AlI DOGE required was contact information of the recipients to confirm that funding was not fraudulent. No validated medical funding was stopped.
Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued and is now administered by the State Department.
Saturday, Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna sat down with left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch — who previously cheered on those celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk — to discuss the future of “progressive” governance. In a now viral clip, Khanna claimed Elon Musk “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling USAID, and demanded he be subpoenaed once Democrats retake power.
The number traces back to a Lancet study published last summer projecting 14 million deaths by 2030 from USAID cuts.
But the study assumes a fake world: one where DOGE’s cuts stay frozen through 2030, where the State Department’s lifesaving waiver doesn’t exist (it does), where Congress never refunds AIDS relief (it did), where two decades of clinics and supply chains vanish the second a grant lapses. It also conveniently ignores some former USAID functions (like funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology).
Meanwhile, NYU statistician Aaron Brown notes the study credits USAID with preventing 11 million more deaths than the entire global mortality decline over two decades.
@planetmaxwell interrogates the claim that Elon and DOGE single-handedly killed millions of children, and explains why Silicon Valley’s congressman is now laundering this as settled fact (when it’s really just propaganda).
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Step 1: Invent a new extra-bad category of crime, like "hate crime" or "terrorism", with extra-harsh punishments.
Step 2: Expand the definition of the new kind of crime to include anything, or anyone, that you want to punish extra harshly.
How many more children before we admit the experiment failed?
This time it’s two Iraqi brothers, 18 and 20, on trial in Essen, Germany, for allegedly raping a 7 year old girl on two separate occasions.
She was the friend of their younger sister who lived right next door.
Another horror story in a continent-wide pattern.
Across Europe, men from certain immigrant backgrounds, especially Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Africa, are wildly overrepresented in rape and child sexual abuse statistics.
In Germany, foreigners are 15% of the population but 38% of rape suspects.
In Sweden, immigrant men dominate rape convictions in long term studies, even after adjusting for age and socioeconomic factors.
Those arriving as teens or adults bring the highest risk.
In the UK, foreign citizens are 3.5x more likely to be arrested for sexual offences.
The Pakistani muslim grooming gang scandal is still unraveling.
Europe didn’t have an epidemic of 7 year olds being raped by their neighbors’ older brothers before the mass low-skilled migration experiment.
It imported the problem along with the people.
Cultures that treat non-muslim girls as fair game, or that normalize early sexualization and weak boundaries around children, don’t magically become Swedish, German, or British just because they cross a border.
This is what happens when you prioritize volume over compatibility and then gaslight the public about the results.
The trial continues. The pattern continues. The denial continues.
BREAKING: Kazakhstan Railways is bringing Starlink internet to 900 train carriages this summer.
• By July, around 900 train carriages will be equipped with Starlink internet.
• The service will cover nearly 50 passenger routes across the country.
• KTZ’s passenger fleet has about 2,211 units, with the goal of full network coverage by autumn.
• The rollout is being done in stages as part of Kazakhstan’s railway transport modernization program
• Starlink was first tested on the Burabay Express electric train in 2025.
• Satellite internet has also been introduced on other major routes, including Astana–Ust-Kamenogorsk and Astana–Almaty Talgo trains.
Starlink is proving again that high-speed satellite internet can transform travel, especially across large countries and remote routes.
I once reported on how great Wikipedia was.
Now, it’s FULL of propaganda.
That’s a big problem because its bad information corrupts AI and search results:
@npovmedia@AshleyRindsberg
BREAKING: Starlink is providing free internet for Venezuela after devastating earthquakes.
• Free service through July 25 for people impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela.
• The free service applies to both new and existing customers.
• Starlink is also rapidly deploying terminals to the hardest-hit areas.
Elon Musk is once again standing with people in need.
Marlon West has done more than any politician to end the Pakistani rape gangs. His daughter is a survivor. He has seen the evil.
If elected as Greater Manchester mayor for Restore Britain, he will go to war with the rape gangs.
Watch this. @MarlonTag is a proper fighter.
Stephen Miller on USAID:
"There is probably no entity in the government that is more of an entrenched power center of unelected bureaucrats with less accountability, less oversight than USAID.
They funnel money to their cronies all over the world through a swampy network of NGOs and cutouts, including some very troubling elements of focusing on things like regime change and destabilizing foreign countries."