Dan
@danlynx
Please save democracy and human rights quick so we can save ourselves from global warm--- oh too late OK we can go back to the other things.
Washington-based Human Rights Activists in Iran says that the U.S./Israeli attacks on Iran have 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝟭,𝟬𝟵𝟳 𝗰𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 minimum since Feb. 28, including 181 children under 10. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
This will all blow over once the President uses his eloquence to help the masses realize that this is an improvement.
% of working women who said they have the greatest responsibility for this household chore vs. % who said their partner/spouse handles it: Cleaning: 57% women, 8% their partner. Child care: 53% women, 8% partner. Shopping: 51% women, 11% partner. www.deloitte.com/global/en/is...
This could become an omnipresent protest message. All you need it a strip of tape and a No Parking sign. Hat tip, @nadinesmith.bsky.social
The downsizing of U.S. foreign aid has eliminated all USAID projects in coastal West Africa. In this map, the darker the color, the larger the % of the country's portfolio cut. Analysis by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @justsand.bsky.social Interactive version at www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-c...
The hobbling of USAID has eliminated all projects strengthening education, infrastructure, private-sector competitiveness, conflict mitigation, civil society, political competition/consensus-building per analysis by @justsand.bsky.social & @charlesjkenny.bsky.social at www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-c...
Trump funding cuts are grievously wounding American higher education institutions. Scaring away international students' tuition will be another potentially fatal blow. www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Symbolic, ineffectual, not even conveying a clear message. This is what we call "side-clapping" -- how centrist corporate Democrats pretend they're doing something in the Trump era.
Red-staters who think the federal government is a problem to be attacked would be surprised to learn that federal spending is a system for redistributing wealth that benefits them. On this map from SUNY's Rockefeller Institute, givers are orange; takers are blue. rockinst.org/issue-areas/...
One week after the Department of Defense posted that C.Q. Brown Jr. was a Black History Month Pioneer, Trump fired him. We'll see how quicky they remove this post. www.osan.af.mil/News/Stories...
Musk's demonizing of civil servants has crossed into physical endangerment: DOGE website is posting the home addresses and phone numbers of USAID personal services contractors whose contracts have been cancelled.
This is DEIA. This is USAID: Adding sign language to video lessons during COVID closures so that hearing-impaired kids could keep up, too. (While international development assistance is being subjected to an attack full of misinformation, post what makes you #USAIDproud.)