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Excellent. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
Opinion | We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty
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July 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say www.bbc.com/news/article...
US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say
Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.
www.bbc.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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"According to the Polity Project, an organization that ranks and categorizes governments worldwide, the U.S. government is classified as a “non-democracy” as of February 2025, a downgrade from its previous status as a democracy." ash.harvard.edu/articles/fro...
From Crisis to Action: Turning the Tide on Democratic Erosion Through Organizing – Ash Center
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March 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States"

from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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rparloff.bsky.social
This in-your-face charade—together with govt's ongoing refusal to answer her inquiries about how many employees were terminated Friday or will be in the next 2 weeks—may make it tougher for Judge Chutkan to deny a TRO.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Feb 18
Last week, Elon Musk appeared alongside Trump in the Oval to defend the work of DOGE.

Looking directly at Musk, Trump asked; “Could you mention some of the things *your team* has found?”

Tonight, the government claimed that Musk isn’t in charge of DOGE & isn’t a DOGE employee.
February 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle.

One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S.military to a faraway country, Panama They were stripped of their passports and most of their cellphones, they said, and then locked in a hotel, barred from seeing lawyers and told they would soon be sent to a makeshift camp near the Panamanian jungle. At the hotel, at least one person tried to commit suicide, according to several migrants. Another broke his leg trying to escape. A third sent a plaintive missive from a hidden cellphone: "Only a miracle can save us." In one window visible from a sidewalk below the hotel, a woman clawed at a latchless glass pane in an attempt to escape. When she noticed journalists below, she held up a piece of paper that read "Afghan. She made hand motions that indicated an airplane, then her head falling off. The message seemed to be clear: A flight home meant death.
February 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency.

(Photos shared with me)
February 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM