Tom Ewald

From Chicago, Entrepreneur, White Sox , foodie, and all around nice guy

[Dave Wischnowsky @wischlist]

If the Bears actually had patience and foresight, they’d wait until the White Sox moved to The 78 and then build an enclosed-roof facility at 35th & Shields.

If Chicago’s leaders actually had vision, they’d work to have the Bears and White Sox swap locations for their stadiums.

[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

[Patrick Nolan @SoxMach_pnoles]

This is such an unbelievably weird collection of players for this!

[Chicago Breaking News @ChicagoBreaking]

Great waste in the Great Lakes: How plastic pollution is clogging our waters https://t.co/kASbKimj1p

[jxke. 🧸🎰🃏 @cantguardjake]

What kind of fucking loser throws a kid out of a regional like this?

[Scott Merkin @scottmerkin]

White Sox record since Jordan Leasure spent $20 on a wand from Amazon and gave it to Mike Vasil:

21-10

[bomani @bomani_jones]

one of my homies today asked me to imagine what jameis might say to dart about all this. i said “anything is on the board.”

here’s the board. as you can see, i was correct.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Trump: “I have a contractor that built my pools, did an Olympic pool at my clubs. He can do the reflecting pool for $1.3M in less than 2 weeks.”

*A no bid contract and 6 weeks later, the budget is now $13.4M

Trump: “I don’t know the contractor. Never used them before.”

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

I’m confident the Democratic Party has not even remotely thought creatively enough about the whirlwind of lawlessness and scorched-earth tactics the GOP is prepared to unleash in its effort to steal the coming elections.

[Rep. Mickey Dollens @MickeyDollens]

The bill to ban child marriage in Oklahoma has become law!

Despite 36 Republicans voting against & Gov. Stitt declining to sign or veto, SB504 will go into effect without his signature.

18 to marry. No exceptions.

[Caleb Williams Fan Club @CalebFC18]

Bears schedule leaks so far:

Week 1: @ Panthers
Week 7: vs Patriots (TNF)
Week 12: @ Lions (Thanksgiving)

[Dr. Jackson-Edwards @Harvarddoc32]

Word is Out!

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

A SEC boycott of Black athletes in football would bring the entire South to its knees quickly.

It’s all they got down there

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Great news! Congress is proposing a bill for public school teachers that will mandate starting base salaries of $60,000, plus a $50,000 signing bonus, overtime pay of 25% of their base salary, and student loan forgiveness of up to $60,000!

Just kidding. That’s the federally mandated compensation package for an ICE agent.

- BP Sweany

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

SHOULDNT IT BE A BIGGER STORY THAT THE US PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY SOLD A NONE EXISTENT PHONE AND IS NOW TELLING EVERYONE THAT PAID FOR IT THAT THERE IS NO PHONE AND NO REFUND 🙄
THE US PRESIDENT IS RUNNING HIS CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION FROM INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE AND IT IS A HORRIFIC LOOK FOR AMERICA 🤷

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP)
No vote in Florida (+4 GOP)
No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP)
No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP)
No vote in Texas (+5 GOP)

Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out.

MAGA has rigged the system.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

This is a Pulitzer level photo.

[Covie @covie_93]

The Palm Beach International Airport is now officially the first airport in the US to be renamed after a pedophile.