Tyler Gibson

I have been awake since before the breaking of the first silence.

[Tyler Gibson @TylerGibson]

Peace out twitter! It’s been real

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

On the morning of 9/11, Mohammad Salman Hamdani was on his way to work when he diverted to the Twin Towers to help victims at what was clearly some kind of catastrophe given the billowing black smoke emanating from them.

He was an EMT and NYPD cadet, and it is believed he used his credentials to make his way through police lines in order to render aid and save lives.

During the weeks of rescue and recovery following that horrific day, his identification and his medical bag were found in the rubble of the North Tower. The remains also found in that spot would take five months to be identified as his through DNA testing.

He was 23.

His parents were Pakistani and Muslim immigrants and came to the U.S. when he was an infant. His mother was a middle school English teacher, and his father owned and operated a convenience store in Brooklyn.

Mr. Hamdani grew up in Queens. He attended Bayside High School, where he was on the football team. He graduated from Queens College in the summer of 2001 and knew he wanted to serve the public as a first responder.

He was given a police funeral with full honors the month after his remains were identified. Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly were among the mourners and presented his parents and two younger brothers with a police shield.

He’s been honored in other ways. There are scholarships in his name at Queens College and Rockefeller University. There’s a street named after him in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens. He was cited for his heroism by Congress.

Mr. Hamdani was an American kid who grew up into a young man who wanted to serve his community, and he died trying to save the lives of others.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The Talarico campaign is not fucking around

[bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen]

He was a mensch for this. He did a lot of stupid, evil things as president. But when he had the chance to leverage public opinion against a vulnerable minority, for personal gain, he said "no". Imagine the current crop of criminals showing even this baseline level of integrity.

[Tyler Gibson @TylerGibson]

Holy shit Vinland Saga goes so goddamn hard. I was not ready for that opening credits song

[Pablo Torre Finds Out @pablofindsout]

A federal criminal investigation into the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard is reportedly underway.

@PabloTorre reacts: "There is a lot more."

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Video shows Flock walking police through how to monitor a No Kings protest in real time. I do not have to agree with a single sign at that protest to say this plainly: Surveillance aimed at your political opponents today will be aimed at you tomorrow.

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

This conversation is playing out in homes across the nation.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

[Jacob P.M.🌔 @JacobBSpeaks]

Doug Eddings is everything we’ve been complaining about with Umpires.

There’s so many red flags here signaling that he believes the fans attended to watch him call pitches.

@MLB and @MLBUA should be embarrassed.

[litquidity @litcapital]

The beginning of the end for Los Tacos

[Tyler Gibson @TylerGibson]

So when are we getting a mea culpa from these bozos?

[ESPN @espn]

The NBA has found no evidence that Clippers owner Steve Ballmer funneled money through team sponsors to pay Kawhi Leonard and circumvent the salary cap, sources told @DVNJr, @Baxter and @ramonashelburne.

Full story: https://t.co/jC7wTReBoe

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

"Golden" is so hard to sing that the women who recorded it lowered it two keys the first time they performed it live on Fallon.

The song runs from C3 to A5. Three full octaves. And the A5 at the top of the chorus has to come out in full chest voice, a note usually reserved for trained operatic sopranos.

The low end is the trap nobody notices. Those verses sit around C3, which is below where most female voices produce any real tone. Drop the key to make the high notes reachable and the bottom of the song disappears entirely. There's no comfortable version.

That happened because it was written for a cartoon. EJAE has said the production team asked for big high notes and she wrote them freely, assuming she'd never be the one singing it. Then the director heard her demo and cast her as the voice of Rumi.

She built a vocal Everest for an animated character and got assigned to climb it herself.

Which explains why this became the most requested Kellyoke ever. A song that humbles nearly every professional who attempts it, handed to the one daytime host who won her career in a live singing competition.

[Bobby Wagner @bwags]

Whether it’s the circular funding, the rampant copyright infringement, the data center construction, the manufactured consent, etc…

It’s so clear to anyone paying attention that the business model of these companies is simply to become too big to fail, too fast to be regulated

[H @caprickhan]

You can see Kelly really concentrating on her technique here, goes to show how difficult this song actually is. Constantly belting in the 5th octave throughout the whole song must be exhausting

[✨Braxel Foley✨ @__BRAT_]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment @MadeinNY]

We need to make filmmaking more affordable.

That’s exactly why non-profits such as the Millennium Film Workshop are so important.

Memberships start at just $80/year for unlimited access to cameras, workshops, and community screenings.

Because everyone should have access to the magic of filmmaking.

[Tyler Gibson @TylerGibson]

😭

[Sarah Gallagher @sgallz_]

In 1990, Dolly Parton went on vacation in Ireland.

She walked into a local pub in County Kerry and delivered a flawless performance of Coat of Many Colors.

A heart of pure gold who made people smile across oceans.

[Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen]

Burn private equity to the ground.

[Tyler Gibson @TylerGibson]

This never gets old

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

opera.

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[accrual_summer @SummerAccrual]

@HedgieMarkets The future is not one of abundance but one of being constantly skimmed, scammed, and manipulated.