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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 00:08:18 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   There are relatively few joys in the 2nd Trump era but I do get a good chuckle whenever the Trumpenreich is too dumb to understand we're lying about foreign aid/global spending to do imperialism so they cancel "some woke shit" that's actually the literal CIA.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 00:08:17 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Mind you, like all things Trump, what they plan on DOING with the money instead, is objectively fucking terrible:

     "In a separate incident this week, a new senior adviser to DRL recommended that the bureau’s leadership use funds earmarked by Congress for foreign assistance to cover pet projects for the administration including the resettlement of Afrikaaners to the United States and to support the legal defense of the right-wing French politician Marine Le Pen."

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 00:08:18 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     "Some of the programs targeted under the OMB review would include a rapid response team meant to support pro-democracy activists abroad who may require urgent relocation or other protection if their lives are deemed to be in danger.

     The programs “provide a lifeline to organizers and civil society doing the work to try to bring democratic values to these countries”, one source said, adding that they referred to places like Cuba and Venezuela."

     Kay...

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