Herb T (@herbtyson.bsky.social) 🔥

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

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 BREAKING ACTION: John Roberts has hijacked the rule of law, rewriting the Constitution to shield executives and shield billionaires. Congress holds the power to impeach a judge who breaks their oath.

Force your reps to act. Send your letter today: https://t.co/yrqb1AFXim

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

“Government resources” = your taxpayer dollars

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Ashley Pratte Oates: “I do want to point out one quick thing here though, how it is VERY INTERESTING that Kushner’s investment firm that has been increasingly working with FOREIGN governments and yet we haven’t really talked about that as a huge conflict of interest but yet so-called conservatives were very quick to say one of the issues with Clinton if she were to assume the presidency would be the Clinton Foundation, and her ties to foreign dignitaries, so I do want to point that out because it is a very important point that conservatives have shown interest in before and really should show interest in this time.”🤔

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Doug Burgum is a great example of how Trump turns everyone around him into a painfully sycophantic hack. When Burgum ran for president in 2024, he seemed like a reasonably serious traditional conservative. Now he's on TV saying extraordinarily silly things all the time.

[Mary Pat Flynn @MaryPatFlynn1]

@rparloff @Jadelia “Donations” for TRUMP®️

3 months before TRUMP®️ declared 2016 candidacy, TRUMP TAJ MAHAL CASINO RESORT®️ was fined $10 MILLION by FinCEN re:💰LAUNDERING

™️Assignment recorded @uspto during 2016 CAMPAIGN proves the 2 ™️s & “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” are owned by Donald J. Trump

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

Trump's emergency plea to the DC Circuit to stop removal of his name from the Kennedy Center included this odd reference to a bylaw that had never been mentioned before in the litigation. It's looking increasingly like it was passed last week—and maybe on Thursday, the day before the petition.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Thanks to fans from every corner of the world dancing and singing in the streets and on the vast, empty parking lots, America gets to look like a normal place for four weeks.

Then the fans go home. Back to the best places on earth. And America carries on exactly as before.

Bigger homes. Bigger gas stations. Bigger everything. Absolutely. Also bigger medical bills, bigger working hours, bigger anxiety, and the biggest per-capita debt of any developed nation on the planet.

But yes. Enormous car parks. Truly something to cherish.

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on what is and isn't "sus" about the SpaceX IPO

"This... [is a] classic venture capital exit maneuver. The IPO is the liquidity event"

"What's different... is they accelerated the timeline where the insiders can sell. That's a little... 'sus'"

"[Also,] what is untoward about it, in many classic investors' viewpoints, is it's being priced at an outrageous multiple—about 95 [to] 100 times revenues. That's just absurd"

"So I suspect this is going to do what a lot of IPOs do. It's going to deflate over the next six to 12 months and people will lose money who bought it here, as the insiders cash out"

"[There's also] usually... a seasoning period for an IPO of at least up to a year [for the] NASDAQ[, but it] dispensed with that. The S&P was rumored to do the same thing, but the S&P decided, no, no, we're not changing our rules for Elon"

"Also, the lockup period is accelerated way more than it typically is. So people are going to punch out of their shares"

"What this means is people who have been in this company, employees, VCs, private, private family offices, they're going to get their liquidity"

"I was talking to a guy on the Street a couple of weeks ago, and his fund sold it last year, and they thought it was already overpriced at $400 billion and so they're very mad at themselves because they got out before $1.5 trillion"

"what's gone on here is absolutely absurd. It's worth $400 billion last year, now it's $1.7 trillion. What's changed? Nothing other than hype. So this is classic bubble behavior"

"I have nothing to say about SpaceX the company per se... it could be a great stock at a much lower valuation, but it all depends. People have to separate the stock price from the company. Great companies and great stocks are two different things"

@ShannonJoyRadio @DowdEdward

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, World War II is probably the worst example you could have chosen.

The whole reason World War II happened in the first place was because World War I ended with a deeply flawed post-war settlement. If anything, it is a warning about what happens when you fail to properly resolve the causes of a conflict.

And when World War II did happen, how did it end? Not through negotiations. It ended with a decisive military victory. In Germany, Allied forces were literally within meters of Hitler’s bunker. In Japan, it took two nuclear bombs before the Imperial leadership finally accepted reality and surrendered unconditionally.

I don’t even need to go digging through distant history or obscure corners of the world to find examples. Let’s stay in your own backyard. How did the American Civil War end? It ended with a decisive Union victory, the surrender of the Confederacy, Reconstruction, and accountability for those who had taken up arms against the Union. It did not end with everyone sitting around a table and agreeing to disagree.

The lesson from history isn’t that wars should end through vague compromises that leave the underlying issues unresolved. Quite often, the lesson is the exact opposite: unresolved conflicts tend to come back, usually bigger and bloodier than before.

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

History Doesn’t Stay Buried

They lynched, butchered, souvenired and even ate people like Nat Turner, then erased it from classrooms, and now their descendants call remembering “divisive” while living off the laws that silence the crime.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Fareed Zakaria stood at Bard College’s commencement.

He had a trigger warning.

“I’m about to utter the two most provocative letters in English today. AI.”

Students braced to boo.

Instead, he flipped it.

“I don’t want to talk about AI. I want to talk about HI. Human Intelligence.”

The story:

He pointed to the human brain. 3 pounds. ~20 watts.

Less power than a laptop charger.

AI data centers? They consume enough electricity to power entire cities.

His point: humans aren’t “inferior computers.” We were never computers at all.

The lesson:

“A machine can write a sad poem. But it cannot weep at a funeral. It can generate a love letter. But it cannot fall in love.”

Human intelligence doesn’t win on speed. Or efficiency.

It wins because it’s embedded, consciousness, emotion, morality, memory, relationships, lived experience.

The takeaway:

Don’t ask “what’s left for humans to do?”

Ask “what does AI reveal about everything humans already do, that’s irreplaceable?”

Curiosity. Wisdom. Empathy. Critical thinking.

These aren’t soft skills anymore.

They’re the moat.

Build the tech. Use the tech.

But champion HI, human imagination, human inspiration, human interconnection.

“Our imperfections aren’t bugs in some system’s code. They’re the cracks that let the light in.”

[Arin Dube @arindube]

Just as America mints its first trillionaire, we're seeing real wages fall for most American workers. And the previous strong wage growth at the bottom is starting to unravel.

A painful juxtaposition.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Trump pardoned 77 people that stole from Medicare.

This flew under the radar. I believe Trump is selling pardons which is enough to send Trump away.

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

I know comparing modern society to Idiocracy is really played out but man

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

Trump is trying to escape a $100 million dollar tax penalty, and Senate Republicans are helping him do it.

You know about the $1.8 billion slush fund he tried to create to reward his political allies. They got so much pushback that they’ve halted that, at least for now. But what you probably don’t know is that Trump gave himself, his family, and his businesses complete immunity from IRS audits, past and future.

Everyone focused on the slush fund, and almost nobody noticed the audit immunity. It’s still in place, and it cannot be allowed to stand.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Donald Trump needs California, and he just can’t get us. So he is turning all his attention to destroying us.
@DemocracyDocket
Watch the entire conversation on PoliticsGirl YouTube, or listen where you get your pods! https://t.co/70AVUMUalk

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: CEO Skye Perryman confirms the Trump administration is desperately trying to skirt the law. She exposes how the White House might secretly move the illegal $1.8B fund to a different cabinet official to bypass the judge!

The court is onto their massive fraud!