Director of Campaigns @oxfamamerica. Brooklyn native visiting the land of creased khaki. Views expressed here are my own.
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6 Jun 2025
Does DOGE have a tip line? What if - and hear me out because this is a little complicated - rather than destroying the medicine to stop the spread of AIDS, we give it to people in need?
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28 May 2025
Very good piece by @helen_dempster @charleyward23 & @SamHuckstep showing how costly new remittances tax would be for poor countries. Dwarfs the financial hit from aid cuts for many countries.
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28 May 2025
If you wanted to design a policy to make life harder in countries where many migrants to the US come from, you might start with this terrible idea: cgdev.org/blog/which-countri…
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28 May 2025
Is it going to make Guatemala a more or less livable place to take $700 million out of its economy every year? All to give Elon Musk a bigger tax break.
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20 May 2025
The facts here are mind boggling.
20 May 2025
JUST IN: Attorneys for Burmese and Vietnamese migrants accuse the Trump administration deporting them to South Sudan in violation of a court order.
storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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8 May 2025
We've got god on our side now @nyknicks.
8 May 2025
WOW. An American Pope.
pillarcatholic.com/p/meet-th…
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1 May 2025
Love taking food out of the mouths of hungry children so that we can...send large agribusinesses $50 billion in handouts? agweb.com/markets/pro-farmer…
1 May 2025
🕑PUNCHBOWL NEWS MIDDAY
A lot of RECONCILIATION NEWS.
- CORPORATE SALT looks to be dropping out of the tax package
- SPECTRUM CBO score came in between $80B and $90B
- IRA savings around $400B. Looking about ending transferability and rolling back tax credits.
- HOUSE AG looking to add more farm bill provisions in reconciliation package, such as crop reference prices and export promotions.
punchbowl.news/archive/5125-…
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26 Mar 2025
Buried in this story is a line that @marcorubio plans to terminate funding for the @UNFAO which provides the preeminent measure of GLOBAL FOOD PRICES.
The Trump admin strategy to bring down the price of food is to just defund the organization that measures food prices?
26 Mar 2025
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to end vaccine funding in developing countries, documents obtained by The New York Times show. Some HIV and TB aid will be kept. nyti.ms/43lyPXP
ALT A photo of a child wearing a yellow shirt looking at a vaccination needle while a hand holds the child's arm to inject it. A headline reads, “U.S. to End Vaccine Funds For Poor Countries.” Photo by AFP, via Getty Images.
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4 Mar 2025
Sounds very efficient.
4 Mar 2025
After hearing that some orgs are getting reversal notices of program terminations, some are now getting RECALLS of those reversals.
One organization got a stop work order, then a waiver, then a termination, then a termination reversal, then a note that the reversal was in error.
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28 Feb 2025
There's a coverup happening in the Trump administration. @John_Hudson & @Reinlwapo scoop that the acting USAID Inspector General is hiding a report showing the devastating consequences of Elon Musk's assault on life-saving humanitarian assistance. Even Congress can't access it.
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28 Feb 2025
The report says the destruction of USAID is imperiling the ceasefire in Gaza, threatening a catastrophe reminiscent of the haphazard departure from Afghanistan and wasting tens of millions of $ - washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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27 Feb 2025
Wow wow wow. Global Health Council et al have an email from the USAID Senior Procurement Officer saying that @marcorubio accidentally canceled essential contracts that impact the safety/security of USAID staff yesterday and wants to "turn them back on".
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27 Feb 2025
USAID officials are telling the world that USAID is violating the law.
"Agency officials—angered over the cuts, but fearful that they’d be punished for speaking out publicly against them—leaked to The Bulwark a statement encouraging contractors to challenge them in court"
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26 Feb 2025
"We're not going to touch Social Security [except cutting its staff in half]."
26 Feb 2025
NEWS
Major changes coming to federal government, led by Musk's DOGE:
- Most significant move to dismiss federal workers now underway. This is the big one. Agencies must submit plans to significantly reduce staff size by March 13
- Social Security Admin under instruction to cut staff in half; GSA says terminations there are imminent
- Labor Dept eyes gutting EEOC office by *90%*
- Mass lease cancellations of federal buildings
underway. 100 IRS leases to be nixed, per records
Helps make sense of why Musk and Trump wanted unified front today with Cabinet secretaries
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26 Feb 2025
Turns out maybe it's not great to have a handful of billionaires controlling all of the channels of discourse in a democracy?
26 Feb 2025
SCOOP: Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
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Ben Grossman-Cohen retweeted
18 Feb 2025
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in a court affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from Washington. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late.
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14 Feb 2025
Judge Amir Ali only partially granted the motion to get aid flowing fully, but in the process he thoroughly dismantled the government's case to date.
Here are some choice excerpts.
14 Feb 2025
We welcome the ruling calling on the Trump admin allow some USAID projects, incl. lifesaving assistance, to move forward & demand they comply.
We look forward to the next step in our own legal challenge against the admin to ensure ALL critical humanitarian programs can resume.
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14 Feb 2025
Yes, the govt's argument is the massive disruption to the humanitarian aid system that left food rotting in warehouses, children without life-saving medications, & women with experimental implants in their bodies with no doctors to help remove them amounts to "hiccups".
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