Former USAID official here.
The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.
It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.
The facts, below. 🧵
08.10.2025 14:09 — 👍 231 🔁 116 💬 1 📌 9
The numbers say H-1Bs raise wages, boost patents, and drive productivity.
The story is that H-1Bs aren’t just “workers”—they’re engines of innovation. They're the strivers who crossed the ocean, and brought their fresh new ideas with them.
04.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 574 🔁 170 💬 25 📌 10
I’m sure Astros and Mets fans are super happy that their teams have such a high summer score 😛
30.09.2025 11:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
As I was saying…
24.09.2025 04:27 — 👍 36261 🔁 7960 💬 1717 📌 809
The reason I don't believe you understand the second amendment is because of how obvious it is that you've never read the first.
20.09.2025 18:36 — 👍 248 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 2
There goes the First Amendment.
20.09.2025 00:12 — 👍 27925 🔁 11750 💬 2731 📌 1366
What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.
This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
18.09.2025 20:47 — 👍 35892 🔁 10116 💬 1636 📌 643
I miss the Expos !
16.09.2025 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
15.09.2025 06:42 — 👍 23536 🔁 6350 💬 364 📌 187
You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.
11.09.2025 12:21 — 👍 3930 🔁 829 💬 101 📌 27
They’ll put it back once someone tells Trump that FDR was a Democrat.
04.09.2025 02:13 — 👍 57 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1
Hey @sullybaseball.bsky.social, why don’t you promote your BlueSky account on your podcast? More people needed here !
02.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Charred cars in the Lukianivska district of Kyiv
A reminder of how far we are from peace due to Russia's continuous agression against Ukraine 👇
28.08.2025 09:40 — 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
I think we know which countries the Trump admin plans to make deportation agreements with— now that their human rights records have been sanitized
www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...
16.08.2025 05:05 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
You can't teach U.S. history without "divisive" narratives. Slavery wasn't "unifying." The Japanese incarceration wasn't "unifying." The anti-immigrant Operation Wetback (real name) wasn't "unifying."
It's history's job to tell the truth, not cover up past racism to pave the way for future racism.
12.08.2025 22:21 — 👍 4386 🔁 1600 💬 149 📌 126
Serve your country! Defend your culture!
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
06.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 7692 🔁 3147 💬 461 📌 460
Tariffs are taxes on Americans.
They are taxes on Americans who buy anything made abroad, which is essentially all of us.
Giving us a sliver of the additional money taken from us is not ‘giving us money’.
04.08.2025 01:04 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
03.08.2025 15:16 — 👍 35892 🔁 11068 💬 1267 📌 643
On the other hand, they also capitalize the D in Defending.
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C’est malheureusement devenu la norme !
19.07.2025 12:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When you think it can’t be worse !
16.07.2025 01:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What does Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' mean for global development?
The so-called non-profit killer clause is out, while a tax on remittances is in.
“It’s this double-whammy: the remittance tax impact coming off the back of aid cuts...remittances were going to be more important...now, they’re suffering from this extra blow.”
CGD’s @helen-dempster.bsky.social on the "big, beautiful bill's" impact in @devex.com:
www.devex.com/news/what-do...
14.07.2025 20:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Declining immigration weighs on GDP growth, with little impact on inflation
Unauthorized immigration surged sharply in 2021–24 but has since declined abruptly with negative implications for economic growth.
New macroeconomic analysis from the Dallas Fed:
Mass deportation will reduce US GDP growth by 0.89 percentage points this year and 1.49 percentage points by 2027
It doesn't have to be this way. The choice isn't border chaos or vast militarized raids. The third option: lawful channels for migration
09.07.2025 21:11 — 👍 59 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 3
No “President” has a right to strip citizenship and deport people who challenge his policies. That’s fascism, not America.
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And these people pretend they are #christians
02.07.2025 15:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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