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[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/state-department-cables-pepfar-lesotho-malawi-usaid-elon-musk/ by Tim Murphy 4/6/25 MOTHER JONES] | [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/state-department-cables-pepfar-lesotho-malawi-usaid-elon-musk/ by Tim Murphy 4/6/25 MOTHER JONES] | ||
Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the private sector after four months as a “special government employee,” he has put aside the celebratory chainsaw and cast himself as a misunderstood outsider whose dreams of efficiency were stymied by a terminally broken bureaucracy. | Elon Musk is trying to rewrite the history of his four-month tenure in Washington. As the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X returns to the private sector after four months as a “special government employee,” he has put aside the celebratory chainsaw and cast himself as a misunderstood outsider whose dreams of efficiency were stymied by a terminally broken bureaucracy. | ||
=====A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives'===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/31/g-s1-56594/childbirth-usaid-afghanistan by Diaa Hadid 31/3/25 npr] | |||
An Afghan midwife describes how a woman died in childbirth, along with her baby. She was snowed in at her village and couldn't reach a hospital. Just weeks before, the health clinic in her village had closed. If it was open, a midwife could have helped her. | |||
