Terry Smith

Husband to my #HSSweetheart, Proud #girldad x 3, Engineer by profession, Wise-ass by calling, 1/4 of the way to my EGOT, ND alum 🇺🇦

[Terry Smith @TerrySmith2a]

@JoJoFromJerz I wonder if any of that insider info came to her from this year’s most prolific stock trader in exchange for her support

[ryanpropz @ryanpropz]

A thing I’ll always love about baseball, check out the ump towards the end of the video just making up a random mess on home plate he has to “clean” to let the fans/ Sanchez enjoy the moment. Always appreciated stuff like that a lot.

[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

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

I know everyone hates them but this is why HOAs exist.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

[Terry Smith @TerrySmith2a]

@JohnCleese @BaddCompani

[Terry Smith @TerrySmith2a]

This👇

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

In other words, the war is over, we're stumbling toward some version of the JCPOA, America is out billions of dollars and lots of weapons that we didn't need to waste, and the United States is now weaker and Iran in a strategically stronger position.
And for what?

[Terry Smith @TerrySmith2a]

@TheRickWilson Shocked. Flabbergasted

[MM  @adgirlMM]

If you're a KY Republican who voted AGAINST Massie who wrote a bill to help farmers when Trump chose Argentina, who stood for less spending when Trump has increased the national deficit by $3 trillion, and who stood up for the Epstein victims, congrats, you're in a cult. 🇺🇸

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

My good friend @RepThomasMassie lost tonight.

He lost because he had the guts to stand up to the Epstein class and against the war.

He won voters under 45 by 30 points.

Tonight, I say to this voters who feel rejected by Trump. We welcome you. Join our coalition to take on a rotten system and stand for the working class over the Epstein class.

We will build a movement to stand for Team America.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

This is not normal. There's something wrong with the President of the United States.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Sure.

This will be airing during Donald Trump‘s golf tournament this weekend. On the golf channel. At his club.

[Terry Smith @TerrySmith2a]

@elonmusk @grok please show all the tweets from @elonmusk where he decried the midterm redistricting efforts in Texas

[One Eyed Man @JSiggelow]

@IrenaBuzarewicz

[Terry Smith @TerrySmith2a]

Truly frightening

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Thanks to the Daily Beast for the most terrifying chart ever created in human history.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“The next president must say on day one: We’re tearing down this arch; we’re razing Trump’s ballroom…Washington ceremonial architecture must be returned to the purpose for which it exists—to promote democracy, not the demented ego of one sick man.”

https://t.co/UGQYOqk9IF

[Terry Smith @TerrySmith2a]

@RadioFreeTom Between Vance and the Pope, one of them thinks they’re infallible and the other is Pope

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon