2026-08-28
18 分钟Nepal has a very conservative culture.
So legal work for openly transgender people is virtually non-existent.
And so what happened was when these workers lost their jobs,
they spent months trying to find other sources of employment only to be rejected
when they showed up in person because of their gender identity.
So out of desperation, around 100 of them across Nepal have now turned to sex work to survive,
which means they're now walking the streets alongside the very people they spent years trying to help.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show noticing a theme here.
See, last month, Georgia Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins got a lot of questions about his son-in-law,
a white nationalist online influencer.
And today, Collins got more questions, this time about a former staffer who described himself as a, quote,
twink fascist and posted photos of himself wearing Ku Klux Klan robes on Twitter.
In response to The Washington Post, the staffer said he was being, quote, satirical.
So maybe Mike Collins just loves...
Satire?
On today's show, we talk to the Associated Press' Kristen Jeleneau
about how cuts to USAID have impacted both aid workers and recipients of aid in Nepal.
Before we get into what the virtual end of USAID has wrought, here's what we're following today, Thursday, August 27th.
What's your reaction to the Americans missing in Nepal?
Oh, it's terrible.