The state of play, a week into Elon's assault on USAID.
USAID is in a state of suspended animation - it has been powered down, but it's not *quite* to the point where it can't be powered back on.
What happens next comes down to the courts & Congress.
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What is happening to USAID will cost untold lives around the world, devastate America's standing, and massively empower China and other countries. There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.
1/ Let me explain why the total destruction of USAID - happening as we speak - matters so much.
China - where Musk makes his money - wants USAID destroyed. So does Russia. Trump and Musk are doing the bidding of Beijing and Moscow. Why?
https://t.co/jC7FMUymeW
Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing.
But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it.
1/ A short🧵on this evil.
https://t.co/lK7WZ4RFD0
Native peoples were conferred U.S. citizenship 100 yrs ago. After 40 more yrs, all Natives secured the right to vote.
With that power, we’ve protected our homelands & communities.
Learn more: https://t.co/Ft1Tzti31D
Follow: @NDNrights@NativeOrganizer
In June, Republican lawmakers in Maine’s Senate defeated a measure that would have required background checks on all gun sales, as well as a bill that would have required a 72-hour waiting period to buy a gun. https://t.co/B2rvSOXJYM
Great story. Good work @MayorCarter & team. Looking forward to seeing more work to advance reparations in @cityofsaintpaul. First Rondo descendent buys home using St. Paul's Inheritance Fund | MPR News https://t.co/vbA2njjR1g
Go @NABSHC - thank you for the vital truth & healing work you continue to pursue!
Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools https://t.co/BmU2LXRoW4
Okay @npratc, glad you had a story on the @FIFAWWC but did it really need to be about the male coach instead of one or more of the incredible women on the team??? 🤯
Today the #SCOTUS upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in an opinion authored by Justice Barrett. Much of the fight has been left for another day--in that #SCOTUS declined to reach some of the thorniest issues. But ICWA survives. So much to learn here. https://t.co/OFvS2l0Laa
This is great, @nexuscp! Looking forward to seeing this effort thrive, and I hope the lessons will be shared far and wide. And that other funders will listen, learn, and respond accordingly!
We are so excited to share this news with you! Nexus Announces $50 Million Open Road Fund for Black Minnesotans and Dakotans. Open Road Fund is a wealth-building community resource for descendants of the Atlantic Slave Trade living in MN, ND, SD.
https://t.co/daMojjGmqq
Excellent piece by @JCohen_CR@CRbuildpeace on the need to invest in peacebuilding at a time of rising violent conflict and military expenditure:
War is everywhere, so why are G7 leaders not investing in peace? https://t.co/f1nNYd3YH9 via @AJEnglish
Unfortunately missing this week's #PeaceCon2023 with the great team @AfPeacebuilding but I hope and expect there will be great energy at sessions like the one my friends at @CRbuildpeace will lead tomorrow!
Excited to be at #PeaceCon2023 next week with @AfPeacebuilding !
Register to attend our session on May 4, ‘A shifting landscape: adapting to changing patterns of climate, crossborder movement and violence’, sharing research from our @XCEPT_Research work: https://t.co/MirPgkxSHK
Tonight’s topics of conversation raised by my 9-year-old son in the past half hour as I cooked dinner: Obama family pets, theft of Indigenous land by the United States, women on the US Supreme Court (past & present), and probably a few others I’m forgetting. Yay curious minds!❤️
"What happened in these schools is one of the biggest root causes of the intergenerational trauma that affects Native peoples today," @CrystalEchoHawk tells @people. "This is cultural genocide."
#AmericanGenocidePodcast
Proud to announce the release of our new project, AMERICAN GENOCIDE, a gripping true crime podcast about the dark history of Native boarding schools and the trauma they've left upon Native communities. Now streaming wherever podcasts are found. #AmericanGenocidePodcast
Massive appreciation for the commitment of the TRUTH Project team to this powerful & painful research. Looking forward to reading more and seeing more action from the U. —Researchers reveal U’s painful past with Minnesota’s Indigenous people | MPR News https://t.co/oUKv3dg8CA