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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

"since Trump’s election, Musk’s personal net worth has grown by far more than the entire annual budget of USAID, which accounts for less than 1% of the federal budget. It’s callous for gleeful billionaires like Musk and Trump to cut children off from medicine"

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Arrests made after Austin protesters gather in fight against Trump immigration orders Demonstrators protested in North Austin as ICE operations continue to be enforced nationwide.

Immigrants are our neighbors, our friends, and our co-workers. They don't stand alone.

www.kvue.com/article/news...

50501 50 PROTESTS - 50 STATES - 1 DAY #50501 - 2/5/25 - YOUR STATE CAPITOL Can't Travel? Your Country Still Needs You! Participate Wherever You Are; Check the Community Highlights for Info!

#project2025 protests in Austin tomorrow, Feb 5th

State Capitol at 11 a.m. and San Jacinto Plaza at 4 p.m.

www.reddit.com/r/50501/

A friend was told this is fake. It's not, don't believe them when they tell you no one cares. You care and so do we.

#Austin #protest #50501

Tensions escalated when Musk’s aides were discovered at OPM accessing systems, including a vast database known as the Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which contains sensitive information such as

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

This is #tRumpsCrash

Srsly folks, why aren't we training ai to do dishes and pick strawberries?

Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework after President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to withdraw - for a second time - from the Paris climate agreement.

#ResistanceEarth
#Voices4Victory

This is putting your fortune to good use. Michael Bloomberg says his foundation and other funders will cover the U.S. contribution to the U.N. climate body's budget. This is the second time he's stepped in to fill the gap.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.

Trump’s pardons of more than 1,500 defendants arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Attn: President Trump announced the withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.

it only took 3 hours

Perhaps the system is not broken. Perhaps it is functioning exactly as intended. Only the facade of propriety is coming apart and now we see the parts moving within.

Our oppressors are spooked by the devastation their greed has wrought and show their hands in their panicked squabbling.

I'm a little surprised cheese in a can isn't accidentally vegan, like Fritos or Oreos

Don't you dare turn your eyes away from history, even the awful, scary parts. If you don't watch it with your own eyes, you rely on others to tell you what you saw. We must all bear witness to what's coming
#bearwitness

garbage people are people too

Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic.

## let’s all go to the EXIT

Did you know BlueSky and Mastodon users can follow each other? They can, through something called a Bridge.

And while the big rush from both Twitter and Facebook at the moment is to BlueSky, I’m also picking up a bunch of new […]

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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

This New Immigration Bill That’s About to Pass Is a Horrifying Trojan Horse If Democrats cannot recover their nerve and stand up to this extremism, they will be complicit in the devastating consequences of its passage.

The Laken Riley Act is a sweeping assault on legal immigration. It would subject immigrants *authorized to live and work here* to indefinite detention without a criminal conviction. And it would let a federal judge ban ALL visas from entire countries at a state's request. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Edward Abbey

You are not wrong, but Hitler was never elected. After attempting a coup he lost the presidential election and was appointed chancellor because Nazis won the most seats.
Then he proceeded to eliminate his enemies and get laws passed granting him emergency powers.
We're about at that last step.

"Surely nothing could be more unrealistic than to keep everything the way it is and expect different results."

CMZ Book Club and Live Like the World is Dying so comforting. They help me stay engaged with the doom factory that is current events

Heh, what do they give for the reason?

I've also seen starter packs for different topics, this profile has collected some bsky.app/profile/skyp...

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