Texas ends American Bar Association oversight of bar exams ...
#Texas#SupremeCourtDecision issued an order this week finalizing opinion that the ABA should "no longer have the final say" on which law school graduates qualify to sit forvbar exam.
Recently #DerTrump issued an #executiveorder that stripped the #ABA of millions in #USAID and U.S. State Department funding for legal edu abroad . The ABA and others sued in February, alleging the administration violated administrative law..
When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
I did a call to catch up with an old and really dear friend tonight and it absolutely fed my heart.
They worked at US AID until the layoffs in February and they are looking for new jobs in international development, related fields, and/or anything that uses their broad skill base.
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio gave orders leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them children. These three "leaders" killed USAID, and in the process ordered those deaths.
@dangillmor I don't think we can convince #USAID opponents of the necessity of this programme with statements such as ‘it's a crime’
I would focus on two points:
USAID is a small amount of money for the United States, which has given the American state soft power, stopped the spread of all kinds of diseases (which could have reached the United States) and made the world a better place. China and Russia, which are acting against the United States, could take the place of USAID
"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
"In the dead of night, Donald Trump slipped out of the White House and boarded Air Force One for a trip to Asia. Twenty-four days into a government shutdown of his own making, Trump became the first president in American history to leave the country during an active shutdown. Millions of federal workers remain furloughed or unpaid."
"Donald Trump has leveraged the presidency to boost his personal worth by $3 billion since returning to office, and his favor-seeking donors have contributed $300 million for a garish White House ballroom. Millions of taxpayer dollars are being used to arm ICE with military-grade weaponry, but Trump’s cuts to USAID are expected to kill millions of children around the globe."
do you know that when frump's #USgov cut #USAID funding, millions in vital health programs for #LGBT+ people across africa disappeared?
at the same time, anti-LGBT+ laws are spreading in places like #ghana, #kenya, and #uganda – putting countless lives at risk. our partners on the ground are holding the line, but they can’t do it alone..
#Trump Administration Seeks Congressional Nod for $6B Arms Package to #Israel
The U.S. is pushing for approval of nearly $6 billion in military sales to Israel, featuring 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters ($3.8B) and 3,250 armored infantry vehicles ($1.9B). Deliveries slated for 2-3 years, fully funded by U.S. aid.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the legality of Trump's tariffs, hearing oral arguments in November. Read more about this from NBC News. In other Supreme Court news, Chief Justice John Roberts has allowed the Trump administration to continue its freeze on billions in foreign aid while the court reviews the case. Read about this at the second link, which is from @TheHill.
EXCLUSIVE: Despite being the biggest casualty of USAID cuts, doctors in Ukraine are still providing lifesaving treatment to burn injury victims of the Russian invasion.
US-Hilfen gekürzt: Dramatischer Anstieg von Diphterie in Somalia
Als Folge der Kürzungen bei USAID bricht in Somalia ein wichtiger Teil der Gesundheitsfinanzierung weg. Diphterie breitet sich aus. Es wird weniger geimpft - und es fehlt an Medikamenten. Von Karin Bensch.
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WaPo reports Edward "Big Balls" Coristine was injured in a carjacking. Trump and Musk are using the incident to float the idea of taking federal control over Washington, D.C.
A picture of Edward Coristine lying bloody on the ground with his shirt off. He has blood on his face chest, hands and pants, and is looking down. A long post from Trump on Truth Social is partially screenshotted next to his picture.
Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it. Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations. Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, will be ash. (The sources I spoke with for this story requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.)