Jeff Shawn

American in Europe, ex-journo (DM for ID), scientist, banker. Trump = Putin, "anti-woke" = bigotry. Fan of Parisian cafés, open air markets and Joe Biden.

[Daoud Kuttab داود كُتّاب @daoudkuttab]

@JakeWSimons And we know that because the foreign press was allowed into Gaza!! Oh I forgot no Forrign press and over 200 Palestinian journalists were killed on purpose as israel has admitted.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

I agree with everything you say. I’m glad I saw it all, dreadful though it was. But I’m determined that the Chinese govt and its stooges can’t pretend it didn’t happen, simply because they’re embarrassed by it.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."

[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

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

This is really atrocious.

[Jeff Shawn @JeffShawn8]

@PaulNiland @laralogan Logan is a liar and a fruitcake, waste of breath to "correct" her.

[ג'ון היקר @zvilichyossi]

קיץ 82
אני בכתה ד'
אחי הגדול יושב על המרפסת עם מעריב
ואומר' יאללה, כבשנו את הבופור'
שנתיים מאוחר יותר הוא יהרג על אדמת לבנון הארורה.
16 שנה אחרי, יהרג בן דודי על אותה אדמה ארורה.

לא לומדים כאן כלום?
למה צריך להכנס לשם שוב?

[Jeff Shawn @JeffShawn8]

@EduardHabsburg @SteveSkojec Heroes? Oppressors, using the peasants to fight against human rights and freedom and for their own wealth and privileges.

[Jim Clancy @ClancyReports]

True. A loser.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

There is an obvious and coordinated effort underway to discredit my reporting and suppress my reach. I’ve lost hundreds of followers in just a few days.

To everyone still here reading and supporting the work: thank you. The best response to smear campaigns is to stay focused on facts, transparency, and exposing the source of the attacks themselves.

[Tara Palmeri @tarapalmeri]

Hey @jaketapper, I reported this last night. Thanks for the credit. https://t.co/lrYYqL3fzG

[Jeremy Ben-Ami @JeremyBenAmi]

Instead of disparaging friends of Israel who disagree with its government and calling us names, Israel’s ambassador to the United States should be engaging seriously with us.
J Street represents a large and growing segment of the American Jewish community that supports and cares deeply about Israel but opposes policies we believe are making it less secure and more isolated.
Serving effectively as Israel’s ambassador to the US requires engaging with those disagreements, not attacking the patriotism or integrity of fellow Jews.
https://t.co/hGQmcdBphF

[Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire]

Ce jeudi soir, peu avant minuit, une centaine de supporters de l’OGC Nice, affichant pour certains une proximité avec l’extrême-droite, ont pris à partie et violemment agressés des Parisiennes et des Parisiens aux abords du Canal Saint-Martin dans le 10e arrondissement.

Selon les premiers éléments, plusieurs victimes sont à déplorer, parmi lesquelles certaines se trouvent ce matin dans un état de santé grave.

Au nom de Paris et en mon nom propre, je condamne avec la plus grande fermeté ces agissement et adresse mes pensées aux victimes et à leurs proches, ainsi qu’aux habitantes et habitants du 10e arrondissement choqués de ces scènes de violence. Je souhaite réaffirmer que Paris, fidèle à son histoire et ses valeurs, ne laissera aucune place aux groupuscules d’extrême-droite pour déployer leur haine.

Je souhaite également saluer et remercier le Préfet de Police et les forces de police nationale qui par leur réactivité et leur grand professionnalisme, ont évité une situation plus grave encore et permis l’interpellation de 65 individus.

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

Jackie and Gabi are two of the smartest people in politics, #Utah or otherwise.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism.

It's Jim Crow 2.0.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

My engagement has crashed

Maybe if I started pretending that Hantavirus was going to be a massive pandemic and we should all panic, it might go up again?

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

My engagement hasn't been this low for months

I can only mean one thing..

⏳

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Hantavirus exists

There isn't a pandemic

There is an outbreak

No one is asking you to mask

No one is asking you to lockdown

Ivermectin doesn't treat Hantavirus

Now can I have 10,000 likes for stating the totally obvious

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Single-payer is inevitable in this country!

The healthcare system is devouring the public sector and private sector budgets.

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

You won’t hear this on Fox News:

California just released a balanced budget that wipes out the deficit this year AND next — while protecting health care and safety nets.

Meanwhile, Trump ADDED $2.4 TRILLION to the federal deficit with his “Big Beautiful Betrayal.”

Republicans ruin budgets.
Democrats balance them.

Adulting matters.