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Jeremy Konyndyk Profile picture
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Oct 3, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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The amazing thing is that it took this long.

There had been a lot of near misses:
Bolsonaro's entourage back in the spring:
cnn.com/2020/05/13/ame…
His valet in May: cnn.com/2020/05/07/pol…
Katie Miller, around the same time: politico.com/news/2020/05/0…
Campaign staff who worked his Tulsa rally in June:

apnews.com/article/23796a…
His National Security Advisor, in July:

cnn.com/2020/07/27/pol…
Those are just the ones we know about. And I'm sure I've missed some.

Despite this many close calls, he and his team still weren't masking, still weren't distancing, still weren't taking the risk seriously.

This was preventable. Trump and his team chose not to prevent it.

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Apr 9
To mark the 6 month anniversary tomorrow of Trump‘s deal to end the war in Gaza, we at @RefugeesIntl teamed up with humanitarian partners to assess its humanitarian impact.

The headline: it is failing. But political will could salvage it.

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The problem is not the plan itself; the problem is an execution failure.

Many of the humanitarian and civilian protection commitments of the plan are good & right.

But they are failing - and the deal's guarantors (the USG foremost) are letting that happen.
Getting the humanitarian components right is a crucial proof of concept for the wider deal, and a confidence building measure toward future steps.

If those elements fail with impunity, it is hard to see how disarmament & political/governance elements could ever succeed.
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Feb 26
Hugely important ruling.

DHS has been abusively sending migrants - including refugees and others protected from deportation - to unrelated third countries.

We @RefugeesIntl have been partnering with @humanrights1st to expose these shady arrangements: thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

🧵 x.com/rparloff/statu…
The core of US and global refugee law is non-refoulement - the principle that people fleeing persecution must not be returned to face that harm.

DHS uses 3rd-country deportation agreements to circumvent those and related laws.

And also to coerce migrants into self-deporting.
In one such case, DHS was barred from deporting a man to Gambia because he would face persecution there.

DHS deported him to Ghana instead, and Ghana then deported him to Gambia.

DHS is outsourcing refoulement. Image
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Feb 5
A year has passed since @elonmusk began the wood-chipper-ing of @USAID.

Since then, global humanitarian funding has collapsed by almost 1/3, mostly due to the Trump/Elon cuts.

Vast suffering has ensued.

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US relief aid collapsed from $14bn in 2024 to just $3.7bn in 2025.

This meant global humanitarian relief reached 25 million fewer people, even as the number of people needing aid rose.

We at @RefugeesIntl have a new report that assesses the emerging human toll. Image
To start with the obvious:

The Trump-Elon cuts are killing people.

In crisis settings around the world, aid groups and journalists are documenting deaths that are directly attributable to the aid cuts.

nytimes.com/2025/09/20/opi…

propublica.org/article/kenya-…

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Dec 30, 2025
Great to see major US investment into UN pooled funds!

But - $2bn is a tiny fraction of needs; US humanitarian funding in 2024 was $14.1bn.

So this is a very welcome step but comes nowhere to close to filling the life-threatening gaps *the US itself created* this year.

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US funding and humanitarian diplomacy have supplied the backbone of global emergency response for decades.

Both collapsed this year with the closure of USAID.

The result so far has been preventable death, starvation, disease on an extraordinary scale.
The effects are huge.

Our teams @RefugeesIntl are seeing impacts of the US aid cuts everywhere.

One grim recent example below from our recent report on Tigray. There are many, many more instance like this.

Efficiency matters, but so does scale.
refugeesinternational.org/reports-briefs…Image
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Oct 27, 2025
Ethnic cleansing is underway in El Fasher as the RSF takes over.

I spoke today with Sudanese civil society leaders about what they are seeing and hearing.

It is grimly horrifying - exactly as long feared and predicted.

Reminder (again) that the #UAE shares in these crimes.
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What we heard this morning:

- Communications into Fasher have been cut off

- Displaced people reaching Tawila today (a town west of Fasher, where there is some relief presence) report that massacres of civilians along ethnic lines have begun

- Very few ppl are able to flee
More:

- Civilians attempting to escape El Fasher are being gunned down by RSF as they flee

- RSF is funneling people toward the east rather than allow them west toward Tawila

- RSF carrying out mass detentions in town

- No aid getting in - many people are too run down to flee
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Sep 10, 2025
When is an "aid project" not actually an aid project?

Well, recruiting staff through an anti-Islam biker gang is usually a pretty clear tell.

Beyond the outright insanity of this, it also reveals something important about the agenda behind the GHF. 🧵
At first blush this story almost seems too outlandish to be real. Full disclosure - I was skeptical when I first hear these rumblings a few months ago.

But BBC brings the receipts. And the receipts are flat-out nuts (this nugget about gang leader Johnny Mulford is priceless). Image
Who is Mulford, the lead GHF security subcontractor?

He's a biker gang leader who was formerly debarred by the Pentagon for "bribery, larceny, and making false official statements" related to contract kickbacks.

Not who you'd want near an aid project.
jagcnet.army.mil/Sites/Procurem…Image
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