overcoming cancer as a political prop Only psychopaths can applaud that 😱

What Democracy Brings open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Imagine that. 💰

I'm taking a mindful break from the current administration's war on USAID to write about something that interests me, and maybe you, too: complexity in evaluations.

This is nuts. Stone cold nuts.

Mr FREE SPEECH cancelling cartoonists

"As of January 1, every Chicago municipal building — including 98 fire stations, two international airports, and two of the largest water treatment plants on the planet — is running on renewable energy" www.canarymedia.com/.../in-chica.... Some good news.

Spot on.

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Plus USAID!!!

The Superbowl is a valuable enterprise, in monetary terms. A handful of people are getting rich from it, and loads of people get a day off. kericulver.com/2025/02/11/s...

Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB, the agency that has forced big banks and corporations to return more than $21 BILLION to families they cheated.

Biden increased transparency around the risks of chemical disaster — industry lobbyists just asked Trump’s new EPA chief Lee Zeldin to roll that back. www.levernews.com/chemical-com...

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Shipped the 29K metric tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot in a Texas warehouse. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Protected 30M football fields of tropical forest in Africa to stop China from exploiting the minerals that fuel our world youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50K people in Central America youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Bought 29K tons of produce and vegetable oil from American farmers to feed people, reducing mass migration youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid

Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent. truthout.org/articles/tes...

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who will happily and enthusiastically be reminding trump voters of ALL his broken promises because he's too busy golfing, grifting, tweeting, and being an overall tyrannical shithead. My field of "I Told You So's" is full.

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

President Trump plans to fire several Board Members at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and indicated that he's naming himself chairman. Here's why it matters.

American farmers are losing out on crucial markets for their crops: emergency food aid. While the food rots in ports, Musk and Trump are killing victims of famine. t.devex.com/dc/kyXVoDpAY...

500,000 metric tons of U.S.-grown food are stuck in ports and warehouses. It could feed 36 million people but is at risk of spoilage, thanks to Musk's obliteration of USAID. The "waiver" should apply but no one has approved one. t.devex.com/dc/kyXVoDpAY...

Dude, you can’t even spell Colombia. Do some homework or pick a topic you know something about.

It’s funny that you have zero knowledge of where that money went, yet feel emboldened to make such a statement. I have worked on USAID projects my entire decades-long career - as an independent evaluator. What makes you think you know that none of that money went where it was supposed to?