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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 33m

Bullies and liars.

On Tuesday, the Trump admin said furloughed feds were not guaranteed back pay. On Wednesday, it sent notices saying they were

Just one day after taking a different argument, the Trump administration notes federal law guarantees back pay for employees sent home during a shutdown.

www.govexec.com

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Devex @devex.com · 3h

Former USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore highlights the strategic value of U.S. foreign assistance, asserting that it is essential soft power, not just charity.

Watch the full conversation⬇️
www.devex.com/news/early-pr...

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Anna Hickey @annahickey.bsky.social · 1h

I recorded a @lawfaremedia.org podcast with @nickkristof.bsky.social about what the end of USAID means for the people who had relied on it and it's heartbreaking. The wholesale destruction of the agency by this administration will have consequences for decades to come. youtu.be/HfxfXuHBz6c?...

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 43m

"Asked who is to blame for the loss of his [two-year old] son, Taher is direct: the United States.

“In the camps, we survive only on rations,” he says. “Without rations, we have nothing — no food, no medicine, no chance to live.”

#USAIDsaveslives

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 54m

"We are seeing ]the destruction of our democracy] in real time with a president who is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public," [said Jenna Norton, with the National Institutes of Health, speaking in her personal capacity].

@altnih4science.bsky.social #altgov

Why some federal workers aren't scared by the threat of shutdown layoffs

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off employees and cut funding to programs.

www.npr.org

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22h

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI @megkelly.bsky.social discusses her team's reporting on the Trump administration's USAID funding pause, which resulted in the deaths of children from curable diseases around the world.

www.wnyc.org/story/the-ch...

The Children Who've Died Waiting for USAID Medications | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC

The Washington Post's Meg Kelly discusses her team's reporting on the Trump administration's USAID funding pause, which resulted in the deaths of children from curable diseases.

www.wnyc.org

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1d

😂 😆 🇺🇸

A Google Maps satellite view of suburban America where someone renamed a street “USAID Forever Circle” near a right-wing official’s house. Proof that public service lives rent-free in their neighborhood and now, apparently, on their block.

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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 2d

Le Monde reports that Belgium can legally seize USAID contraceptive stock that Trump ordered destroyed. The stock worth millions sits unused in Geel kept by Kuehne and Nagel as US agencies stay silent. Taxpayers pay storage while urgent aid is denied.

USAID contraceptives in Belgium: 'This stock in perfect condition must be seized to meet urgent needs'

OP-ED. Four legal experts argue that Belgium has the legal basis and political legitimacy to seize the stockpile of contraceptives that the Trump administration is threatening to destroy.

www.lemonde.fr

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 1d

Alex Natsios speaks with Colombian-American Andrea Uribe, about "her personal journey from growing up in Medellin during a tumultuous time to her work with USAID projects across various countries."

From Medellín’s Warzone to Washington DC | A Conversation with Andrea Uribe

YouTube video by Unsung Americans

www.youtube.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 2d

Event at Center for Global Development--streaming and in-person.

#annualmeetings | Center for Global Development

This is a critical moment for global health financing. Aid is declining, fiscal budgets are tightening and multilateral institutions are facing repeated calls for reform. A constructive dialogue on su...

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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 8d

The Trump administration has been shutting down the government & slashing public services for months. 12% of the federal workforce has already been cut. This is not about numbers. It’s about power. But together, we will win. Read: prospect.org/politics/202... #SaveOurServices #SupportFederalWorkers

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

prospect.org

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 3d

The truth is, the government has been shutting down since January. Mass illegal firings, withholding funds, censorship, corruption. Making this fight about medicaid subsidies is fine. But no democrat should be voting to fund a dictatorship.

Call your dems and tell them to hold the line

5calls.org

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 3d

Another episode of Unsung Americans with Alex Natsios, talking to Melissa Hunter about her path into service, and experiences with international development assistance.

A Life Shaped by Community and Compassion | A Deeper Conversation with Melissa Hunter

YouTube video by Unsung Americans

www.youtube.com

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 6d

It’s a very “Christian” thing to deny emergency care to those in need.

Wait- OMG, it isn’t???

Pro-life isn’t actually what they care about?

I should listen to the Pope?

www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

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."

www.npr.org

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 5d

Your words, asshole. 🍊💩
"If there was a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the one who has to get people together."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbmN...

Trump in 2013 on avoiding a shutdown—“You have to get everyone in a room"

YouTube video by Senator Chuck Schumer

www.youtube.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 5d

In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do.

FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.

FDA quietly approved a generic abortion pill ahead of shutdown

The FDA quietly approved a generic form of mifepristone, one of the two medications used in most U.S. abortions, on Tuesday.

www.yahoo.com

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 4d

I know that America is not a Christian nation because if it were, we’d welcome immigrants, there’d be a job of foot washer at the boarder, Citizens United wouldn’t exist, the rich would be chased, the hungry would be fed, the homeless housed. Truth would be spoken to power. The last would be first.

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · 4d

I admit I have been a bit salty this week. Shutdowns are hard. Potential for RIF is even harder.

My focus is still conservation. With so much lawlessness by those in charge, I have lost focus.

Here’s the secret: it all matters.

We are the solution.
We must show up.

It takes all of us.

#Resist

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 4d

True. What's happened is awful enough, but who knows what's coming. . .

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 4d

"Residents said the signs started cropping up early on in the administration, after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dismantled the US foreign aid agency and haphazardly purged government employees. . ."

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

www.motherjones.com

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 4d

HEIST is a just released documentary short depicting "federal workers challenging the Trump Administration while it dismantles federal agencies and purges the federal workforce."

Take a look and share widely.

#altgov

HEIST the documentary film

YouTube video by HEIST the documentary

www.youtube.com

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 4d

"while the Trump administration has slashed humanitarian aid and displays a pugnacious indifference to the children dying as a result . . . Zuzi offers an alternative moral vision. . . . "

A valuable read from Nicholas Kristof.

Opinion | One Girl’s Journey After Her Grandma Said to Kill Her

www.nytimes.com

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 4d

Hatch Act briefings once included the minutiae of what was allowable in terms of car bumper stickers in office parking garages. Now, absolutely, anything goes.

The Hatch Act is on fire.

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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