USAID's own Inspector General investigated a real fraud claim on the record. They found nothing. The "investigation" that justified the cuts was a keyword search, not an audit. 🔒 Read it (paid) 👇 open.substack.com/pub/usaidemp... #USAIDLives #StandWithUSAID

Musk Never Once Cited an Actual Case of Fraud. Here's Why.

Musk’s fraud claim isn’t just unproven.

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No fraud. No evidence. No retraction. Musk built his entire case for dismantling USAID on fraud that was never proven. Our newest paid article breaks down exactly what happened, and what didn't.

“I never imagined my career with USAID would end this way. Our work was and remains valuable." A decade of USAID service, ended by one abrupt email. New testimonial, live now. usaidemployeesupportfund.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...

Betrayed: A Decade of Service, Ended Without Dignity

One Foreign Service Officer's story of Haiti, Kenya, Pakistan, and the email that ended it all

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Please bear with us. We just received Bluesky's "spam account" label for posting the same reply to maybe 6 accounts. You may disagree, but we thought it was a pretty funny response and posting something to several accounts does not seem too spammy to us, but who knows. We are appealing this label...

"According to the map, we've only gone 4 inches." www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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Two former heads of OPM just told a federal court what happens if career civil servants lose due process protections. Their warning: "the government would effectively grind to a halt." We broke down what their brief actually argues.

TONIGHT: @agawande.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Watchdog finds staffing, guidance gaps in transfer of USAID programs

The U.S. State Department's hurried takeover of aid programs from the shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last year was hampered by staffing shortages, IT issues and delayed gu...

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1/ Musk said zero. We just published the receipts. Our first paid article answers every claim from his Economist interview, one by one, entirely in the words of the people who lived it.

Pet cats are essential for survival. The dinosaurs didn’t have pet cats, and see what happened to them.

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...

Musk & DOGE'S disastrous USAID cuts unleashed chaotic floods. In 2024, the US began upgrading a colonial-era irrigation system in Kenya. The project was abandoned following the dismantling of USAID triggering the largest flooding in the region in at least a decade. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump’s Chaotic USAID Cuts Unleashed Floods, Disease and Poverty

Trump’s USAID cuts halted critical infrastructure projects around the world. Our investigation in Kenya reveals devastating consequences.

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One-third of the State Dept. offices handed USAID’s surviving programs had no foreign assistance management experience. Thousands of programs were terminated. No one should be surprised. Expertise is treated as expendable. Another reminder of what we have allowed to happen to our country.

Watchdog finds staffing, guidance gaps in transfer of USAID programs

The U.S. State Department's hurried takeover of aid programs from the shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last year was hampered by staffing shortages, IT issues and delayed gu...

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1/ Musk says zero people died because of the USAID cuts. A former USAID education officer told us what zero actually looked like: school feeding programs that kept kids fed and fought malnutrition, gone almost overnight.

1/ Most people have never heard of the Merit Systems Protection Board. It's the board that rules on whether a federal firing was lawful. This week it quietly dropped "independent" from its own website.

1/ Ever heard of the Merit Systems Protection Board? Most people haven't. This week it quietly changed something about itself, and it matters more than the silence around it suggests.

He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.

Thank you, @propublica.org, @annamaria.bsky.social, and Brett Murphy! We appreciate you helping people understand the horrific damage caused by dismantling USAID. bsky.app/profile/prop...

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

Pregnant women who resorted to eating mud. A man who had to bury his own mother after she died of cholera. Listen to ProPublica reporters Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social discuss the fallout of Trump destroying USAID on “Paper Trail.” (Originally aired on @revealnews.org)

1/ The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) is amplifying an op-ed on why the USAID firings broke civil service protections. Watch the reel: www.facebook.com/reel/1051601... #USAIDLives #StandWithUSAID #ProtectPublicService

The most shocking thing is when musk says NO ONE DIED from his cuts to USAID

Elon Musk: "But zero died because of Doge. Zero point zero." This is what we are fighting against. Consider supporting our fight. usaidemployeesupportfund.substack.com/p/this-is-wh... They wrote the obituary too early. USAID lives. #USAIDLives #StandWithUSAID #ProtectPublicService.

This is what we are fighting Against.

Musk denies all the Death he has caused

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Pretty much sums it up. Except to add that Musk and his boy band should be prosecuted until the end of days.

Neeser 🐣@neeser.bsky.social · 2w ago

What a raging ass. Millions are hungrier, sicker, unemployed, and/or dead because he arrogantly decided to lead the #DestroyersOfGovernmentEfficiency 🤬 @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com

Their case: this was never just about USAID. It's about due process for every career civil servant. #USAIDLives #StandWithUSAID #ProtectPublicService Support the legal defense: www.usaidemployeefund.org/get-involved

New op-ed in The Hill from Brian Atwood (USAID Administrator, '93-'99) and Kevin Byrnes, lead counsel in the career employees' case now before the Federal Circuit. thehill.com/opinion/judi...

The dismantling of USAID and the firing of its staff was illegal

The administration knew it could not fire career employees for their politics or for invented misconduct, so it dressed the purge as a “reorganization.”

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This is the first post in our new testimonial series, where USAID employees and families share what actually happened to them, in their own words. Not policy. Not legal filings. Just the truth of what this did to real people. usaidemployeesupportfund.substack.com/p/i-took-an-...

I Took an Oath to This Country. It Gave Me PTSD

A USAID employee's diagnosis, a year of survivor's guilt, and one question for every American in a MAGA hat

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Thank you to Richard Gere for standing up for USAID! Our only correction is that USAID is not a "giveaway program." We helped the poorest people in the world, but much of that was an investment in global security to make Americans safer at home and abroad. www.reddit.com/r/PopularCul...

From the PopularCultureZone community on Reddit: Richard Gere, a guy who’s been doing humanitarian work for decades, says USAID was one of the purest things America ever did. And Trump shut it down on...

Posted by PTechNM - 210 votes and 5 comments

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Meet Harley 🐾 the newest portrait from @RocketBearProject - drawing pets of former USAID employees to tell the story of the agency's work and the people who lived it. Support us: usaidemployeefund.org/get-involved #USAIDLives #StandWithUSAID #ProtectPublicService instagram.com/rocketbearproject

Get Involved | Usaid Employee Suppo

The USAID Employee Support Fund backs the legal defense of career Foreign Service Officers and civil servants forced out when USAID was dismantled. They wrote the obituary too early. USAID lives.

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This is the first post in our new testimonial series, where USAID employees and families share what actually happened to them, in their own words. Not policy. Not legal filings. Just the truth of what this did to real people. usaidemployeesupportfund.substack.com/p/i-took-an-...

I Took an Oath to This Country. It Gave Me PTSD

A USAID employee's diagnosis, a year of survivor's guilt, and one question for every American in a MAGA hat

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We are working through the courts to hold DOGE accountable for their actions that have caused so much damage. Please consider donating to our legal fund! www.usaidemployeefund.org

Support USAID Employees | Legal Assistance Fund by USAID Employee Suppo

Support USAID employees with our legal assistance fund. Protect their rights and contribute to their legal defense. USAID Employee Suppo.

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Big court news this week. The Federal Circuit just agreed to hear a case with its full bench this fall, instead of the usual three judges. That's rare. Courts don't do that unless a decision could change the rules for everyone. 1/

Curious what others are seeing: are agencies quietly rehiring roles that were “eliminated”? If you’ve seen it happen, or you work in a field where it’s playing out, tell us what you’re noticing. #USAIDLives #StandWithUSAID #ProtectPublicService usaidemployeesupportfund.substack.com/p/the-quiete...

The Quietest Operation DOGE Ever Ran

Just after midnight on the Fourth of July, while fireworks were still echoing over the Potomac, a website blinked out.

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