Chimaera

"Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

Same as here, crew. 😘

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Vision of Saint Anthony the Abbot, artist unknown, 19th c, 📸 by Gregory Shamus

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@PollTracker2024 PPP also had a poll in the field, so expect that.

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@PollTracker2024 Primary on Tuesday. Last call for alcohol.

[The Jingle Man @realblack14]

1-0 #alwaysknicks

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@DattosDestiny Guardians bing their own bong.

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@AbbeyMastracco

[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

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Incredible scoop from @EricM_Katz

https://t.co/ZiuwwYKgge

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@realblack14 It's still tomorrow until you wake up.

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@DirtyEffinHippy Solid orbit. 🎂

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@JustinRYoung [wet farrrrrrt noises]

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

CNN: Los Angeles mayor candidate Spencer Pratt distances himself from past 9/11 conspiracy comments, says he was “young and naive”

“Spencer Pratt told Alex Jones in 2009 that the September 11 attacks were “100%” an inside job and urged his fans on social media to watch a widely debunked film that pushed the same claim.”

https://t.co/zUrxqAuqPl

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Mina Kimes will co-host the Scripps National Spelling Bee this week with Paul Loeffler, the longtime voice of the Bee.

For Kimes, the unique assignment is a chance to revisit the world of academic competition that shaped her long before football did. https://t.co/P3OTnp3FAm

[Acyn @Acyn]

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

If at any time you hesitate to utter the word genocide or remain silent in the face of blatant lies, remember to ask yourself: who is this for?

[Erica Brunson @eribrunson]

Hey who is cutting onions 🥹

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

You're a very stupid man.

[Sung Choi @sungchoiart]

A key art done for Destiny 2.
💪🏼

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Oh damn….RIP Rob Base 🙏

Hit it!

[Luke Smith @thislukesmith]

At its best, content was a machine to create memories and friendships. No new content stings.

This pain is about losing a place where so many memories were made. It stings not because of what it was, but the realization of what it won't be.

[Old Row Sports @OldRowSports]

“Because you never know when the last one is”

- Kyle Busch, last week

Wow

[Chimaera @Chimaera96]

@markb Fingers crossed for 6/2 State of Play