Craig Dylan Wyatt

Gay, Non-binary, cutie-sweetie who spends my time advocating for social justice and appreciating art in all its many forms. ze/zim or he/him

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

Mitch McConnell’s staff have refused to even say if the senator had spoken to any of them in recent days.
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[Tristan Harris @tristanharris]

Concerning...

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Trump just hit Canada with a new round of 50% tariffs.

The immediate effect: higher prices for Americans buying Canadian goods.

The bigger story: Trump has now shown that even goods protected by his own trade deal aren’t necessarily protected anymore.

What happens when trade agreements stop feeling like agreements?

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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

• March 2025: Taylor Farms contributes $1 million to Make America Great Again Inc., days after the FDA delays the Food Traceability Rule.

• The FDA informs Taylor Farms that one of its iceberg lettuce products tested positive for cyclospora, prompting a voluntary recall.

• During the cyclospora outbreak: The New York Times reports Taylor Farms hires a former Trump White House official.

• Last week: Taylor Farms executives meet with White House and FDA officials, where the company challenges aspects of the government's outbreak conclusions, according to the New York Times.

• Now: Taylor Farms says the FDA apologized, calling the positive test a false positive and stating no Taylor Farms product has tested positive for cyclospora.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Kevin Warsh won’t explain who gave him a $100+ million payout days before becoming Fed chair.

The American people deserve transparency.

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

Extreme heat is one of the deadliest workplace hazards in America. But today, House lawmakers are considering legislation that would block OSHA from issuing or enforcing a federal heat safety standard. That's the wrong direction when workers' lives are on the line.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani just did something his critics swore a socialist would never do: cut fines, fees, permits, and red tape for small businesses.

More than 50 reforms will make it easier for restaurants, bodegas, barbershops, retailers, and drivers to operate—including killing the absurd second permit restaurants need just to serve ice cream.

Less bureaucracy. Lower costs. More time running the business.

That is what competent government looks like.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of the FBI saying it will no longer investigate killings by ICE agents?

Jackson: This echoes something very long and dark in American history, where those doing the lynchings were never brought to justice…

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security. Except: all taxed with narrow carve-outs, and all of it expires end of 2028.⁣
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The one part of the tax bill that doesn't expire? Tax cuts for the wealthy. Those are permanent.⁣
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Populism with an asterisk.⁣
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[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.

Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Saving corporations billions"

[Rep. Jason Crow @RepJasonCrow]

Hegseth is blocking qualified military officers from promotions.

It’s not just wrong. It’s making America less safe.

https://t.co/0oT91FLR2J

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

The economy is rigged for the rich and powerful.

Working people are fighting for scraps just to make ends meet in this economy. And workers are sick and tired of extreme corporate greed.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

In 2007, Lionel Messi held a baby for a photo shoot. That baby grew up to be Spanish soccer star Lamine Yamal!

19 years later, Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are set to face off in the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina!

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Yes, those photos you’ve seen are real.

More than 18 years ago, a baby named Lamine Yamal and his mom Sheila met Lionel Messi at a UNICEF fundraising photoshoot.

Today, their achievements on the pitch inspire millions. Off the pitch, both Messi and Lamine Yamal use their voices and platforms as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to support and advocate for children around the world.

The goal? That every child survives, thrives, and fulfils their potential.

We are proud to have them on our team.

Credit: Joan Monfort

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a huge scandal for any other president.

A South Korean company challenging Commerce Department trade penalties paid Donald Trump’s holding company $2,000,000 last year.

The payment came from Base Group, the lead investor in Korea Aluminium, which faced penalties after the Commerce Department found that South Korean companies were circumventing trade duties on Chinese-made aluminum. The money surfaced in Trump’s annual financial disclosure released in late June.

The disclosure described it only as a nonrefundable development fee tied to a letter of intent. The Trump Organization says it relates to an unannounced golf course project.

Base Group has courted the Trump family for nearly a decade. It sells Trump-branded wine in South Korea and hosted Eric Trump at its Seoul headquarters in February, where executives discussed expanding trade between the two countries.

As recently as last month, the Commerce Department was weighing whether to raise tariffs further on Korea Aluminium. A preliminary review released last week sided with American aluminum companies. The agency that decides this company’s fate answers to the president. The president took $2,000,000 dollars from its largest investor.

This is one payment. Trump’s holding company collected at least $125,000,000 from foreign sources last year, from more than a dozen countries.

Every president in modern history stepped away from their business to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. This president kept nearly 30 ventures with foreign partners and now profits from companies whose fortunes his own government controls.

This cannot be normalized.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

The election-security obsessed Mike Lindell is still registered to vote in Texas—not the state where he is running for governor.
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[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

The government stopped monitoring this because someone / DOGE thought public health and safety was a waste of money.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Donald Trump lied when he said there are 280,000 noncitizens registered to vote in 4 states. He is saying this to threaten states to turn over their voter rolls to the administration and agree to remove the names of people Trump doesn't want to be able to vote.