Ted Hitchcock 🐍

Bless him. It’s just tiring. When people ask me what it’s like to be deaf when I’ve worked hard to accomplish something, it’s hard not to turn on them. It’s hard to not say, are you so narrow minded or indoctrinated that this trait is all you see? We are whole human beings. Not just an identity politics trend. And it’s flat out bigoted to reduce us to one trait.

Ben Appel’s WSJ piece “I’m Gay, but That Doesn’t Make Me ‘Queer’” is excellent and necessary. @benappel bravely stating what so many of us feel. Our sexuality doesn’t require rejecting what’s normal and legitimate. It doesn’t force us to embrace “queer” ideology or become an identity insurgent. He nails it. Queer theory isn’t gay rights; it’s a misguided rejection of shared human values and reality itself. It’s rare to see this perspective from a gay male in mainstream media. Well done, Ben.

@GovPressOffice You spelled dementia wrong

RT if you miss having a President with empathy

@KATUNews But how could that policy change possibly have gone wrong?

Is Home Forward, Portland’s public housing agency, putting its tenants at risk? The agency lowered its threshold for crimes that were once grounds for eviction. Now, some are calling for changes, as our partners at Willamette Week first reported. katu.com/news/local/ive…

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Ana Kasparian on @PiersMorgan yesterday: “The Gaza Health Ministry historically has been accurate and very careful when publishing death toll, it’s always confirmed and underestimated.”

Did you know: all five of the US flags planted by the Apollo missions have been bleached white by the UV rays which means now the moon technically belong to France

@EdKrassen Wow. Racist much?

I wish Charlie Kirk was alive to see this: A black astronaut, Victor Glover, piloting the Artemis II. And doing it better than a White Dude could. RIP Charlie.

A newborn sperm whale can’t swim. It starts sinking the second it’s born. If nobody pushes it to the surface, it drowns in mile-deep water. On July 8, 2023, a sperm whale named Rounder went into labor off the coast of Dominica. Researchers from Project CETI, a $33 million AI initiative out of MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern that’s trying to decode whale language, happened to be there doing routine fieldwork. They had drones in the air and underwater microphones running. What they captured over the next six hours just got published in two papers, one in Science and one in Scientific Reports. Eleven whales gathered at the surface before Rounder even started delivering. Her mother, Lady Oracle, was there. So was her daughter Accra. Three generations in the water. But the wild part: half those whales belonged to a completely separate bloodline that normally keeps its distance from Rounder’s family. On a typical day, these two family lines split off to hunt in different areas and rarely cluster together. For the birth, they all converged before labor started. The unrelated family somehow knew it was coming. The delivery took 34 minutes. Sperm whale calves come out tail-first with their flukes still folded from the womb. They haven’t developed the oil-filled organ in their heads that helps adult whales float, so the moment they’re born, they’re dead weight in the ocean. Every adult whale in the group, related and unrelated, started taking turns pushing the calf up to breathe. They kept this rotation going for three hours. When a pod of pilot whales (known to be aggressive toward sperm whales) and a large group of Fraser’s dolphins showed up during delivery, the adults formed a wall around the newborn until the threat passed. The underwater audio is where it gets interesting. CETI’s microphones picked up the whales changing their vocal patterns during the birth. The click-based sounds they use to talk to each other shifted at specific moments, and vowel-like structures appeared in the recordings. This builds on what CETI found in 2024 when they ran machine learning on over 8,700 recorded whale calls and discovered sperm whale communication isn’t a basic 21-sound code. It’s a system of about 300 distinct sound combinations, with the whales adjusting rhythm and timing in real time, speeding up and slowing down the way a musician does mid-performance. A 2025 follow-up from UC Berkeley found these clicks also contain vowel patterns, something scientists had assumed only humans could produce. Sperm whales carry the largest brain of any animal on the planet. About 9 kg. Roughly six times heavier than yours. The evolutionary analysis in the new Science paper suggests this kind of cooperative birthing goes back over 36 million years, to the common ancestor of all toothed whales. The calf was spotted a year later, swimming with its family.

@truthbombprints @EliseStefanik @PamBondi This aged very well

@EliseStefanik And yet do-nothing @PamBondi hasn't made a single arrest.

🚨🚨🚨 This ActBlue investigation is among the biggest bombshell campaign finance corruption and actual foreign election interference stories in American politics. And it was all so publicly obvious, with many urging the media to look into this, but until recently, the media refused to cover it. A must read from (surprisingly!) @nytimes @ShaneGoldmacher @reidepstein “This presents a substantial risk for ActBlue,” the law firm, Covington & Burling, wrote in one of two memos expressing legal concerns. One memo raised the specter of a criminal investigation if prosecutors believed that ActBlue had tried to conceal facts about its efforts to prevent foreign contributions. Federal election law prohibits foreign citizens or people who are not permanent residents from donating directly to federal candidates or political action committees. Lying to or obstructing Congress is a crime. The memos instigated a meltdown at the highest levels of ActBlue, one of the Democratic Party’s most vital financial organs…. It can be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” one memo states. “In addition, because ActBlue’s staff was aware that its system was not as robust as necessary, it could be alleged that these violations were ‘knowing and willful,’ a standard that both increases the penalties the F.E.C. might seek and gives the Justice Department jurisdiction for a potential criminal investigation.” 🚨🚨🚨🚨 nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/…

@Tweetoleon @instapundit Correct. Also, apparently the court must also consider that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been shoplifting in Japan.

Isn’t it convenient how the left constantly shifts the goalposts on who gets to claim the mantle of civilization? 250 year old democratic government? Colonists on stolen land. 47 year old Islamic regime? Oldest civilization in the world.

Double the number of Iranian civilians were massacred over the course of 48 hours than total number of civilians killed in Gaza during a two year war.

@KATUNews There are 2 Wincos within 3-4 miles from this Grocery Outlet

Food deserts are becoming more dire as the price of gas goes up and fewer grocery store options narrow consumers' choices even further. katu.com/news/local/eas…

@CBSNews Overturned in 3, 2, 1…

Judge orders Trump administration to restore legal status of migrants allowed into U.S. through Biden-era phone app cbsn.ws/41Eijjv

@timruss2 Name the 2 left wing justices who are part of Trump’s personal court.

@MarkRuffalo How can there be a genocide in Gaza when there are more Gazans there now than there were on October 7th? You really aren’t capable of critical thinking, are you?

This is something I have been worrying a lot about. We have psychopaths waging this war. We have seen Netanyahu gleefully carry out a genocide in Gaza reducing it to a nuclear bomb site. Why would he not go further now in Iran? There has been absolutely no consequences for his war crimes in Gaza. Trump has only assisted them. This has got to stop. As the citizens of the world we have to stop this. They can not be allowed to carry out a nuclear strike on the millions of innocent people of Iran. These are our fellow human beings, regardless of their leaders. This is insanity.

@KATUNews “Local” news

A Nashville journalist is speaking publicly for the first time after spending more than two weeks in federal immigration detention, describing the experience as “terrifying” and saying her legal battle is far from over. katu.com/news/nation-wo…

@KATUNews In Oregon?

Although state legislative races rarely get the national spotlight, Democrats across the country were positively euphoric at the irony of their Republican nemesis being represented by one of their own. katu.com/news/nation-wo…

@brianstelter I almost never agree with him, but his career speaks for itself. He’s earned this honor.

It's official now: "The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts will present the 27th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Bill Maher on June 28, 2026 in the Trump Kennedy Center Concert Hall."