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Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Who DOGE Hurts: Gutting NOAA<br><a href="https://joycevance.substack.com/p/who-doge-hurts-gutting-noaa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">joycevance.substack.com/p/who-</span><span class="invisible">doge-hurts-gutting-noaa</span></a></p><p>"the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NOAA</span></a> was preparing to lay off more than 1,000 workers...</p><p>People who live in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hurricane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hurricane</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/tornado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tornado</span></a> country keep their “NOAA <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> radios” handy...</p><p>In theory, it sounds like one more bad thing to worry about. In practice, it’s much worse. We’ve just had a demonstration of precisely how effective NOAA is &amp; what we stand to lose without it."</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disasters</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Support the Resistance<p>If you have friends or family who are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DACA</span></a> recipients, they aren't safe. </p><p>Consider arranging for an attorney now. </p><p>Start fundraising unless you have money to protect them or to send with them if they are deported; they will need it. </p><p>Start researching their country of origin for legal resources and for housing. </p><p>Don't assume anything.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Santa Clara County Dem Party<p>People across the world rally to stop the Putin-loving traitors Musk and Trump and their GOP enablers.</p><p>USIP tells the DOGE Incels to go away. <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5196963-doge-representatives-visit-us-institute-of-peace-are-turned-away/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/homenews/administr</span><span class="invisible">ation/5196963-doge-representatives-visit-us-institute-of-peace-are-turned-away/</span></a></p><p>Trump tries to invoke an ancient law for his racist policies and a Judge smacks his tiny hand. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/15/trump-alien-enemies-venezuela-migrants-deportations/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/immigration</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/15/trump-alien-enemies-venezuela-migrants-deportations/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/santaclara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>santaclara</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CAPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CAPol</span></a></p>
🐟🐠🐡🐙🦑ptoothfish🦑🐙🐡🐠🐟<p>All stock markets have been closed for spreading the false DEI-instigated rumours that President Trump isn't saving the economy. From now on, Real American investors will only buy and sell Company Tokens on the new Patriot Trade platform, successfully launched on X this morning. Freed from the uncertainty of woke indicators like commercial value and public sentiment, the Patriot Trade index will always rise when the President says it did. Sign up today! That's An Order, Citizens!<br><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/rpb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rpb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
Aure Free Press :verified:<p>Gridiron Club journalism dinner omits toast to sitting president for first time in 140 years<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AureFreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AureFreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/headline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>headline</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/gridiron-club-journalism-dinner-omits-toast-us-president-first-time-140" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">justthenews.com/government/whi</span><span class="invisible">te-house/gridiron-club-journalism-dinner-omits-toast-us-president-first-time-140</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Interview: Palestinian writer, Mohammed El-Kurd, describes a childhood overtaken by Israeli settlers &amp; the New York Jews who've joined them:</p><p>"The guy currently in our house is from Long Island." He "fled fraud charges in the US &amp; has found himself a safe haven in our home."</p><p>There's a "large number of Jewish New York residents in these kinds of settler groups."</p><p><a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/perfect-victims-and-the-politics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chrishedges.substack.com/p/per</span><span class="invisible">fect-victims-and-the-politics</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nakba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nakba</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EthnicCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthnicCleansing</span></a> .</p>
John :au: :hb:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Lurkle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Lurkle</span></a></span> </p><p>As well, the world should stop arrivals or put in <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/quarantine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quarantine</span></a> anyone from or travelling through the <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> due to lack of medical response to <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/contagious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contagious</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diseases</span></a>. <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/vaccinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccinations</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFK</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Interview: Trump’s policies are about "getting rid of institutions where our obligations to one another are worked out."</p><p>Musk summed it up as empathy being "the bane of Western civilization." And really, they do think that.</p><p>"Their going after things like Medicaid or Social Security is not... an unintended effect. It’s very much what they want to destroy."</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_gessen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_g</span><span class="invisible">essen</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+Rights <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> .</p>
Kim Perales<p>“Judges Become Targets in Combative Political Environment; Early court rulings against Trump provoke fury from some of president’s supporters”<br>-R Hasen</p><p>“Judges fear that the messages from on high are whipping up🚨THREATS &amp; POTENTIALLY VIOLENCE AGAINST JUDGES &amp; THEIR FAMILIES.” </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Conspirators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conspirators</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DeathThreats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathThreats</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Violence</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Repubicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Repubicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ContemptOfCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContemptOfCourt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Treason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Treason</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://electionlawblog.org/?p=148990" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">electionlawblog.org/?p=148990</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Aure Free Press :verified:<p>Trump is a renowned golf cheat, at his and other courses.</p><p>He probably ended up playing with himself to win the trophy<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AureFreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AureFreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/headline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>headline</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
LovesTha🥧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Lana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Lana</span></a></span> The Greens are in the middle of a probably quite successful election campaign (well pre campaign still, the election should be called in the next few weeks)</p><p>Oh, did you forget your <a href="https://floss.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> tag? <a href="https://floss.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> is pretty active right now.</p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"I find it odious when the world’s richest man cackles about <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> shoving programs for needy children “into the wood chipper.”</p><p>When you meet those dying <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> and look into their eyes and hold their hands and feel faint heartbeats flutter, you can’t bear the gleeful laughter. You see children just like your own and hang your head in shame."</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>" <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> was established to advance our national interests as well as our values, &amp; its demolition means that the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> loses soft power &amp; <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> gains...</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> spends just 0.24% of gross national income on humanitarian aid. We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> around the world from AIDS, starvation &amp; disease.</p><p>That is, until January."<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut.<br>That Isn’t True.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.H8Lx.GD39rucUfloD&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p><p>“No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> said. “No one.”</p><p>That is not true... the efforts by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> are already leading children to die...</p><p>Peter Donde was a 10-year-old..<br>Achol Deng, an 8-year-old girl...<br>Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo...<br>[and more]"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Death</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Give a bully what he demands &amp; he'll demand more.</p><p>Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"</p><p>Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia &amp; demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian &amp; African Studies Department &amp; place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.</p><p><a href="https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> .</p><p>...2</p>
Snippety Snap (she/her)<p>They Clyburned Nina Turner, bastion of US far left politics. In 2021, she ran for US Rep in a special election for Ohio's 11th district against Shontel Brown. </p><p>As the popular frontrunner, Turner was supported by AOC on the campaign trail.</p><p>Oh no! Can't have that! Jim Clyburn stepped in again and campaigned with Brown, and Brown won.</p><p>What I am saying is that AOC should take over for <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/ChumpSchumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChumpSchumer</span></a>, but she will have to slay the Clyburn crew to do it. </p><p>It is possible.</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Interview: Craig Mokhiber resigned as a director in the UN over the UN leadership's policy on Israel's genocide in Gaza.</p><p>Mokhiber: "My critique was never of the idea of the UN.</p><p>"My critique was of the UN leadership, which was so frightened by western power that it abandoned the very mandate, principles &amp; purposes of the organization out of fear."</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2025/3/14/can-global-institutions-stop-israels-breach-of-international-law" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/program/upfront/</span><span class="invisible">2025/3/14/can-global-institutions-stop-israels-breach-of-international-law</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InternationalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BDS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CraigMokhiber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CraigMokhiber</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaGenocideNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocideNotWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WesternComplicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesternComplicity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Analysis: There is "no military or political logic to the US attacks" on Yemen's Houthis</p><p>While danger to shipping in the Red Sea is reason for concern, "it could be resolved diplomatically"</p><p>~Nabeel Khoury</p><p>The US pre-emptively attacked Yemen after the Houthis threatened to resume attacks on Israel-linked ships over Israel's blockade of Gaza.</p><p>Edit: Latest death toll is 53</p><p><a href="https://aje.io/7jyucr?update=3581699" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">aje.io/7jyucr?update=3581699</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yemen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaGenocideNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocideNotWar</span></a> .</p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts Hit Team Saving Kidnapped Ukrainian Children<br><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/musk-doge-ukraine-children-2045330" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/musk-doge-ukraine</span><span class="invisible">-children-2045330</span></a></p><p>"The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Ukrainian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukrainian</span></a> government has said that nearly 20,000 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> have been abducted by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> from the occupied territories of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> since the start of the war as part of a program to eradicate Ukrainian identity...</p><p>The decision to cut funding for the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> program could harm Ukraine's ability to reunite children with their <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>families</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Snippety Snap (she/her)<p>They Clyburned Jessica Cisneros in Texas' 28th district. She was gaining on incumbent Henry Cuellar, an anti-choice Dem who was under FBI investigation for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy. </p><p>Pelosi and Clyburn rushed to Texas to show support for sleazeball Cuellar (who was later indicted) and tamp down a progressive rising star in Texas. It worked....<br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>