Eleanor of Acupuncture

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

Scott Pelley charged that CBS management demanded the insertion of “falsehoods and bias” in news coverage.

Bari Weiss’s memo justifying delaying the CECOT segment late last year shows that was demonstrably true then — and more accusations are piling up. https://t.co/cOt4l0XE6r

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Boycott CBS

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's DOJ deleted 65,527 pages from the Epstein files, covering up the truth. Info on Epstein’s death, call logs, photos with Lutnick - all gone. And Trump thinks MAGA will stand by and cheer on another needless war.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hamawy has won — meaning a doctor who treated the victims of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is headed to Congress.

He refused to leave his rotation, even as Israel surrounded the hospital and cut off the water supply, until a new rotation of doctors was allowed in

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So far you've already fired one of the "incredible staff" members. Good job - and good luck! You're heading into Chris Licht territory already and it's not even a full week 2 yet.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Scott Pelley tells NYT that new '60 Minutes' EP Nick Bilton's email firing him "betrays a complete misunderstanding of what we work for and what we live for at '60 Minutes.'"

Earlier, Pelley assailed the new management of CBS News: "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." https://t.co/giqKlTjQ6t

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

What a pathetic coward and baby Nick Bilton is. Barely in the job a week and already a disgrace to a profession that’s supposed to champion exactly what Pelley did: put hard questions to power.

[Edin Mujkic @edin_mujkic]

@RadioFreeTom Polis managed to do COVID response well. But my God is he detached from reality. His blunders are getting more serious every day.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

well done

[@ijbailey @ijbailey]

A quick communication lesson for Talarico. Don’t answer the vegan attacks with “Actually, I eat barbecue.” It leaves the exchange on grounds Paxson wants. So does the “I’ve been eating barbecue since before his first indictment.” Cute line. But it’s still Paxson’s framing. 1/

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Philip Alito introduced himself as "Phil" in Treasury meetings. No public résumé. Not on the department website. Bar listings with incorrect employer information. "There's no doubt he got that position because of who he is." Treasury won't say whether ethics forms were filed.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Beyond ignorance, our HHS leadership despises humanity and seeks to undermine the health of Americans for their personal or financial gain or desperation for relevance. In the meantime our national biosecurity has vanished at the worst time as zoonotic spillover epidemics accelerate. Not sure why I still put this stuff on social media, it doesn’t resonate, the disinformation empire won the battle

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

“Sure, Ken Paxton’s corruption cost Texas taxpayers $6.6 million in settlement fees, and he was impeached for bribery, and he gave a sweetheart deal to a guy charged with child sex abuse, BUT James Talarico’s Christianity is kinda lib, so…gotta go with Paxton.”

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A truly despicable, corrupt, un-American, rapist, wanna-be-authoritarian “man” is running the country and everyone enabling him should be ashamed.

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Can we NOT do this

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Jackson's language is careful and specific, which matters. She is not addressing the substantive ruling in this statement. She is raising a procedural question: why did the court waive its own 32-day rule specifically at the political request of one party in an election dispute?

"The parties who came to us said, 'Please alter your rules, so that we can essentially have an advantage in the context of this political dispute.'"

Alito's response: the dissent would require 2026 elections under an unconstitutional map. That's a rationale. It's also not an answer to the specific question - why the court altered its own procedural rules at the explicit electoral request of one political party.

The question is in the public record. The answer is not.

[💧joan kunze @madameshawshank]

@DaveBenforado @MacFarlaneNews @CricketsGh0st At the Jan 6 Committee, Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, shared that Trump told Meadows: “I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. This is embarrassing. Figure it out.”

#Trump “I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark.”

#FoxNews

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

When Howard Lutnick found out he had to testify in front of the Oversight Committee, he gave $5 MILLION to a House Republican PAC.

Shortly after donating, James Comer announced his testimony would never be seen by the public. This is blatant corruption. He should be fired.

https://t.co/6CQdpD8Mzc