Cassandras Rojhas

[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.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Almost zero coverage on social media about how Trump lost his final appeal and must pay the woman he raped for lying about raping her.

Odd.

[Niamh Ní Cheallaigh 🕊🇵🇸🌻🇮🇪♿️ @CheallaighNiamh]

@TomClonan @CatrionaKing1 Thank you, Senator. Very timely too, given that only yesterday the HSE was forced to recind an order to cut back on home care cuts.
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[Ewan MacKenna @EwanMacKenna]

New Think For Yourself is out now.

After Hours - The Cowards And Crooks Of Irish Football.

As the World Cup plays away, in the shadows and silence Ireland decided to move their home game with Israel to Serbia of all places, and play it behind closed doors.

While there could have been praise for hosting at home and letting us vent, and praise for boycotting altogether, it seemed the FAI couldn't lose. Until they found a third option that guaranteed loss of advantage, loss of support, loss of money, and loss of reputation.

All in all, they, the management and the players have bent over for a monstrous state, and in doing so followed the Irish way. Be seen to talk morality, but do nothing because that might mean some sacrifice to make an actual difference.

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[Yahoo Finance @YahooFinance]

Trump's financial disclosures reveal that he was the highest US crypto earner in 2025.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump has been allegedly selling pardons for up to $6 million each.

Now he may sell another 250 and pretend his open call for bribes and corruption is in celebration of our nation.

Most corrupt president ever — and it’s not even close.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

The most corrupt president in American history.

[CLR711 @CLR7111]

@JDVance THIS Joe Biden ⬇️Even with Stage 4 metastasized prostate cancer, Joe Biden looks, speaks, and walks better than Drowsy Demented Don. You are partisan, so stop lying, and you will never be President. Read the NATION - it's tired of your insults, the name-calling, the disinformation, the misinformation, the propaganda, the denial of the Epstein files and child rape, the denial over the fact that WE LOST to Iran, and tired of Trump's grifting off of American taxpayers to make his nepo kids billionaires while they struggle to put food on their table and gas in their cars. 😠

[Cllr. Emer Tóibín @UnityakaAontu]

Not just the highest in the EU but second highest in the world! The question has to be asked: how did we get here & what is the plan to bring energy costs down for ordinary households & businesses.
(Source Statista - Global data platform)

[Care Champions Ireland @CareChampions2]

A shock memo ordering sweeping cuts to home care services across several counties, which would leave vulnerable older people at potential risk, has been withdrawn.

Asked about the memo, a spokesman for the HSE Dublin and Midlands, which includes the community health area CHO7 which would be hit by the cuts, said on Wednesday evening it has now been withdrawn.

An internal email circulated last week to Older Persons staff within the former CHO7 area recommending additional controls on provision of these services has now been retracted and the original criteria governing the processing of Home Support and Home Care referrals remains in place,” he said.

“I would like to clarify that there will be no changes to processing of referrals or provision of Home Support and Home Care Services in the former CHO7 area or in the wider Heath Region.”

He said the home support service is managed by regional Home Support Management Teams within available resources to ensure that this key service is available at the required times, in a flexible way and at the appropriate standard to support clients’ assessed needs.

#HSE #Homecare #CH07 #UTurn

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[Aisling McNiffe 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @McNiffecent]

This is just awful to read first thing in the morning when you’re in hospital with your son who has highly complex medical needs. Others are on our ward with high needs too waiting to get home but care packages haven’t been approved. When will this all change? @CarrollJennifer

[Access For All Ireland @AccessForAll7]

This is happening at a time we are being told the state is awash with money and resources.

We’ve always been at the bottom when it comes to allocating those resources but this is a whole new ball game, it’s cutting further into the measly supports we have.

The policy that is being pursued appears to be one of institutionalisation, a throw back to a time when we locked away those people who needed the most support.

It needs to be resisted and we would encourage people to contact the local rep’s and express their views that this is unacceptable.

@MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD @daracalleary

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[T.Max @TinaMax8]

@NewstalkFM And it's costing taxpayers €20,000 a week to store 98 EV buses (which cost millions to buy) because of lack of charging facilities 🙄🤠🤠

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: Bombshell new reporting from CNBC reveals that Trump bought millions in Axon stock just two weeks before ICE sought a $220,000,000 deal to buy tasers from Axon.

This raises serious questions about insider trading as Trump continues to profit off of the presidency.

[Cassandras Rojhas @sandiroe]

@griptmedia Sorted

[Virgin Media News @VirginMediaNews]

“Show me where they are because I don’t see them” — Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, Minister for Health, says she repeatedly asked to be shown the number of workers BAM said were on site at the National Children's Hospital

📺 #MondayGR on Virgin Media PLAY

[Truth or consequences @dandersen9465]

@atrupar Trump: “Suffered great damage”, yet
No One has ever been arrested for taking a
Razor or anything to the pool, just more lies.
Nothing Trump says today, will be True Tomorrow!

[GBC @GBC_Press]

At 5:00 PM, an American judge ordered the Department of Justice to unredact Jeffrey Epstein's files containing the names of alleged co-conspirators.

​At 8:00 PM, Trump began bombing Iran. The war resumed.

​Connect the dots.

[Cassandras Rojhas @sandiroe]

@RussellHall2 Ask her to move.sorted.