This Is Why You Don't Slash Humanitarian Aid

Saturday, June 06, 2026

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times: American humanitarian aid not only saved one life every 10 seconds but was also safeguarding the world from epidemics.

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The Ebola outbreak in the DRC shows why President Trump's withdrawal from the World Health Organization and humanitarian aid cuts are a big mistake. Infectious diseases don't know borders, and the Trump-Vance Admin's chaotic and anti-science health policies make us all less safe.

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-- Senator Tim Kaine (@kaine.senate.gov) 11:38 AM Â· May 26, 2026

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This is why you don't break things with a sledgehammer or chainsaw.

OTOH, there are people who would be reacting the same way to politicize it even if they had taken a precision scalpel to cut waste without breaking up entire organizations. Cuz everyone has to be in their stupid tribes.

#1 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-06-06 09:26 AM | Reply

^that would be a great sentiment, except that no one even TRIED using a scalpel. The entire Trump debacle has been sledgehammers ot everything, and all wielded by bad actors, criminals, and incompetents.

We who voted for the better candidate predicted all this, and wevwere laughed at, called crazy, called lewzers.
No one is laughing now.
No one thinks America is better under TrumpCo.

#2 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-06-06 10:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

No one thinks America is better under TrumpCo.

#2 | Posted by e1g1

I'm positive that MAGA ever wanted to make things better for America.

They like tearing things down too much. They hate too many people. They are so damned ------- stupid.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-06 10:45 AM | Reply

He b2rought us Ebola!. President Donald J. Trump; "the Ebola Preside!" *His efforts will cause 6illions 2of deaths bu5t he 6needed to save money to build his ballroom! -Now come on? Which is more important?
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#4 | Posted by danni at 2026-06-06 10:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#4 | Posted by danni

MAGA and its leadership are already dismissing Ebola.

This is how I know it will kill a million of them.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-06 10:53 AM | Reply

Ebola is a particularly Gruesome Death.

Bleeding from every orifice.

It's wildly Contagious. Very Little is understood about its spread and Persistence.

A much more dangerous Pandemic than Covid if it became widespread.

Mortality hovers around 60%. Higher if the person is older or has co-morbidities.

Covid was less than 1% lethal except in weakened populations.

Trump and his Entire Movement are Stupid.

Total Failures in Imagination or planning.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-06-06 11:03 AM | Reply

Total Failures in Imagination or planning

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer

Why are they failures at self-preservation?

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-06 11:16 AM | Reply