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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

USAID is the best of America.

Prices for popular beverage set to soar as one of world's largest producers faces crippling droughts — here's what you need to know Kenya, the world's leading exporter of black tea, is seeing crops impacted during a very hot and dry period.

Prices for tea set to soar as Kenya, one of world's largest producers of black tea, is facing a devastating drought. Lakes, rivers, and reservoirs are drying up, and agriculture is taking a huge hit.

Why Evangelicals Turned Their Back on PEPFAR A religious movement that has so often taken public stands has been unusually quiet since Trump gutted the program to combat AIDS in Africa.

Evangelicals in America "have mostly turned their eyes away from what is happening on the African continent" since Trump slashed PEPFAR, Peter Wehner writes. "They have other things to do. They have culture wars to fight":

A good reminder. And this is a message for every level of government from county councils to the U.S. Congress. #CommonGood

Trump closing U.S.A.I.D. could cost an estimated 14 million lives by 2030 The end of U.S.A.I.D. will result in the loss of a “staggering” 14 million lives by 2030, including the deaths of 4.5 million children under age 5.

"Catholic Relief Services’ executive vice president ... reports CRS terminated over 90 programs and laid off more than 3,000 staff members in the wake of the demolition of USAID. 'And our church partners have also really taken a very serious, serious hit.' ” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

The Eulogy USAID Never Received And the America That Must Remember.

If you aren't following @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social you should be. And know that we at #USAID patiently did the work that lifted people out of poverty, ended disease and child wasting and more, and we're committed to staying right through the most difficult last mile.
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Bomb threats at Canadian Airports today.
-Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton

Is this not a form of domestic terrorism?
Let's hope they catch these MFers & charge them with terrorism not mischief.
#cdnpoli

House District Enrollment: Indiana (now w/hi-def PDFs!) Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...

Hey #IN02 #Hoosiers,
⬇️ is breakdown of how the Medicaid part of the #BigUglyBill will affect #Indiana congressional districts...it lists each house seat. Good information to include in calls to House members ahead of the next vote:
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acasignups.net/cd-pie-chart...

WHAT’S REALLY
GOING ON.

#That’sCapitalism

HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL LOSE HEALTH CARE IN YOUR STATE? Alabama - 219,803 - Alaska - 39,989 Arizona - 365,984 Arkansas - 158,745 California - 2,368,466 Colorado - 240,953 Connecticut – 86,580 Delaware - 54,957 Florida - 1,936,421 Georgia - 651,540 Hawaii - 62,483 Idaho - 72,815 Illinois - 535,849 Indiana - 267,996 lowa - 113,979 Kansas - 92,937 Kentucky - 184,526 Louisiana - 267,550 Maine - 61,488 Maryland - 245,929 Massachusetts - 326,262 Michigan - 453,101 Montana - 55,981 Nebraska - 78,275 Nevada 114,500 New Hampshire - 46,388 New Jersey - 363,330 New Mexico - 111,997 New York - 1,019,121 North Carolina - 651,982 North Dakota - 24,488 - Ohio - 489,815 Oklahoma - 211,794 Oregon - 198,089 - Pennsylvania - 483,868 Rhode Island - 47,359 South Carolina - 285,857 South Dakota - 33,838 Tennessee - 310,056 Texas - 1,671,965 Utah - 188,494 Vermont -35,242 Virginia - 322,984 Washington - 328,695 Minnesota - 173,268 West Virginia - 82,225 Mississippi - 153,910 Wisconsin - 276,175 Wyoming - 20,407 Missouri - 265,298 THAT'S 17 MILLION LIVES REPUBLICANS ARE PUTTING AT RISK

Trump and MAGA voted to kill 17 million Americans. The Big Beautiful Bill is the Big Autogenocide Bill. #3E #EndAutogenocide

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.

Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

Iowa: Sen. Ernst Maine: Sen. Collins Missouri: Sen. Hawley North Carolina: Sen. Tillis Ohio: Sen. Husted Utah: Sen. Curtis West Virginia: Sen. Capito

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.

Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

Sen. Raphael Warnock on the Republican budget bill: "This is Robin Hood in reverse. Socialism for the rich."

Don't want billionaires to get even richer at your expense?

Have a Republican senator?

It's time to make some calls. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

The Senate has voted 51 to 49 to open debate on the legislation, clearing a key procedural hurdle.

Thought the first vote was at 4 pm
We are here and ready to rumble (as in make the case about how bad this bill is).
4 T in debt, 100 B more in Medicaid cuts.
Pretty lonely on the other side right now.

We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details.

Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.

We appreciate all your are doing to protect Medicaid. If you can't go to DC, you can CALL your elected officials using www.5calls.org
#NoMedicaidCuts #NoTaxCutsForTheRich

Governor Andy Beshear: "If this big ugly bill passes, American children and American seniors are going to go hungry. They're going to have that pain in their stomachs and throughout their body when they're trying to go to bed or when they're waking up in the morning."

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

This “big, ugly bill” is dangerous and will destroy rural health care. In Kentucky alone, 35 hospitals are under the threat of closing, stripping care from families, cutting jobs and crippling local economies. 1/2

Impeach him NOW!

A promotional poster for a national protest on July 4th, highlighting themes of justice and political reform across the U.S.

Call to action: US National Protest July 4th!

WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL, CITY HALL, AND TOWN HALL. #3E #NoKings #HandsOff #Indivisible #FiftyFiftyOne #StopICE #NoKingsProtest

www.5calls.org is a great resource! CALL every day.

There’s always a grift.

Ouch. #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill will force hundreds of rural hospitals to close. On today’s Democratic Daily Download, @adams.house.gov breaks down this dangerous bill and how Democrats are fighting to stop it.

This is an insurrection.