Mark Swanson

Dad, husband, coffee boy, patriot, liberal, Buckeye. dog lover, one of my 3 cats is the sweetest. #resist

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Michael Cohen is a thug and a convicted criminal who willingly did Donald's bidding. The idea that he was ever on the right side of things is, and always has been, ludicrous.

[Mark Swanson @coffeeboyMark]

@DeadlineWH I miss the old Nicole.

[Mark Swanson @coffeeboyMark]

@SenSchumer @GOP Pass the torch dude. It is time.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

@SenSchumer Please step down.
You've served your country well
We need a fighter.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Chris,

I can start by telling you who my audience is not.

It is NOT you.

It is NOT the pundit class that rarely leaves the safety of its Georgetown cocktail parties.

It is NOT the chattering class who gets paid to pretend it knows the mind of the American people.

It is NOT for anyone who looks at everything through the lens of politics.

The people I am talking to are tired of the bullshit.

The people I want to speak with are the 50 million Americans still sick and suffering. The families fighting for the lives of the those they love.

Whether they are people living in the shame and fear of being canceled, or consumed by grief after the loss of someone they love, they are just looking for a slight glimmer of hope that they too can get back up again.

My audience is the people who feel unheard, unseen, and uninvited, just like me.

My audience also includes my perceived enemies, those pitted against me by you and your colleagues in the media. I want to meet them where they are and help build a bridge. A bridge built of that which connects all of us. That’s where we begin to actually heal.

And it’s not as if my intent is difficult to understand or discern. Just read and listen to what I have said on this platform, and the 18+ hours of unscripted pod casts I have done.

I think your shock as to why anyone would care says far more about you than it does about me. Take a look at the comments to your post.

And I also know this: people are tired of the bullshit. They’re tired of you and the chattering classes’ obsession with my family as Rome burns.

So instead of wondering why people care about what I have to say, Chris, maybe you should concern yourself with why no one cares anymore about what you and everyone you represent has to say.

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Friendly reminder that Pride isn't about turning your straight kids into gay kids. It's about not turning gay kids into dead kids.

[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

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Isn’t it hypocritical to take a few Bible verses on sexuality and demand they be legislated over an entire country, while reducing over 2000 verses about wealth, care for the poor, the disabled, the vulnerable, and refugees to a private personal choice?

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

In a world full of Jake Tappers, be a Scott Pelley.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

MAGA men think about gay people more than gay people think about gay people.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

👇 Please, do NOT share, got it? 😉

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals.

As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them.

Go Knicks.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Since the South Lawn of the White House now looks like a carnival they should at least set up some games so Americans can win healthcare by guessing Trump’s weight or how many girls he’s raped. @realDonaldTrump

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Dems should counter program Trump's 80th birthday celebration with performances by Springsteen, Taylor Swift, and Bad Bunny, have it emceed by Stephen Colbert, and name the event after Obama.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

It's time to tax AI and invest in people.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

@realKyleKeegan The White House lawn is about to smell like cigarettes and unpaid child support.