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You are a good man Mark Cuban.
March 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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😭Why!?!?!?😭
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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This one describes the counter-Chinese focus of the Congo mission -- in part to push back on Chinese access to Cobalt.

As several others did, it describes the gut punch of Trump and Elon calling them criminals.

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I am a USAID Foreign Service Officer posted to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, where I have served since 2023. My portfolio focuses on establishing conflict-free supply chains of critical minerals from the DRC to the U.S. The overarching objective of my role is to strengthen the supply chain of DRC’s vast critical minerals sector to the U.S. Much of my job is establishing relationships with Government of DRC officials and informing them of the benefits partnerships with the U.S. offer. Over 70% of the world’s cobalt is produced in the DRC, which is almost entirely shipped to China. My job was to help reduce the country’s dependence through increased trade with the U.S. As part of this, I was a lead coordinator for the U.S.’s support to developing the Lobito Corridor railway, which, if fully developed, will substantially decrease the time to ship minerals from DRC to the U.S. It is a project that has already received $500M in support from the U.S. DFC. Three days later, we finally arrived back to winter in DC with no warm clothes, a place to stay, or a school for the kids to go to. We arrived to the news that DOGE and the Trump Administration were calling us “criminals” — something particularly hard to stomach after the ordeal we had just survived
February 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Hi Ceryta!
November 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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No worries. Remember, he can't be bothered to read his briefs.
November 15, 2024 at 10:47 PM