Stacy Layman 🌏

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[Lawrence O'Donnell @Lawrence]

I watched the whole thing so you didn’t have to.

It was a 25 minute deranged pitch for one piece of legislation that has no chance of passing.

@TheLastWord 10pm

[Stacy Layman 🌏 @StacyLayman]

@atrupar compromised by DOGE.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 120 years ago.

None of the people in it knew that the city around them had four days left...

What you are watching is a cable car gliding down Market Street in San Francisco, filmed on the 14th of April, 1906.

The camera was mounted on the front of the car, so you see the city exactly as it was: the crowds, the horse-drawn carriages, the early automobiles weaving through traffic, the men in hats, the great buildings rising on either side. An ordinary spring afternoon in a thriving American city.

Four days later, on the morning of the 18th of April, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck. The shaking lasted under a minute, but it ignited fires that burned through the city for days...

By the time it was over, more than 3,000 people were dead and roughly 80 percent of San Francisco had been destroyed. Almost every building you see in this footage was gone.

And the film itself nearly went with it.

The negative was placed on a train bound for New York on the 17th of April, the day before the earthquake. Had it left a single day later, it would have burned in the fire along with the studio that made it.

This entire moving record of a lost city survives because of one day...

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Judge blocks Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Elections are controlled by states and Congress, not the president. https://t.co/igrOZnmEAm

[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

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WAKE UP, AMERICA.

The Supreme Court majority just admitted it’s a PARTISAN operator willing to TORCH the rule of law to advance its ideological agenda.

In an unprecedented move with a brief UNSIGNED order, it: 1) IGNORED the central basis of the lower court’s decision, 2) DISREGARDED its own precedent (that it had assured just weeks ago remained good law), and 3) REWARDED Alabama's defiance of a federal court order.

All to help Republicans squeeze out one more seat in the midterms. And on Election Day for millions of Americans no less!

This is sick.

“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.” — Thurgood Marshall

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is set to return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday after the Trump administration signaled it was pausing contentious plans to move forward with a nearly $1.8 billion fund that could compensate allies of President Trump who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted. https://t.co/uokrWtXcVw

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Trump is trying to use a federal court to hand himself $1.776 billion in taxpayer money—and call it a "settlement." 35 former federal judges just asked a court to reopen the case and investigate whether it was a fraud on the court. The judge responded fast. Here's what's happening: https://t.co/vW78ht42NU

[Stacy Layman 🌏 @StacyLayman]

@JoyceWhiteVance or future payments for the next inauguration(?)

[Stacy Layman 🌏 @StacyLayman]

@Rep_Stansbury What about the bunker? No one talks about the bunker. Shhhhh......

[Stacy Layman 🌏 @StacyLayman]

@BillKristol Can you talk more about the bunker part of this project?

[Stacy Layman 🌏 @StacyLayman]

@ThatEricAlper These went straight into your mouth.

[Stacy Layman 🌏 @StacyLayman]

@ewarren Can you talk more about the bunker part of this project??

[Be Believing @Be_Believing]

This is How you never get older..

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Justice Kagan says it best

[Stacy Layman 🌏 @StacyLayman]

@GretaGrace20 @MeidasTouch @Comey Derailed the campaign especially in Florida.

[Greta @GretaGrace20]

.@Comey remember when you held a press conference in the middle of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign to take cheap shots at her just so you could announce she had committed no crime? Something that had never been done before or since bc it violated all DOJ practices/policies/protocols & after your black female boss AG Loretta Lynch told you not to do it your arrogance & entitlement drove you to do it anyway?

And then a week before the election you informed GOP Congressmen (who sprinted to Fox News) that you were reopening the investigation of Hillary Clinton - again violating all DOJ practices/protocols/policies on how investigations are done - when you found emails on another laptop. And the emails turned out to be duplicates that had already been searched/cleared. And a couple of days later you issued an obsequious "never mind" after ensuring the Clinton campaign's momentum had been killed in its tracks.

By derailing Hillary's campaign in the summer & then setting off a nuclear bomb days before the election -which all polls said Hillary would win - you handed the presidency to Donald Trump.

It's a disgrace he's had you indicted but in his corrupt search for retribution there's a bit of karma that you're feeling some heat for your arrogance & hubris that helped get him elected & build a power base that continues to tear this country apart 10 years later.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

This Court ruling weakens protections against discrimination & undermines fair representation. As Justice Kagan said, it marks the “majority’s now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.”

We must keep fighting so every American has a voice in our democracy.

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

Today, the Supreme Court has dealt a devastating new blow to the Voting Rights Act and against the sacred right to vote.

The consequences will be felt across the country: fewer voices heard, fewer communities represented and a democracy diminished.

Congress must urgently pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore the full strength of the Voting Rights Act before this latest blow becomes fatal.