Brian James

Veteran. Runner. Walker. Book Lover. Investor. Student of high-performance achievers.

[Brian James @brianjames75]

Like Dennis Haysbert's David Palmer on "24," strong female TV presidents such as Elizabeth Marvel's Elizabeth Keane (Homeland) and Tea Leoni's Elizabeth McCord (Madam Secretary) will make the prospect of breaking America's glass ceiling more likely one day soon. 🇺🇲♀️

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.

Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.

The cost of that work is classified.

Estimates say north of a billion.

The number is enormous, and you are paying it.

Now the part they bury.

Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.

So follow the chain.

A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.

A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.

We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.

Grift in plain sight.
https://t.co/RqGjdCjV6n

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

[Brian Entin @BrianEntin]

Neighbors have put mattresses and plexiglass up in their windows to block the noise from this data center in Virginia.
It's a high pitched whine from the natural gas turbines that power it.
The noise never stops 24/7.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Trump's Iran deal is so fantastic that he won't show it to you.

Trump's Iran deal is so great for America that he won't let you read a word of it.

...Just like his taxes
...Just like his health care plan
...Just like Mexico paid for the wall.

It is all ONE HUGE LIE.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sheryl Crow speaks out after Trump’s UFC 250 event: “To stay quiet means to turn a blind eye. And so I am saying this. What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency. Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living. Do not be fooled. This administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy. If we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them. Let's be better, America.”

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Susan Collins 30 years ago: “I’ve pledged that if I’m elected I will only serve two terms. 12 years is long enough to be in public service.”

[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

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

Justin Ricketts, the Florida king who dropped a perfect 1600 on the SAT at just 17 🔥
This young genius from Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach aced every single question on his first try and pulled in offers from MIT, Harvard, and Princeton. Dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon and already stacking elite opportunities.
From big smiles to big achievements, this is what hard work and focus look like. Black excellence with no ceiling!
Future looking real bright for this one 👏🏾

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

YOUR WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS CHAMPS 👏

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

A reminder that the Spurs won 34 games last season and didn’t make the playoffs. In fact, they hadn’t been in the playoffs since the 2018-19 season. To go from that to beating the defending champs on the road in a Game 7, and now on to the NBA Finals is absolutely incredible.

People have wondered who is the star that is going to take LeBron’s place when he retires, I think it’s Wemby. Think about what he’s about to do over the next decade.

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

FINALS BOUND 🎉

@HEB | @Ledger

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Expert Tara Setmayer exposes massive Trump family corruption on CNN. She confirms Don Jr's net worth exploded from $50M to $300M in one year as their corporations suddenly received massive government contracts.

The White House is actively looting the taxpayers!

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

When does America realize that all of this is just training for election day?

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.

He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.

He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.

He was impeached by his own party for corruption.

Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.

Together we will stop him.

[Brian James @brianjames75]

@MiaWinston_ Gary Clark

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Donald Trump ran for office for three reasons:

1) stay out of jail
2) exact revenge on his enemies
3) line his pockets

Everything else he says is bullshit.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The richest man on Earth dismantled the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth.

He also cancelled all of the global Ebola prevention programs. The UN has now declared Ebola outbreak a global health emergency.

Elon Musk’s dismantling of USAID has already killed more children than in Gaza and Ukraine combined.

He cut lifetimes for millions and the result is a silent massacres.

Nor should we forget his complicity in the genocide in Gaza, as well as in the war in Ukraine and the Epstein case.

I don’t understand how billionaires think. If I only had one billion dollars, I would rush to fix our world problem. Homeless, hungry, poverty, wars, climate change... etc. They can be heroes and not just billionaires. What a waste.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Goodbye Rule of Law
Goodbye United States Justice Department.
Goodbye America.

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

$32 million dollars and an entire administration mobilized to destroy one congressman.
His crime?
Demanding answers about Epstein class abuse networks, and refusing to let child predators hide behind political cover.
If that level of firepower doesn't tell you who's being protected, nothing will.
Go Massie!