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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 3h
Profile of Gender and Social Inclusion Advisor Caroline Ferraz Ignacio. #USAIDsaveslives
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
It's unconstitutional. Is this treason @citizensforethics.org?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
Serious question: why are all the networks taking the money and running the ads? "The three ads that have already aired have appeared on TV networks including CBS, CNN, MS NOW, Fox News and Fox." www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
This might seem like a difference of opinion. It is not. It is among the most impeachable things a President can do. If the President can just choose to violate the budget Congress passes, Congress doesn’t have any power.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
EXACTLY this is the very definition of taxation without representation. If Congress no longer wants the power of the purse they also lose the right to tax us!
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
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We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
icymi - mark zuckerberg’s company (meta) restricted a lula campaign page & the account of a viral video maker with an explainer on flavio bolsonaro corruption… techpolicy.press/on-eve-of-br...
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On Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise Questions
Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
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This Trump-Rubio Regime Change Operation in Brazil Must Be Thwarted | Common Dreams
Trump’s intervention in Brazilian elections undermines a basic and generally cherished right to self-determination, as well as the right to democracy itself. It is even clearly illegal under the Chart...
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Rubio broke the machinery. Now GAO says State lacks complete and accurate award data, comprehensive workforce data, and documented guidance for consistent foreign assistance decisions. The promised efficiency produced administrative chaos. It is a shit show.
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State Department Lacks Data On Decision Process For USAID Programs | Legis1
A GAO audit says State lacks documented guidance for managing $52.1 billion in active USAID awards. See what the GAO found about the transition today.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
🧵 2/This outbreak is heartbreaking. Please don’t look away. Share these stories, talk about this outbreak with others, and if you can, support the organizations and health care workers responding to it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Record numbers going hungry in Yemen amid escalating conflict, WFP says reut.rs/4htO6Lq
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Record numbers going hungry in Yemen amid escalating conflict, WFP says
Hunger in Yemen is accelerating, with a record number ​of people unable to meet their food ‌needs as conflict intensifies in the country, the World Food Programme said on Friday.
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 27/09/2026
Will Bunch is why I subscribe to the Philly Inquirer. Here he calls out the media for (once again) sane washing Trump, in probably the most egregious case of all – his profoundly and dangerously unhinged speech to the UN last week. It's a 5-alarm fire folks. But you wouldn't know it reading the NYT.
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026
More than 1.2 million children lost access to food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program between July 2025 and 2026, according to a new analysis. to.pbs.org/4dwuKEf
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More than 1.2 million children have lost SNAP benefits since last July. Experts explain why
Experts say that the drop is a cause for worry, and that it’s unlikely that the need for food assistance has dropped.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 26/09/2026
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US: Global Health Aid Tied to Harmful Conditions
The United States government is conditioning lifesaving health assistance on broad access to surveillance data and extractive rights to pathogen samples and data for pharmaceutical development.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“We’re glad this settlement places limits on their ability to use federal workers as bargaining chips to push their extreme agenda during the next government shutdown, but the fight is far from over,” said one union leader. www.commondreams.org/news/federal...
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'Working People Won': Unions Score Deal to Shield Federal Workers From Government Shutdown Firings | Common Dreams
"We’re glad this settlement places limits on their ability to use federal workers as bargaining chips to push their extreme agenda during the next government shutdown, but the fight is far from over,"...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vought broke the law when he tried to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He also made it easier for wealthy corporations to cheat average Americans. www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders... Time to impeach & convict. ImpeachVought.com
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Judge orders feds to restore consumer watchdog funding
Created from the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $20 billion to consumers since its inception, according to the plaintiff states.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 26/09/2026
Literally a criminal put in charge of destroying #USAID
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 26/09/2026
Thank you @kim.senate.gov for actual intel and analysis. We're old enough to remember rational discussions of US interests
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For some of the accounts, it’s very clear they’re impounding them to death. Not just illegally cutting the programs, but illegally ending the activity altogether. Suffice it to say, the president is not legally allowed to simply not carry out laws he doesn’t support.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/09/2026
The "Office of Remigration" funnels tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to foreign governments—many of them authoritarian and riddled with human rights abuses—to serve as third-country destinations for deported refugees. Keep your ability to feel shock.
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The White House is the home of a criminal enterprise. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Some journalists still barred from White House after judge blocks Trump’s ban
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to temporarily restore the journalists' credentials and said the ban was likely unconstitutional.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 24/09/2026
Russ Vought is a monster
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Democrats warn Trump plans to kill $3.2B in Hill-approved foreign aid
Top appropriators say the White House wants to use billions of dollars to shutter USAID. The rest would go unspent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 23/09/2026
Like a drug. We suggest withdrawal from their wealth as a start.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 20/09/2026
From 1963 to 1971, USAID food kept orphaned Anne Ralte alive in Kolkata. She later joined the agency and led work on its first Title II emergency food aid strategy. America fed a child who became a lifetime public servant. Dismantling USAID destroys that promise.
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The Flag that Fed Me
As a child orphaned in India, Anne Ralte survived because of USAID food aid. She would later serve at the agency. She’s shared her story below. By Anne Ralte I began my USAID career in 1996 in the…
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can DC journalists use all that access they've been curating to learn what's going on here? We're 1.5 months from the elections and the mad king president who doesn't want to cede power is building military facilities across the Capitol. Maybe it's a joke, maybe not, Reporting would sure help. 2/
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Twice in a row: Trump tears up DC to build something he first calls ceremonial - a "ballroom", a "triumphal arch" - but then pivots to calling it a military facility with drone ports. Did we mention that the Trump-appointed chair of the commission approving these projects works mostly in Russia? 1/
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 20/09/2026
Everything he touches turns to sh-t. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump finds new DC landmark to trash
With Trump wrecking so much of Washington, D.C., you might have missed some of the smaller garbage.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 19/09/2026
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s son in law Luke Lindberg, 37, leads the World Food Programme. His Food for Peace restructuring left out Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Mali while weighing ‘the geopolitical interests of the United States.’ He takes over as 266 million people face acute food insecurity.
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UN appoints Trump nominee Lindberg to head World Food Programme
The UN's World Food Programme, the world's biggest ​humanitarian agency, on Friday ‌named U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee, Luke Lindberg, as its next executive ​director, a statement said.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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The EPA would rather monitor abortion pills in water than pollution
The agency is easing climate rules for power plants while testing water for mifepristone.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Public service is still being hollowed out by Trump. The cavity left behind is being filled with petty vindictiveness and indifference towards Americans who need a hand.
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The Current Capacity Crisis | Revolving Door Project
Trump and company have decimated the federal government’s ability to protect Americans from Robber Barons running amok
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 19/09/2026
He wants them all to salute with their dicks. I am creeped out/ sorry for all the nice not-sexually-insecure guys out there
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 19/09/2026
Profile of a USAID staffer, her work on monitoring and evaluation, and her reflections on life and purpose since USAID was dismantled. #USAIDforever
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“Everything is Possible, and Nothing is Safe”
Tania Alfonso’s Story
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 17/09/2026
Yes, we're salty that all the great PUBLIC spaces in our city are being demolished/trashed to please Dear Leader.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/09/2026
According to the NYT, $9.5 BILLION was spent paying federal employees not to work. Meanwhile, most of our colleagues on admin leave would rather be WORKING. 🙄 “Government efficiency,” apparently. Goodnight to everyone except the MAGAts who thought this math was mathing. 😑🌙
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was never the city’s most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
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The Kennedy Center was part of DC life. Trump destroyed it.
It was never the city's most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 16/09/2026
And yet www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit from Mississippi residents related to lead-contaminated water.
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