lacking couth

[Dr. Bucky Isotope, PhD Bioplasticity @BuckyIsotope]

It appears building an entire country over an ancient Native American burial ground has caught up with us

[Wynner 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇺 @EuroWynner]

Trump managed to turn a World Cup that was honestly turning into a major US PR victory into a total national humiliation. Genius.

[Dan Hopper @DanHopp]

Hey MAMDANI, what do you think of THIS (vid of me spraying my hose into my microwave, unclear what grievance I'm responding to)

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[lacking couth @irab360]

Wild take when Amazon relies on the government for a lot of delivery today and has benefitted from tremendous investments made by governments throughout the country directly and indirectly on their behalf.

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Jeff Bezos says “if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive” in response to NYC’s high school spending

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[lacking couth @irab360]

@majornelson Google Calendar works fine

[lacking couth @irab360]

@MKBHD I’ve never been clear on the point or purpose of watching an unboxing video at all.

[playful peter @w0rldmap]

Just heard a strange podcast where the host was singing and playing guitar the whole time? and it was only 3 minutes long

[dan nolan @dannolan]

I’m not dying from some fucking hentai virus

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Old people yelling at young people that they aren't using new technology fast enough. Young people yelling at old people that sex is dirty and sinful. Whole fucking world's on shuffle.

[lacking couth @irab360]

@aakashgupta @MikeDrucker It’s also very difficult to play a fully grown fucking tree. For more answers go to don’t be a fucking dumbass dot com.

[lacking couth @irab360]

I can’t be the only one that thinks Kohls and Kohler are missing out on some 🔥brand synergy with Kohls cash.

[lacking couth @irab360]

@majornelson Had lots of snow but never a snow day.

[lacking couth @irab360]

@hellojayare @MacRumors Everyone shouldn’t have to suffer for my horny hubris and misunderstanding of fuses.

[lacking couth @irab360]

@Tim_Sweeney_TAR @AJW849 @danishacarterr This is a lot of words that seem to fantastically miss the point. Maybe if we wrote a summary of the incident and macro situation like an earnings report you’d better be able to understand.

[anna !!! :)) 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸 @frogs4girls]

i am NOT a pedophile, and all the proof is right here in my I’m Not A Pedophile document. unfortunately i had to redact all of it but you can use your imagination.

[Nate @thenatewolf]

A whale watching trip can become a whale kissing trip if the captain is brave and you know what to say to the whale.

[lacking couth @irab360]

@verge There’s already a screen on the phone. Just put your ebooks on the phone or carry a full size reader. This is a solution to nothing.