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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."
ALT
Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social
· 4h
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
@donmoyn.bsky.social
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."
ALT
Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social
· 4h
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T14:09:23.981Z
Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
@katzish.bsky.social
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
— Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T10:41:55.777Z
Tree
@treemania.bsky.social
It’s nice to blame Trump and Musk - they certainly deserve it - but people keep letting voters off the hook. 78M Americans either explicitly voted for this, or voted for it bc they’ll didn’t care to get informed. This is on America - not 2 men
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
@treemania.bsky.social
It’s nice to blame Trump and Musk - they certainly deserve it - but people keep letting voters off the hook. 78M Americans either explicitly voted for this, or voted for it bc they’ll didn’t care to get informed. This is on America - not 2 men
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It’s nice to blame Trump and Musk - they certainly deserve it - but people keep letting voters off the hook. 78M Americans either explicitly voted for this, or voted for it bc they’ll didn’t care to get informed. This is on America - not 2 men
— Tree (@treemania.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T11:49:31.804Z
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