🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making.
When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵
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Fifteen Senate Democrats backed a pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to withhold billions of dollars in offensive weapons sales and other military aid to Israel.
Only 15?! @alsobrooks.senate.gov and @booker.senate.gov voted against it.
This is how you lose your base.
For those trying to leave X behind, there is a subreddit for our community. There is a decent number of users but could use some more. @burbridgeduke.bsky.social could use your help please to spread the word. www.reddit.com/r/Tigray/s/v...
JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.
The pit of moral decay right here! According to the report, the potential destinations for Palestinians are Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland.
I mistakenly thought it was an Onion article. It is not. Trump is serious about the Gaza riviera plan.
Debretsion's faction confirmed the takeover of Adigrat on its official Facebook page. On Tuesday, Getachew removed three senior army commanders from their positions, accusing them of trying to drag the region into internal conflict.
It seems like conflict is imminent. Has anyone heard from home?
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
Remember that Trump is a result of white America’s response to Barack Obama.
Those who voted for him traded their rights under a democracy for “f$&@ the libs” politics & fascism.
If Americans do not react in the streets, there is no end to this. Citizenships will be revoked, journalists arrested
Trump beaming about development programs that were cut in Africa. Listing out countries like he has never uttered it before - Liberia, Mali, Lesotho “no one has ever heard of it”
Why did the African diaspora vote for this? He clearly doesn’t give a shit about Africa/Africans/immigrants
Trump just said “Lesotho, no one has heard of it”
The sitting president of the United States everyone
NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
“Regardless of how you feel about foreign aid as a policy matter, these are the public servants who have been so demonized and devalued by Elon Musk et al. They’re parents, friends, neighbors, and patriots.”
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
Even before Zelensky’s visit, Sec. Rubio had terminated vital USAID support to sustain Ukraine’s energy grid.
“The USAID initiative had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in helping Ukraine's energy grid recover from attacks from Russia.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/sta...
Woke up to see Donald Trump sharing a video on Truth Social about turning Gaza into a holiday resort with a giant gold statue of Trump, ending with a final shot of Trump and Netanyahu enjoying the beach together. Absolutely unhinged.
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The first good use of AI slop.
He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
"The term DEI, frequently invoked by the Trump administration, functions as a smoke screen"
read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the real goals of the 'anti-DEI' rhetoric
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Not to mention the babies that wil be born with HIV because of lack of treatment. The pro life party is killing babies. Most of these babies don’t make it to their first birthday 😣
Must protect at all cost!
When you're too gross for even the French far-right - French far-right leader cancels CPAC speech over Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ salute www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Must read! EPA employee letter to the new administrator.
Federal workers are people! The vilification must stop.
Musk and Trump have used a familiar tactic—manufacture a scandal, flood the space with selective outrage, and use it to justify dismantling an agency they already wanted gone.
It’s an attack on facts themselves—and if it works here, it will be repeated elsewhere.
A real audit would be conducted by independent agencies (GAO, OIG, CBO), qualified and experienced leaders, or appointed and vetted contracted individuals or organizations. It also takes months for meticulous review.
Claim: “USAID spent $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia.”
Reality: This wasn’t a USAID grant—it was from the State Department, funding an arts program to increase representation in Colombia’s opera scene. Labeling it a “transgender opera” was a deliberate attempt to provoke outrage
“USAID spent $1.5mil to promote workplace diversity in Serbia.”
Reality: A program to boost jobs by improving inclusivity was reframed as an ideological "waste," despite addressing workplace discrimination that limits economic participation.
