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Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

A stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, whose government cultivated close ties with Donald Trump and his family, has conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in a historic parliamentary election.

Time for the caipirinhas!!! 🍹🎆

If this holds there is one big lesson for all of us: organizing pays off. #Brazil

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat in fiercely contested parliamentary election

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

“Winning over voters who abstained or cast null votes, and flipping as many others as possible, is at the heart of Lula’s strategy as he tries to do what no presidential candidate has ever managed in Brazil: overturn a first-round defeat like the one he suffered to Bolsonaro on 5 October.“

We used to have a federal survey that measured hunger in America, but the Trump administration stopped conducting the survey right after the bill that cut food assistance was passed.

Trump inviting Putin to the G20 summit at the Trump National Doral Miami resort is a real thing that is happening.

RFK Jr’s unethical experiment on African babies is officially canned, thanks to public backlash driven by Stand Up For Science 🎉 ✊️ 🧵 🧪

After months of reporting by Rolling Stone, a trial declared "unethical" by WHO will not move forward. 🧵 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The goal with both our foreign policy professionals and our military is to remove anyone loyal to the United States of America and the Constitution, and replace with those only loyal to Trump.

Guinea-Bissau Hepatitis study is dead, from one of the researchers. Incredible advocacy work to help stop this from so many, including @firedbutfighting.bsky.social Incredible reporting by so many, especially from @katherineeban.bsky.social in the @rollingstone.com

Meanwhile in Brazil: www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-court...

Think our effort to address the damage done by DOGE Is over? Not at all! We just won summary judgment proving that they abused our data And we are also litigating in fed court on behalf of the countless people they injured at USAID

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This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

Justice for USAID is putting the people behind public service in view. Its new campaign shares stories like Alyssa Leggoe’s, a career spent serving across five administrations. We strongly support this effort. Read their stories. Share them. Help set the record straight. Please share.

It's not just a golf course it's a public park. Paid for by us, the taxpayers. We meet and play and have picnics there - we did, until now.

We're feeling VERY pro-whistleblower lately. Enjoyed The Social Reckoning, looking forward to reading Blockers, and glad to see this panel at Double Exposure Festival 👇 dxfest.com/conference/c...

This is how it's done, folks. And Brazilian activists are in full organizing mode as they prepare for the upcoming Lula v. Zuckerberg runoff on Oct 25. #NoKings

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

🔥 🇬🇧 SKY NEWS REPORTER @jamesmatthewsky.bsky.social: “Mr. Secretary, are you Vladimir Putin’s puppet on Ukraine? Mr. Secretary, is Vladimir Putin playing you like a fiddle?” (Spoiler: yes)

Now hiring the people we fired. After USAID was dismantled, State is recruiting foreign aid experts. Even career officers the government fired must pass a test the program didn’t require in 2024. Institutional arson followed by a help-wanted sign.

Lula has filed a legal complaint against Meta for election interference in Brasil. One study shows Meta censored over 1,000 pro-Lula accounts paydayreport.com/lula-files-l...

A huge win for all employees of usda not just our members democracyforward.org/news/press-r... #bettertogether #unionsmatter #ourworkmatters

Long past time

Ukraine accuses Elon Musk’s SpaceX of disrupting its military operations by limiting Starlink internet services, hampering their battlefield communications and drone capabilities.

The DOGE people were idiots unable to think about second order effects. Lets use IRS data to round up immigrants! That data comes from immigrants who voluntarily pay about $66 billion a year taxes. What happens to the deficit when they are too scared to pay taxes? budgetlab.yale.edu/research/pot...

If you recognize Kliger's name, it is probably in this context: he manually shut down life-saving aid from USAID. In between his DOGE work and starting his defense start-up he was appointed to the DOD as - brace yourselves - chief data officer. bsky.app/profile/donm...

We cannot believe we need to sue the President to stop him from taking over a public golf course. America, do you want a capital city or do you want a private estate for your overlord?

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

No speech, title, or presidential ambition can scrub that death toll from Rubio’s legacy. In this upcoming election, from local races to national contests, voting against anyone running as a Republican reminds the entire party that its power has limits.

CDC is reviving a study that withholds the hepatitis B birth dose from newborns in Guinea-Bissau. WHO raised serious ethical concerns. And $1.6M is being pulled from global health security to pay for it. Public outcry helped halt it once. We can do it again. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is a fantastic decision. A woman, a peacebuilder, a jurist. A better future, if we lift up more like her. #NobelPeacePrize

Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize. Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.

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Profile of Gender and Social Inclusion Advisor Caroline Ferraz Ignacio. #USAIDsaveslives

What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.

What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

Serious question: why are all the networks taking the money and running the ads? "The three ads that have already aired have appeared on TV networks including CBS, CNN, MS NOW, Fox News and Fox." www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...

This might seem like a difference of opinion. It is not. It is among the most impeachable things a President can do. If the President can just choose to violate the budget Congress passes, Congress doesn’t have any power.

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