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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.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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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.“
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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...
www.theatlantic.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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!
Take Your Child to the Hill Day! April 24 Sign ups
When: April 24, 9:00am Where: Hart Senate Office Building Atrium What: AID on the Hill will be doing another Hill advocacy day, and those of us who have them, are encouraged to bring our kids (or niec...
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April 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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.
March 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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.
February 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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...
Caritas Deplores Slashing of Humanitarian Assistance: A Betrayal of Global Responsibility - Caritas
Caritas Deplores Slashing of Humanitarian Assistance: A Betrayal of Global Responsibility ROME –  26 February – Caritas Internationalis deplores the wave of drastic cuts to international development a...
www.caritas.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Can men & women be friends?

A phenomenal paper analyses 1.3 trillion Facebook connections!!!

open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...
February 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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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.
February 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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.
February 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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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.
February 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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🚨40% of Africa's teen girls are out of school, married, or w/kids vs 12% of boys. Our new report w/@cgdev.bsky.social/Pop Council/WB People team offers new data & evidence on how targeted policy action unlocks big growth gains. Join us on Thurs. the 21st for the launch! Register:
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November 15, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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🚨Job Alert!🚨
We're looking for a creative & technically strong economist to lead experimental research on women’s access to capital & entrepreneurship support in Ethiopia (and beyond). Join us at the Africa GIL team! Pls share! Details ⬇️
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#EconSky #EconJobs 🧵
September 20, 2024 at 12:53 PM
My first day in Kigali. Tried to pay cash at a bakery stall but it’s “cards or mobile money only.”
November 29, 2023 at 11:47 AM