The Thing With Three Heads
What happens when a government meets the definitions it deploys against its enemies
J2SR USAID: America’s Backsliding Democracy Report
This publication is a counterpunch at the daily shitshow and power grabs that chip away at American democracy. No sacred cows, no polite silence. If it weakens institutions, rewrites rules, or treats government like a toy, it goes on the record.
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Happy National Mango Day. They Fired the People Who Knew How It Worked.
From a childhood kitchen in Ohio to mango orchards in Kenya and Pakistan, one fruit reveals the expertise America discarded when it dismantled USAID.
America Built the Tools to Stop Ebola. Then It Punished the People Using Them.
The administration dismantled USAID, hollowed out the CDC and NIH, then used HHS authority to strand American Ebola responders abroad.
Two Stories. One False USAID.
How the Far Right and an Anti Western Worldview Built Incompatible Stories About USAID, and What the Documentary Record Actually Shows.
The Agency That Had to Be Lied About
Before USAID was dismantled, it was rewritten in the public imagination.
The Country I Served
One Fourth of July overseas, I stayed behind to answer the emergency line while everyone else flew home. This year the calls come from Springfield, Ohio.
Loyal Enough to Destroy an Agency. Not Loyal Enough for the White House.
How dismantling USAID became a credential, and ideological purity became the only qualification that counted.
A Letter Against the Lie
One American signed his name to protect us. Others signed contracts that did the opposite.
Three Feet Away
The Sudan OIG report documents what happened to the paperwork after the system broke. The unanswered question is what happened to the system.
They Know What We Are. Do We?
USAID is gone. Pride Month begins today. The people America abandoned already know the answer.