Caitlin

Art, code, comedy. I live in South Carolina and in my head

[Caitlin @caithuls]

No one wants to hang out with me anymore ever since I got a bad personality and became evil

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

BRUTAL indictment of @bariweiss by Scott Pelley:
"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." Then it gets worse...

[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 taint modern @mssingnoah]

there was a build a bear and it was brutalist or whatever @kimpetras said

[LVL @misslindsayv]

Happy pride, babes

[kim petras @kimpetras]

pls be as gay as possible

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

my daily routine:
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2. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Bec Shaw @Brocklesnitch]

the W in Paul W. Downs stands for Women

[Leslie Proll @LeslieProll]

This MS prosecutor had a long, sordid history of striking Black jurors. SCOTUS overturned a death row conviction in 2019 because of his bias & just overturned another.

That he was allowed to continue in office as district attorney for 30 years is a failure of the justice system.

[kim petras @kimpetras]

what songs are we loving so far and is brutalist maybe one of them ? lmk

[Fiona Small @FionaSmall]

Me when anyone asks why I still use Twitter

[Caitlin @caithuls]

@grovymango Lmao ily

[MVC @MVC_San]

@depthsofwiki Google's motto after 2018:

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Israel told residents to leave” is an insane way to describe ETHNIC CLEANSING.

[e taylor @erinisaway]

btw…dm me or email me at [email protected]

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

Always try to be helpful. Instead of saying “fuck off”, say “how can I help you fuck off”. It costs nothing to be kind.

[i can be your long lost pal @PallaviGunalan]

i’m fostering two cats right now who desperately need homes and i’m hoping i can rally folks on here like @svershbow to get them forever homes. cosita is a 12 yr old spicy lovable grandma and tillamook is a 5 yr old lover boy who wants to be your shadow. adoptable in the LA area!

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Senate rejects President Trump’s push to redraw US House districts to try to get Republicans extra seat.