My straight coworker who I am deeply in love with invited me to a Friendsgiving what kind of dessert can I make to convince her to leave her boyfriend of 9 years and run away with me
every USAID project had a component built into it called the branding implementation plan and marking plan, or BIP/MP. the BIP/MP directed whichever organization or company was implementing the project on USAID’s behalf to ensure that any public-facing materials use the official/approved logo and associated branding parameters. not just things like flyers and leaflets or events and trainings or radio/tv programs, but even things like project vehicles and field offices. and it isn’t just about having a unified and strong visual brand as a government agency. implementers are also directed to promote the message “this assistance is from the american people” as much as they can.
i know, because i worked for one of USAID’s largest implementing partners up until february of this year. 90% of its business is now gone, and that includes even what we thought was untouchable, like FEWS NET (early warning systems for famine), the President’s Malaria Initiative, and PEPFAR. we thought, if nothing else, that those projects were safe because they were so huge and had proven to be so necessary. we and the other big international development companies and organizations begged and pleaded with the government to at least let those continue in full. we told them people would die without the global health supply chains up and running to get them their treated bed nets and HIV/AIDS medicine. we told them people would starve without USAID having enough staff or contractors to monitor imminent famines all over the world. we even brought it to the courts to try and keep all of this assistance going. and it didn’t matter. none of it mattered. we were ignored by the public (“why should MY money go to help THOSE people when we have problems HERE?”) and ridiculed by elon musk himself (he literally reposted libsoftiktok doxxing a man i worked with and thought it was hilarious).
i edited numerous proposals and project materials over six and a half years, and that sentence appeared in every single one: “this assistance is from the american people.” not “this assistance is from the american government.” although the government administered the funds, it wasn’t high-level officials in field offices doing the implementation work. it was people making a lot less money than they could have made going fully private sector, even if they worked for a large for-profit company like i did. i was underpaid for my work and i knew it, but i wanted to keep contributing to making the world a better place – despite being an extremely tiny cog in that big machine. i would have gladly stayed in this field until it came time for me to finally retire in 25 years or so.
if, by some miracle, we ever see USAID resurrected or restarted in a new initiative, we will never be able to use that slogan again. the american people have betrayed the rest of the world just as much as our government has. and in the meantime, we’re on track to have murdered a million people worldwide by the end of this year with our cruelty, selfishness, and willful ignorance. we’ve already murdered 600,000 – 400,000 of them children. how many more will we murder if trump lives to see through his full term? great job, trump voters and non-voters. i will never forgive any of you. ever. i have nothing but contempt in my heart for those of you who made this happen.
i initially decided to lock this post to reblogs, but i’ve decided to unlock it in light of the new estimates that USAID’s destruction may cause 22 million deaths by 2030. USAID used to have an initiative called HRH2030, or “human resources for health 2030,” that was supposed to strengthen the deficit of 18 million people in the global healthcare system by 2030. the idea was that it would specifically help continue reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality rates and HIV/AIDS deaths, which had been trending downward in many countries. now we’re on track to actively murder 4 million extra people than we were initially hoping to reach with training and education and technology and resources. the good those 18 million people could have done by 2030 and beyond would have had effects that rippled throughout their communities and countries, had benefits we may not have even foreseen. how many of them are going to die from our willful neglect and cruelty, instead?
i hope your vote was worth all of this.
At the accounting conference I attended this week I met a very cool guy who works out of Nairobi at one of those orgs (maybe the only one, not sure) that uses drones to get medical supplies to places in at least Kenya and DRC (those were the two countries we talked about specifically) that are hard to access quickly by car. He was at a nonprofit accounting conference in the US largely because we were talking about the changing federal grants landscape, and that has affected the work they do so much that they are struggling to continue. USAID provided life saving services that were constantly innovating. What has happened it tragic and I’m so angry about it.
I don’t think they have our Menorah or any other keilim anymore; its probably been melted down or some shit centuries ago, but yeah, we’re due mahoosive reparations and for all christians, not just the vatican, to shut up about Jews for forever
I don’t think they still have anything from the Temple, but they sure as hell have a bunch of Torah scrolls and books looted in pogroms.
My hopes of those being whole and intact are underground
Some of them are - they’re available for scholars to look at, and my boss has done so.
Oh thats even more infuriating
When playing the latest Indiana Jones game you end up in the secret Vatican archives for a while and my husband and I definitely spent time hunting for the menorah lol. No luck, even in the fictional world
what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink
Yall seen that video of a speaker at UCL saying actual literal blood libel? Like not “oh thematically its blood libel” she says that jews use gentile blood in the feast of the tabernacle. LIKE ACTUAL MIDDLE AGES BLOOD LIBEL
ALT
