Aubyn Fulton

US freezes almost all foreign aid effective immediately | CNN Politics The US State Department has frozen nearly all foreign assistance worldwide effective immediately days after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday to put a hold on such assist...

Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing.

But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.

1/ A short🧵on this evil.

Focus on the "why" when it comes to the closing of USAID.

It's all about corruption.

Trump gets to pretend he's saving money to justify his giant tax giveaway to his corporate friends.

Musk takes control of foreign policy so he can do favors for China - where he makes his $$.

Why does China get lighter tariffs than Mexico or Canada?

Why is USAID - the agency countering China's global influence - being shut down illegally?

Follow the money. Musk and his SV bros will do anything - even pledging allegiance to socialism - to make $$ in China.

I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza.

But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.

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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

We have learned that the Resistance is an ongoing way of life which will never be over…

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Day 18

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Day 12

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Day 5

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Day 4

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Day 3

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