USAID Fraud Allegations: Fact vs. Fiction

Fact
Inspector General’s Investigations:
- USAID’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) actively investigates allegations of major fraud, corruption, and misconduct within its programs and operations, demonstrating accountability in addressing internal issues.

Want one hour to clear your head? A walk on a beautiful snowy morning in Minnesota will do it.

NEW: I'm hearing from federal employees that they're being told to file a FOIA request if they want their employee records. Meaning they've been locked out of their records and have to file a Freedom of Information Act Request to get them. If you got this email, please contact me. Signal in bio.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

There is an app called 5 calls. Put in your zip code. It gives you a list of things to call about and explains each one. Gives you who your reps are to call about that issue and gives you a script if you need help with what to say and how to say it. Be brief, respectful but clear. #Wethepeople

Hey @fladems.bsky.social , tell us you are rushing to offer town halls for all Colombians and to be on every podcast tv and radio station popular in the community, and ASK them, ASK them how you can help.

Today in
As the World Burns

We can fix this. No we can't bring back extinct species, at least not yet but we can bring the planets temp back within normal ranges by fixing the atmospheric chemistry.

We wrote a plan for success
DefendOurParks.org/the-plan

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

SCAM WARNING: There are reports of a scam going around with the scammers pretending to be from FEMA and demanding a "wildfire relief application fee"

Shouldn't have to say this but... FEMA does not charge a fee apply for services.

Last year was likely the hottest year in the last 120,000+ years on this planet. Human civilization has never existed in conditions like these, and the f&%kery is just getting started.

The tragedy is not the loss of human civilization, it's what humans are doing to everything else.

Anthony Edwards added another poster dunk to his collection 😤

How to help L.A. wildfire victims, and what to do if you need aid.

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Something to remind you, it's a world worth saving.

Praying for the victims and their families, and all those who have lost their homes or are displaced because of these horrific fires.

Grateful for the firefighters and first responders who are putting their own lives at risk to save others.

www.latimes.com/california/l...

Somebody somewhere
Needs an endless field of flowers tonight

Best seen
Full screen

LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:

Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)

Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)

Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)

Bé Ù (Silver Lake)

Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)

Oy Bar (Studio City)

Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)

Dudley Market (Venice)

LaSorted's (Silver Lake)

Don't destroy their home and wonder why they invade yours. 💚

Finally made the jump. Where are my #Minnesota friends? Here is a pic of my mom and our dogs at Palisade Head this past August.

President Jimmy Carter's casket arrives in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.