It all comes full circle it seems https://knowyourmeme.com/news/donald-trump-launches-conservative-twitter-alternative-truth-social-donaldjtrump-immediately-tweets-pig-poop-balls

The 600,000 estimate is how many actual recorded deaths THIS YEAR can be attributed to reduction in USAID.

So more than 600,000 people have died, only 600,000 can be blamed on MAGA.

The other estimates are forecasts, but the 600,000 number is to date. Says so in both the headline and the article.

Trump’s shuttering of USAid has a murder rate of 88 people per hour.

Of the 600,000 people who’ve died, 400,000 are children. These are mostly food aid deaths, we still haven’t seen the consequences of disease control ending (HIV, TB, Malaria, and others.)

They’re estimating 22 million death total by 2030. So this disaster is unfolding and accelerating.

I don’t see this mentioned anywhere, but what happens if thier auto approved permit requires running it through your house, or your farm field? Is it just auto immenent domained? Who, if anyone, compensates you?

Robert Reich has both a bluesky account and a mastodon account. There’s no reason to use a xitter screenshot.

Business math appears to just be algebra applied to money. The math you’re using to balance your books can do so much more than that.

That’s what word problems are supposed to teach you, how to apply the math. So you can critical think your way to awnsers to problems you aren’t taught specifically to solve.

I do think how we teach word problems can be improved, obviously, considering the amount of people who hate them and never get it. But teaching people how to use math for only money feels like a failure to me.