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ProPublica @propublica.org

8/ Then came Cavanaugh’s turn. The United States Institute of Peace, he told the assembled men, was making payments to a contractor associated with the Taliban. As he spoke, the chyron at the bottom of the screen read: “THE TALIBAN GETS DOGED.”

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Robby Knight @wildkentuckycat.bsky.social

Or Musk?

aug 22, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Callum 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @myshka689908.bsky.social

musk ketted off his tits, as usual.

aug 22, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2 1 • view
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ProPublica @propublica.org

9/ On TV, Cavanaugh called the United States Institute of Peace “the least peaceful agency we worked with.” He told Watters he’d uncovered documents showing USIP was making payments to a contractor associated with the Taliban and that DOGE was unable to find any justification for those payments.

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ProPublica @propublica.org

10/ But documents obtained by ProPublica show that four weeks earlier, Cavanaugh had received detailed records from USIP outlining Halimi’s work. These records included invoices, project descriptions, and dates and times showing what Halimi was supposed to be doing on specific days.

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ProPublica @propublica.org

11/ Cavanaugh did not respond to questions about his access to these records or how they appeared to conflict with his statements on Fox News. But Cavanaugh defended cuts at the agency as needed and aligning with President Trump's agenda.

aug 22, 2025, 11:45 am • 1,057 123 • view
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hamster2020.bsky.social @hamster2020.bsky.social

Fighting rage on a daily basis . This poor man and his family.

aug 22, 2025, 1:53 pm • 23 1 • view
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GodsSpeedAmerica @godsspeedamerica.bsky.social

Disgusting human beings using lies to inflict violence on others.

aug 22, 2025, 12:28 pm • 54 1 • view
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LLCoolYay! @leweling.bsky.social

FFS. This is how we treat an ally? There will be repercussions from this stupidity.

aug 23, 2025, 7:12 am • 1 0 • view
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srchrgrl.bsky.social @srchrgrl.bsky.social

I wish I believed in Hell, because I am afraid these people will not be held properly accountable in this lifetime…. May they come back as cockroaches!

aug 22, 2025, 11:58 am • 30 0 • view
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Dr.Strange @coliver7777.bsky.social

And be trodden on multiple times 🤮

aug 22, 2025, 1:18 pm • 10 0 • view
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yarnlover.bsky.social @yarnlover.bsky.social

If there's really a Hell, it will be filled with folks like Cavanaugh.

aug 22, 2025, 11:48 am • 142 1 • view
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flying saucer @bkv63.bsky.social

lol, I worked for this talentless hack.

aug 22, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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mike @vagabondvivant.com

There is a Hell and it is filled with assholes like Cavanaugh. We're living in it.

aug 22, 2025, 12:29 pm • 13 0 • view
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FilmAlicia @filmalicia.bsky.social

And they will be whining and crying about how unfair it is.

aug 22, 2025, 12:16 pm • 64 0 • view
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ProPublica @propublica.org

12/ “DOGE was completely indifferent to the effect their actions had on human beings,” said Barnett Rubin, an Afghanistan expert who has served as a senior advisor for the United Nations and State Department. All it cared about, he said, was making “its enemies look bad.”

The front desk at USIP headquarters. The desk sits empty. Behind it, the institute's insignia has been vandalized so that it now reads:
aug 22, 2025, 11:45 am • 981 183 • view
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“The only minority destroying America is the billionaires” @fckelnmskthnzbllnr.bsky.social

This makes me angry

aug 22, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Elizabeth Potter Graham, JD @elizabethpgraham.bsky.social

This is important to me: "As for the graying Afghan scholar, the Taliban relented just long enough for several family members to make it out of the country. ProPublica is not disclosing how that happened or where they are for their safety, but they remain stranded without immigration status."

aug 22, 2025, 8:19 pm • 11 3 • view
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Elizabeth Potter Graham, JD @elizabethpgraham.bsky.social

"Halimi remains without work. He wonders how he will support his wife and children and whether there’s any chance he can clear his name. At the very least, he hopes that the Trump administration will admit the error that has caused his family so much harm."

aug 22, 2025, 8:21 pm • 10 2 • view
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Elizabeth Potter Graham, JD @elizabethpgraham.bsky.social

"Could we help him get an audience with Musk? “Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?” Halimi asked. “Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed.” What a lovely man Halimi is.

aug 22, 2025, 8:22 pm • 12 3 • view
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The Anxious Activist @theanxiousactivist.bsky.social

I agree. Halimi is really giving Elon the benefit of doubt. I don’t think Musk deserves it, but it’s really generous of Halimi given everything that’s been done to him and his family. A lot of people would be too bitter and angry to do that.

aug 26, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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ProPublica @propublica.org

13/ Neither the White House nor Musk responded to reporters’ requests for comment.

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Louis D. Thorpe @loudthorpe.bsky.social

That's because they'll go to jail if they reveal the truth. surftofind.com

aug 23, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view
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ProPublica @propublica.org

14/ For Halimi and his family, those actions would have far-reaching consequences. Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro:

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m. hela fella @marguerite00.bsky.social

Musk, his hirlings, the Fox News are all complicit in a lie that harmed an ally of the US AND his innocent family. Halimi & his family were targeted because they were vulnerable. How to defend from the lies of a wealthy ignorant, cruel but powerful man? Hold all the people involved accountable.

aug 22, 2025, 11:56 am • 29 5 • view
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akumariver.bsky.social @akumariver.bsky.social

@skyview.social unroll

aug 22, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social

That the Trump regime still controls the remnants of USIP is a damning indictment of our government and our courts. What happened at USIP was plainly illegal, yet it stands. Our courts were no help and the damage is done. Little remains of the USIP.

aug 29, 2025, 3:58 am • 6 2 • view
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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social

Of what use are courts that move too slowly to uphold the law? The Trump regime knows that they can simply move faster than courts that might stop them. By the time a ruling is made, it’s too late.

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Patrick @patrickin.bsky.social

And independent agency or not, USIP was created by Congress and thus the president should not be able to unilaterally dismantle it. But our courts, especially the Supreme Court, are just letting Trump do it to USIP, USAID, and others. Our courts are broken enablers of Trump.

aug 29, 2025, 4:33 am • 3 1 • view
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WordWorking @wordworking.bsky.social

@unroll.skywriter.blue

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briancat.bsky.social @briancat.bsky.social

Please unroll @unroll.skywriter.blue. Thank you in advance 𓃠

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Thread Reader by Skywriter @unroll.skywriter.blue

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/post/3lwyerjaxes2h.

aug 22, 2025, 12:21 pm • 4 3 • view
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Paul Bland @fpbland.bsky.social

The DOGE guys are vandals who destroy things they don't understand and think they are very funny and edgy. It's like letting a chimp lose in your kitchen with a hammer

aug 22, 2025, 12:10 pm • 51 3 • view
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grant @subterrene.bsky.social

Chimps would have more empathy.

aug 22, 2025, 1:45 pm • 11 0 • view
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BonFire @bonfire25.bsky.social

The dangerous incompetence and damage inflicted by this regime is so far reaching we'll feel it for decades. 😞

aug 22, 2025, 4:22 pm • 6 1 • view
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B Brooks @bbrooks1.bsky.social

Musk and his dogelets need to be in jail. They destroyed countless lives, spent $billions, stole govt data and terrorized govt employees.

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Hopefully Hypervigilant (a.k.a. Libby Milliken) @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social

@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll

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Jon Snider @jonsnider.bsky.social

Oh my God

aug 24, 2025, 8:37 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cyberman3000 @cyberman3000.bsky.social

May this evil little shit Cavanaugh never another night's peaceful sleep. However, it's Halimi's final comment that gets me; that if Elon Musk was fully informed about all of this he would feel some kind of shame!

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Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment @rkfatheree.bsky.social

Elon would not. He’s a psychopath.

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Brutally Frank @brutally-frank.bsky.social

This was a reckless criminal act. Nate Cavanaugh, Steve Davis, Musk, Watters, FoxNoise wealthy ignoramuses, vengeful criminal act based on ignorance, malfeasance, and stupidity NIH should be researching a vaccine for Dunning-Kruger because Trump, Musk, DOGE, and administration need a cure

aug 22, 2025, 1:23 pm • 36 2 • view
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Procrastinator at large. @veeforward.bsky.social

They need to be sued into permanent poverty for this. Take everything they have & give it to their victims.

aug 22, 2025, 4:56 pm • 5 0 • view
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democracy.diy @democracy.diy

Good lord. Thank you for sharing.

aug 22, 2025, 11:48 am • 155 1 • view
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democracy.diy @democracy.diy

I'm building an aggregator website, to bring together the issues and all of the ways people can help: democracy.diy For the "attend a peaceful demonstration" action, I search over 800 events. There are lots of useful things on the site--despite the minimalism.

aug 22, 2025, 1:24 pm • 51 10 • view
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The Anxious Activist @theanxiousactivist.bsky.social

You’ve done a great job so far! I really hope you keep adding to it. The protest search is really helpful.

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democracy.diy @democracy.diy

Thank you. I'm hoping to add more local and state actions--as well as local groups that people might not know about, but would want to support. My thinking is that local issues will become increasingly important as the federal government becomes less and less responsive.

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Ricardo @rdrouyn.bsky.social

We need a database with all of the known ICE agents and collaborators operating with masks. The public has a right to know who is receiving public funding to cause chaos and commit crimes.

aug 22, 2025, 9:09 pm • 37 3 • view
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justmeandthepups.bsky.social @justmeandthepups.bsky.social

You probably know this list. But, in case it is new to someone reading here: icelist.is/ice/ icelist.is/how-we-ident...

aug 23, 2025, 3:06 am • 20 6 • view
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Common Bondforged Gender Nuisance @greyways.bsky.social

📌

aug 22, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sheila Bee @sheilabane.bsky.social

Absolutely vile.

aug 22, 2025, 5:56 pm • 6 0 • view
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zoemom.bsky.social @zoemom.bsky.social

JFC!

aug 22, 2025, 12:23 pm • 4 0 • view
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tb @taylorbizzle.bsky.social

I hope elon ends up in prison.

aug 22, 2025, 1:03 pm • 6 0 • view
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Procrastinator at large. @veeforward.bsky.social

I hope he ends up on death row for mass murder. Where are the relatives of the people he's murdered? Decades of US movies say they should be showing up to go vengeance on his doughy ass about now. No one would convict them.

aug 22, 2025, 4:55 pm • 4 0 • view
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Katrine Koenig @katrinekoenig.bsky.social

as psychopaths do

aug 22, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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DidntWeAlmostHaveItAll @theeruthie.bsky.social

Sounds tragically like the GOP administration and the Republican Party as a whole. We are in big trouble, with US voters having given power to the worst, most corrupt people who have no integrity, moral center, or value for the lives of other humans

aug 22, 2025, 11:54 am • 13 3 • view
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social

Who besides themselves did DOGE make look bad?

aug 22, 2025, 12:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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karenaxell.bsky.social @karenaxell.bsky.social

This quote my god: “DOGE was completely indifferent to the effect their actions had on human beings,”

aug 22, 2025, 12:02 pm • 18 4 • view
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kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social

Human damage

aug 23, 2025, 5:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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The Orphan @forestcronebears.bsky.social

Sadists personality

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Tax the Rich @longleafpine2024.bsky.social

I hate these people

aug 22, 2025, 1:40 pm • 31 0 • view
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The 5th Dentist @walkerwest.bsky.social

Nate Cavanaugh: sociopath. May this haunt for the rest of his miserable life.

aug 22, 2025, 5:27 pm • 18 2 • view
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Ann Dooley Hunter @brainspikes.bsky.social

Just another HUGE & JUSTIFIED reason to HATE ELON MUSK & TRUMP! I will be forwarding to Veteran’s groups & social media…

aug 22, 2025, 3:55 pm • 6 1 • view
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Johnkow @jk12955.bsky.social

They all have faces that are just begging to be… well, you know what comes next. Disgusting little incels.

aug 22, 2025, 2:25 pm • 8 0 • view
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m00nstreake.bsky.social @m00nstreake.bsky.social

Hanged.

aug 22, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jodie @missymoo2.bsky.social

Just deliberate malign viciousness because they can.

aug 22, 2025, 2:28 pm • 13 1 • view
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Robin Brenizer 🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦 @robinbrenizer.bsky.social

White nationalists like this asshat Cavanaugh are traitors to democracy and freedom.

aug 22, 2025, 3:16 pm • 5 1 • view
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JFK @jfk-the-wanderer.bsky.social

When is the lawsuit coming?

aug 23, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 0 • view
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genx2024.bsky.social @genx2024.bsky.social

Meanwhile, the US government has been paying an immigrant on drugs for military and space products & services for many, many years. It is still happening.

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JFK @jfk-the-wanderer.bsky.social

Seems like fox would also be liable for defamation?

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670rv @670rv.bsky.social

And how come FOX News and Jesse Waters getaway with impunity!

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D @dustnk.bsky.social

They literally are laughing out loud because they can’t answer obvious questions posed by Jesse Waters. “We are running amok and don’t know what the fuck we are doing for the lulz.”

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moethemick1.bsky.social @moethemick1.bsky.social

We can reach #Cavanaugh other ways.

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