Kaye Foley

Producer for @LastWeekTonight w/ John Oliver | Fmr: @YahooNews w/ @katiecouric; @ThisWeekABC

[Kaye Foley @KayeFoley]

My toxic trait: Hmm, let me see if this food that normally hurts my stomach hurts my stomach TODAY.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Christiane Amanpour, one of CNN’s most recognizable faces, is leaving the network after 43 years. ‘Remember: always be truthful, not neutral,’ she said in a statement announcing her departure. https://t.co/EzIEcPhEl6

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

In honor of Dolly’s dedication to literacy, stop saying “casted.”

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Dolly Parton, who died today, at age 80, was beloved across America and beyond. “A word like ‘crossover’ scarcely encompasses a singer admired by Vanna White (who says Parton is her role model because she ‘hasn’t been affected by show business’), Björk (who has called Parton’s twanged crystal timbre ‘immaculate’), and Nicki Minaj (who nods Parton’s way in a guest verse on Drake’s ‘Make Me Proud’),” Lauren Michele Jackson wrote, in 2020. “A Dolly Parton concert is like a local census, bringing together peoples across lines of race, gender, sexuality, and, miraculously, political affiliation.” Revisit her reflections on the country-music legend: https://t.co/mDKjiydu4M

[Variety @Variety]

Jalen Brunson holds an Elmo plush holding a “Forgive me PLEASE” sign during the #Knicks ticker-tape parade

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

From Stevenson High School to NBA Finals MVP.

Illinois is proud of you, Jalen.

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Q: "You just hit the game-winning shot in an NBA Finals game in front of your home crowd. How does that feel?"

OG Anunoby: "Uh, it feels cool. I mean, everyone's pretty excited. I'm excited too"

[Rachel Nichols @Rachel__Nichols]

The not-Chicago Bears? Today the Bears released a statement saying how excited they were for their “vision” of a taxpayer-funded stadium in Hammond, INDIANA. Umm…nope. If you can’t afford to keep the team in Chicago, sell it. Period.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Look, if DHS and ICE legitimately felt that these killings were justified, then they wouldn't be doing everything in their power to stop normal-course investigations into them. But that's precisely what's happening.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

Just a thought for @JoeBiden, @BarackObama, @BillClinton, and George Bush, but today would be a great day for all former living Presidents to go together to Minnesota and to help defend Democracy.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: 

“We are heartbroken but also very angry. 

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. 

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you”

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It's sad - but I guess true - that a Republican saying that a President shouldn't imprison a Federal Reserve Chairman for a policy difference is "remarkable".

How unbelievably low the modern Republican Party has sunk.

[Jordan Zirm @JordanZirm]

I am always fascinated by people who place the burden of survival on everyday civilians, rather than the armed officers pulling up to their communities unannounced in unmarked vehicles and masks

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

I thought the whole point of the Constitution was so that Americans didn’t have to live like this.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Again, very subtle

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

The question that so offended the White House: : “Is it appropriate, President Trump, that a president in office should be engaged in so much business activity?”

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The amount of cowardice being shown by the corporate media is galling

If the press won’t fight for the First Amendment, who will?

[S.E. Cupp @secupp]

This administration is systematically killing free speech, and these capitulating media companies are acting as willing accomplices. Frightening and shameful.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Ari Cohn, counsel at @TheFIREorg, reacts:

"The government pressured ABC — and ABC caved. The timing of ABC's decision, on the heels of the FCC chairman’s pledge to the network to “do this the easy way or the hard way,” tells the whole story. Another media outlet withered under government pressure, ensuring that the administration will continue to extort and exact retribution on broadcasters and publishers who criticize it.

We cannot be a country where late night talk show hosts serve at the pleasure of the president. But until institutions grow a backbone and learn to resist government pressure, that is the country we are."