Roy White III

DFW sports. Appreciate ya!

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Roy White III @RDubThree]

The corruption will end us,

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

I feel like people don't understand me when I say a system built for the rich is built to hurt working people.

White-collar crime, by definition, rips off the working man.

Tax breaks for the rich aren't free—we pay for them.

Do you see it now?

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

Factual thoughts….@ScottPelley and @mhenryschuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too. I wrote him when I was hired.

[Football Crave @FootballCravee]

Dillon Gabriel on Jared Verse wearing number 8:

"Yeah, I was kind of hoping he would pay me for my number. But then he just started wearing it in practice."

[Sara Spector @Miriam2626]

Breaking: Texas State Bar acknowledges that pedophile, Adam Hoffman has not surrendered his Texas law license. Paxton's office has no comment.

[paintbrush @TXpaintbrush]

In case the Mavericks or the Stars both moving north from downtown moves puzzles anyone...

2009 median income heatmap versus 2024

(ACS census tract data)

The entire center of gravity for a (now) 8 million person metro is shifting north ~1 mile every decade.

[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

[Roy White III @RDubThree]

@BurnerBuddha Saying 635 and DNT is “Dallas” is like saying just south of the DFW airport is “Fort Worth”.

It’s technically true - but both locations are well outside the actual cities.

[Roy White III @RDubThree]

Sports teams do not actually like Dallas, apparently.

[Dallas Texas TV @DallasTexasTV]

Stars are leaving Dallas, Plano’s Willow Bend picked for new arena and entertainment district

[Roy White III @RDubThree]

You might not recognize Scott Pelley’s name, but you would damn sure recognize his voice.

A profound loss to truth-telling in this country.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

[Jay Busbee @jaybusbee]

Death of the cheap seat: How teams and leagues figured out how to charge astronomical ticket prices ... and the grim future of fandom as a result. Story at @YahooSports: https://t.co/46DWazXCKU

[Amelia 🇺🇸 @amelia_tweetz]

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

🚨 BREAKING: Aspiration co-founder Joe Sanberg has just been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison, following a DOJ investigation that started with two whistleblowers from inside the carbon-credits company/Clippers team sponsor in 2023.

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

🚨 🚨 🚨

Bombshell: The #Browns are finalizing a trade of Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the #Rams in a shocker, sources tell me, @TomPelissero & @AdamSchefter.

Cleveland would send Garrett to LA in exchange for star edge Jared Verse, a first-rounder, and more.

[freeonis @freeonis_]

Від Києва до Малої Токмачки / From Kyiv to Mala Tokmachka (animation)

[The Hill @thehill]

We’re having the worst wheat crop in decades. You’ll notice the ripple effects soon at the grocery store
https://t.co/ADyY8idR2z

[Roy White III @RDubThree]

The 3 videos at the beginning of this piece will have you questioning, immediately, the efficacy of police officers in schools.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I understand why towns put police in schools, but there is a really dark side to this when it’s done wrong. This expose about Texas is damning. Kids being slammed against walls for vaping. A disabled student hogtied.
https://t.co/GO1BJnxjXO

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Nate Paul.

He was under FBI investigation for fraud. His real estate empire was collapsing after 18 properties filed for bankruptcy in a single year.

He wrote Ken Paxton a $25,000 check.

Then Paxton directed his AG’s office to hand Paul confidential investigative files.

They blocked foreclosure sales on his properties.

And they sided with Paul against the charity he was accused of defrauding.

Nate Paul even employed Paxton's mistress at Paxton’s recommendation.

Paxton's own senior staff reported his corruption to the FBI. They were fired.

This is what Ken Paxton does when he’s in a position of power — and it’s why he should be nowhere near the U.S. Senate.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Epstein survivor Liz Stein exposes the DOJ's massive coverup. She confirms the files are full of names and financial records, yet the Trump administration is blatantly lying, claiming there are no leads.

She reveals the DOJ is actively protecting the elite!