Gaston Jones

typical millennial. gay.

Not a bot!

[Brinda Adhikari @brindaadhikari]

I worked at CBS News for almost 6 years. It was a place that frequently drove me crazy bc of how resistant it was to change. How difficult it was to get things done bc you had to fight so many people and their “Cronkite and Murrow would roll over in their graves if they saw” mentality.

For those who think Scott Pelley was part of the problem, you are wrong. Yes he could be rigid and a stickler for certain traditions. But I will tell you now the Gen Z people I worked w all loved him. Like me, they forgave a lot of his boomer ways bc we were in awe of investigations he did using hidden cameras exposing snake oil salesmen hurting Americans; showing us how Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people; the pain of rural Americans waiting for half a day to get affordable healthcare in a parking lot of a mobile clinic; his searing interviews w survivors of mass shootings.

Yeah he was old fashioned in some ways. I used to tease him bc he always had trouble pronouncing Beyoncé’s name.

But he was willing to be pushed. He was open to new ideas. The fact that someone like me and someone like him got along so well is proof of that. The guy made me a better thinker and a better journalist.

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

tort law exam ass case

[Gaston Jones @GatlinJM]

@FlaggHazel2 Kim Basinger is hilarious in this. Nympho trophy wife.

[Lee Radziwill @RadziwillLee]

We didn’t have Ozempic. Only spite, cigarettes and a mother’s conditional love. ❤️

[Gaston Jones @GatlinJM]

@tonywendice1954 Have you seen Night Train to Munich?

[Gaston Jones @GatlinJM]

@tonywendice1954 All 3 excellent.

[pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot]

I don’t understand people who say, There’s no point in reading newspapers because they all lie. Teenagers say that or: There’s no point in watching the news—they don’t tell you the whole truth. That seems to assume that you can’t piece anything together or learn anything. (1992)

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

There’s no mystery to Pete Hegseth, writes Sarah Jones. “He projects bellicosity before he opens his mouth. When he does open his mouth, whether to defend our war on Iran or a different violation of international law, he becomes even more obvious … In his own mind, he is a modern-day Templar knight, and he is here to carry out God’s mission on Earth.”

Hegseth now occupies a position of consequence, just in time for a new Crusade. The war on Iran is wish fulfillment for an entire class of warmongers, including Hegseth. Within this world, Iran has become a bête noire, an all-consuming obsession that, for some, has a religious dimension. To other Christians, Hegseth is a heretic. The Lord “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war,” the Pope said in his Palm Sunday address. Perhaps, but there is precedent for men like Hegseth in Christendom and in American politics.

In a column for the New York ‘Times,’ Lydia Polgreen wrote that Trump is both “a freak of history” and “its fulfillment.” “I would apply the same logic to Hegseth,” writes Jones, “who has, like his earthly master, ‘revealed a much older malady,’ our ‘unshakable faith’ in our ‘ability to shape the world to its liking, indifferent to what others might want and supremely confident that its plan is the right one.’”

Read more: https://t.co/mIDrlRqokK

[LizaMinnelliOutlives @LiZaOutlives]

Liza Minnelli has outlived construction on Trump's White House ballroom—a federal judge has ruled he must seek congressional approval before he can desecrate the place any further.

[pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot]

Given the social and biological circumstances of women's lives, a woman who isn't called a hard-driving bitch along the way is not likely to reach any top. (1976)

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public.
7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move.
someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

[Max Berlinger @Berlinger]

How the strait of Hormuz must feel getting all this attention

[Keith Orejel @keithdorejel]

Love is feeding a cat everyday that would never in a million years let you pet them.

[New York Post @nypost]

Prison guard googled Jeffrey Epstein minutes before his body was found - and deposited thousands days before pedophile's suicide: DOJ https://t.co/eiQXr5SXIL

[Variety @Variety]

"Seed of the Sacred Fig" director Mohammad Rasoulof speaks out on the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling him "the most hated figure in the contemporary history of Iran."

"[He represented] the darkest possible dimensions of modern human existence under the shelter of fake religion and holiness.”
https://t.co/txz3RlpYs1

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” She had three seconds and one line and she achieved immortality with it. It’s called acting, motherfucker.

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Reminder that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest like this and Republicans called him a hero

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

1st amendment: freedom of speech, assembly, and protest

2nd amendment: the right to bear arms

[CBS News @CBSNews]

CBS NEWS EXCLUSIVE: David Maltinsky, a 16-year FBI employee who was weeks away from being elevated to the position of agent, filed a lawsuit alleging he was fired because he had a Pride flag draped near his desk. "I knew I was on a list," he told CBS News' @MacFarlaneNews. "There was fear after the administration came in that they were going to start looking at all of our personnel files, where some of us did self-identify our sexual orientation, some people did identify as trans. So there was fear early on that DOGE was going to collect this and they were going to curate a list and get rid of 'the undesirables.'"

The FBI had no comment regarding Maltinsky's lawsuit. Watch more of the interview tonight on the "CBS Evening News."

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

As for why Biden and the Democrats didn't release the criminal case files -- Maxwell's criminal case was still OPEN during the Biden administration. She wasn't convicted until late 2021, and then she appealed her conviction. Generally, it's not a good idea to open your evidence files when a criminal case is ongoing. We also don't know whether the FBI was *still* investigating other possible suspects who helped Epstein or participated in his crimes. If you are still targeting suspects, you don't want them to know you are zeroing in on them.