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Holly Berkley Fletcher

@hollybfletcher.bsky.social

Ex-CIA Africa analyst. PhD historian. Author of The Missionary Kids (Runner up for RNA Book of the Year). https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com @TheBulwark @Lawfare @liberalcurrents @goodfaithmedia Co-Host @DogShirtTV Art For Democracy @ Etsy

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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

Agreed. On Monday @polphilpod.bsky.social and I explicitly tied Musk USAID cuts to his "belief" that white civilization is embattled and white nations must be saved from invasion to preserve the "West." We argued Musk's "zero died" claim is code to global far right: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

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Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are A LOT of trends working against GOP this fall: *Iran becoming forever war *Trump restarting tariffs (!) *Millions losing SNAP *health care premiums set to spike *ICE killings worsening On the pod @simonwdc.bsky.social is great on how Ds can close the deal: newrepublic.com/article/2133...

GOPers Quietly Admit the Unthinkable: It’s All Falling Apart for Trump

As Republicans start leaking their fear that the bottom is falling out for Trump and the GOP, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg ponders whether his party can close the deal—and what could still g...

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