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#humanitarian. Mash's mom. #USAIDForever. Epidemiologist. Cyclist. backpacker/forest bather. harrier. Bibliophile. moss-, lichen-, and baobab-obsessed. 📍 whiskey-loving Michigander in occupied DC. | #bikeDC | #episky | #GoBlue! | #USAID |

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · Mar 6

Still. True.

#USAID is needed more than ever with:
- ongoing wars,
- emerging zoonotic diseases (e.g. H5N1, #ebola), and
- existing infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, drug-resistant TB).

Pathogens do NOT respect borders. Or America First Policies.

@altusaid.altgov.info @alt-hhs.bsky.social

Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · Feb 25

Watch the full video here:

What Has Aid Ever Done For Anyone?

YouTube video by SaveTheChildren

www.youtube.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 18h

Good note for aspiring Nobel Peace prize wannabees:
Apparently the Novel committee prizes democracy advocates over facists 🤷‍♀️

@nobelprize.bsky.social #protectdemocracy #democracy #facist #facism

open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Maria Corina Machado wins

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

open.substack.com

viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 19h

"It's all a pretext to undo normality.
It's all a pretext to undo the rule of law.
It's all a pretext to undo the Constitution."

#antifa #facism #nazi #WeimarRepublic @timothysnyder.bsky.social #OnTyranny

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)

Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

They’ve turned everyone in Chicago into extras in Stephen Miller’s villainous, unconstitutional, authoritarian fantasy

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 8d

Dude freaked out when a bunch of neighbors sidewalk chalked "hardcore" messages outside his house:
- "Protect the Constitution"
- "Stand Up for #Democracy"
- "Love Wins"
- "No One Voted For Stephen Miller"
- "Love Not Hate"
And other terrifying statements of patriotism, empathy, and FACT.

#facists

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 9d

GOP values at play here.

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NPR @npr.org · 9d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9d

🙏 💚

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 9d

🫶 “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but is in favor of the death penalty is not really #pro-life.
Someone who says, ‘I’m against #abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’
I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift

"It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.

www.politico.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 10d

Trump and Republicans will take the blame if the government shuts down tonight.

They have already decimated federal agencies, fired thousands of federal workers, and stripped health care from 15 million people.

It's clear that they have no interest in working FOR the American people.

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 10d

The 🟠🤡 is hot for paper...

Big, beautiful, *firm* paper 😳

#dementiaDon #DonnyDemented
#thisisnotnormal #thisisacoup

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump to generals: "We have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, 'throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it. I want the A paper not the D paper.' We used to sign a piece of garbage ... I want to use the big beautiful firm paper."

viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 10d

No more frivolous SA or DV complaints.

No longer will well-groomed, armed bullies need to consider potential consequences or repercussions for actions that may cause irreparable harm to others.

viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 10d

Racist war crimes, genocide, homicide, domestic violence, SA, and other "earnest" actions.

I mean, how dare we, as adults, be expected to consider the consequences and risks of our behavior and actions (unlike, say, my toddler who still seems to have only a tenuous grasp of how gravity works).

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lucidbeaming @lucidbeaming.com · 10d

Major ROFL says FAFO. China responds YOLO. Rest of the world FUBAR.

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 10d

As practice.

He wants to use the military to train, to practice on its own citizens.

viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 10d

In the name of efficiency, we cancelled projects, did not distribute meds, hundreds of thousands of children that otherwise would not have died did... and we didnt even save the taxpayers money.

Are we great yet?

@altusaid.altgov.info #malaria #USAID #IDsky
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

www.washingtonpost.com

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 14d

At stake is the millions of lives that will be lost bc of this regime

And our government.
We and future generations will suffer the loss of our soft power... all to appease a weak, pathetic orange "man".

#AmericaFirst #USAID @altusaid.altgov.info

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US supreme court allows Trump to withhold nearly $5bn in foreign aid

Justices rule in favour of administration, handing Trump another victory in dispute over presidential power

www.theguardian.com

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Hill Family Biking @hillfamilybiking.org · 17d

Breaking: Our friends at @joelnelsongroup.bsky.social are both sponsoring Saturday's ride and raffling $500 in gift cards to @thedailyrider.co!

eventbrite.com/e/1097376114...

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 17d

Feels like the terrifying prolonged to yet another American analog to Canada's residential schools - the illegal separation of families, obscenely excess mortality, and subsequent discovery of these losses.

#immigration #americangestapo #alligatoralcatraz @altimmi.bsky.social

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17d

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 17d

Oh boy, imagine having a head of state that the huddled masses might willingly choose to touch (or kiss!)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

‘Your countries are going to hell’: Trump attacks European leaders and United Nations in fiery general assembly speech – live

US president lambasts UN for lack of help in peace deals; Trump also scolds European migration and US allies that are supporting Palestinian statehood

www.theguardian.com

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 17d

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 17d

Yes. Some of us did everything we could to stop it, and are utterly mortified that we failed (and are also terrified of people who voted for this hateful orange racist)

#dementiaDon?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17d

Some of us do.

viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 17d

Let's STOP talking about #acetaminophen (or Tylenol for illiterate 🟠🤡s) and autism- that implies there is a causal association.

Key facts:

Like everyone, folks with #autism were once fetuses.

#Tylenol can mitigate dangerously high fevers in pregnancy.

High fevers can harm a fetus.

Fin.

#episky