Pat

Range of Interests

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

"Do you have unlimited tries?" grand juror to Trump DOJ prosecutor in the now-dismissed "Broadview Six" case.

Prosecutors failed to disclose that the grand jury "no true billed" the first indictment.

Remarkable exchange

[Pat @NerdNeuro]

Vale Richard Scolyer. A pioneer who was always willing to give it a crack.

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

VoteHub projects Nithya Raman to advance from the Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles Mayor.

[Bryan Armen Graham @BryanAGraham]

Lauren and I went to Rikers Island to watch Game 1 of the NBA finals. https://t.co/nHuUxAB8fK

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

From underground ballrooms to City Hall — with all five boroughs bringing their own reps

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

The Norwegian squad's World Cup photo, taken by David Yarrow, is quite something

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on Nigel Farage’s conduct in the wake of three murders that horrified the nation

https://t.co/reI7oQbjVc

[Pat @NerdNeuro]

@TylerDinucci @BlackLanterrn “Just a day guy who tweets” the start of an epitaph

[ABC News @abcnews]

#BREAKING: Three neo-Nazis who booed during a Melbourne Anzac Day dawn service in 2025 have been found guilty of offensive behaviour. https://t.co/gkfRgVphOS

[Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini]

Stanford University is emerging as one of Steyer’s strongest precincts in California based on the results reported so far.

[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

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

I feel bad for every stand up who's going to watch this video and have to reckon with the fact that they're never going to kill as hard as Samuel is killing in this show and tell set.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

BREAKING: D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Hegseth policy barring military service by transgender people is fueled by unconstitutional animus.

2-1 decision bars military from removing some currently-serving transgender service members.

https://t.co/jWLzjEzHx9

[Ben Davison @Ben_Davison1]

The barefoot investor thinks that the budget changes don’t impact the VAST majority of people’s current savings & investment plans

As for those it does? They’ll be fine

“The wealthiest people in the country. Living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world…life is good.”

[Robert Faturechi @RobertFaturechi]

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH

[Michael M. Grynbaum @grynbaum]

Cecilia Vega, who was fired today by CBS, tells me: “I very much fear what comes next for and the future of” 60 Minutes.

Her full statement below:

[Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker]

Trump likes women, and has, in fact, been married to three of them. BUT there’s also little doubt that Trump has unabashedly embraced the aesthetic—the je ne sais quoi—of a certain kind of gay man. My look at the King of Queens:
https://t.co/Zf4ZV6rRAB

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

beit rima mentioned ✅
https://t.co/Y4yCL93vNb

[Pat @NerdNeuro]

@MarkDiStef Honestly just the perfect guest