ArnoHarris @ArnoHarris

Let this sink in: a foundational, key idea that Hitler developed in Mein Kampf, that eventually led to the emergence of Nazism (that some people come from inferior cultures and so can’t become properly German no matter what the law says) is now mainstream Western right wing lingo

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.

The Supreme Court's refusal to enforce equal rights for all Americans has led to a second-class citizenship in this country. Where you can be detained and harassed by government agents because of how you look. It's evil, anti-constitutional, and un-American. Reclaim our freedom!

TW ⚠️— CLARKSVILLE: “Hey man get the dog off of him!” An officer has been suspended “pending an internal investigation” after using a K-9 dog to bite an unarmed Black man for a full minute as they arrested him. More: wsmv.com/2026/06/30/vid…

1/10 Justice Thomas’ dissent is hands down one of the MOST intellectually dishonest legal opinions I have EVER seen. It should be clear to every American he is a compromised political actor - not a respectable member of this bench.

This man is walking around with a sign saying 'Black parents are failures' while literally wearing an ankle monitor.

After the Supreme Court decision on Temporary Protected Status, one Haitian community leader in Springfield, Ohio tells me he's been fielding calls from people taking a victory lap. "They are using n-words to tell us to leave," he says.

Top Trump ally Sean Davis reacts to the Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship: "Deny entry to all female foreigners... Require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry."

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Rovina Naboi in Kenya lost her little daughter Jane to starvation in a refugee camp. After Elon Musk threw USAID into the woodchipper, food was rationed to 40 percent of daily caloric needs, and one meal a day. The world's richest man did this.

The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline

3 days ago

If a program saves lives, and if severe cuts to it abruptly withdraw lifesaving programs and services, then of course those cuts can be said to have killed people. Lauren Dobson-Hughes on the death toll of gutting USAID: lnk.thebulwark.com/4xRra08

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🚨BREAKING: In Las Vegas, ICE agents illegally entered a flooring business’s private property without a warrant, refused to leave when the owner demanded they get off his property, and then threatened to tase him. In the video, the business owner repeatedly tells the agents to leave. But, instead of leaving, one agent arrogantly responds that they’ll leave “when we’re done.” That’s not how the Constitution works. If law enforcement doesn’t have a valid judicial warrant, they can’t force their way onto private commercial property in order to conduct a search… and they certainly don’t get to ignore the property owner’s demand for them to leave. As the agents are finally walking away, one agent turns around and starts threatening the owner, and his employees. The owner immediately asks, “Are you threatening us? Are you going to shoot us?” That’s when the agent puts his hand on his taser… and pulls it out. The agent tries to say he is giving them a “warning.” Brandishing a weapon to intimidate someone, who is standing on their own property demanding that government agents leave, is the definition of a constitutional violation. Which is exactly why the Fourth Amendment exists… to protect people from unreasonable government searches and seizures. And when someone verbally tells government officials to leave their property, that speech is also protected by the First Amendment. So, pulling a taser on the owner, while standing on HIS private property, as he tells you to leave, is not a “warning”… it is a threat. Government agents don’t get to invent authority they don’t have. They don’t get to threaten people, especially while standing on private property. And they don’t get to ignore the Constitution because they think no one will hold them accountable. If they actually had a warrant, they would’ve shown it. Instead, they left.

New: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.” But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report. propub.li/4v60xSz

“It is general knowledge in our practice that for $2 million, you can have a pardon,” one prominent white-collar defense attorney tells @S_Fitzpatrick and @michaelscherer

And to add to the injustice and absurdity, Trump is likely to pardon everyone involved, including himself. And we've barely even begun to talk about the national security implications of Trump's international graft.

Jesse Singal @jessesingal

3 days ago

Really helpless feeling about where we're at. There's a historic (by American standards) level of corruption and looting going on right now and the party that could stop it is fine with it. And since it is cult of personality his supporters cheer it! nytimes.com/2026/06/28/wor…

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Musk is way, way worse than a lot of people (myself included) thought. And he's now using his unbelievably large platform to egg on clear threats of violence against "traitors" (political opponents) and "invaders" (immigrants)

.@jonathanvswan: "Trump is essentially beyond the reach of the law in terms of actions...Trump has told senior advisers in the Oval Office that he's going to pardon anyone who came within 250 feet of the Oval Office...I don't think they feel any real concern about illegality."

Lmao Dr. Oz and Dean Cain are on stage at Trump’s dumpster fire state fair talking about the "tons of people" there and then the camera does a 360 🤣💀

One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children. forbes.com/sites/tylerrou… (Photo: Associated Press)

A Confederate flag was projected on multiple screens inside the North Carolina pavilion at the Great American State Fair. People walked in and saw that image displayed alongside the state flag. A symbol of hatred and oppression has no place at a public event. We are glad it was removed but let us be clear. This was NOT a small oversight and it should never be treated as one.

The Times is tragically right. We have a Supreme Court majority that is reckless, ahistorical, partisan and extremist. It is sending us headlong into an unaccountable, vindictive dictatorship nytimes.com/2026/06/29/opi…

@scotus_wire The point is that it is up to states to determine how elections are conducted. There was no role for SCOTUS, it’s up to the legislatures. Per the claims of cheating, the evidence shows overwhelmingly that it is nearly non existent.

@scotus_wire Lot of comments here by disappointed MAGAs who didn’t read the ruling — or who have fallen for the rigged election hoax — and want the court to write new law. The ruling interprets the law as it is written and correctly leaves the writing of new law to the legislature.