Damakant Jayshi

Senior Writer, The Preamble | Nieman Fellow 2007
For democracy and freedom of speech & expression - always.
Ex: @the_hindu @RepublicaNepal @kathmandupost

[Sanjeev @sanpokh]

nepal is stuck between a majority of incompetent parliament members (including the opposition) who only know how to obstruct the proceedings and a whimsical narcissist PM who doesn't know how to speak five simple sentences that make sense.

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

Of course!
Why not? After all, we won the election!😂
रविविरूद्ध पर्सामा रहेको संगठित अपराधको कसुर फिर्ता https://t.co/A183YSKxQq

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

Hahaha...!
हामी नया दल हो, अरु दलहरु भन्दा फरक हो!😂
सम्पत्ति स्रोतको छानबिन प्रतिवेदन सार्वजनिक नै नगरी गृहमन्त्रीमा फर्काइए सुधन गुरूङ https://t.co/3Z6n51StXs

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

News: Iran has launched multiple drones towards the Strait of Hormuz, according to a US official. 

At least four Iranian attack drones have been shot down by US aircraft, per same official. 

US official says they suspect these one-way attack drones were targeting commercial vessels transiting regional waters or U.S. forces operating in the vicinity.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Iran's World Cup players have been granted visas to enter the United States, a White House official says, clearing the way for the team to play its group-stage matches in Los Angeles and Seattle.

🔴 More on https://t.co/hGzrK2NGMa

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at USDA helps prevent threats like screwworm from ever reaching US livestock.

In 2025, it lost 1,300 employees due to cuts and firings.

That’s the thing about prevention: you don’t notice it when it works, only when it is gone.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The closure of @USAID by 20-something DOGE bros (who probably thought "screwworm" was a hilarious joke) will haunt us for years to come.

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

@sanpokh @krantishikha PM Balen Shah and the folks at RSP, like spokesperson Dhital, either don't realize how immature and counterproductive it is to defend the PM's controversial comments or they are pretending not to understand.
An own goal by the PM. If he mean to distract, he chose a wrong topic.

[Brinda Adhikari @brindaadhikari]

I worked at CBS News for almost 6 years. It was a place that frequently drove me crazy bc of how resistant it was to change. How difficult it was to get things done bc you had to fight so many people and their “Cronkite and Murrow would roll over in their graves if they saw” mentality.

For those who think Scott Pelley was part of the problem, you are wrong. Yes he could be rigid and a stickler for certain traditions. But I will tell you now the Gen Z people I worked w all loved him. Like me, they forgave a lot of his boomer ways bc we were in awe of investigations he did using hidden cameras exposing snake oil salesmen hurting Americans; showing us how Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people; the pain of rural Americans waiting for half a day to get affordable healthcare in a parking lot of a mobile clinic; his searing interviews w survivors of mass shootings.

Yeah he was old fashioned in some ways. I used to tease him bc he always had trouble pronouncing Beyoncé’s name.

But he was willing to be pushed. He was open to new ideas. The fact that someone like me and someone like him got along so well is proof of that. The guy made me a better thinker and a better journalist.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

“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..,Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc.”

[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

[Ramesh Bhushal @RameshBhushal]

यो घर कस्को? वाग्लेको
अर्थमन्त्री होइन शब्दमन्त्रीको😁 @narayanwagle

[Devendra Raj Panday @DRP39]

यस्ता गफ नदिनु है।तिमीहरूसॅग प्रज्ञिक डिग्री होला, उर्जावान होलाउ, स्वस्थ स्वच्छ पनि होलाउ। तर नपुग पनि धेरै कुराको छ।विनम्र हुन सिक गल्ति य्निकार। कम्तिमा, भारतीय किसानका के कस्ता जग्गा नेपाल भूभागमा परेको छ भन्दै तिम्रा नेता लाई ठिक ठहर्याउन खोज्ने उल्टो काम बन्द गर। शुभकामना!

[Devendra Raj Panday @DRP39]

रास्वपा/बालेन सरकारको सफलता/असफलता देख्न भोग्न म पाउॅदिन।तर यिनीहरु सफल हुन सकुन् भन्ने चाहन्छु।यिनको वा मेरो निम्ति होइन मुलुकको निम्ति।नयापन वा क्रमभंग बाहेक राज्यले ध्यान दिनुपर्ने नीतिगत/संस्थागत/प्रकृयागत बिषयहरू छन् जहॅा सत्तामा रहेका नेत/कार्यकर्ता वा सल्लाहकारका पहॅुच १/२

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

Scott Pelley fired from '60 Minutes' after calling CBS News head Bari Weiss and the new executive producer she hired, Nick Bilton, "unqualified" in their respective roles.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

In a sign of Xi Jinping's insecurities, China has expelled an outstanding New York Times correspondent, Vivian Wang, who for years has done tremendous work covering that country. The Times, which has covered China since the 1850s and once had about a dozen correspondents in China, now has just one -- because of visa restrictions. China is a major international power, but it displays a remarkable lack of self-confidence when it bars correspondents like this. It will still be covered but from places like Taiwan in ways that can't do it justice. China has some extraordinary accomplishments in science, in education, in health, in infrastructure; a baby born in Beijing today has a longer life expectancy than a baby born in Washington DC. Yet China fears international coverage in a way that I think reflects a political immaturity and hurts itself. 搬起石头砸自己的脚. https://t.co/3LJQfY1I30

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

Although the Justice Department had explicitly stated that the Trump Organization and the Trump family were ineligible for the fund, one confusing clause appeared to open the door for them to file claims.
https://t.co/FJmRXm1h54

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

Platner’s wife Amy says that news articles about her have been “extra shitty”. Watch the entire video.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

A message from my wife Amy:

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Philly!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Damakant Jayshi @damakant]

She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing. https://t.co/E6sMzibud1