Charles
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@charlesrhyne.bsky.social
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How to Help when America Won't
I keep thinking about Peter Singer’s thought experiment, about the child drowning in the pond.
unstuckblog.substack.com
I'm thinking about Peter Singer’s thought experiment -- the child drowning in the pond. Trump, Musk and the GOP are walking past the child, uncaring. Except it’s not one child, it’s thousands. If you have a dollar to spare, I put together a list of nonprofits helping those the US is leaving behind.
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The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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(1/4) Strong leadership means taking risks and trying things - but when it doesn’t work, realising your mistake and correcting it. Quickly.
April 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
(1/4) Strong leadership means taking risks and trying things - but when it doesn’t work, realising your mistake and correcting it. Quickly.
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CNN: Stock market plummets
MSNBC: Stock market craters
Highlights for Children: Stock market down big
FOX News:
MSNBC: Stock market craters
Highlights for Children: Stock market down big
FOX News:
April 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
CNN: Stock market plummets
MSNBC: Stock market craters
Highlights for Children: Stock market down big
FOX News:
MSNBC: Stock market craters
Highlights for Children: Stock market down big
FOX News:
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The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.
We so need to move away from Poverty, by America towards Abundance.
Scarcity
All of the reporting and data below reflects both Poverty, by America and how we’re moving away from Abundance, toward scarcity.
open.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We so need to move away from Poverty, by America towards Abundance.
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I, for one, welcome the “abundance” fight. It shows the left can fight Trumpism while wrestling with how we can be better than we’ve been.
I have no interest in “actually the government has been doing great” liberalism.
I have no interest in “actually the government has been doing great” liberalism.
March 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I, for one, welcome the “abundance” fight. It shows the left can fight Trumpism while wrestling with how we can be better than we’ve been.
I have no interest in “actually the government has been doing great” liberalism.
I have no interest in “actually the government has been doing great” liberalism.
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Here's the last 40 seconds of Bulls/Lakers. Insane ending.
March 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Here's the last 40 seconds of Bulls/Lakers. Insane ending.
I'm thinking about Peter Singer’s thought experiment -- the child drowning in the pond. Trump, Musk and the GOP are walking past the child, uncaring. Except it’s not one child, it’s thousands. If you have a dollar to spare, I put together a list of nonprofits helping those the US is leaving behind.
How to Help when America Won't
I keep thinking about Peter Singer’s thought experiment, about the child drowning in the pond.
unstuckblog.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I'm thinking about Peter Singer’s thought experiment -- the child drowning in the pond. Trump, Musk and the GOP are walking past the child, uncaring. Except it’s not one child, it’s thousands. If you have a dollar to spare, I put together a list of nonprofits helping those the US is leaving behind.
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🧵 PIH condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Trump Administration's mass termination of United States Government grants and contracts supporting essential health care delivery and humanitarian assistance around the world.
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
February 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🧵 PIH condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Trump Administration's mass termination of United States Government grants and contracts supporting essential health care delivery and humanitarian assistance around the world.
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇
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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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Hearing from Community Partners International, which works from Myanmar to Bangladesh, that USAID cuts mean 14,000 people with HIV losing access to lifesaving meds and a total stop in all HIV and TB screening. So many people will die due to these chaotic, sudden, horrifically implemented cuts.
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hearing from Community Partners International, which works from Myanmar to Bangladesh, that USAID cuts mean 14,000 people with HIV losing access to lifesaving meds and a total stop in all HIV and TB screening. So many people will die due to these chaotic, sudden, horrifically implemented cuts.
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This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
time.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
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Amen to that.
I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.
February 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Amen to that.
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.
Measles cases are rising in the U.S. Do adults need a vaccine booster?
With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.
www.npr.org
February 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.
Great piece from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
"They didn’t want to release a package of proposed spending cuts & debate their merits... They are trying to remake our system of government, not our laws. They... identified a weak point in that system & they are driving a flaming Cybertruck through it."
"They didn’t want to release a package of proposed spending cuts & debate their merits... They are trying to remake our system of government, not our laws. They... identified a weak point in that system & they are driving a flaming Cybertruck through it."
Opinion | The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours (Gift Article)
What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Great piece from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
"They didn’t want to release a package of proposed spending cuts & debate their merits... They are trying to remake our system of government, not our laws. They... identified a weak point in that system & they are driving a flaming Cybertruck through it."
"They didn’t want to release a package of proposed spending cuts & debate their merits... They are trying to remake our system of government, not our laws. They... identified a weak point in that system & they are driving a flaming Cybertruck through it."
A must-read from @nickkristof.bsky.social.
"Democracy is not an on-off switch but a dial. We won’t become North Korea, but we could look more like Viktor Orban’s Hungary. This is a question not of ideology but of power grabs... The U.S. is the next test case."
"Democracy is not an on-off switch but a dial. We won’t become North Korea, but we could look more like Viktor Orban’s Hungary. This is a question not of ideology but of power grabs... The U.S. is the next test case."
Opinion | I’ve Covered Authoritarians Abroad. Trump’s Actions Look Familiar. (Gift Article)
Trump’s actions remind me of authoritarians I’ve covered for four decades around the globe.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A must-read from @nickkristof.bsky.social.
"Democracy is not an on-off switch but a dial. We won’t become North Korea, but we could look more like Viktor Orban’s Hungary. This is a question not of ideology but of power grabs... The U.S. is the next test case."
"Democracy is not an on-off switch but a dial. We won’t become North Korea, but we could look more like Viktor Orban’s Hungary. This is a question not of ideology but of power grabs... The U.S. is the next test case."