The # of Haitians who enriched our culture more than this frigid monster is endless. New Orleans is Mobile without them. Pierre Toussaint financed St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. Basquiat's art. Blake Griffin's oops. Ralph Gilles designed the Chrysler 300. Go back to Ireland @megynkelly.
The world's richest man is desperately trying to rewrite history regarding his destruction of USAID.
Elon Musk's sudden pivot to damage control proves he knows exactly how devastating his actions were, no matter how much he tries to spin it now.
In his latest gaslighting campaign, Musk claims he only stepped in to ensure there was no fraud, leaning heavily on fabricated narratives about Ukraine and COVID to shield himself from criticism. But the internet remembers everything. We all saw him brag on X about sending USAID to the wood chipper with zero regard for the global fallout.
His malicious cuts dismantled life-saving food, medical, and security infrastructure around the world. A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet warns that the defunding of USAID will result in a staggering 14 million preventable deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children under the age of five. Hundreds of thousands have already died. They are dying from entirely treatable conditions like malnutrition, malaria, and a lack of HIV medication because PEPFAR and global health networks were frozen overnight.
Naturally, given the chaotic nature of humanitarian crises, it is impossible to audit every single one of these deaths in real time. But while the precise statistics will be debated by academics for years, the big picture is inescapable: when you suddenly choke off medicine and food to millions of vulnerable people, catastrophic suffering and a massive loss of life are the inevitable result.
No amount of whitewashing by Musk will change the facts, and history will remember him for the lives he destroyed
@yhdistyminen@sgodofsk Depends on if "Abundance" means upzoning and embracing market rate housing, or if it means Rubin/Summers neoliberalism, which is what I suspect most of its prominent backers want it to mean
Musk is doing damage control.
I know a number people in SA who lost their jobs because DOGE so recklessly shuttered USAID and PEPFAR.
I know patients who needed meds and were met by a padlocked door.
He doesn’t get to walk that back.
He has blood on his hands.
This administration, as many have pointed out, is not just one giant grift but a Make a Wish Foundation for the people in it and their friends and family. So pathetic.
Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected.
From this day forward, we have a union!