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stmdc.bsky.social
Here is the child’s drawing.
Drawing by 5 year old held in concentration camp in Texas by Trump Administration. It’s a pencil drawing of 4 stick figures with frowns behind a chain link fence depicted by a dozens of vertical and horizontal lines. Written in child-like letters, it says “Let us go” and “I am 5 years old.”
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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taylordahlin.com
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
Historians believe the ‘Mini-polis’ or ‘small-city’ to be an allegorical or metaphorical place, possibly an agglomeration of several different cities, given the unlikelihood of so many significant events occurring rapidly in such a small place.
January 25, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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razzball.bsky.social
Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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bar44.bsky.social
Somewhere in the Netherlands… #ColorADay #YellowThu #Photography #StreetArt #Mural #Architecture 📷
January 23, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
I saw this poem on the tube during my commute to work this morning. it was written in 1939
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.
September 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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tomaskenn.bsky.social
This is really disturbing. A person detained in the Everglades was handcuffed and left outdoors in the sun as punishment for attempting to go on a hunger strike. As mosquitoes swarmed him, he pleaded with guards to bring him inside and was kept outside for nearly three hours.
How 7 immigrants came to the U.S. and ended up at Alligator Alcatraz
Here’s what the detainees and their families and friends told us.
www.miamiherald.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
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July 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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bartgazzola381.bsky.social
The Red Sphinx, 1912, Odilon Redon
July 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Musk said USAID was wasteful. A new review published int he Lancet estimated it saved more than 90 million lives over 20 years, and that shutting it will cause 14 million unnecessary deaths over the next five years.
Open access link to my paper on USAID
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
USAID served for decades as a vehicle for both US soft power and foreign aid. Within the first days of the Trump administration, the agency was effectively closed, its staff told to go home and its funding frozen. It is impossible to understand the demise of USAID without understanding the broader contours of American governance during the early days of the second Trump administration. The agency was the victim of online conspiracy theories and suspicion of state institutions that shape Trump's populist movement, falsely accused of criminality and corruption. Its elimination violated traditional understandings of the separation of powers, testing an expansive novel theory of presidential authority. It was underpinned not just by spending changes, but by the mass purging of government officials by a entity led by Elon Musk. The end result is both to weaken US administrative capacity and its credibility on the international stage, as well leading to thousands and potentially millions of the world's most vulnerable people to face disease, disaster, and death.
July 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
😳 “as many lives lost as WW1”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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agawande.bsky.social
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.

They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
a man with a scorpion bite. A woman with cholera. A diabetic who needed insulin. And Omran, the dimpled 3-year-old.
June 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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harikunzru.bsky.social
Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 29
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk.

“When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.”

The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children.

Don’t ever forget.
In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Nature graph documenting estimated lives lost from USAID. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01191-z
May 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ericm.cd
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.

This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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philinvestigates.com
This is the notorious El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sent the Venezuelan migrants w/o due process. Judge Juan Antonio Durán said, “It makes you sad to see how they’re treating people, because there are a lot of innocent people locked up.” apnews.com/article/el-s...
Prison deaths mount in El Salvador's gang crackdown
On March 26, El Salvador’s street gangs had killed 62 people across the country, igniting a nationwide furor.
apnews.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.

There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son. "Many more children will die in the coming weeks," said Margret Amjuma, a health worker who confirmed the deaths of Peter and Achol.
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
‘The Peace of Wild Things’ - Wendell Berry (2018)
The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
January 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM