Human folly for 02026-07-25

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• Donation recommendations for effective (thingofthings.substack.com):

  #Effective-altruism recommendations for #politics, mostly focused on the #USA and in particular #Trump

• Retaliatory action tracker (protectdemocracy.org):

  “Tracking retaliatory use of arrests, prosecutions, and investigations by the #Trump administration” #politics #USA

• Whats the state of PEPFAR now (asteriskmag.substack.com):

  #PEPFAR lives despite the DOGE cuts. #USA #politics #toread

• Elon Musk says USAID is beyond repair and he is working to shut it down (theguardian.com):

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• Everyone will not just (squareallworthy.tumblr.com):

  “If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At [no] time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.”

• Newsbeat (bbc.com):

  #news from 02023: #MrBeast paid for surgery to restore 1000 blind people’s vision, winning approval from the National Federation for the Blind and Sightsavers, but others called it a “tacky and tasteless act of charity porn”.

• Did Russia learn to jam Starlink satellites Ukraine is already using a simple but effective protection (technology.org):

  #news from 02023 about Russia jamming #Starlink in #Ukraine, with the defense being to dig a 50 cm deep pit to put the antenna in