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USAID didn’t fail. It fed 127,000 kids—then was erased mid-crisis. No speech. No tribute. Just silence. They didn’t end a program. They liquidated a covenant. The last American promise not built on conquest—but care.
🔗 thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.
July 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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July 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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People need to stop pretending that the arms shipment block on Ukraine was some pentagon only plan and focus their anger on the real person responsible; Donald Trump. The president could end this now, instead he is trying to weaken Ukraine for Putin’s benefit.
July 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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"The DOD held up a shipment of US weapons for Ukraine this week over what officials said were concerns about its low stockpiles. But an analysis by senior military officers found the aid package would not jeopardize the US military’s own ammunition supplies ... it was a unilateral step by Hegseth."
Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readiness
The move blindsided the State Department, Ukraine, European allies and members of Congress, who demanded an explanation from the Pentagon.
www.nbcnews.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It’s not too late to take action. Call your representative at 202-224-3121 to tell them to vote no.
July 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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EPA staffers are trying to get people to adopt lab rats as Trump team shuts down research projects
EPA puts lab rats up for adoption as Trump cuts hit agency
Approximately three quarters of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development — representing 1,000 scientist positions — will be cut under the Trump administration
www.independent.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The bill's staggering Medicaid cuts put 55 independent rural hospitals at serious risk of closure, per an analysis by Families USA.

Those cuts also put 579 nursing homes at a high risk of closure, per an analysis from Brown University’s School of Public Health.
July 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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INBOX:

MIAMI — Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old citizen of Canada in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was pronounced deceased by the Miami Fire Rescue Department June 23 at 1:36 p.m. The cause of death is still under investigation.
Canadian national in ICE custody passes away
ICE makes official notifications to Congress, nongovernmental organization stakeholders, and the media upon an official report of a detained illegal alien’s death and posts a news release with relevan...
www.ice.gov
June 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Republicans want to cut Medicaid for millions of Americans, blow up the deficit, and undermine our courts, all to fund TAX CUTS for billionaires and corporations.

📞 (202) 224-3121

Tell your Senators: Vote NO on the reconciliation bill. Protect our healthcare. Protect our democracy.

2/3
June 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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In our name
When I finally spoke to the person I sought, they detailed a room crammed tight with ~70 people where:

It is always cold.
There is one toilet & one sink, open to plain view.
You sleep on the floor.
You maybe get fed, once a day.
No medical attention to those in need.
The lights never go out.
June 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Phasing out NIH’s HIV clinical guidelines is flat-out immoral and unethical.

These guidelines drive early diagnosis, ART initiation, and viral suppression—82% linked to care within 30 days, 69% virally suppressed by 6 months.

Removing them puts millions of lives at risk.

wapo.st/3FQovhf
Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
wapo.st
June 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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RFK Jr. has long peddled the unfounded idea that HIV does not cause AIDS. This runs counter to the science. And now he’s acting on his fringe belief. This is dangerous.
June 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.

That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.

It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Phang: As many as 48% of battered women said they had delayed leaving a dangerous situation out of concern for their pet’s safety.

The Act—was introduced so that shelters could get the funding needed to allow victims to bring their pets with them.. And of course, Republicans want to do away with it
June 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Powell: "Increases in tariffs this year are likely to push up prices and weigh on economic activity."
June 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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If you think that murdering innocent people by starving them to death or withdrawing their access to HIV medication is somehow morally superior to murdering them with bombs, then you're a ghoul, not a morally superior actor
June 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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From the NSC to FEMA to NOAA to CDC to the IC to counter-terrorism centers to agencies that are supposed to protect from financial meltdowns, every part of the US government designed to protect us from crises is weaker today than it was before Trump took over.
newrepublic.com/article/1968...
We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President
It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.
newrepublic.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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There’s always a tweet.
June 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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There is always a tweet.
June 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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These are humans being disappeared.
"The dismissal of immigration cases for the CECOT detainees is yet another example of the Trump administration working to erase any trace of them in the United States, even though hundreds had ongoing legal cases here when they were disappeared." www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...
Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether.
Dozens of U.S. CECOT detainees’ immigration cases have been dismissed – denying Trump’s victims their day in court.
www.huffpost.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Not only is the chaotic, corrupt, cruel party dead set on passing the "everyone's going to die bill", they're also trying to kill us other ways. Tell the EPA what you think.
Gifted article
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
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E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM