Hal Goetz🥥

Contract Organizer @SEIULocal284 and member @steelworkers | formerly @iowademocrats @IDPTeamsters @kinneyforiowa and @jdmerrill | Germany didn't start WWI

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

To expand on my response to Ross a bit, my suspicion is that values pluralism is like what Winston Churchill said about democracy-- the worst system, except for all the others.

I *get* the desire for a cohesive social consensus on values. Believe me I get it.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Chinatown has stayed Chinese because they racially discriminate lol not sure this is a model we should try to emulate elsewhere

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Regarding some feedback on the Fetterman side of this: People focus too much on Fetterman's ideology and miss the fact that he simply is not good at being a senator in classic low-conscientiousness ways. He basically doesn't show up for work.

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

Sunrise Movement? The youth climate organization?

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

not exactly a new development but it's fascinating how climate has just dropped out of what sunrise likes to talk about

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

In my experience, a lot of elected officials who get the case for YIMBYism theoretically still worry that it’s bad politics.

I hope everyone takes note that @Scott_Wiener, probably the single best-known YIMBY champion around, just won his race handily.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

The width of this two way street, which has functioned perfectly well since 1908, is now considered too narrow to act as ~solely~ a one way fire lane for access to even a single building by today’s NFPA code. “For safety”

In reality this illegal street design is safer for everyone involved and means fewer accidents for fire department to respond to, and less severe injuries when they do.

To build this neighborhood today you would be told to remove the trees as an “obstacle”, replacing that space with more asphalt instead. More people would be injured or killed, but in the much rarer case of a fire the convenience of added working space is considered more important.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The Secretary of State commits himself to a zero-sum view of global affairs as a deadly cattle parasite once eradicated from not just the US but also Mexico and Central America under US leadership spreads closer to Texas.

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

If your candidate for governor didn’t win the GOP nomination tonight, you are welcome here. Iowans deserve a leader who lives in Iowa, who has worked for Iowans rather than for insiders, and someone that is committed to serving Iowa families. We already have more GOP donors than the GOP nominee. Join us. All Iowans - Democrats, Republicans and independents - are all welcome.

[Hal Goetz🥥 @goetz_hal]

If I had a nickel for every Pete 2020 Organizer based in Iowa City that was going to be in the Iowa House of Representatives, etc.

[Sarah Watson @K_5mydearwatson]

Davenport will have a new rep in the statehouse after Democratic organizer Adam Peters unseated incumbent State Rep. Ken Croken in the primary for Iowa HD 97.

https://t.co/gttvCp8jTr

[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

[Ashley Schapitl @AshleySchapitl]

"Mr. Pelley said in the interview that Ms. Weiss would not answer his questions about why the network had decided to fire Ms. Simon and the two '60 Minutes' correspondents.

Ms. Weiss’s behavior, he said, 'was cold and callous and beneath the dignity of CBS News.'"

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

I'm not sure the point @CSMFHT intended with his comment, but what I would say to this is that there are a range of aims that a good translation can have and the challenge is that no one translation can achieve all of them.

Word for word accuracy is one, but not the only one. 1/

[Frances Patano @FrancesPatano]

Hello, we’re flipping Iowa this November.

[Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs]

Iowa has elected a ton of Democrats statewide this century too. Texas, not so much

[Josh Turek @turek4iowa]

My name is Josh Turek. I am a 2-time gold medalist, 4-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball, one of the first permanently disabled members of the Iowa House, and I am honored to be Iowa's Democratic nominee for United States Senate.

If you are ready to push for change, join me: https://t.co/rXejLpuhG8

[Sean Butler @Sean_Butler1]

TOMORROW