Purchasing 3.3 million HIV test kits from a factory in Des Plaines, Illinois, which provides jobs for thousands of hardworking Americans. #USAIDSavesLives

Preventing 250,000 people from contracting HIV. #USAIDSavesLives

Delivering 29,000 tons of food grown by American farmers currently wasting in a warehouse in Houston to feed hungry people worldwide. #USAIDSavesLives

Instead of investing in real solutions, $40 million was used to spread misinformation during Super Bowl Sunday. It's time to take a too. Learn more about USAID by visiting @FriendsofUSAID on Instagram and calling Congress to help support this vital work. #USAIDSavesLives

If you had $40 million dollars and could change the world, how would you spend it? #USAIDSavesLives

Preventing 665,000 babies from dying from HIV around the world. #USAIDSavesLives

Providing over 1 million people with life-saving HIV treatment from a US company for a year #USAIDSavesLives

Elon went after #USAID not for alleged fraud, but because Starlink was under investigation, among other things. HE is the fraud, and he's spending $40 million dollars on propaganda filled with lies.

It's plenty golden for him

This energy. 👇🏻

USAID provides lifesaving humanitarian aid around the globe.

Musk, the world's wealthiest man, is calling for its closure, describing it as a "criminal organization."

And it looks like Musk will get his way.

This is America.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

What's going on with Musk?

the media has now more or less uniformly adopted the theory that the president is allowed to violate the law and constitution however much he wants to so long as he says he is going to do it in advance

Picture of a woman smoking herbal relief from a water pipe

Gonna burn one while the world burns. Wasn't legal last time fascism was beating down the door, so at least there's that I guess.

And from what I'm hearing, it sounds like Trump will be illegally shutting down this office by decree imminently.

This one move alone is going to ruin and end countless lives.

This is a different sort of animal animal. Far bigger and meaner. And hungry for prey. If you're at all under the umbrella of DEI, I urge you to get some self-protection and stay close to your trusted communities.

This friend has been in this position for a long time. I believe they came on during Obama and survived Trump's first term, which was definitely a bad time, but that experience pales so much more in comparison to what is happening right now.

Finally (and this gutted me):

"They installed AI on all of our computers and every single phone call we make is being monitored. They're not even hiding that. They're transcribing everything and looking for words like gender or inclusion."

"I know you know this, but you should know it's worse than you even think it is. As bad as you think it is, it's that bad plus worse."

(and anyone who knows me knows I can dream up some pretty terrifying scenarios)

"Today in my office, they came in and painted over the walls, but it was of children in Africa. We're all assuming they painted over it because they didn't want Black people on the walls. They took all of the pictures out of the frames [ostensibly also from Africa] that we had hanging all over."

THREAD: From a friend, who works at a vital federal agency. They will remain anonymous, but gave me permission to share:

January 29, 2025 M-25-14 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13 OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

Massive rally in Berlin against against far-right fascism. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

I also have my yearly physical coming up. We are racing against our deteriorating meatsacks to bring you some quality fiction here!

Oh I've been following him! I was here a good bit until a month or so ago.

Okay, so @teekay0718.bsky.social says I'm not here enough, so now I'm here again. What's up, home skillets?

From the timing (a judge had ordered Trump to sit for deposition next week), it seems ABC News didn't even bother to depose Trump, much less file for summary judgment, and instead paid a $15m bribe to a slush fund Presidential "foundation" not yet established. It's obscene.

Insurance companies have been one of the major factors bankrupting hospitals in recent years. His family builds health care facilities. That could very well have shaped his opinions.

Indie Movie:

Vigilante becomes momentary folk hero for gunning down corrupt CEO, turns out to be a Temu Ted Kasczynski, taken down by a low wage worker who needed the reward money to help better his life and, perhaps, pay off some medical bills. Directed by the Coen brothers.

Commercial Movie:

Vigilante becomes folk hero after taking out an evil insurance CEO in the name of the millions killed or bankrupted by a broken health system. Directed by Michael Bay.

a cartoon character named luigi is driving a toy car on a race track Alt: a cartoon character named luigi is driving a toy car on a race track

It's all making sense