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missdv @missdv.bsky.social · 6d

The reality of what USAID cuts are doing to people. 1% of the Federal Budget.

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Trump aid freeze triggers HIV crisis in Kenya

Caught between withdrawn donor funding and a rocky Social Health Authority rollout, Kenyans living with HIV are now forced to pay for once-free viral load tests and fight through a confusing...

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missdv @missdv.bsky.social · 8d

He said “hepatitas” again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

complete batshit insanity

Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON, BREAK UP THE MMR SHOT INTO THREE TOTALLY SEPARATE SHOTS (NOT MIXED!), TAKE CHICKEN P SHOT SEPARATELY, TAKE HEPATITAS B SHOT AT 12 YEARS OLD, OR OLDER, AND, IMPORTANTLY, TAKE VACCINE IN 5 SEPARATE MEDICAL VISITS! President DJT https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

this is exactly what's happening

Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 8d

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

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missdv @missdv.bsky.social · 9d

Make it fuking stop

Le Parisien @leparisien.fr · 9d

Une Américaine s’installe dans le sud de la France sur les conseils... de l’IA

➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/agtr

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10d

how can this be turned into a die

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 10d

In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10d

It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10d

EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.

Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud

Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13d

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 18d

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17d

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

Dr. Binyam Gebru, Save the Children’s director in Somalia, and his colleagues had to make agonizing choices after the U.S.A.I.D. grant they had received for the past eight years, which averaged about $15 million a year, was not renewed. In Baidoa the organization ran a feeding program that delivered fortified food to all the children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the vast camps of displaced people that surround the town. Either the community feeding program or the emergency centers would have to shut down.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 20d

Trump Says He Likes The Dollar

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 22d

I'm loving this Pope.

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missdv @missdv.bsky.social · 24d

New PM, the old PM, wait what?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26d

“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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missdv @missdv.bsky.social · 26d

missdv @missdv.bsky.social · 27d

There is a theme….health, defence, FBI, fuking doge: the public institutions were first but only the start

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 27d

Donald Trump is the same price as Greta Thunberg to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 27d

*men in skulls & bones adorned hats kidnap people off the streets to ship them off to unknown extraterritorial jurisdictions*

me, a savant: wow, be careful folks, this is a slow drip of measures to test the judiciary's willingness to give unlimited deference to the executive

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 28d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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missdv @missdv.bsky.social · 27d

Another prescient episode (sadly) from a couple of weeks ago… #CBS

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The Aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s Murder. Plus, the Rise and Fall of CBS.

Podcast Episode · On the Media · 13/09/2025 · 50m

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Oct 2

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

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missdv @missdv.bsky.social · Oct 1

I cannot with this, the apogee of over intellectualising.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · Sep 30

Reiterating this now that I can see so many people who should know better have worked themselves into a situation of arguing about how strategically astute it would be to break ILR

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · Sep 22

Last one on Farage setting the terms of debate atm: he's by all accounts *the* major face of the primary policy change of the last five decades in the UK (we were told without a doubt that even if you don't like it, you have to respect his role in it) and he's never asked to stand for how that went

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · Sep 30

So, this is overall a useful thread in clarifying thinking but IMO this bit confuses tight labour markets that are a function of robust aggregate demand and high churn with acute sectoral shortages that just lead to lower levels of service provision. Which is a big problem for an aging society.

ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · Sep 30

There is a third view (the Tory 2020 revealed preference), in which the government attempts to ‘fill labour shortages’ with immigration. I am actively against this view - I think it’s wrong on the economics. I think evidence shows that labour shortages are good for workers and good for productivity.

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