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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 15/04/2025
🔇🔇🔇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. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...
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Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths
Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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.
axios.com
15 Senate Dems vote to cancel billions in Israeli military aid
Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to cancel the Trump administration's proposed sales of $8.8 billion in bombs and other munitions to Israel.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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Click "Join" for discussions, pictures or anything related to Tigray or Tigrayans.
A subreddit dedicated to Tigray.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/03/2025
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.
npr.org
'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
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.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians uprooted from Gaza
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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?
reuters.com
Ethiopia's Tigray region urges federal intervention after town seized
Officials administering Ethiopia's Tigray region asked for federal help on Wednesday as a faction of the main regional party seized control of a town, stoking fears of a return to conflict in the war-scarred region.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Not another war in Tigray 😞 Stop the Next Ethiopia-Eritrea War Before It Begins
foreignpolicy.com
Stop the Next Ethiopia-Eritrea War Before It Begins
As armies deploy, Gulf states and their Western allies must halt an impending conflict that could inflame the entire Red Sea region.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump just said “Lesotho, no one has heard of it” The sitting president of the United States everyone
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“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.”
open.substack.com
Clap Out at the RRB
Today, take time to hug a public servant.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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...
nbcnews.com
State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration
The USAID initiative had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in helping Ukraine's energy grid recover from attacks from Russia.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/02/2025
The first good use of AI slop.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/02/2025
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.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/02/2025
"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 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
theatlantic.com
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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 😣
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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...
theguardian.com
French far-right leader cancels CPAC speech over Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ salute
National Rally’s Jordan Barella calls off address as Anti-Defamation League says it is concerned but ‘not surprised’
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Must read! EPA employee letter to the new administrator. Federal workers are people! The vilification must stop.
substack.com
EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin
I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Claim: “USAID spent $6 million on tourism in Egypt.” Reality: This funding was for education & economic development in North Sinai, not tourism. The grant was announced in 2019 during Trump’s first administration. Stripping away the date & purpose makes it sound like a recent, frivolous expenditure
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Continent highlights the crucial role USAID has played in Uganda and other countries, where life-saving treatments for vulnerable populations have been halted. Overall, it stands as the go-to source for news on Africa's current affairs, a must-read.
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Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
President Trump’s sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign assistance has threatened programs intended to counter al-Shabab bombmakers, contain the spread of al-Qaeda across West Africa and secure Islamic State prisoners in the Middle East. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s global funding freeze leaves anti-terror programs in limbo
U.S. officials say now-suspended programs across Africa were designed specifically to respond to national security threats and contain the spread of terrorism.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
open.substack.com
I Have Resigned from The Washington Post, effective today
Why I left to help launch a vibrant, new, independent media outlet
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Consistent with the reasoning above, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendants Marco
Rubio, Peter Marocco, Russell Vought, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for
International Development, and the Office of Management and Budget (the "Restrained
Defendants") and their agents are temporarily enjoined from enforcing or giving effect to Sections
1, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Dep't of State, Memorandum, 25 STATE 6828 (Jan. 24, 2025) and any other
directives that implement Sections 3(a) and 3(c) of Executive Order Number 14169, "Reevaluating
and Realigning United States Foreign Aid" (Jan. 20, 2025), including by:
• suspending, pausing, or otherwise preventing the obligation or disbursement appropriated foreign-assistance funds in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative
agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of
January 19, 2025; or
• issuing, implementing, enforcing, or otherwise giving effect to terminations, suspensions, or stop-work orders in connection with any contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, loans, or other federal foreign assistance award that was in existence as of January 19, 2025.It is further hereby ORDERED that nothing in this order shall prohibit the Restrained
Defendants from enforcing the terms of contracts or grants.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall take all steps necessary to effectuate this order and shall provide written notice of this order to all recipients of
existing contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements for foreign assistance.
It is further hereby ORDERED that the Restrained Defendants shall file a status report by
February 18, 2025, apprising the Court of the status of their compliance with this order, including by providing a copy of the written notice described above.
The parties shall meet and confer and file a joint status report by February 14, 2025, at 5:00
p.m. proposing an expedited preliminary injunction briefing schedule.
AMIR H. ALI
United States District Judge
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“Gaining an extra bunch of Tech bros? Great! It is what every democracy needs,” reads the petition, which adds that Denmark will also be able to “protect the free world” and rename Disneyland “Hans Christian Andersenland.”
cnn.com
Danish petition to buy California attracts hundreds of thousands of signatures | CNN
A satirical petition ostensibly aiming to crowdfund a trillion dollars to allow Denmark to buy California has received more than 200,000 signatures.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/02/2025
I am so heartbroken. I got to know Elisa two years ago when she came to me with hundreds of emails of anti-trans legislators scheming around restricting trans rights. I helped get her story told by the New York Times and Washington Post. She deserved so much better. RIP.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
These spineless corporations need to feel it where it hurts. Removing black history month during black history month, really?! Boycott Google
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/02/2025
USAID used to buy $2B worth of food from US farmers. Now, their food is just rotting away as poor people starve. And next year, many of these same farmers will be farming for government subsidies instead of food. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The law mandates generally “just and equitable” compensation, but one clause states that the government may not provide compensation in certain cases, including when land is not in use and the main purpose is appreciation of market value, or when the land has been abandoned.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For those who continue to deny that Trump and the MAGA GOP's objection to asylum-seekers and refugees isn't racist, check out which group, out of all the conflicts on earth, Trump has made a very special refugee resettlement for. Yep. White South Africans. Beyond parody.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I mean it’s just the agency tasked with nuclear security, how bad can it be?
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What a dark time to be a development professional
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 05/02/2025
This morning I woke up to news that the richest man in the world— the unelected oligarch tearing down our government—retweeted a grifter’s lies about me. Here are the facts, since I know weirdos from Twitter stalk me here (maybe find another hobby?): 🧵
Grifter Mike Benz shares falsehoods about Nina Jankowicz's work.
In one screenshot, he falsely claims she runs "an internet censorship project in london." In the second screenshot, Benz, who obsessively checks Jankowicz's bluesky feed, posted a screenshot of her reaction to USAID's illegal shutdown by Elon Musk. Both screenshots are posted with the commentary "Update: The Censorship Squad is crashing out over losing the USAID taxpayer gravy train that funds their censorship work." Elon Musk retweets Benz, writing "How the tables have turned."
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump plans to push out the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and build a resort for “everyone”. Let me repeat - he plans to forcibly relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries. Plans to remove Palestinians from their historic home to neighboring countries so the US can take over
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
WTF??
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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)
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 03/02/2025
🚨Trump’s decision to shut down USAID has frozen critical work to deliver vital assistance around the globe, and put China in the driver’s seat. We’re at USAID HQ fighting back against Trump’s outrageous assault on dedicated USAID workers. Tune in now:
youtube.com
Van Hollen, Colleagues Host Press Availability At USAID HQ Amid Illegal Shut Down Of Agency
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Now it makes sense why Musk is trying to kill USAID, it’s revenge for ending apartheid in South Africa. This white nationalist has now an unchecked and seemingly unlimited control of our government and its people’s data. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.
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TheFurLeft @fitsum.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Who else is joining Congressman Beyer at USAID today? @vanhollen.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov?
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