Andrew Shanock, PhD

Prof, Steeler Fan, and drinker of red wine

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Former @USAID detailee here. Those kids have killed/will be responsible for killing MILLIONS of people. Shameful doesn’t come close.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

You have to read this. 

Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House and replaced it with a private ballroom funded by corporate donors. Now we know what they got for it. 

More than half of the publicly identified donors to that $400 million project won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion in the 6 months after they gave. Most of those same companies also had federal enforcement actions against them suspended by the Trump Administration during the same period. 

There is no honest word for that other than corruption. 
https://t.co/r40hZyargd

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[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

[BUILD MORE HOUSING! @Dartagan_Llore]

This scene hit hard and more polls show it's unfortunately accurate sadly.

"They let us all come out, so now we're standing in the open ready for them to shoot us down" - such a devastating line.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This cartoon isn't an exaggeration—not even 1% an exaggeration.

Weeks ago it seemed this far-right Supreme Court would still block any map intentionally authored to be racist.

We just learned that that's no longer true.

We have reentered Jim Crow, and it's a national disgrace.

[Andrew Shanock, PhD @ashanock]

https://t.co/T0Ct8rnYhE

[Andrew Shanock, PhD @ashanock]

Texas State Takeover of Local School Districts Expands, Raising Concerns https://t.co/T0Ct8rnYhE

[Andrew Shanock, PhD @ashanock]

@nickbilton and @bariweiss have undeserving levels of self importance that matches their incredible lack of self awareness. In over their heads, no leadership, cowards.

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

Nick Bilton’s email to Scott Pelley

[Andrew Shanock, PhD @ashanock]

@bariweiss is just clueless. When you fire folks, that is not developing mutual trust. Putting in a non journalist hack into power is not building mutual trust. Yeesh.

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

NEW: Bari Weiss just addressed the termination of Scott Pelley on the network's morning call just now.

Weiss: "I know I speak for myself, and I hope I speak for everyone here when I say that I'm only interested in working in a newsroom that is built on trust and mutual respect. We cannot do our work without it. That foundation was broken on Monday, and despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately we weren't able to do so, and so we had to part ways.

We did not want that to happen, but that's the path that he chose. That unfortunate outcome does not discount from the amazing contributions and work that Scott Pelley has done for CBS and for 60 Minutes over the course of his career."

She then listed some of his stories from the past season and called them "unforgettable stories."

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @JeffMerkley to Rubio: You have expressed that no one died as a result of the shutdown of USAID. I want to note that it's estimated that over 500,000 children have died from that shutdown. I hope you ponder that as we strive to rebuild programs related to malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, nutrition, and Ebola.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: MSNOW: “New York City luxury real estate. We were just talking about how rich guys were so worried about @NYCMayor. Things seem to be going pretty well for him.”

Donny Deutsch: “I’m not a Mamdani fan but his pied-a-terre taxing is a GOOD idea…sales of $10 million plus apartments are up 10%…everybody was like, ‘Oh my God, everybody’s gonna leave.’ Nobody is leaving.”😳

[Switching Codes with Eric Deggans @Deggans]

My updated Substack column features information on a fiery staff meetin g at 60 Minutes and a letter signed by luminaries like Dan Rather and Glenn Close. At the end of a tough seven days for media -- firings at 60 Minutes, layoffs at NPR and the end of both Colbert's Late Show and CBS Radio -- I fear we are seeing capitulation and opportunism dressed up like innovation. READ: https://t.co/DdWVIveyp3

[Andrew Shanock, PhD @ashanock]

@nickbilton had an opportunity to be a leader, but instead chose to cower (much like @bariweiss). He talks a good game, but when hit in the face, his true colors came out. The staff sees right through him. They know he will not have anyone's back. Hack, non journalist.

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

One of many eye-popping exchanges between Scott Pelley and Nick Bilton in this morning’s meeting:

[Andrew Shanock, PhD @ashanock]

@bariweiss is a coward, lacks journalism skills, lacks ethics.

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

UPDATE: Scott Pelley called out Bari Weiss, saying in the meeting: "She’s murdering 60 mins. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that."

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: In @NickBilton’s first all-hands meeting at 60 Minutes this morning, @ScottPelley told Nick he had “scant qualifications” for the job and pressed him to account for last week’s firings.

Nick suggested conversation would be better held in private, Scott countered that he’d prefer to have them in front of his colleagues.

Nick told Scott, “they’re my colleagues too,” to which Scott replied: “that remains to be seen.”

I’ll have much more in tonight’s In The Room: https://t.co/PMMNkZRpuB

@PuckNews

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Trump was handed the opportunity to preside over a feel-good moment of national unity on July 4, 2026. All he had to do was for once in his life, not act like an egomaniacal lunatic. Instead, he's made a complete fiasco of the nation's 250th birthday. My latest https://t.co/77WQanV3kI

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

The most stunning thing about this extraordinary tale of corruption is that the whole scheme was concocted to get around what Trump really wanted: the IRS to directly pay him hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars. https://t.co/AxwPo1rmy2