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"Democracy doesn't collapse like a bomb. It erodes like a shoreline - quietly, and THEN, all at once."

Don't be a silent witness. Document everything and speak always.

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"Getting rid of USAID is a very easy way of winning headlines... But if your one accomplishment in government is to rip funds away from the neediest, so that they can die, so they can be unmedicated, so that they can starve, that is a moral stain that I hope will haunt you 'til the day you die."

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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Lawrence O’Donnell: one of the last honest voices in journalism—smart, sharp, and always right about the law. While others were busy sane-washing Trump, Lawrence said it for ages: those tariffs were illegal. The U.S. Court of International Trade proved him right. Again. Truth matters.

AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill.

But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about.

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For <0.1% of the federal budget, Peace Corps volunteers build America's strongest assets: relationships & trust.

DOGE's threat to cut 50-70% of staff betrays bipartisan support and endangers our nat’l security.

Congress must act.

joelrubin.substack.com/p/the-peace-corps-is-getting-doged

URGENT! Ask Your House Rep to Sign Annual Peace Corps Funding Letter The next step in the fight to protect the future of the Peace Corps comes in the House of Representatives, where RPCV Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA) is teaming up with Delegate Amata Radewagen (R-A...

URGENT! Ask Your House Rep to Sign Annual Peace Corps Funding Letter www.congressweb.com/NPCA/115

Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

F&@king insecure men and the GOP disgusting women who support them!!

Opinion | Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools (Gift Article) What ‘Adolescence’ gets right about the harassment of female authority figures.

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the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed on December 5, 1994, by Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

Ukraine agreed to eliminate all nuclear weapons on its territory. In return, the signatories provided Ukraine with security assurances, including:

It has always been Russia! #ResistFascism #DemocracyNotDictatorship

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

When Musk's minions forced their way into USAID's servers, they made themselves "super administrators" meaning they had access to workers' Social Security numbers, credit histories, and home addresses.

They may have well broken the law.

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Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda Perception is reality.

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

Did she say why she is falling in line? I was horrified when I saw how many of his nominees *she* was voting for.

Elon Musk spent $40 million in Super Bowl ads to attack USAID.

Tell Congress that for pennies on the dollar, foreign aid is a deal we can’t afford to lose.

Call your members of Congress and demand action.

Here’s the number to call:
(202)224-3121

Please pass it on.

Save Foreign Aid.

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways they would’ve spent $40M👇🏼👇🏼 (🖕🏼🖕🏼 elmo!!) must tap link!!

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YouTube video by friendsofUSAID Save Foreign Aid

OR the Agency that wins us goodwill worldwide unless you were giving up to America's adversaries. #SaveUSAID #AIDBowl

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When a kid with ties to Russian and Nazi hackers dumps data from our most sensitive systems, we should demand the New York Times screams about it.

NYT knows how to make computer server security an issue. They did that to get Trump elected in 2016. They choose not to now.

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This site will connect you with all of your local, state and federal representatives. Please pass it around liberally, then contact your representatives and give them a piece of your mind. Be relentless:

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USAID - $231 in US exports for every £1 spent on development projects in emerging markets. Lost because of rapists and nazis.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass