Just Some Dude

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Just Some Dude

Just Some Dude

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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@DerekCressman Think about Africa as you step over our own homeless here at home. No more junkets.
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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
The gap for the future is being filled now- by Africans themselves and countries with actual money that are much closer. Aramco is right there and is the most valuable thing in existence pretty much. The USA send LGBTQ and condom training while China builds actual bridges. The idea of another debt ridden American bureaucracy to deal with this is old and outdated. We can focus on our own people for a while and silence the critics of foreign intervention. Nicolas Kristof trips arent helping. Africa have their own journalists and they have internet thanks to Elon. They can send their stories via email and dropbox and the rich Times staff stay can stay home. No more junkets. Trillions later and its clear its not working. In fact "the work" you do now will be criticized as interference again in 20 years.
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Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande@Atul_Gawande·
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Samantha Power@SamanthaJPower

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost: • USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
The gap for the future is being filled now- by Africans themselves and countries with actual money that are much closer. Aramco is right there and is the most valuable thing in existence pretty much. We send LGBTQ and condom training while China builds actual bridges. The idea of another debt ridden American bureaucracy to deal with this is old and outdated. We can focus on our own people for a while and silence the critics of foreign intervention. Nicholas Kristof trips arent helping. Africa have their own journalists and they have internet thanks to Elon. They can send their stories via email and dropbox and the rich Times staff stay can stay home. No more junkets. Trillions later and its clear its not working. In fact "the work" you do now will be criticized as interference again in 20 years.
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Norman Ornstein
Norman Ornstein@NormOrnstein·
While Musk lies through his teeth repeatedly, denying the mayhem that he and his DOGE flunkies caused
Samantha Power@SamanthaJPower

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost: • USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

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Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@SamanthaJPower No more junkets for you and the aid industry. No more airmiles for rich journalists and politicians while we have tent cities in LA.
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Samantha Power
Samantha Power@SamanthaJPower·
Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost: • USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.
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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
The gap for the future is being filled now- by Africans themselves and countries with actual money that are much closer. Aramco is right there and is the most valuable thing in existence pretty much. The USA send LGBTQ+ condom training while China builds actual bridges. The idea of another debt ridden American bureaucracy to deal with this is old and outdated. If other countries take this over then great. We can focus on our own people for a while and silence the critics of foreign intervention. Nicolas Kristof trips arent helping. Africa have their own journalists and they have internet thanks to Elon. They can send their stories via email and dropbox and the rich Times staff stay can stay home. No more junkets. No more airmiles.
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Laurence (Larry) Boorstein
Laurence (Larry) Boorstein@LarryBoorstein·
This propaganda doesn't change the fact that DOGE shutting down USAID, which accounted for 0.3% of the Federal budget, is projected to cause 14 million deaths by 2030, 2.3 times as many as the 6 million deaths in the Holocaust though still 30% less than the 20 million deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic. The shutdown was accompanied by lies like that USAID was funding condoms for "gay Hamas" in Gaza and paying for BBC to rationalize taking away disease prevention and nutritional assistance from people who desperately need it to survive. 762,000 deaths are already estimated to have occurred by January 2026.
Vatnik Soup@P_Kallioniemi

Elon used this photo to “prove” that USAID (that he defunded) funds terrorism. Except USAID was not funding terrorists or giving them tents. The photo was taken after terrorists raided a depot in Azaz, near the Syria-Turkey border. They stole the tent,along with food & weapons.

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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
The gap for the future is being filled now- by Africans themselves and countries with actual money that are much closer. Aramco is right there and is the most valuable thing in existence pretty much. We send LGBTQ and condom training while China builds actual bridges. The idea of another debt ridden American bureaucracy to deal with this is old and outdated. If other countries take this over then great. We can focus on our own people for a while and silence the critics of foreign intervention. Nicholas Kristof trips arent helping. Africa have their own journalists and they have internet thanks to Elon. They can send their stories via email and dropbox and the rich Times staff stay can stay home. No more junkets.
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Benjamin Ryan
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter·
The connection most people don’t make is that most of PEPFAR was implemented by USAID. When Musk put USAID into the wood chipper, that dramatically disrupted the distribution of resources to treat and prevent HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Many people on X do not seem to care, given they have an attitude that none of this is the US’s problem. But there was a direct cause and effect between destroying USAID and people with HIV having their treatment immediately disrupted, with no one waiting immediately in the wings to re-establish that treatment. One cannot have it both ways: celebrate Elon destroying USAID and then pretend doing so had no impacts.
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter

@LauraPowellEsq @OsborneInk @elonmusk The key variable you are missing is that the PEPFAR program was implemented in part by USAID. So without that key implementation arm, the PEPFAR system swiftly stumbled. Drug supply chains were widely interrupted.

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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
These celebrity trips are a barnacle on the aid industry. Do you really believe theres not an African reporter or Afrtcan celebrity that can report on this for the NY Times instead? Let Kristof and all of these people stay home. No more junkets. We have the internet and Africa has journalists and people that can tell the story. No need for the air miles either.
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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
Kristof is a barnacle on the aid industry. You really believe theres not an African reporter that can report on this for the NY Times instead? Let Kristof and all of these people stay home. No more junkets. We have the internet and Africa has journalists. No need for the air miles either.
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Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson@marwilliamson·
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Samantha Power@SamanthaJPower

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost: • USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
Kristof is a barnacle on the aid industry. You really believe theres not an African reporter that can report on this for the NY Times instead? Let Kristof and all of these people stay home. No more junkets. We have the internet and Africa has journalists. No need for the air miles either.
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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@BostonJoan Kristof has no business going to Africa. HEs just part of the gravy train. What you dont think they have reporters in Africa?
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Read -Meme Wars-@BostonJoan·
Kristof really went for neck in this one by challenging Musk to join him on a reporting trip to assess the democide caused by DOGE. During Musk's time at the White House, he made an absolute spectacle of himself daily and is now trying to claim he didn't do nothing. weak.
Nicholas Kristof@NickKristof

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opi…

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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@JamesMartinSJ Its a failed industry. Trillions of dollars and we cant even find an African to report on this for the NY TIMES. Thats because the NYTIMES is part of this industry.
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Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@MarkPocan @elonmusk @NickKristof We need to give Africans an opportunity to step up and report on this. No more junkets for you guys. There are plenty of Africans that can write an article for the NY Times. You guys are middle men.
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Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@Metal_Crow the cycle seems to be- send money to africa, while being criticized for interfering and simultaneously for not sending enough, then sending more. then in 20 years be accused of interfering 20 years prior being we sent money.
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Josh Schwartz
Josh Schwartz@Metal_Crow·
Defenses of the cuts are sometimes of the "we can't save everyone" variety, or more callously "not our problem" statements which at least don't pretend to be morally justified. I think it was nice that the government used a small amount of our tax money for this.
Nicholas Kristof@NickKristof

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opi…

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Just Some Dude
Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
Alot of this is paying off African countries, governments, bureaucrats, politicians, lawyers, rich entreprenuers and unlicensed privateers. Before the money gets to those Africans, it must go through the American bureaucracy of similar structure. Then in 20 years, the USA will be criticized by the people in those countries for interfering with those entities and request more money.
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Ankit Gupta
Ankit Gupta@agupta·
Reminder that programs like usaid were strikingly cheap and made us a superpower. The entire annual budget spanning the globe was about the cost of a few weeks of getting our asses handed to us in Iran.
Samantha Power@SamanthaJPower

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost: • USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

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Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@DavidAFrench Fine, then limit birthright citizenship to world cup soccer players, ping pong professionals, and european skijumpers. and maybe kenyan marathon runners. its not all or nothing dumbass.
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David French
David French@DavidAFrench·
JD Vance: "I don't know how anybody can say that ... a person, for example, who's pregnant and comes to the United States on a vacation, they have a baby and all of a sudden their entire family gets the benefits of American citizenship." How did soccer hero Folarin Balogun become an American? See below (from Wikipedia). There is but one conclusion to draw -- JD Vance supports the red card.
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Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@swd2 I have no problem with birthright citizenship for world cup soccer, ping pong and skijumping. we need some kind of foreign legion for sports.
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Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@WajahatAli In that case we should expand birthright citizenship from world cup soccer to include ping pong, skijumping and those robotic camel jockeys that always win.
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Wajahat Ali
Wajahat Ali@WajahatAli·
Thank immigrants and Birthright Citizenship for this AMAZING win by this gutsy USMNT!
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Just Some Dude@RisingTimbre·
@nosoupforgeorge In that case let's limit it to world cup soccer, ping pong, skijumping and bocce ball.
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Matt@nosoupforgeorge·
I love seeing the outpouring of gratitude for birthright citizenship following #USMNT's win. Diversity makes America great. 🇺🇸
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