Reporting on global health, infectious diseases & pandemics @ProPublica. Mitten lover. MPH. Reach me at [email protected] or DM for Signal.
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NEW: Just days after Ecuador's president met with Kristi Noem, ICE arrested his political foe in Miami. Even though an immigration judge found it likely José Serrano would be tortured, the U.S. deported him in a hasty process that took a single day.
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Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe. By @propublica's @annabarryjester & @fastlerner propublica.org/article/human…
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#Lebanon: Urgent! RSF calls on the international community to immediately pressure the Israeli army into allowing the rescue of Al Akhbar journalist Amal Khalil, currently trapped near Tayri in southern Lebanon following an Israeli airstrike close to her vehicle. Her life is in danger right now! Continued Israeli airstrikes are preventing rescuers from reaching her.
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1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4bbPEXl
ALT John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”
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2/ In '21, @paulkiel, @JeffErnsthausen & I reported on billionaires' taxes.
Jeff Bezos, when he was a billionaire many times over, paid *zero* in taxes in 2007 & 2011.
He actually got a child tax credit in '11. $4000. Not sure how he spent that.
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This summer, we followed Rose, a single mom inside an enormous refugee camp, as she struggled to feed her three sons after the Trump admin cut funding to the World Food Program.
We kept in touch after leaving Africa and just learned how their story ends. propublica.org/article/trump…
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NEW: Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis in the world’s third largest refugee camp.
After the U.S. failed to fund WFP in Kenya, we went to the Kakuma camp and this is what we found 1/
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1/ As the Trump administration destroyed USAID this year, Marco Rubio and his aides said over and over: 1. Lifesaving operations would continue around the world and 2. Nobody had died because of the cuts
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NEW: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
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ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then ...
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
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One of the smallest federal agencies in government, the African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building. Here's the letter ADF sent to DOGE
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NEW: Explosive memos circulating inside USAID detail how Trump appointees ignored and thwarted the agency's senior leaders who tried to make good on the administration's public promises to keep lifesaving aid operations online. 1/
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Here's our story about several key moments and players from the past month of destruction and chaos inside USAID. What people knew and when they knew it. w/@annabarryjester propublica.org/article/trump…
USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo with bureau staff detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.
In the weeks that followed, USAID received conflicting information on a near daily basis about whether waivers could continue and how. On Feb 24, political leadership said to deprioritize programs for mpox, polio, and Ebola, noting waivers for that work would not be approved.
