Steve Simpson

News Anchor,Twin Cities Local SAG-AFRTA Board Member. Retweets are not necessarily an endorsement 🌈

[Steve Simpson @SteveSimpsonMN]

Correct.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

This will never stop being disgraceful and corrosive to the Constitutional order.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

His two critiques are 1) Pelley showed poor form in airing his grievances publicly & 2) he (CC) disagrees w/Pelley's opinion that people w/zero or little broadcast experience are equipped to run 60 Minutes. Literal definition of click bait, but I guess I'm the sucker for clicking

[Steve Simpson @SteveSimpsonMN]

Because the national media is failing us.

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

Sexism and misogyny all in 30 seconds, along with the usual bloviating, self-aggrandizement.

Here's what I don't understand: Why isn't the next thing we hear from a WH reporter: "Mr. President, with all due respect, you owe Kaitlan an apology for your uncalled-for attacks."

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When I called out Trump years ago for being a danger to democracy, a free press, and truth itself, I was accused of making myself the story and showboating. How did things turn out? Trump is all of those things. Tonight, the free press is very much in danger in America. Wake up!

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[Fernand R. Amandi @AmandiOnAir]

Scott Pelley was fired tonight from Trump propaganda network @CBS for the unforgivable crime of telling the truth.

@ScottPelley is a hero.

This only happens under fascist authoritarian regimes which is what the United States now is.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Former '60 Minutes' Executive Producer Bill Owens just derided Bari Weiss as "an opinion writer best known for being an ideologue" and ripped her over the recent firings.

"They were fired by people who don't even know what we do and don't actually care."

"Scott [Pelley] can smell a fraud from a mile away. He stood up the way I did a year ago and I couldn't be prouder of him," Owens continued. "And I know all of the people at '60 Minutes' couldn't be more proud of him."
https://t.co/GvYqn6C2Mq

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[trey wingo @wingoz]

Bari Weiss is everything that’s wrong in TV journalism

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

The servility of Senator Graham here is absolute, disgraceful, and disqualifying. He once thought January 6th was a breaking point with Trump, but now he wants to reward the lawbreakers. A sad man and an unserious public servant.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Pete Hegseth—who never ranked higher than Major—is once again ignoring Generals' recommendations and denying merit-based promotions.

For all his bluster about bringing meritocracy back to our military, this unqualified SecDef keeps doing the opposite.

An insult to our troops.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

America's new spy chief:

✔️ Investigated for manufacturing fake mortgage fraud allegations
✔️Responsible for Trump's AI Jesus post
✔️ Treasury Secretary told him "I'm gonna punch you in your fucking face" and "I'm going to beat your fucking ass."

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Great, a totally unqualified loyalist with a record of cutting corners to help the president punish political opponents. Just the guy you want at DNI.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Late Kakistocracy" is that phase of democratic decline where the regime starts running out of ppl who will work for it, and so the folks who aren't qualified for their current positions are promoted to even larger positions for which they are even more unqualified

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[Steve Simpson @SteveSimpsonMN]

Whew.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it.

No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it.

The public was never told.

Here is why that matters.

Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant.

The department never disclosed the connection in court.

Justice Alito did not recuse.

The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

That is the test.

Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face.

And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too.

This is exactly why the honor system has failed.

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review.

Congress holds the power of the purse.

We should use it.

https://t.co/t2aZrXpaoU

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

The Trump economy in a nutshell:

Corporate profits soar as workers’ incomes stay flat.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

George Washington declined to be featured on currency when he was living, fearing it would be reminiscent of a monarch.

Congress in 1866 passed the Thayer amendment, which stated "no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States."

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This week alone:

DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.

The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.

The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.

Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.

It’s just Thursday.

The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.

[Annie van Leur @AnnevanLeur]

Samuel Alito hit by new scandal as son found secretly working for Trump's Treasury
https://t.co/jKdHrYMgoT