Daniel Higby

🇺🇸 Michigan resident, Engineer
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

When the president gets away with raping kids, stealing thousands of classified documents, and mounting a deadly coup attempt, but an Olympian gets brought up on federal charges for pulling paint chips out of a pool, you’ve got yourself a shithole country.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump has been allegedly selling pardons for up to $6 million each.

He's looking to issue 250 new pardons using the 250th anniversary as an excuse to potentially take in $1,500,000,000.

The most corrupt president ever — and it's not even close.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

This is so far the clearest view of the burning oil terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia. At least two major fires are raging in the oil facility.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that Todd Blanche has refused to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang's lawsuit, should be a more significant story.
The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story.
The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and now we found out he was, should be a more significant story.
The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup should be the most significant story of all.
And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then - especially - his panicked behavior on all things Epstein, it really should be the end of his presidency.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Donald Trump has been running a full on crypto scam out of the Oval Office. He's a disgrace.

[восхищённый болгарин™ @dedzaebal]

Белгород почти полностью обесточен – санкции были одновременно нанесены по всем основным подстанциям в городе.
Приятного аппетита.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

X has suddenly banned an account documenting Trump's corrupt stock trades seemingly without explanation.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Psaki: Now, in order to put on this celebration, Trump is using $68 million of taxpayer money. At least some of that money is being paid to a company called Event Strategies Incorporated. It's run by a group of Trump allies. We don't know how responsible they are for the 68 million of your tax dollars going towards this event. But so far, that money has paid for a janky ferris wheel plagued by power outages, a couple of tents with chairs in them, a temu version of Trump's planned arch, which appears to be falling apart and seems like it's being held together with a slapdash sealant job and, of course, some bizarre entertainment, half of which seems to just be Trump officials sitting on stage, basically filling the time. So how much of that $68 million actually went to the state fair, and how much to Event Strategies Incorporated did they get to keep for themselves?

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

If Reuters’ reporting is accurate, the bigger story isn’t the 200,000 barrels of jet fuel, it’s what the route tells us.

Japan ➡️ South Korea ➡️ ship-to-ship transfer ➡️ Russia.

For years, we’ve been told sanctions would isolate Russia. Yet if traders and intermediaries continue finding ways to profit from supplying a country waging the largest war in Europe since 1945, we have to ask: does money still trump principle?

Sanctions are only as effective as the willingness to enforce them. There is every indication the governments involved may not be aware of the final destination of the cargo. If that is the case, the question is whether authorities will investigate and act if sanctions or export controls have been circumvented.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Liz Oyer, former Pardon Attorney, describes how Todd Blanche fired her when she refused to do a dangerous official favor for Trump friend Mel Gibson. The actor lost his federal firearm rights after committing domestic violence. Gibson assaulted his girlfriend while she was holding their baby daughter, smashing her in the mouth, breaking her teeth, threatening her with his gun. Gibson asked Trump’s DOJ to reinstate his federal firearm rights despite his criminal conviction. Although Blanche had the power to do it on his own, he tried to force Oyer to give her stamp of approval. Not convinced of Gibson’s rehabilitation or his lack of dangerousness, and knowing that over half of women murdered in the United States are killed by a current or past intimate partner, and the presence of firearms in an abusive household increases the risk of murder by 500%, Oyer refused to have anything to do with Blanche’s dangerous and unethical suggestion. Blanche sacked her.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Apparently a plan was proposed in March by a Trump bootlicker appointee to replace the 200-year-old columns on the White House with more "ornate" columns that match his style.

Scaffolding has gone up. The White House says it's "routine maintenance."

Congress is silent.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.

Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.

What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.

The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.

Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. 

Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.

Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.

Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
https://t.co/LhgbGUY2Ca

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Impeach and convict.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

After public pressure, staff have final admitted that McConnell is STILL in hospital.

He’s been there for over 3 weeks since being found unconscious in his home.

A 3-week hospital stay is not normal recover time. It often points to neurological challenges or the need for direct cardiac or respiratory support.

Medical professionals I’ve spoken to have said, even after a cardiac event with CPR (and thus broken ribs in elderly patients) a patient like McConnell could easily be released to home care.

3-weeks in hospital means they are obscuring his physical, or mental state, or his consciousness.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Notice anything?

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

China added over 543 Gigawatts to their grid last year. 434 GW was renewables because they are faster to build. The U.S. added a paltry 53 GW. We are losing the “AI race” to China because these idiots hate green energy. This is suicide by stupid.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

In addition to his 747 sky palace and his 2+ billion dollar crypto-fueled payday, Trump is getting a gold ring with 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and 6 rubies from Belgium’s diamond industry . . . who he exempted from tariffs.

The most corrupt government in America’s 250 year history!

[Louis Duclos @ObsDelphi]

🇷🇺🇺🇦Les Ukrainiens ont trouvé une nouvelle manière de perturber le quotidien en Russie.

En modifiant les informations affichées sur les cartes en ligne, ils font croire que certaines stations-service sont approvisionnées alors qu'elles sont à sec, et inversement.

Des milliers d'automobilistes se dirigent alors vers les mauvais endroits, ce qui désorganise complètement les déplacements et crée des tensions partout dans la ville. Cette opération illustre parfaitement ce que l'on appelle une action de guerre informationnelle. Plutôt que de s'en prendre directement à des infrastructures, elle exploite un outil numérique russe.

L'intérêt de ce type d'action est qu'elle crée du chaos gratuitement et n'importe qui peut le faire. Les automobilistes consomment davantage de carburant, saturent les routes, encombrent les stations-service et alimentent eux-mêmes la confusion.

Même si les conséquences restent limitées individuellement, leur accumulation peut avoir un impact réel sur le fonctionnement d'une grande ville. L'information est devenue un véritable levier stratégique : lorsqu'une population ne peut plus faire confiance aux applis qu'elle consulte au quotidien, c'est toute l'organisation de la vie civile qui peut être perturbée.

Le résultat c'est que cela permet d'aggraver encore les tensions autour de la pénurie d'essence en Russie. Et comment est-ce que les autorités russes peuvent contrer cela ? Honnêtement, je n'en ai aucune idée, ils ont déjà attaqué l'Ukraine.

Les Ukrainiens sont vraiment au top niveau innovation.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“The Trump family’s earnings, experts said, have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey” https://t.co/q3lVt4IEwa