Charles Heenalu

Getting snarky in my old age. Former Republican voter, never again. Retweet’s not endorsements. I’m not perfect, either.

[Charles Heenalu @SurfCharlesNot]

@RapidResponse47

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $16.3 billion in contracts in the past six months — compared with $2.1 billion from 2016 to 2024.

Most of it has gone to two firms that have ties to the White House and the Republican Party. https://t.co/47WT3tNfSF

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Senator Ossoff introduces bill to ban congressional stock trading.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Sure, let’s copy the Soviet model and have Apparatchik or Zampolit in every department, cuz that worked super. Makes sense given how this disgraceful president is envious of totalitarian regimes.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Ukraine’s drone forces have pulled off something genuinely significant at Donetsk Airport. The 14th Regiment of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces has established what they call “fire control” over the Russian-held facility, destroying launch pads, vehicles, and supply depots in a sustained campaign that has rendered the airport effectively unusable.

The target was not chosen at random. Russia had transformed the airport into a dual-purpose military asset: a launch site for Shahed-type attack drones and a logistics hub feeding front-line operations in the Donetsk region.

Taking it out of commission disrupts both functions simultaneously.

What makes this operation notable is its place within a larger strategic framework. Ukraine is pursuing what the BBC describes as a “logistics lockdown” strategy, using AI-guided drones to systematically dismantle Russian supply infrastructure behind the front lines rather than concentrating solely on direct battlefield engagements. The logic is straightforward: an army that cannot resupply cannot sustain offensive pressure.

Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces described this as the first operation of its kind in modern military history, a claim that reflects how novel drone-on-infrastructure warfare at this scale and precision actually is.

Ukraine is increasingly using autonomous, and AI-assisted drones not just to harass but to degrade Russian operational capacity at depth.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

266,000 jobs under Biden:
“slowed”
“muddled expectations”
“fell short”

172,000 jobs under trump:
“upswing”
“vigorous”
“strong sign for economy”

This is the double standard Dems have had to deal with for the past 10 years.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Hey, Lisa Murkowski, was selling your soul and selling out Alaska worth it?

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Absolute clownery. We are at war. He’s not in the Middle East assuring allies, coordinating operations, or overseeing operations. No. He’s cosplaying as a real warrior. An Infantry officer who didn’t graduate Ranger School so he has to dress up like the actual qualified soldiers that did.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

How? They got sick from drinking raw milk. The answer is literally the headline.

[Charles Heenalu @SurfCharlesNot]

@JDVance https://t.co/yIKR2cJxuI

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Charles Heenalu @SurfCharlesNot]

@JDVance No worries, Trump will pardon those fraudsters anyway.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

@RepFine Imagine becoming a Congressman and still not knowing that receiving someone else's mail isn't the same thing as casting a valid ballot

[Charles Heenalu @SurfCharlesNot]

@RapidResponse47 I’m glad he’s thinking about our service members, veterans and especially our Wounded Warriors. He should immediately open all his golf courses for free play to these great Americans, along with free memberships to all his clubs. That would be truly inspirational.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Anti-vax is rapidly reviving childhood disease.

[Jake @jacobkleinman]

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4”
— unknown poet, early 21st century, the American Northeast

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Today 82 years ago, the largest amphibious invasion in history began along the coast of Normandy, known as D-Day

[🗾 World in Maps]

[Automoto @Automoto415792]

Tesla is a financial shell. Even $tsla fans know it. At best $50 stock is at 400$. This risk capital has been running the stock for 4 years. Now that a much better financial shell is coming from Musk, the risk capital will be moving to SpaceX. Tesla will be a sub 100$ stock.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*