Trading Aidism for Sadism

“‘We’re going to be doing foreign aid. We’re going to be doing humanitarian relief, disaster relief,’ Rubio told his former Senate Foreign Relations Committee colleagues … There’s just one problem: They’re not doing it. Despite months of assurances by Rubio that the administration planned to maintain “lifesaving” aid, there has been a catastrophic halt to programs that — by any reasonable definition — prevent people from dying or being brutally harmed.” WaPo (Gift Article): The White House keeps promising ‘lifesaving’ aid that’s not coming.

+ A B.U. professor has developed a tool for Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts. It’s not pretty. As Bono explained to Jimmy Kimmel during an interview in which he defended Bruce Springsteen, we’re demolishing “instruments of mercy and compassion.” Even musicians like Bono and Springsteen know those are the most important instruments we have.