Deni Kamper

comms director @ChrisMurphyCT | 🏠StL | distrustful of people who don't drink coffee. | she/her | opinions are mine.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

“The closest thing to a manifesto for the Democrats’ new values offensive is Senator Chris Murphy’s book published last month, “Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America.” Mr. Murphy links a left-populist critique of the economy with the imperative of responding to “America’s spiritual unraveling.”
https://t.co/65vwQ7ZJbc

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Scott Pelley reveals that Bari Weiss asked him to "make the [ICE] protesters look more violent" and "describe Renee Good as driving toward the officer" in the video of her murder.

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Sorry what?? They falsely accused Scott Pelley of physical assault?

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

A 60 Minutes veteran tells me: “They stayed so as not to abandon their producers and staff, many of whom simply can’t afford to quit. It’s an act of self-sacrifice, really, and of generosity. And they’re voting for the survival of 60 Minutes.”

But, they added, “I can guarantee you that they’ll hold Bilton to his promise not to allow corporate interference.”

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

As grocery prices continue to rise nationally, the House passed an appropriations bill that would cut $141 million in funding for a program that helps pregnant women and children purchase healthy foods. https://t.co/NJ8vGuBc0P

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: When people see a ballroom and, at the same time, see their health insurance getting cut off, they know that they are paying for that ballroom with no health care, higher grocery prices, and increasingly unaffordable housing.

And so I think people are pissed off about it, and they should be. It’s wrong. This is a complete theft of our money. This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom, or to renovate the Kennedy Center, or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for—paying for things that actually benefit you: better roads, health care, and more affordable groceries.

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Amazing kicker in the NYT’s list of the 100 Best Restaurants in NYC @ligayamishan

[Katie Smith @_ktmsmith]

Absolutely brutal side-by-side for @millermeeks in the @DMRegister

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

In Missouri today and I’m helping raise money for an amazing local effort to stop another corrupt Republican redistricting plan.

Citizens here are fighting to stop the new Trump map and they have a path!

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

Wow, the student journalist who won the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship at the News Emmys just called out CBS News.

"While I want to thank CBS News for funding this generous gift toward my education, I want to also acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the name sake of this scholarship." (Applause and some surprise in the room)

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss:

"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.

Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.

In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.

Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes. Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it.

The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters.

To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less."

Backstory:

- January: https://t.co/l518elnE4b

- April: https://t.co/8pWTTjOIbk

- May: https://t.co/LfKHnm18nF

[ProPublica @propublica]

1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix.

Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection.

They knew how to treat her. There was one issue…🧵

[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.

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

[David Dayen @ddayen]

I've been away for a couple weeks, but I'm back to review @ChrisMurphyCT's book, which releases today.
He details America's spiritual crisis & why we're all so damn unhappy. In doing so he shows a rare attribute in Dem politicians: believing in something.
https://t.co/0Vx0BrWFmm

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Publication day! Starting the day at @GMA and @TheView on @ABC. Click here to grab your own copy. https://t.co/VFDdt9rhVN

[Mike Fallon @mikepfallon]

Soon in New Haven on May 31st w @rjjulia- Come Through! 📘

🎟️: https://t.co/9LL3MU8cYo

[butch fox mulder @he4venbent]

this is just like what happened to my good friend deborah vance

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
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