This is the best source I’ve found that measures the impact of the sudden termination of critical humanitarian programs by the US govt. As of yesterday, over 200,000 children and over 100,000 adults have died unnecessarily. We are better than this.

The USAID calamity is only just beginning

On this holiest of holidays. I urge all my Christian friends to read this compelling piece and to commit to doing something to address this avoidable tragedy. #changesthatmatter www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

A sober, but necessary read.

Already did!

Sadly, I cancelled my sub to @washingtonpost.com today. I will miss the outstanding reporting and thoughtful opinion pieces by an amazingly talented group of individuals. However, I need their owner to know that his policies undermine the very reason I have been a loyal subscriber.

Not surprising, but still shocking. Sadly, the richest country in the history of the world has chosen to turn its back on providing life-saving food, medicine, and clean water to the world’s most vulnerable populations. Termination letters state that this aid is no longer in our nation’s interest.

Wish I could travel back two decades in time to tell myself that the guy who was then head of the Republican National Committee is now doing more to fight back against a Republican president than most Democrats.

“A textbook case of how not to cut wasteful government spending.” Even though Marco Rubio issued an emergency waiver for life-saving aid, the payment system that makes this aid possible is broken.

Sam Harris: “If you were the world’s richest man, tasked with making decisions that would immediately harm some of the world’s poorest children, how would you behave?”

Still can’t stop thinking about the binary nature of American elections, a few hundred thousand votes in three states all the distance between just normal stuff and armed officers keeping House reps out of the department of education and a guy named Big Balls canceling everyone’s Medicare

Malaria is preventable and treatable. Yet, almost 600,000 people die each year, the overwhelming majority are children under five. Two-thirds of the Presidents Malaria Initiative-the largest funder of anti-malaria efforts-have just been fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Put aside the arguments that US aid is the “right thing to do”. This article illustrates how aid makes the US safer and stronger in an increasingly dangerous world.

“Foreign assistance money…makes up less than 1 percent of the government budget.” It includes “programs that provide medicine, shelter and clean water in dire conditions and often make the difference between life and death.”