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NEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake.

By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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NEW: On inspection reports, the FDA routinely blacks out the names of drugs coming from foreign factories found to have manufacturing failures, keeping information about potentially ineffective or unsafe medications secret from the public.
Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You.
The agency’s decision to conceal drug names on inspection reports has prevented doctors, pharmacists and patients from knowing whether medications made overseas are tainted by manufacturing failures that could make them ineffective or unsafe.
www.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire [via @popular.info]
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
www.motherjones.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries
Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries
Mobile clinics in rural Malawi that provided pregnancy checks as well as vaccinations and TB tests have been lost
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate
A new law legitimises violence and entrenches control over the bodies of millions of women and girls like me
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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September 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of Justice and White House publicly release the files.
sign.moveon.org/petitions/ep...
Release the Epstein Files
The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of ...
sign.moveon.org
August 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Chemical pollution is a rampant threat to humanity, science group warns www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Chemical pollution is a rampant threat to humanity, science group warns
More than 100 million “novel entity” compounds are in circulation, with unknown health impacts.
www.motherjones.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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After six years of adding medical staff, the VA this year is down more than 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses. The number of doctors has declined each month since Pres. Trump took office. The agency lost twice as many nurses as it hired between January and June.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM