Jeff G reposted
This is insane. Fired by someone who isn’t even legally eligible to gut and fire an agency.
Jeff G
@jagger.bsky.social
Digital Communicator/Creative. #FCBarcelona Cule. #WarrenDemocrat. #Purdue. #USAID #Resist #Antifa #BlueDot in a red state. Politically Progressive #Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Gen X Midwesterner #BlueCrew 💙🌊 The views on this page are my own.
22.9K followers22.3K following900 posts
Jeff G reposted
This is insane. Fired by someone who isn’t even legally eligible to gut and fire an agency.
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Colin Kahl went from being stalked and threatened by Israeli mercenaries at Black Cube (along with Farrow) to having to negotiate Ukraine policy with Elon Musk. He's a one-man example of how civil servants get caught in the fray of what the US is now: a mafia state in thrall to technofascists.
Jeff G reposted
Replying to @donmoyn.bsky.social
If you recognize Kliger's name, it is probably in this context: he manually shut down life-saving aid from USAID. In between his DOGE work and starting his defense start-up he was appointed to the DOD as - brace yourselves - chief data officer. bsky.app/profile/donm...
Updated this piece on the difference between civic tech and DOGE to reflect new reporting on how DOGErs are monetizing their connections to Silicon Valley. This is the worst example: the DOGErs who blocked USAID life-saving aid have a $1.4B defense startup. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
Jeff G reposted
No speech, title, or presidential ambition can scrub that death toll from Rubio’s legacy. In this upcoming election, from local races to national contests, voting against anyone running as a Republican reminds the entire party that its power has limits.
Jeff G reposted
#USAID prevented deaths of 90+ million people (1/3 under 5yo) since 2000 alone. Imagine having doomed millions to death for NOTHING. That's what Elon Musk did.
Jeff G reposted
A moment of silence please for #USAID, which is officially shuttered after months of dismantling. Why a moment of silence? Not only for the employees. But also for the estimated 14 MILLION deaths by 2030 predicted without the agency. @altusaid.altgov.info www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
What is failure in impeachment? You know what Russ Vought can’t do when he is sitting an impeachment trial: f**k with the budget. He will busy being under the white hot lines of impeachment.
time.com/article/2026... > a failed impeachment effort, a party leader suggested privately, risks being framed as approval I don't know if they got jeffries on deep background here or what 'waiting for a dem speaker' is strategic I guess but they're underweighting the impact of courage, as always
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
Blanche on the Trump administration deporting people to third countries where they have no connection: "This idea that we're violating human rights and the president and US is doing something to damage and put these people in harm's way is just categorically false"
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Vought broke the law when he tried to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He also made it easier for wealthy corporations to cheat average Americans. www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders... Time to impeach & convict. ImpeachVought.com
Jeff G reposted
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
"Trump's first term has been memory-holed. His dirty deeds are treated as discrete acts instead of a continuum of crime with recurring players. His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
Jeff G reposted
NEW: Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
At the behest of Stephen Miller, the Trump administration has agreed to pay at least $410 million to facilitate its so-called “third-country deportations” for immigrants. trib.al/hXhgcKM
Jeff G reposted
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
Lysenkoism lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
Jeff G reposted
SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...
Jeff G reposted
The Kennedy Center joins the Reflecting Pool, Lafayette Park and sort of the White House itself (no tours) where supposed renovations have led to indefinite loss of public access. After taxpayer funded plans/construction, these places are fenced off and closed down, not improved.
Fencing has gone up around the main Kennedy Center building, a day after a Trump-aligned board voted to close it for repairs.
Jeff G reposted