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Make like the South Koreans. And the Israelis.
Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves.
April 5, everywhere:
handsoff2025.com
Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves.
April 5, everywhere:
handsoff2025.com
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
handsoff2025.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Make like the South Koreans. And the Israelis.
Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves.
April 5, everywhere:
handsoff2025.com
Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves.
April 5, everywhere:
handsoff2025.com
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“The most beautiful fox I’ve ever seen. I took this photo yesterday morning when it was 15* F, so there was frost all over the ground, making a beautiful scene!”
📸 #photography by @isaacspicz on Instagram
📸 #photography by @isaacspicz on Instagram
February 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“The most beautiful fox I’ve ever seen. I took this photo yesterday morning when it was 15* F, so there was frost all over the ground, making a beautiful scene!”
📸 #photography by @isaacspicz on Instagram
📸 #photography by @isaacspicz on Instagram
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The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.
February 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.
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Trump overpromised the MAGA cult on things he can't deliver. GOP controls all branches. It all rests with them. The honeymoon won't last long. Unfortunately, they are extremists with power.
February 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Trump overpromised the MAGA cult on things he can't deliver. GOP controls all branches. It all rests with them. The honeymoon won't last long. Unfortunately, they are extremists with power.
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As President Trump demolishes the government’s biggest provider of foreign aid, USAID, he is ending a 60-year bipartisan consensus about the best way to keep the U.S. safe from its enemies.
On "The Daily," our reporters explain the rise and fall of USAID — and American soft power.
On "The Daily," our reporters explain the rise and fall of USAID — and American soft power.
The Demise of U.S.A.I.D. and American Soft Power
In demolishing the government’s biggest provider of foreign aid, President Trump is ending a 60-year bipartisan consensus on the best way to keep America safe.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
As President Trump demolishes the government’s biggest provider of foreign aid, USAID, he is ending a 60-year bipartisan consensus about the best way to keep the U.S. safe from its enemies.
On "The Daily," our reporters explain the rise and fall of USAID — and American soft power.
On "The Daily," our reporters explain the rise and fall of USAID — and American soft power.
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That's about 10,000 American workers without jobs now. Also, children are going to die in Sudan, Gaza, and Ukraine as a result of USAID being gutted. So much for helping kids, right?
Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All Jobs Are Said to Be Cut at Aid Agency www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All Jobs Are Said to Be Cut at Aid Agency www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All USAID Jobs Are Said to Be Cut
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
That's about 10,000 American workers without jobs now. Also, children are going to die in Sudan, Gaza, and Ukraine as a result of USAID being gutted. So much for helping kids, right?
Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All Jobs Are Said to Be Cut at Aid Agency www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All Jobs Are Said to Be Cut at Aid Agency www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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Trump has real estate deals with Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Dubai, and Kushner got $4.5 billion from sovereign wealth funds of the oil-rich nations of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirate
What to Know About the Trump Family’s Deals in the Middle East www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
What to Know About the Trump Family’s Deals in the Middle East www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
What to Know About the Trump Family’s Deals in the Middle East
The region has become a hot spot for the family’s business. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, noted last year that “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable.”
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Trump has real estate deals with Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Dubai, and Kushner got $4.5 billion from sovereign wealth funds of the oil-rich nations of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirate
What to Know About the Trump Family’s Deals in the Middle East www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
What to Know About the Trump Family’s Deals in the Middle East www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
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"Trump’s 'Big Lie' cannot be understood on its own. It is tangled up with the conspiratorial Great Replacement theory and with the anti-democratic notion that state legislatures have the sole authority to elect presidents." A good read from the archives:
The Tangle of Trumpian Conspiracy Theories
How the “Big Lie” about the 2020 election, the “Great Replacement” theory, and other fringe ideas are entwined.
www.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Trump’s 'Big Lie' cannot be understood on its own. It is tangled up with the conspiratorial Great Replacement theory and with the anti-democratic notion that state legislatures have the sole authority to elect presidents." A good read from the archives:
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“It took the Trump administration—and, really, Elon Musk—all of 10 days to dismantle USAID,” Hana Kiros writes, but the speed at which this agency has been taken apart will be felt for years to come. theatln.tc/ZzVp9EAd
February 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“It took the Trump administration—and, really, Elon Musk—all of 10 days to dismantle USAID,” Hana Kiros writes, but the speed at which this agency has been taken apart will be felt for years to come. theatln.tc/ZzVp9EAd
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Why must the front line people draw a line and push back on Musk? Isn't this what the Senate/House get the big bucks for? Musk was not elected & the president is not king. Musk should keep his fingers out of USAID & all of the government's financial info. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies
The move by the Trump administration comes as billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk has been denigrating USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Why must the front line people draw a line and push back on Musk? Isn't this what the Senate/House get the big bucks for? Musk was not elected & the president is not king. Musk should keep his fingers out of USAID & all of the government's financial info. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Who knew Biden could have just stormed into the White House, handed a friendly billionaire the keys to all the federal buildings, fired anyone who might have voted for Trump and imposed the Green New Deal, police, gun and voting reform and Roe v. Wade by force, without barely a peep from Congress.
February 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Who knew Biden could have just stormed into the White House, handed a friendly billionaire the keys to all the federal buildings, fired anyone who might have voted for Trump and imposed the Green New Deal, police, gun and voting reform and Roe v. Wade by force, without barely a peep from Congress.
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holy crap I bake some stuff for a couple hours and USAID is gone, Musk controls social security and Medicaid, and Twitter is now the official platform for government communications
February 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
holy crap I bake some stuff for a couple hours and USAID is gone, Musk controls social security and Medicaid, and Twitter is now the official platform for government communications
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Even before its website was taken down by Trump, the vast system of global aid that USAID manages had already been plunged into chaos by an “unexplained and abrupt pause with no guidance [that] has left all our partners around the world high and dry,” a USAID official told @propublica.org
February 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Even before its website was taken down by Trump, the vast system of global aid that USAID manages had already been plunged into chaos by an “unexplained and abrupt pause with no guidance [that] has left all our partners around the world high and dry,” a USAID official told @propublica.org
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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
Beaver Supermoon moonrise in Riverbend Park in northern Virginia yesterday evening!
November 16, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Beaver Supermoon moonrise in Riverbend Park in northern Virginia yesterday evening!