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janhoglund
janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026
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…Musk’s team had essentially “pulled the wires out of the wall on the payment system,” as one senior official put it. Even when waivers were approved, the money still wasn’t moving. Rather than making things more efficient, DOGE had trashed the place. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #usaid
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janhoglund
janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026
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Trump had no interest in funding anything to do with human rights or the promotion of democracy. … And yet, the vicious terms Musk used to describe USAID—calling it “evil” and “criminal”—mystified even some of the agency’s most ardent critics in the administration and on Capitol Hill. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid
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janhoglund
janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026
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If Elon triggered controversy, all the better, in Trump’s view. Let him absorb the bad press… It was not unusual for Musk to call Trump directly late at night, tell him…of his plans to decimate an agency, and Trump would give his blessing, often with only the vaguest notion of what he was actually blessing. —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid
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janhoglund
janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026
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The United States Agency for International Development…had been at the heart of American soft power… It was a projection of American values that had enjoyed bipartisan support for decades. …nothing would prepare Washington for the all-out attack on the agency by Musk (or DOGE)… —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #trump #doge #usaid
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janhoglund
janhoglund @janhoglund@mastodon.nu · Jul 31, 2026
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Musk would not step away from his companies or take any steps to address his conflicts of interest… For several weeks, most of the White House staff had no idea what he was doing until it was done —M. Haberman & J. Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump #musk #doge #usaid
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bich
Bich Nguyen @bich@apobangpo.space · Jul 24, 2026
"In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers’ lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, Lama and around 100 other LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help." https://apnews.com/article/usaid-nepal-sex-workers-trump-budget-cuts-d8ea21ca4d43f1598ea54499123d46e0 #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #USAID #DOGE #lgbtq #transgender #HIV #SexWork #violence
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maeve_bkk
Grace O'Malley @maeve_bkk@kolektiva.social · Jul 24, 2026
Dismantling of #USAID and firing its staff, which has caused deaths around the world, violated the 1883 Civil Service Reform Act. https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5981243-doge-usaid-lawsuit-civil-servants/
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ItalianNews
Italian News by RSS @ItalianNews@mastodon.ozioso.online · Jul 23, 2026
Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Per fermare la fame nel mondo basta meno di un decimo della spesa in armi. E anche in Italia una persona su dieci soffre di insicurezza alimentare” “Per risolvere la fame nel mondo la prima grande azione da mettere in campo sarebbe soprattutto una: cessare le guerre, perché le guerre sono una delle cause strutturali di fame. Inoltre, gli investimenti in armi tolgono risorse alla lotta alla malnutrizione: oggi i paesi con crisi alimentari gravi sono quelli in situazioni di guerra”. Simone Garroni, Direttore Generale di “Azione Contro la Fame”, commenta così il nuovo Rapporto SOFI (Stato della Sicurezza Alimentare e della Nutrizione nel Mondo), pubblicato da cinque agenzie specializzate delle Nazioni Unite. Nel 2025 sono ancora 645 milioni le persone che soffrono la fame, pari al 7,8% della popolazione mondiale e 2,1 miliardi sono in condizione di insicurezza alimentare da moderata a grave. “E pensare”, continua Garroni, “che basterebbe meno di un decimo di quanto viene spese in armi a livello globale per fermare la fame”. Quanto incidono i tagli agli aiuti umanitari sulla fame nel mondo? Il governo Trump ha quasi interamente tagliato i fondi USAID e molti governi occidentali stanno tagliando i fondi per la cooperazione umanitaria e lo sviluppo. Secondo The Lancet, se questi tagli dovessero continuare sono previsti 14 milioni in più di morti per fame e malnutrizione al 2030. Purtroppo, tutto ciò lo tocchiamo con mano, abbiamo dovuto ridurre i nostri interventi in una serie di paesi, in particolare nella Repubblica del Congo e in Somalia. Questi tagli hanno un effetto immediato sulla sopravvivenza dei bambini malnutriti, piuttosto che sulla capacità di generare resilienza agli choc a cui sono esposte queste popolazioni. E il dispiegamento dei tagli sarà ancora maggiore nel 2026 e 2027. L'articolo “Per fermare la fame nel mondo basta meno di un decimo della spesa in armi. E anche in Italia una persona su dieci soffre di insicurezza alimentare” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano. To end world hunger it would take less than one tenth of the amount spent on weapons. And even in Italy, one in ten people suffers from food insecurity. To solve world hunger, the first major action to implement would be primarily one: cease wars, because wars are a structural cause of hunger. Furthermore, investments in weapons deprive resources from the fight against malnutrition: today the countries with severe food crises are those in war situations. Simone Garroni, General Director of “Action Against Hunger,” comments thus on the new SOFI Report (State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition in the World), published by five specialized United Nations agencies. In 2025, 645 million people still suffer from hunger, representing 7.8% of the world’s population, and 2.1 billion are in a state of moderate to severe food insecurity. “And think,” Garroni continues, “that it would be enough less than one tenth of what is spent on weapons globally to end hunger.” How do cuts to humanitarian aid affect hunger worldwide? The Trump administration almost completely cut USAID funding and many Western governments are cutting funds for humanitarian cooperation and development. According to The Lancet, if these cuts were to continue, 14 million more deaths from hunger and malnutrition would be expected by 2030. Unfortunately, we feel the effects firsthand; we have had to reduce our interventions in a number of countries, particularly in the Republic of Congo and Somalia. These cuts have an immediate effect on the survival of malnourished children, rather than on the ability to generate resilience to shocks that these populations are exposed to. And the deployment of these cuts will be even greater in 2026 and 2027. The article “To stop world hunger it takes less than one tenth of weapon spending. And also in Italy one in ten suffers from food insecurity” comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano. #Italy #first #SimoneGarroni #ActionAgainstHunger #UnitedNations #Garroni #USAID #Western #Lancet #theRepublicofCongo #Somalia #IlFattoQuotidiano https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/23/fame-mondo-spese-armi-insicurezza-alimentare-notizie/8455793/
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mycotropic
Mycotropic @mycotropic@beige.party · Jul 16, 2026
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@kakape@mas.to A thing which the current US administration has exactly no understanding. #USAID and other organizations used to ensure boots on the ground all over the world no longer have an infrastructure that can offer advice, logistics or scientific knowledge. Destroying US international presence and leadership endure that something like this would happen. #FuckRubio, #FuckTrump and #NazisRaus
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stux
stux⚡️ @stux@mstdn.social · Jul 10, 2026
Elon Musk, the richest a-hole, killed the poorest kids #USAID #Musk #US #USPol #DOGE
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bich
Bich Nguyen @bich@apobangpo.space · Jul 04, 2026
"The risk of such public threats is mounting because climate change is expanding the territory of certain pathogens, but researchers say there’s another concern. The Trump administration has cut investments in programs and agencies that prevent, track, and respond to health hazards the federal government is now confronting." https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/new-disease-threats-follow-trump-administrations-health-program-cuts/ #PublicHealth #CDC #USDA #DOGE #HHS #USAID #WHO #USpol #climate #environment #GlobalHealth
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GreenMtnBear
Vermonter @GreenMtnBear@4bear.com · Jul 03, 2026
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/07/elon-elon-what-a-killer Confront him with this wherever he is! #elonMusk #Musk #usaid
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RonSupportsYou
@RonSupportsYou @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social · Jul 02, 2026
Elon Musk's #DOGE cut to #USAID "have cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide. A study published in the Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates, the aid defunding will cost 9,400,000 lives by 2030": https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/usaid-elon-musk-doge.html #Musk #greed #mismanagement #disease #Trump #starvation #politics
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DrALJONES
DrALJONES @DrALJONES@mastodon.social · Jun 29, 2026
Interview: Musk's DOGE legacy 100s of 1000s of people have already died because of DOGE cuts to USAID. The Lancet predicts 14 million by 2030; some estimates are higher. "The world's richest man gets to condemn some of the poorest people in the world to death, & nobody says anything about it." Musk's legacy "will be the dead poor children whose lives were extinguished by the richest man on his way to becoming a trillionaire." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3vhTJR8ac&t=342s #USPol #EUPol #USAID #DOGE #oligarchy .
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j2bryson
Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson@mastodon.social · Jun 24, 2026
So I guess the „mass murderer for shutting down USAID“ accusation got under his skin? #musk #usaid
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broadwaybabyto
Broadwaybabyto @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca · Jun 16, 2026
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New modeling from The Lancet suggests the USAID funding cuts will kill 14 million people. Many of them are children. 600,000 have already died. The man who gutted the program? Elon Musk. The world’s first trillionaire. He has a trillionaire dollars and is murdering the poorest people on earth. He should be in jail. Billionaires and trillionaires should not exist in a world where millions die from poverty every year. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900281-5/fulltext #usaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #musk #capitalism #poverty #publichealth #uspol
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Bich Nguyen @bich@apobangpo.space · May 01, 2026
"Asked at a Congressional hearing about appropriations for family planning in May 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: 'There's no plan to spend that money. We're not going to be in that business globally. We're not going to do it.'" https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-118041/family-planning-birth-control-condoms-aid-cuts-rubio #healthcare #GlobalHealth #USAID #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #CHW #midwives #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #contraception #FamilyPlanning
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bich
Bich Nguyen @bich@apobangpo.space · Apr 22, 2026
"A year later, people have plowed through savings, cashed out retirement funds and moved in with friends and relatives. Former U.S.A.I.D. workers who have done informal surveys estimate that less than half have found full-time work, with many making less than before. An estimated third are unemployed. Others are in part-time work." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/politics/usaid-former-employees.html #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #USAID #ForeignAid #ForeignAssistance #development #DOGE #USpol #workers
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PhilipCJames
Philip C James @PhilipCJames@mas.to · Apr 20, 2026
Morning, all, U.S. police officers shot dead a man who killed eight children in Shreveport, LA. Donald J. Tantrump sending Leon Musk and his #DOGE magic-beancounters into #USAID last year has led to the premature deaths of circa 500,000 children around the globe. In defence of Don Trumpeone, the White House points out President Trump has stopped 10 wars so far - including several Mr Trump is yet to start... #Trump #GOP #MAGA #USpol #TyrantTrump #NoKings #25A 🧵 https://youtu.be/C3b2dd7NFZg?si=raxAwFRFFS-aQmcc
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PhilipCJames
Philip C James @PhilipCJames@mas.to · Apr 15, 2026
Fun Fact: cult leader Charles Manson also believed himself to be a manifestation of Jesus Christ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_be_Jesus It would however be wrong to compare Charles Manson to Donald J. Trump. Manson is believed to have murdered up to 35 people; the actions of Donald Trump have led to the deaths of very many more innocents. #USpol #Trump #Jesus #GOP #MAGA #NoKings #TyrantTrump #TrumpTheDeluded #InsaneTrump #IranWar #DOGE #USAid #Covid19 #ICEColdKillers #ICE #InvokeA25
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