Edward Ansbro

Random small time account on Twitter. Can find me on Bluesky as well where my account is almost as small time.

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

Soon, pillow and pup shall become one. Let the world tremble. #doggo #pupper

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

the Florida Public Service Commission recommends setting your air condition to 78 degrees in the summer according to this June 2026 PDF on their website

Governor Ron DeSantis appointed every commissioner on the Florida Public Service Commission

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Forbes @Forbes]

One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children. https://t.co/qaQMoCPf82 (Photo: Associated Press)

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@charlieo_conn The real star https://t.co/ptlrmwQyy0

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@BroadStHockey I knew I wasn’t the only one

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

If you're one of the defense attorneys for the Prairieland 9, I'm doing a big story on the case and need to talk to you. Pls text me at 202-510-1268

[House of the Dragon @HouseofDragon]

The hour draws near. #HOTD Season 3 premieres TONIGHT on @hbomax.

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@meoww739 She just needs ONE more DM

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@jemelehill Looks like Paul Bearer’s estranged brother that the family lost touch with after a bad get rich quick scheme

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@idiot_lyra Sounds like you’re due a nice 12 hour slumber now

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

Prepping for @SpiderMan’s new flick “Brand New Day”. Need to get @supergirl “Woman of Tomorrow” still though. Ready for #hotd season 3 though. Nerd viewing is on schedule mostly

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@veggie_lo_mein Reported. Just give the damn account back, @X and @Support

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@veggie_lo_mein It’s a hell of a happy looking place, well done!

[MMA Junkie @MMAJunkie]

Daniel Cormier posts, deletes DMs from Eric Trump asking about 'rigged' #UFCWhiteHouse fights https://t.co/Q2OoweMQZt

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@atrupar Did they say “Sir” too?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

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[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@BenStiller How dare you talk about foul play, with the way you treated campers at Camp Hope

[Edward Ansbro @edwardansbro]

@idiot_lyra