I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

After Musk’s dismantling of USAID, deaths can be counted by the hundreds of thousands. “If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered.“
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Read the actual #math on DOGE cuts from Jessica Reidl.

Musk claims $165B in savings are vastly overstated. And the cuts to IRS & loan recovery staff will produce 100s of billions in net loss of revenues.

Net: Costs up. Lives lost. Country harmed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

AID on the Hill is doing another Hill advocacy day, and this time, is encouraging people to bring their kids to Congress for Take Your Child to Work Day (April 24). RSVP at the link!

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If there are people in your life who do not know much about the dismantling of USAID (and US aid), and you are trying to get them to care, look no further.

Kristoff’s article and these CGD numbers cover all the bases - statistics and stories, ethics and power.

Powerful - please share.

This presser was a horror show. Ukraine will not have US support going forward, because Trump and Vance are completely lost. Europe will step-up and this war will continue. Trump blew this bigger than any foriegn policy folly in recent history.

News: Caritas, the confederation of 162 Catholic national relief, development and social service organisations operating in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, calls the slashing of humanitarian aid a "betrayal of global responsibility." www.caritas.org/2025/02/cari...

Can men & women be friends?

A phenomenal paper analyses 1.3 trillion Facebook connections!!!

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WATCH: “This is what happens when the world’s biggest aid donor suddenly stops sending money… not a single doctor for this community of more than 30,000 people.”

After Trump’s cuts, Myanmar-Thailand refugees unable to access critical care.

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

Republicans have long supported USAID and the work it does to advance our national security and outcompete China.

Foreign assistance has long had bipartisan support and we must remove the politics from this critical instrument of our national security.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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My first day in Kigali. Tried to pay cash at a bakery stall but it’s “cards or mobile money only.”