Alfred King

Communications leader, writer/content creator, reputation builder, #socialmediamarketing, PR. For progress, even with the uncertainties. Tweets - my own.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

NEW YORK: Tonight, Knicks fans across our city will come together at Plaza 33 outside MSG, Radio City Music Hall, and Wollman Rink to watch Game 5 of the NBA Finals. My administration is proud to work with the Knicks to support these watch parties.

As we celebrate, be responsible, look out for one another, stay safe, be smart, and make this a night that reflects the very best of our city.

Let's go Knicks.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yes @mcuban you’re right that 60% of US adults own stock directly or indirectly but what you omit to mention is that the richest 1% of Americans own nearly 50% of the stock market while the bottom half of Americans own just 1%.

[Today In History @historigins]

A crowd gathers outside the Myers family home, trying to scare away the first black family in Levittown, Pennsylvania, 1957.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Horrifying story of how Jeffrey Epstein obtained "work-release" from his Florida jail to go to his office each day and sexually exploited women there, while he was nominally incarcerated. Another reminder that we don't take sex trafficking seriously. https://t.co/1s14DI7FMB

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Federal agencies are legally required to collect employee race, national origin, sex and disability. But now are no longer required to report it to the EEOC. Turning a blind eye to this data will only allow discrimination to fester.
https://t.co/rpTldBVI1u

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

I want to highlight for psychiatric clinicians some lines from Trump’s failed emergency motion to the DC Circuit seeking to keep his name on the Kennedy Center.
“The name ‘Kennedy’ is still on the Building, but in a much stronger form,” Trump writes. (That is, below his.)
1/5

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Seven million borrowers were thrown out of SAVE with 90 days to find a new plan. The Education Department gutted its own staff. Treasury - which has never run student loans - takes over 500,000 defaulted accounts in July.

Nearly one in four borrowers is already in default.

A pause while the government sorts out the mess it made is not controversial. It's overdue.

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

CBS News: The Trump administration deported ~20 migrants from Afghanistan, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and other nations to the Central African Republic, which the U.S. warns Americans not to visit "for any reason" due to violence and unrest.

W/ @annabellehanflg.
https://t.co/cs2SsBPH2x

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

I guess I'm just dim but I really don't understand who is buying SpaceX at $160 per share. This is a company that is losing billions of dollars a quarter and the profits are supposed to come when we colonize Mars and launch data centers in space?

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot filed safety reports after nearly being blinded by lights from Donald Trump's UFC structure when flying into Washington, D.C.'s Reagan airport.

My latest with @MeidasTouch: https://t.co/ntul2SkOSH

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The "Trump Kennedy Center" apparently repeatedly ignored the terms of a contract with the Washington National Opera, locked the WNO out from viewing their own financial records, and is now refusing to return$17 million of their own money — and even already spent some of it!

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelley (Biden/MA) blocks Interior Secy. Doug Burgum's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order at nat parks nationwide. Feds must restore race, climate & LGBT mentions https://t.co/AksGWmdkOn

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot tells MeidasTouch they filed FAA and NASA safety reports after lighting from Trump’s UFC event at the White House allegedly flooded their cockpit on approach to Reagan National. The pilot called it “10 times worse than any laser illumination event” they’d ever experienced. https://t.co/L6taUKdgbG

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

Q: How many more debt-schemes will be forced on working class Americans?

A: All of them

[Christa Brown @ChristaBrown777]

Meredith Stone of @BaptistWomen explains how, with the increased attention on the SBC's widespread clergy sex abuse crisis, Southern Baptist leaders "shifted attention to create the face of the enemy on women in ministry." #ThisistheSBC

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Samara Joy and harpist Brandee Younger cover If It’s Magic by Stevie Wonder. 🥹

BONUS: That’s Alice Coltrane’s harp!!!

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I'm blown away by this EXCELLENT piece of @CNN reporting. This journalist @katie_polglase demonstrates how to conduct interviews with Epstein associates. She had this guy sweating, because she did her homework. Bravo. (Worth getting through the ad to watch.)...https://t.co/qbzVqDcPbs

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Jerry Seinfeld said Palestine doesn’t exist.

This was actually the subject of my PhD dissertation.

Turns out that Arab, Muslims & Christians have been calling Palestine Palestine continuously for more than a millennium.

Receipts: https://t.co/AkPWW0zyRy

[INDY Week @indyweek]

In an unprecedented and still-murky saga, landlords and companies like IBM and Blackstone won billions in property tax appeals. City leadership, banking on the revenue, didn’t know until April.
https://t.co/5R8fhncBFH

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

At least 88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

Those 88 corporations also happened to spend $852 MILLION on political lobbying the last three election cycles.

They're essentially making a 3,000% return on investment.

The system is rigged.