Angela Garrett

Book lover, dog person, news junkie

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Don’t fall for this trans stuff. Our job is to fight for these people to have the same rights that we have. You don’t have to understand it, but you certainly don’t have to be a dick. There’s no instance in the world where people are going into restrooms and something bad is happening to them. Most people that get molested or sexually abused, it happens from a white conservative Christian middle-aged man. Those are the people that abuse children in large numbers”

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.

[Emily Andras @emtothea]

Dolly Parton was responsible for Jolene, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, AND the Moderna COVID vaccine.

[Angela Garrett @AngelaGarrett99]

@LongFangsLestat

[Chris Hedgecock @whitenoise25]

RIP Salad and Go. Started by two ppl in AZ who wanted good food to be as cheap and fast as McDonalds. Then private equity bought it in 2020, forcefed it growth it couldn't digest, and rode it into Chapter 11. Founders exit rich, we lose somethin good. Vampire squid strikes again.

[John Rocha @TheRochaSays]

Gotta protect that House majority any you can, I guess. Even if it means being in league with all manner of morally corrupt, physically violent and ethically abhorrent people.

Ah, Mike Johnson. A true “Christian” and a solid role model for our young people of faith, right? 🙄🤡

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

The breathtaking corruption of this administration is outpaced only by its incompetence and stupidity.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

This answer from Trump about the Cyclospora outbreak that has now expanded to 9 states should lead every newscast:

Q: When is it going to be safe to eat lettuce again?
Trump: I don't know. I haven't thought about it.

[🦇 miracide 𓃵 @miracide_]

‘don’t have pets you can’t afford’ is a generally cool sentiment but very outdated since we need to chat about the private equity elephant in the room buying up all of the vets and making tooth extractions $1500

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When Trump says he won the 2020 election in his address to the nation tomorrow night, remember Fox News had to pay $787.5 million for lying to viewers and spreading that same lie.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Nicole Wallace ☠️☠️☠️

"Riddle me this: when Obama ran intelligence, the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016.

When Biden ran the government and the intelligence, the election was secure and Trump ran in 2024.

But when Donald Trump and all of his boobs were running US national security, it got all effed up. Is that the theory?"

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

"Katie Phang ... brings this action against Todd Blanche ... claiming that he has improperly withheld information and failed to comply with other requirements in violation of the Epstein Act."

"[T]he Court GRANTS Ms. Phang’s motion."

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[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

By targeting Gavin Newsom with the DOJ Trump is showing us he has gone full Putin. We're living in dictatorship and we need to stop it if it's not too late.

[Robert Anglen @robertanglen]

NEW: Mark Lamb got special treatment on sexual misconduct claims leveled against him as sheriff, county attorney says. Report prompted by @azcentral investigation found leaders in 2020 made no record, took no action on reports. Story with @lauragersony.
https://t.co/vRvMEUs8l0

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Sorry I'm not speaking on the male loneliness epidemic, I was distracted by the women-and-girls-being-murdered-by-men epidemic

[Dr. Vin Gupta @VinGuptaMD]

When a President’s physicians start citing “AI cardiac age” metrics and explaining bilateral bruising from “frequent handshaking,” the line between medical documentation and political messaging disappears.

[John Rocha @TheRochaSays]

Pathetic and sad.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Completely unchecked corruption.