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#humanitarian. Mash's mom. #USAIDForever. Epidemiologist. Cyclist. backpacker/forest bather. harrier. Bibliophile. moss-, lichen-, and baobab-obsessed. 📍 whiskey-loving Michigander in occupied DC. | #bikeDC | #episky | #GoBlue! | #USAID |
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Mar 6
Still. True.

#USAID is needed more than ever with:
- ongoing wars,
- emerging zoonotic diseases (e.g. H5N1, #ebola), and
- existing infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, drug-resistant TB).

Pathogens do NOT respect borders. Or America First Policies.

@altusaid.altgov.info @alt-hhs.bsky.social
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you for translating that painfully incompetent journalistic query into one based in our current reality @joeneguse.bsky.social

#thisisacoup #feedamericans #SNAP #nokings
khrisnin.bsky.social KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 2d
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 3d
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The representative of the US is not only lying, substantively deviating from the subject, expressing against the dignity of the assembly and member states... this is not a signal chat, nor is it the House of Representatives.
lorennacleary.bsky.social LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 3d
Waltz called out at the UN. The rhetoric this administration uses in the US won’t fly anywhere else still and that’s of some comfort. The entire world is being tested right now.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 14d
Secretary Rubio came before Congress and said nobody was dying as a result of his foreign aid cuts. It's not true. Children are starving and dying because of this administration's cruelty.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15d
America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.
constant-tummyache.bsky.social Empathy @constant-tummyache.bsky.social · 15d
Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15d
ICYMI — The president posts an AI video of him wearing a crown dumping shit on protestors.

Our kids are watching.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24d
Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 23d
Good note for aspiring Nobel Peace prize wannabees:
Apparently the Novel committee prizes democracy advocates over facists 🤷‍♀️

@nobelprize.bsky.social #protectdemocracy #democracy #facist #facism

open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Maria Corina Machado wins
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 23d
"It's all a pretext to undo normality.
It's all a pretext to undo the rule of law.
It's all a pretext to undo the Constitution."

#antifa #facism #nazi #WeimarRepublic @timothysnyder.bsky.social #OnTyranny

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)
Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28d
They’ve turned everyone in Chicago into extras in Stephen Miller’s villainous, unconstitutional, authoritarian fantasy
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Oct 2
Dude freaked out when a bunch of neighbors sidewalk chalked "hardcore" messages outside his house:
- "Protect the Constitution"
- "Stand Up for #Democracy"
- "Love Wins"
- "No One Voted For Stephen Miller"
- "Love Not Hate"
And other terrifying statements of patriotism, empathy, and FACT.

#facists
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · Oct 1
GOP values at play here.
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NPR @npr.org · Oct 1
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Oct 2
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Oct 1
🫶 “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but is in favor of the death penalty is not really #pro-life.
Someone who says, ‘I’m against #abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’
I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

www.politico.com/live-updates...
Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift
"It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.
www.politico.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Oct 1
WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · Sep 30
Trump and Republicans will take the blame if the government shuts down tonight.

They have already decimated federal agencies, fired thousands of federal workers, and stripped health care from 15 million people.

It's clear that they have no interest in working FOR the American people.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Sep 30
The 🟠🤡 is hot for paper...

Big, beautiful, *firm* paper 😳

#dementiaDon #DonnyDemented
#thisisnotnormal #thisisacoup
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Trump to generals: "We have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, 'throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it. I want the A paper not the D paper.' We used to sign a piece of garbage ... I want to use the big beautiful firm paper."
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Sep 30
No more frivolous SA or DV complaints.

No longer will well-groomed, armed bullies need to consider potential consequences or repercussions for actions that may cause irreparable harm to others.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Sep 30
Racist war crimes, genocide, homicide, domestic violence, SA, and other "earnest" actions.

I mean, how dare we, as adults, be expected to consider the consequences and risks of our behavior and actions (unlike, say, my toddler who still seems to have only a tenuous grasp of how gravity works).
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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · Sep 30
Major ROFL says FAFO. China responds YOLO. Rest of the world FUBAR.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Sep 30
As practice.

He wants to use the military to train, to practice on its own citizens.
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Sep 30
In the name of efficiency, we cancelled projects, did not distribute meds, hundreds of thousands of children that otherwise would not have died did... and we didnt even save the taxpayers money.

Are we great yet?

@altusaid.altgov.info #malaria #USAID #IDsky
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
www.washingtonpost.com
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Sep 26
At stake is the millions of lives that will be lost bc of this regime

And our government.
We and future generations will suffer the loss of our soft power... all to appease a weak, pathetic orange "man".

#AmericaFirst #USAID @altusaid.altgov.info

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US supreme court allows Trump to withhold nearly $5bn in foreign aid
Justices rule in favour of administration, handing Trump another victory in dispute over presidential power
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Hill Family Biking @hillfamilybiking.org · Sep 24
Breaking: Our friends at @joelnelsongroup.bsky.social are both sponsoring Saturday's ride and raffling $500 in gift cards to @thedailyrider.co!

eventbrite.com/e/1097376114...
Ride Flyer
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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Sep 23
Feels like the terrifying prolonged to yet another American analog to Canada's residential schools - the illegal separation of families, obscenely excess mortality, and subsequent discovery of these losses.

#immigration #americangestapo #alligatoralcatraz @altimmi.bsky.social
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