Kimmi Vo
@kimmivo.bsky.social
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An April 30, 1975 reflection— What my mother carried, I became: from refugee’s legacy to diplomat to dissident open.substack.com/pub/theterra...
What my mother carried, I became: from refugee’s legacy to diplomat to dissident
A reflection on April 30, 1975
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
An April 30, 1975 reflection— What my mother carried, I became: from refugee’s legacy to diplomat to dissident open.substack.com/pub/theterra...
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Things USAID has funded that I have personally worked on in the past: 1. rehabilitation for CHILDREN who escaped terrorist organisations and needed help getting back to their communities
February 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Things USAID has funded that I have personally worked on in the past: 1. rehabilitation for CHILDREN who escaped terrorist organisations and needed help getting back to their communities
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Hi friends, please consider calling your reps (perhaps again) to oppose the dismantling of USAID. The app 5 Calls makes it incredibly easy with scripts and numbers to your senators and congressfolk. Every call matters!
February 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Hi friends, please consider calling your reps (perhaps again) to oppose the dismantling of USAID. The app 5 Calls makes it incredibly easy with scripts and numbers to your senators and congressfolk. Every call matters!
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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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There’s a fox screaming repeatedly outside my house and all I can think is “same, buddy”
February 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
There’s a fox screaming repeatedly outside my house and all I can think is “same, buddy”
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I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
February 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump.
It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other.
Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.
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Breaking News: Nearly all of the 10,000 workers at U.S.A.I.D., the U.S. global aid agency, will be put on leave by the week’s end, an official memo said.
Trump Officials to Put Almost All U.S.A.I.D. Workers on Leave
A notice posted on the agency’s website, which had gone dark over the weekend, said that nearly all of its global work force would be put on administrative leave by Friday.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Breaking News: Nearly all of the 10,000 workers at U.S.A.I.D., the U.S. global aid agency, will be put on leave by the week’s end, an official memo said.
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I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
February 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
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The clearest explanation of tariffs I’ve ever heard
Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us
February 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The clearest explanation of tariffs I’ve ever heard
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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.
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Trump's been purging and intimidating USAID employees.
Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency.
It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope.
This'd be illegal and against our national interests.
Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency.
It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope.
This'd be illegal and against our national interests.
February 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Trump's been purging and intimidating USAID employees.
Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency.
It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope.
This'd be illegal and against our national interests.
Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency.
It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope.
This'd be illegal and against our national interests.
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Very concerning news about the future of USAID from Sen Murphy below:
February 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Very concerning news about the future of USAID from Sen Murphy below:
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BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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“Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aide. That’s Not True.” Such an important article — this isn’t just policy; it’s deliberate cruelty. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
www.propublica.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aide. That’s Not True.” Such an important article — this isn’t just policy; it’s deliberate cruelty. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Partway through answering questions Sunday during an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago, a man who appeared to be in custody briefly stopped talking when he recognized the man with the Texas accent asking the questions.
“You’re Dr. Phil,” the man said to television personality Phil McGraw.
“You’re Dr. Phil,” the man said to television personality Phil McGraw.
‘You’re Dr. Phil.’ TV personality says he joined immigration raids in Chicago for ‘transparency.’
The presence of ‘Dr. Phil’ at Chicago federal immigration raids raise questions about the propriety of the operation and highlight a presidency that favors reality TV.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Partway through answering questions Sunday during an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago, a man who appeared to be in custody briefly stopped talking when he recognized the man with the Texas accent asking the questions.
“You’re Dr. Phil,” the man said to television personality Phil McGraw.
“You’re Dr. Phil,” the man said to television personality Phil McGraw.
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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USAID just put ~50 staff on administrative leave with Acting Director Jason Gray alleging attempts to “circumvent the President’s Executive Orders,” source tells me
January 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
USAID just put ~50 staff on administrative leave with Acting Director Jason Gray alleging attempts to “circumvent the President’s Executive Orders,” source tells me
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With talk of protests and how to be effective, I’m reminded of that girl I saw a few years ago on tiktok who said she’d found her local police department’s minimum fitness requirements and made sure she could run the distances 10% faster than that and hadn’t been caught by the police since.
January 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
With talk of protests and how to be effective, I’m reminded of that girl I saw a few years ago on tiktok who said she’d found her local police department’s minimum fitness requirements and made sure she could run the distances 10% faster than that and hadn’t been caught by the police since.
whoever it is, they have no business trying to talk to underage children without their parents present
Per NBC's chicago affiliate, ICE says this was not them, that it was Secret Service:
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/s...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/s...
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
whoever it is, they have no business trying to talk to underage children without their parents present
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If you're feeling down today, here's a raccoon playing with bubbles.
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you're feeling down today, here's a raccoon playing with bubbles.
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy
#happyfriday #joy #joyful #happy