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[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

ICYMI, the reason @StephenM’s language is so blatantly derived from Goebbels is that he has studied & imitated him to the point they are stone-cold doppelgängers.

[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.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[Political Watchdog @PoliticalWatchD]

Jeff Daniels' powerful rant against Trump.

This video was deleted yesterday from facebook, you know what to do ‼️‼️‼️

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

They are just looting the Treasury now.

Cronyism on the Putin/Orban/Erdogan model.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Hungarians singing “We Are The Champions” after Orban’s landslide defeat

[Para Nørmal @ParaN_rmal]

apparently, the Oprah approved spiritual guru Deepak Chopra is one of them

Deepak writes to Epstein:
"My biological needs are met occasionally"

"I do enjoy the company of younger intellectually sharp and self aware women and love to engage them to inspire and stimulate them"

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rascon: He attempted to murder us after we passed by. As he fired and made contact with the passenger side of our car multiple times. I will never forget the fear and having to quickly ducked my head as the shots were fired at the car.

[Nice Kicks @nicekicks]

Nike celebrates the @Dodgers back-to-back World Series with a new ad featuring Kendrick Lamar’s “Squabble Up” 🔥

[kathleen murphy @katmurphy57]

@dodgers Dodgers falling apart and sloppy- it makes me wonder how they got to the championship and I’m a fan….

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

No matter the person or what they’ve done, this is excessive force.

Now add the context: A 67-year-old unarmed man. Driving home after a run in Chicago. Didn’t move his car fast enough for ICE, on his own street… so they ripped him out, threw him to the ground, and kneeled on his back until his ribs broke and he bled internally.

This is why you always film when you see ICE.
This is why you carry a whistle.

If this administration won’t hold their agents accountable, we have to protect each other.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump is sending the DOJ to California to “monitor” the election. His intentions are clear — he wants to suppress the vote. And when we win, he will falsely lay claim to fraud.

We will not be intimidated. California will defend free and fair elections.

[kathleen murphy @katmurphy57]

https://t.co/9oYh71btt8

[Ronald Lebow @RonLebow]

@atrupar Trump could not have made, albeit in his demented rambling low energy way, his Project 2025 ambitions to stifle dissent and rule by his authoritarian power grab, more clear.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

The mask is off.

Trump defines “hate speech” as anything that wounds his fragile ego. And now he seems to want to jail those whose speech displeases him.

This is what petty autocrats always seek to do: Make their whims law.

Not here. Not in America. 🇺🇸

[kathleen murphy @katmurphy57]

@BulwarkOnline the day the music died...

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Q: "What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she is going after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech.”

Trump: “She'll probably go after people like you because you treat me unfairly. It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they'll come after ABC."

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Someone needs to explain to Ms. Bondi that so-called "hate speech," repulsive though it may be, is protected by the
First Amendment. She should know this.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable