Project 2025’s roadmap for dismantling American government is 47% complete, according to the website Project 2025 Tracker.
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass?
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in Washington.
The visit that moved me the most was to a remote area that used to have no health care, where women routinely died in childbirth. Then a US-funded maternity clinic opened through @UNFPA in December, and not one woman has died since. I showed up, and people mistakenly thought I was responsible for the clinic. One new mom wanted to name her baby for me, and the village elders thanked me and hailed America's generosity. What they didn't know was that Trump/Musk had cut all funding for UNFPA and that as a result the maternity clinic will close this month, and women will once again be bleeding to death in the dust.
Here's a giftlink to my report from ground level about what the shutdown of USAID means: https://t.co/tbgKk7ESqj
Important thread by Dr. @Atul_Gawande outlining the many ways the Trump/Musk demolition of USAID, an agency created by JFK and until now enjoying bipartisan backing, will kill children around the world. A simple version is: Billionaires starve children.
I love my country with all my heart and I've never been more embarrassed for America than the spectacle I just witnessed in the Oval Office.
Zelensky is fighting for the survival of his country, his people and their democracy.
Trump and Vance appear to be completely aligned with Putin, the invader whose aim has been to conquer Ukraine.
Zelensky should know that millions and millions of Americans still stand with him and his valiant people.
"Musk est un idéologue, pas seulement un businessman. Il a tenu des propos racistes, antisémites, il est un suprémaciste blanc chrétien et a des accointances idéologiques avec les extrêmes droites européennes (…) Jamais une personne privée n'a eu autant de puissance."@MarionVanR
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
L'actrice américaine Meryl Streep a dénoncé l'oppression exercée par les talibans sur les femmes afghanes qui ont perdu tous leurs droits même les plus élémentaires, lors d'une réunion de l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies #AFPVertical ⤵️
Mars announced that it plans to acquire treat maker Kellanova in a $36B deal.
This means that Mars, one of the two biggest candy producers, could get even bigger.
With less competition, Mars can jack up prices even more than it has been lately.
That's not so sweet, is it?
La Voie lactée au-dessus de Uluru en Australie.
En sombre, on voit la poussière dans le plan de la Galaxie, en rose du gaz excité et en bleu des étoiles chaudes.