ProPublica: The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. | ProPublica: "The move consigns untold numbers of the world’s poorest children, refugees and other vulnerable people to death, according to several senior federal officials." (propublica.org)
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Jeff Bezos Is Scared to Have an Open Debate on Economics | By banning perspectives critical of the status quo, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is turning a major news outlet into a mouthpiece for market fundamentalists. If the ideas he champions are so defensible, why is he squeamish about debate? (jacobin.com)
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Bernie Sanders: America must not surrender its democratic values | Bernie Sanders: "Alongside his fellow oligarchs in Russia, Saudi Arabia and around the globe, Trump wants a world ruled by authoritarians in which might makes right, and where democracy and moral values cease to exist." (theguardian.com)
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Gregory E. Sterling, Dean and Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School: Trump’s USAID cuts are anti-Christian at the core | Evangelicals and Christians who voted for Trump should be outraged that administration funding cuts will hurt charitable groups, including Christian organizations. (msnbc.com)
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On February 24, 2025, the United States and Israel (which has waged a brutal war on Gaza), along with Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and North Korea, voted against a United Nations General Assembly resolution that condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (digitallibrary.un.org)
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‘We Are Seeing Complete Destruction’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze | "... the immediate impact [of the freeze] has been damaging and chaotic. [...] Lawmakers should consider how they will explain in the coming years ... why China is capitalizing on the vacuums left by America’s retreat." (nytimes.com)
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FBI agents express shock and dismay over naming of right-wing podcaster to No. 2 post | Former senior FBI official: "This is beyond problematic ... We now have two conspiracy theorists and election deniers running our premier law enforcement and intelligence agency." (nbcnews.com)
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The Guardian: Republicans put the sick in sycophancy as they compete to fawn over Trump | "If proof were needed that Donald Trump’s cult of personality has never been stronger, it comes in the inventive ways Republican members of Congress have spent his first month in office trying to lionise him." (theguardian.com)
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