Leon Walker

Just another boring guy.

[Sam Levine @srl]

Breaking news: The Trump administration secretly obtained 6 months of phone records for a journalist without a search warrant or any judicial oversight, raising alarm over an obscure legal tool it is deploying https://t.co/XZZjMFgjoL

[Annie Waldman @AnnieWaldman]

~40% of fresh vegetables are imported from foreign countries.

Last year, due to staffing cuts, American inspections of foreign food facilities plummeted to historic lows.

Food safety experts said there would be a higher risk of outbreaks.
https://t.co/DnCLkdFqZh

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

A robot, *programmed* to entertain, kicks a child in the gut👇

[Leon Walker @IAmLeonWalker]

@HLovewine @detroitnews Yeah, you saved yourself some time by not watching that shameful performance. That was an absolute embarassment.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. https://t.co/P4ZNeIfvPV

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

[New York Post @nypost]

Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI - created by a guy in India who made a mint off lonely men online https://t.co/rbh1c8WWWm

[Leon Walker @IAmLeonWalker]

@umichbball Resistance is futile. @Yaxel_LendeBorg #Borg #StarTrek

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is absolutely infuriating and completely idiotic.

An estimated 95,000 scientists and researchers have left federal agencies since Trump returned to the White House. These are the people tracking hurricanes, studying pediatric cancer, and modeling the climate tipping points that determine whether we can still prevent catastrophe.

We lost them because this administration defunded their work, shuttered their offices, and made clear that finding out the truth is no longer a government priority.

NASA’s own administrator just said studying climate change isn’t part of NASA’s mission. The agency that first warned Congress about global warming in 1988 now treats that work as a distraction.

Meanwhile, China and Europe are recruiting our scientists, funding their labs, and making long-term bets on the industries of the future while we gut the research infrastructure that took generations to build.

We are surrendering global scientific leadership voluntarily, deliberately, and one resignation letter at a time.

https://t.co/zYjiKOeSkX

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

WHY ARE WE IN IRAN?

[Leon Walker @IAmLeonWalker]

@TMZ Can't hear the argument over the Minecraft music. Why not just use a watermark and leave the audio alone?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

BROWDER: "Putin has made huge mistakes. This war is just a gigantic catastrophic mistake. A US think tank calculated his financial losses at about $700 billion. His personnel losses are 1.2 to 1.3 million men either dead or disabled, plus another million who have left the country.

He’s lost Syria, Iran, Venezuela—not to mention Armenia. To the extent that he wanted to contain NATO, he’s got two new NATO members on his borders: Sweden and Finland.

The economy is in a complete tailspin. It’s a catastrophe on every possible level for Vladimir Putin. If he was thinking this was some smart move, he’s set Russia back generations with his evil invasion of Ukraine."

[Leon Walker @IAmLeonWalker]

@BohuslavskaKate

[violeta ognianova ikonomova @violetikon]

Just in: A Detroit police sgt. called CBP during a traffic stop of a non-English speaker minutes before I took this video. That person is now on path to potential deportation. 2nd known time in 7 weeks DPD coordinated w/immigration officials against policy https://t.co/PGls6QG3fl

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

He cares even less about YOUR health.
https://t.co/B3GfAqIeBu

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.

Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russians openly state that there will be no peace until Ukraine surrenders. They’ve even invented a term for it: the "Anchorage format." Peskov stated this clearly yesterday, and every russian action confirms the same thing.

​The Trump administration had a choice between standing on the right side of history by arming Ukraine, or accepting russian demands and trying to pressure Ukraine into surrender. They chose the latter. It didn’t work.

​Yet they keep trying while simultaneously pretending they aren’t, because that kind of design would be way too unpopular. We’re all just dancing this dance with the U.S. now. Russia pretends these negotiations can actually lead somewhere while being unwilling to stop their war. Ukraine plays nice while knowing russia won't stop and we will not surrender. It’s all so Trump can say he’s done "oh-so-much," when in reality, nothing has come of it.

​At the very least, maybe a prisoner-of-war exchange will be agreed upon to create the illusion of progress. That would be one good thing in all this circus.

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

Denmark will not hand over Greenland even if the USA threatens us with nuclear weapons.

I am not saying this to stump our chest and try to be tough. We are small and no match for the USA. We know that. But we are not doing it under any circumstances.