Vonn Jones

Video and broadcasting professional. Former KETV News Director, Omaha, Nebraska

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

The Trump Admin cut funding for screwworm detection and fired 25% of staff responsible for tracking the disease.

I’m embarrassed for the Secretary that her only answer is to blame the administration that left office a year and a half ago.

[Mike Vassallo @MikeVassallo13]

The first-place #Brewers (40-23) get their 40th win of the season today in their 63rd game.

This marks the fewest number of games in franchise history needed to reach 40 wins in a season.

The previous record was 67 games in 2014 and 2018.

#ThisIsMyCrew

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

When a journalist finally pushes back on your lies to your face

[Vonn Jones @Veejay7]

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[WW3 Monitor @WW3_Monitor]

TRUMP TO FOX NEWS: CLOSE TO A DEAL

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[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

Better take the dementia test AGAIN!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds
https://t.co/JIbbLhCvgV

[Meg Kinnard @MegKinnardAP]

The Kennedy Center is beginning the process of removing references to President Donald Trump, a week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been illegally added to the performing arts center.

With @stevenpsloan
https://t.co/84K0ppqxHU

[Vonn Jones @Veejay7]

"Trusts with as little as $16,000 in income would also be subject to additional taxes"

Trump's 'big beautiful bill' has a 'double taxation' trap for top earners, tax experts say https://t.co/bh2JjfbRnW

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Now down 98% since this post...

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

Army and Navy leaders say they are going to need more money because they didn’t budget for Epic Fury. https://t.co/YXvWiraKJ6

[NBC News @NBCNews]

A flesh-eating parasite that had been kept out of U.S. livestock for decades has been detected in Texas, threatening the nation’s cattle industry and food supply at a time when prices are already high. https://t.co/p011Q4crOe

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The International Atomic Energy Agency believes Iran’s nuclear risks are now higher than before the Iran War began on February 28th.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Statement of 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 58th season, 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 Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran rejects all of Trump's new claims to NYP as "Trump's fantasies" and "completely inconsistent with reality," denying that Iran has been talking to the US in the past days, that Mojtaba Khamenei is involved in negotiations, that Iran has agreed not to have a nuclear weapon, or that the deal framework is being approved in Iran, per Tasnim.

Iran has not provided any response to the US regarding the draft memorandum of understanding in recent days and has ended all exchange of texts and communications until Iran's conditions regarding Lebanon are met.

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Alabama Republicans to use a contested 2023 congressional map that a lower court had called "intentional race-based discrimination" in violation of the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. https://t.co/d4Z4WvAd9N

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Scott Pelley's contract with CBS News has been terminated after a dispute with executive producer Nick Bilton.

[Vonn Jones @Veejay7]

Bored with his war.

[Eamon Javers @EamonJavers]

I spoke to President Trump on the phone last hour about the end of negotiations with the Iranians. He told me: “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.”

https://t.co/Erp6SKZ2Tx

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump has signed an executive order directing the federal government to implement RFK Jr.'s vaccine overhaul.

The slashed vaccine schedule no longer recommends all children be vaccinated against hepatitis A and B, meningitis, and rotavirus.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Hurricane season begins today. The Trump administration has ousted:

—20% of all FEMA staff
—50% of FEMA leadership positions
—60% of FEMA's permanent regional administrators