"One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase."

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanma...

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I just can't get over this. How unveiled it is now. If any other POTUS said this... oh what the fuck this is America now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump on Somali-Americans: "They're not smart. They have no aptitude. They have nothing going."

Also: the Trump presidency isn't even half over yet, and the maximum alarmists weren't nuts. ICE is operating as a death squad or is at least building up to it. Birthright citizenship nearly died in court. Mass corruption. Iran War. Haitian ethnic cleansing. Concentration camps. It's very bad!

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

This line from Ross Douthat’s final NYT column is something you see all the time from the soft-MAGA right. Sure, Trump’s *most* alarmist critics weren’t correct, but that’s basically true of every president. Trump’s *median* critic did in fact predict his presidency pretty accurately.

I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.

look how i'm treated for making a tongue-in-cheek joke 😔

I heard about this earlier today. He was denied his meds, taken out on a stretcher on Saturday and was DOA at the hospital. The Trump regime is running death camps.

Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say murderers .. the next president must prosecute all of these and govs should not wait for feds to act www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3w ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last mo.

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Our “house”—national parks—are being defunded to pay for what he considers to be his house. Not hard to guess where most Americans would like to see their money spent—NOT on pointless ego-serving renovations.

Adrienne LaFrance@adriennelaf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2mo ago

The Supreme Court sided with the maker of the Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. https://to.pbs.org/43VOkVA

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

elementary school: slavery caused the civil war high school: complicated economic issues caused the civil war College: slavery caused the civil war Grad school: the civil war was a struggle between feudalism and capitalism Your 30s: the civil war was a metaphysical struggle between Good and Evil

Teacher with school tour group outside the Supreme Court: ok everybody! Who can tell me what the Supreme Court does? 16yo, under his breath: fuck things up

I do 100% think that "Never Ever Doom" is one of the single strongest and most consistent themes of everything Tolkien ever wrote lol. Dooming is *always, always* the wrong call, it always leads to worse outcomes, and defiance is always right even when there is literally no hope

Eliot Andersen@eliotandersen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So what you're saying is, he was subtweeting BlueSkyers?

Nearly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army. Another 19,000 in the Navy. Black soldiers accounted for roughly 10% of Union military deaths. A large portion of each were formerly enslaved. I imagine they gave a damn about slavery.

Correct. Complaining about an entire ethnicity or nationality as a whole is racist. And it is very bad to be racist.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Dr Oz: "You're not allowed to complain about Somalians, because that's racist. And the worst thing you can be in Minnesota is a racist."

If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️

Senator Ed Markey@markey.senate.gov · 2mo ago

Here are the quotes Trump's NPS is trying to erase at the Bunker Hill Monument. Congress must not fund Trump's campaign of censorship.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Showing up Liberty University is good for all of us, this is an American Hero

Jomboy Media (Unofficial)@jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Georgia's Tre Phelps was tossed for unsportsmanlike conduct after hitting a go-ahead two-run home run

every day a new story comes out that would be the single most corrupt act by a president in american history if done by anyone else and barely makes the top 10 for this one

Robert Faturechi@robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

War hero and president James Garfield describing Lee as he should be remembered.

Taulby Edmondson@taulby.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Future President James Garfield at the first official Decoration Day, Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 1868: "But, thanks be to God, this arena of rebellion and slavery is a scene of violence and crime no longer!"

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect

Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.

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This is Bear, Australia's most famous koala detection dog. After a decade of service, he's retiring. He's located hundreds of injured or displaced koalas after forest fires. We're told his retirement will be filled with rest, cuddles, and maybe a little mischief. 15/10

“I think everyone should have rights” is always going to be less fractured than competing lists of who you believe shouldn’t have rights

Dreamweasel@dreamweasel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Diversity of thought” is an expression invented by conservatives to imply that rejection of their ideas is a form of bigotry