Claudia Muir
@frankengirl.bsky.social
Weltbürgerin aus der Rhön, vier Kinder und ein Hund, Fotografin, Schreiberin. She/her. Deutsch&English 🇩🇪 🇹🇷🇺🇸🇷🇸🇷🇴🇦🇲🇲🇩🇵🇸🇽🇰🇹🇯🇲🇩🇰🇿🇷🇼
My husband speaks about his job - video produced by the @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social team at the Dems Abroad meeting in Germany earlier this year. I know lots of other things have happened in the meantime, but the destruction of USAID is still causing harm every single day. @maddow.msnbc.com
Douglas Muir worked for USAID
YouTube video by Malcolm HQ
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June 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My husband speaks about his job - video produced by the @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social team at the Dems Abroad meeting in Germany earlier this year. I know lots of other things have happened in the meantime, but the destruction of USAID is still causing harm every single day. @maddow.msnbc.com
Heute in Dtld: Zug von Eisenach nach Neuhaus a.R. - Gruppe sturzbetrunkener 40jähriger Männer singt lauthals "Ausländer raus". Meine 16jährige Tochter, allein unterwegs, halb Ausländerin, setzt sich weg. Was folgt ist Nötigung: Anschreien, anmachen, warum sie sich wegsetzt, anzügliche Bemerkungen.
May 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Heute in Dtld: Zug von Eisenach nach Neuhaus a.R. - Gruppe sturzbetrunkener 40jähriger Männer singt lauthals "Ausländer raus". Meine 16jährige Tochter, allein unterwegs, halb Ausländerin, setzt sich weg. Was folgt ist Nötigung: Anschreien, anmachen, warum sie sich wegsetzt, anzügliche Bemerkungen.
@maddow.msnbc.com @booker.senate.gov Not only the US paid attention to this! These are screenshots of leading German newspapers (and my local one): Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainpost - almost all have the story on the front page.
Germany salutes and thanks you.
Germany salutes and thanks you.
April 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
@maddow.msnbc.com @booker.senate.gov Not only the US paid attention to this! These are screenshots of leading German newspapers (and my local one): Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainpost - almost all have the story on the front page.
Germany salutes and thanks you.
Germany salutes and thanks you.
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I’m having similar conversations and sharing international opportunities a lot. I’m sure for a lot of US based trainees that feels overwhelming. I moved to Europe for my postdoc.Happy to chat with any trainees about my experience if it would be helpful.
Heartbreaking chats this week with students thinking of giving up on their dreams of getting a PhD. They worry about getting in PhD programs and careers post PhD. My suggestions: don’t be hasty, think broadly incl EU & Canada, & careers beyond traditional academia. What’re you telling your students?
March 1, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I’m having similar conversations and sharing international opportunities a lot. I’m sure for a lot of US based trainees that feels overwhelming. I moved to Europe for my postdoc.Happy to chat with any trainees about my experience if it would be helpful.
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Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
So, is @joyannreid.bsky.social getting a new show? Or is @msnbc.com caving. I wanna know.
February 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
So, is @joyannreid.bsky.social getting a new show? Or is @msnbc.com caving. I wanna know.
New Substack post up - where I explain the trickle down effects of the USAID spending freeze and stop-work order.
How Elon Musk is actually destroying US foreign assistance
Just keeping USAID staff employed is not solving the problem
claudiamuir.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New Substack post up - where I explain the trickle down effects of the USAID spending freeze and stop-work order.
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DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say.
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
www.wired.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say.
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story.
Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."
What USAID does - sponsoring books for literacy in Tajikistan. Because an educated people makes smarter choices.
February 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
What USAID does - sponsoring books for literacy in Tajikistan. Because an educated people makes smarter choices.
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USAID funding for 2025 prioritized countering China by offering strategic infrastructure alternatives to PRC-led initiatives and by strengthening alliances through economic, diplomatic, and security investments. It's not near enough, but it's something.
Here's what Musk stopped:
Here's what Musk stopped:
February 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
USAID funding for 2025 prioritized countering China by offering strategic infrastructure alternatives to PRC-led initiatives and by strengthening alliances through economic, diplomatic, and security investments. It's not near enough, but it's something.
Here's what Musk stopped:
Here's what Musk stopped:
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Republicans control Congress. They have the White House. It is well within their power to abolish USAID and for President Trump sign it. They're not doing that. Instead they're enabling the largest security breach in US history and allowing the world's richest man to end lives on a whim. Why?
February 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Republicans control Congress. They have the White House. It is well within their power to abolish USAID and for President Trump sign it. They're not doing that. Instead they're enabling the largest security breach in US history and allowing the world's richest man to end lives on a whim. Why?
Michele Bachmann: "January 6 was like a prayer meeting"
Image credits
1 - Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty
2 - John Minchillo/AP
3 - Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
Image credits
1 - Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty
2 - John Minchillo/AP
3 - Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
January 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Michele Bachmann: "January 6 was like a prayer meeting"
Image credits
1 - Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty
2 - John Minchillo/AP
3 - Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
Image credits
1 - Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty
2 - John Minchillo/AP
3 - Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
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Mein Buch «Die Rhetorik der Rechten» ist leider sehr aktuell. Ich schaffe es zeitlich nicht, eine überarbeitete Neuauflage zu veröffentlichen. Das Buch ist mittlerweile vergriffen.Ich habe mich entschieden, es gratis zum Download zur Verfügung zu stellen: www.franziskaschutzbach.com/die-rhetorik...
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Mein Buch «Die Rhetorik der Rechten» ist leider sehr aktuell. Ich schaffe es zeitlich nicht, eine überarbeitete Neuauflage zu veröffentlichen. Das Buch ist mittlerweile vergriffen.Ich habe mich entschieden, es gratis zum Download zur Verfügung zu stellen: www.franziskaschutzbach.com/die-rhetorik...
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
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"Die Hölle ist leer. Alle Teufel sind hier."
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
January 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Die Hölle ist leer. Alle Teufel sind hier."
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare
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Reposting as a baseline.
I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.
January 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reposting as a baseline.
Useful information. You know what to do.
This information may come in useful for many people in the coming days and months. Feel free to repost to spread the word.
www.maniatislawoffice.com/blog/2018/08...
www.maniatislawoffice.com/blog/2018/08...
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Useful information. You know what to do.
I believe that birthright citizenship is a test case. They want to see if they can get away with altering/ignoring the Constitution.
The cruelty is a side effect that they don't even think about.
The cruelty is a side effect that they don't even think about.
January 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I believe that birthright citizenship is a test case. They want to see if they can get away with altering/ignoring the Constitution.
The cruelty is a side effect that they don't even think about.
The cruelty is a side effect that they don't even think about.
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From now on, American democracy will be in uncharted, hostile territory. Good luck, America, good luck to us all. May reason, love and compassion one day regain the upper hand in politics.
January 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
From now on, American democracy will be in uncharted, hostile territory. Good luck, America, good luck to us all. May reason, love and compassion one day regain the upper hand in politics.
Me: We need a laser
Oldest son (excited): What kind of laser?
Me: So we can get the panels on the wall correctly
Oldest son (disappointed): Oh, that kind of laser. Boring
I disappoint my children on a regular basis.
Oldest son (excited): What kind of laser?
Me: So we can get the panels on the wall correctly
Oldest son (disappointed): Oh, that kind of laser. Boring
I disappoint my children on a regular basis.
January 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Me: We need a laser
Oldest son (excited): What kind of laser?
Me: So we can get the panels on the wall correctly
Oldest son (disappointed): Oh, that kind of laser. Boring
I disappoint my children on a regular basis.
Oldest son (excited): What kind of laser?
Me: So we can get the panels on the wall correctly
Oldest son (disappointed): Oh, that kind of laser. Boring
I disappoint my children on a regular basis.
They funny!
This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 PM
They funny!
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Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
My husband wrote another lovely piece, this time on the... however you spell that. Enjoy!
(Me, I think he should write full-time but he does write best when he is up against a deadline doing, say, capture for an AID project in Kathmandu. This is his stress relief.)
(Me, I think he should write full-time but he does write best when he is up against a deadline doing, say, capture for an AID project in Kathmandu. This is his stress relief.)
Occasional Paper: Four Hidden Species of Portuguese man-o’-war
There’s been a a certain amount of negativity floating around lately. So, let’s talk about a toxic, venomous freak of nature and the parasite that afflicts it.Biology warning, this gets…
crookedtimber.org
November 12, 2024 at 4:38 PM
My husband wrote another lovely piece, this time on the... however you spell that. Enjoy!
(Me, I think he should write full-time but he does write best when he is up against a deadline doing, say, capture for an AID project in Kathmandu. This is his stress relief.)
(Me, I think he should write full-time but he does write best when he is up against a deadline doing, say, capture for an AID project in Kathmandu. This is his stress relief.)
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President-elect Donald Trump has picked Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) to serve as ambassador to the United Nations as he prepares for a return to the White House in January.
Stefanik, 40, serves as the House Republican Conference chair.
Stefanik, 40, serves as the House Republican Conference chair.
Live updates: Trump picks Rep. Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2024 at 1:44 PM
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) to serve as ambassador to the United Nations as he prepares for a return to the White House in January.
Stefanik, 40, serves as the House Republican Conference chair.
Stefanik, 40, serves as the House Republican Conference chair.