cactus killa'

prickly contradict'ry

[Khushita Vasant @KhushitaVasant]

When the top echelon of @FTC is trucked in to speak at a "private" #antitrust conference in DC that the press is locked out of, what should a reporter do?

Public interest? What's that?

Power-packed program by @NERA_Economics: https://t.co/0RZgYa7HCb

https://t.co/yoWopo31Vs

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"The four richest Californians paid 0.07% of their wealth in income tax from 2019 to 2025," per NYT

[Alta Journal @AltaJournal]

Founded in a sheet-metal warehouse, Voices of Our City has grown into one of America’s most beloved choirs—its members living proof that joy survives hardship. https://t.co/TID0GdAFjp

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

The Founding Fathers envisioned a corrupt president - they didn’t envision a complicit House, Senate & Supreme Court.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

I wonder if these people understand that if they successfully suppress the moderate wing of socialism, what they’ll get instead are a bunch of Jim Jones-style terror cults that ritually sacrifice elderly Americans in order to expropriate their suburban ranch houses

[NBC News @NBCNews]

When former Green Bay Packers star Antonio Freeman was asked to name the family’s best athlete, the pass-catching great said there’s no doubt: That title belongs to his son. https://t.co/0MbMt0R1aE

[cactus killa' @aime_ama]

@BerniceKing Totally unrelated but every single time her photo pops up on the timeline I am struck anew by how beautiful she was. Just staggering. She was so much more than that but it just gets me every time.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

The reason why Watergate would be a 12 hour news story today is that Trump is so corrupt that Nixon seems almost quaint by comparison. Heck, the Guilded Age guys are kicking themselves for being born in the wrong century. There's much more dirty money to be made now.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Unearthed audio: RFK Jr. pushes a third-party candidate to drop out in exchange for a taxpayer-funded position in the federal government:

“I can’t go into specifics because there’s legal prohibitions about that.”

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

Pray for her soul.
It's dark.
And deeply racist.

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Independent analyses estimate that your actions to dismantle USAID and drastically reduce lifesaving foreign aid have already killed 700,000 people. Here are some of those people. 🧵https://t.co/aKdQpk9QTW

[Terry Virts @AstroTerry]

You are 100% right Senator Tillis. So why did you vote to confirm Hegseth? And Bondi. And Gabbard. And RFK. And Noem.

And why did you vote to acquit on J6?

You own 100% of this Trump disaster, and if you had a change of heart then repent and publicly denounce Trump and MAGA.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bill Pulte is 38. Stephen Miller is 40. Pete Hegseth, Markwayne Mullin, and Kash Patel are all 46. Russell Vought is 50. Todd Blanche is 51.

Trump is 80, more erratic than ever, and appears to be accelerating rather than moderating. The henchmen are young, disciplined, and in no hurry to leave.

When Republicans questioned whether Pulte was qualified to run the intelligence community, Trump said the acting designation was temporary and not permanent. Two days later he told the Wall Street Journal the acting status would leave Pulte "less shackled" than a Senate-confirmed director. Then he blew up Clayton's confirmation hearing hours before it was scheduled to begin - specifically to keep Pulte in place.

Pulte began firing people at ODNI on day one. Tulsi Gabbard had already built the predicate for using intelligence infrastructure in domestic elections under foreign interference framing. Pulte is continuing that work with more energy and less institutional resistance than she faced. Kristol's framing is precise: the old man sets the direction, the young men execute it with patience and competence the old man no longer has. That combination is the threat.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The Old Dictator and His Young Henchmen: The president is aging and ailing, but his lieutenants are hale and hungry.

https://t.co/Vwj7KvBjZm

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Immigration lawyers said in court filings that four Haitian women deported from the U.S. in February were later found beheaded and dumped in a river, The Associated Press reported.

[WORLD CUP TIX 1/2 PRICE @PhilipTKingston]

Release the Hoffman files!

https://t.co/orfG4v99Ua

[Hromadske Int. @Hromadske]

Maksym Oseredchuk, a fixer for ABC News who later joined the Ukrainian military, has been killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

https://t.co/3TVZzToAcB

[国光あやの 外務副大臣 衆議院議員 Ayano KUNIMITSU @ayano_kunimitsu]

キーウ駅。ウクライナ各地へのターミナル駅ですが、ロシアによる攻撃により、残念ながら東・南部方面など運行できなくなった路線が多くあります。キーウ構内で、当時の時刻表案内が、復旧を祈念して飾ってありました。ウクライナに平和と安定を取り戻し、再び鉄道路線が回復しますように🚉🇺🇦🕊️

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Irony died on that stage.