Herb T (@herbtyson.bsky.social) 🔥

a government relations professional and public policy junkie. Retweets not an endorsement. Bluesky is the future.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

This is so so good and scary. “I can’t stand this place anymore,” he said. “These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.”

The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes https://t.co/L8dil5znDy

[Eddie Smith @eddsmitty]

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️

🧵 Last week, we went over Black servicemen having to give up rank in order to fight on the front lines. Today, we will meet one of those men.

Pull up a seat🪑, friends.(cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

https://t.co/dBAELZV8Mc

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Angus: People used to just assume the United States would find a way to make a solution. They were the big bully on the block. They were our bully, we stuck with them. But now they are not trustworthy.

So this is why you're seeing Canada looking to Europe, Canada talking to China, the Europeans starting to look to Asia, everyone deciding they've got to get out from under this.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Makes me wonder

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

UFC Freedom 250 is facing chaotic weather. There’s a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitoes.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

THIS FEELS LIKE THEY’RE TESTING US

Trump and Republicans spent years claiming voter fraud without evidence. They tried to overturn the 2020 election, and earlier this year, Trump’s FBI raided the Fulton County election office based on allegations that had already been debunked, and spreading about California’s elections.

Now a voting-rights organization in Ohio is being raided.

Brace yourself: the midterms are getting closer.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

The trillionaire debate isn't just about inequality. It's also about efficiency.⁣
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Wealth becomes increasingly concentrated as you move from the top 10%, to the top 1%, to the top 0.1%.⁣
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But economists still have to ask a difficult question: if someone is creating enormous value and doing things more efficiently than the alternatives, how should we think about that wealth?

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.

He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.

In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.

“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”

“I felt imprisoned.”

“They took my freedom.”

“They took my livelihood.”

“They took my land.”

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Biden at 80. Trump at 80.

One rode bikes, worked out daily, passed historic legislation, released yearly physicals, and answered endless questions about his age and health.

The other falls asleep in public, rambles through speeches, looks visibly swollen, and has reportedly taken multiple cognitive tests ordered by doctors.

Guess which one the media treated like a five-alarm health crisis. 🙄

[Stephanie Kelton @StephanieKelton]

Creating trillionaires the old-fashioned way. One rate hike at a time.

[🅽🅽🅸🆃🆁🅴🅳 @NNITRED]

@skiistiredasf The swipe data showed that white employees were just as bad or worse and faced no discipline.

[Capital Jay @1stKlassOutkast]

@skiistiredasf @TDWIntercontin1 Arresting innocent Black men for crimes that didn't commit or never happened is a part of the American Justice System.
It is designed to do exactly what it does.

[Nora @Heal_within96]

Black people make up 50% of all exonerations in the US, despite being 13.6% of the population. Black people are 7 times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of serious crimes (murder, sexual assault/drug offenses) than White individuals.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The scandal here is using the Situation Room to perpetuate a coverup of the Epstein files.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I fear we have a cruel month ahead of us: the future of campaign finance law, the definition of Election Day, the fate of birthright citizenship. While I remain hopeful, I am prepared for democracy to leave this month weaker than it entered. https://t.co/WKWGn1CznF

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Kasie Hunt points out to Markwayne Mullin that he seems to be laying the groundwork to blame Democrats if there is a security incident at the World Cup

[Warren @swd2]

This is what happens when you give your pool boy a $14,000,000 no bid contract for stuff he’s clearly not qualified to do.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

VAN SUSTEREN: Who is our best friend in South America at this point

KRISTI NOEM: We've worked so much with El Salvador ... Costa Rica has been fantastic

(El Salvador and Costa Rica, dear reader, are not in South America)

[ABC News @ABC]

President Barack Obama reacts to U.S. action in Iran as the two sides get closer to a peace deal: “It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place.”

Watch Robin Roberts’ interview with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama Wednesday on Good Morning America.

https://t.co/0guUGrcOJH