Ryan Musser
@musserryan
Followers
3K
Following
125K
Statuses
30K
Following news across Africa on business, econ, development & democracy. Also tweets on local DC, biking & safe streets.đź“ŤWard 8 EOTR. Lover of front porches.
EotR, Washington DC
Joined May 2009
Running errands Friday evening with my @madsencycles bike: -Anacostia River Trail to Aldi -Indian at @DaruDC -14th Street bike lane across Hill East to pick up baked goods from @capitoljill (with some stops at numerous Little Neighborhood Libraries along the way)
2
4
14
@TrueSlazac It also wasn’t USAID that gave most of those grants out. It was local embassies under their public diplomacy budgets
0
0
0
@BillAckman Is SpaceX not a private company because it receives its profits from government contracts?
0
0
0
RT @Atul_Gawande: From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts & awards are being terminated en masse – w the procurement team subject t…
0
143
0
RT @Atul_Gawande: Inside @USAID, it's DOGE trying to wipe out foreign aid entirely vs Trump people trying to wipe out USAID and migrate act…
0
43
0
RT @LinkofSunshine: Now can we please have this so the average person doesn't think foreign aid takes up 41% of our national budget
0
482
0
RT @JeremyKonyndyk: “We have lost contact with Washington. We are on our own.” Please read this powerful interview with a USAID official a…
0
897
0
RT @jmart: My new column is mostly for lawmakers in both parties Here’s what abandoning USAID folks in the field means to them, their par…
0
228
0
Please. Everyone. Read this goddamn thread.
OK, time to bust another @USAID myth. Stephen Miller said on Fox today that USAID is a rogue slush fund. Trump & Elon have made the same accusation. FALSE. They're either ignorant of how USAID spends money, or willfully lying about it. Or... Anyway, caffeinate and read on. 🧵
0
0
3
RT @JeremyKonyndyk: Did USAID fund things under Biden that Trump doesn't like? Yes, and vice versa. That's a normal policy disagreement you…
0
75
0
RT @adamjohnsonCHI: Musk comes on here everyday spreading lurid, baseless rightwing conspiracy theories & our media is still reporting on h…
0
371
0
RT @PhillipsPOBrien: Its like Putin has given him an orders list and hes going through it methodically.
0
524
0
These folks are casting this as Bessent being prohibited from gaining access himself, because he's a "political appointee." But the key modifier here is "from an agency outside the Treasury Department."
0
0
0
RT @AseyevStanislav: Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Lib…
0
449
0
RT @JosiahHawthorne: Waiting for certain Daily Wire political operatives to call Franklin Graham a Shepherd For Sale.
0
13
0
RT @bayraktar_1love: Radio Free Europe played a crucial role in the collapse of communism by breaking state censorship, exposing regime cri…
0
462
0
RT @jonfavs: “The first cancelled grant hitting our department that I heard of was to support new interventions for NICU patients and paren…
0
1K
0
RT @KareemRifai: Really difficult to justify the crusade against USAID for "fiscal reasons" when it's become blatantly obvious that it's re…
0
531
0
RT @moneyacademyKE: A report from the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) revealed that over 60% of businesses in Kenya…
0
10
0