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[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

A tragedy of epic proportions

[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

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

My sentiments exactly!

[Jeremy London @SirJeremyLondon]

An Ossoff/Buttigieg ticket (either way) would fix this country…

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

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[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

he's going to be a generational shitposter

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Kimmel: I like your football jersey. Supporting Ukrainian team?

Chef José Andrés: My beloved Spanish team, of course. But Ukraine is my team today. They didn’t make it to World Cup, but today they're fighting the biggest match — for freedom and democracy.

Kimmel: Yes, they are.

Chef José Andrés: And can I tell you one more thing?

Kimmel: Yes, please.

Chef José Andrés: No civilian should ever be bombed. Not in Ukraine, not in Gaza, not in Lebanon, not in Israel. No war! That’s why they are my team today.

[Ruben Garcia @goRubenRuben]

Pete Buttigieg is quietly building one of the largest political networks in the Democratic Party ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The former Transportation Secretary has now endorsed candidates in more than 30 races and traveled across more than a dozen states, campaigning not only in Democratic strongholds but also in areas where Republicans have traditionally dominated.

That strategy matters.

After Democrats’ struggles in recent elections, many party activists are searching for leaders who can compete beyond the usual blue-state map. Buttigieg appears to be betting that helping candidates win in difficult territory could strengthen his own case if he decides to run for president in 2028.

He has already ruled out running for Senate or governor in Michigan, a move widely seen as keeping the door open for a White House bid.

Whether that translates into national support is still unclear. Buttigieg remains one of the Democrats most frequently mentioned in early 2028 conversations, but the party’s next generation of contenders is becoming increasingly crowded.

For now, he’s focusing on the midterms. But every endorsement, fundraiser, and campaign stop is also helping build a résumé that could matter a lot more two years from now.

Sources: CNN, Reuters, Politico

#PeteButtigieg #Democrats #USPolitics #Midterms #Election2028 #USDemocracy #VivaPete #TALAFREAKOS

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

Isn't it interesting how if all those Dems worried wouldn't allow that worry to influence who they feel would be the most inclusive, kind-hearted, rational, smart and brave president...then, we'd have that president again.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

A lot of Dems in focus groups say they love Pete, but worry Americans won’t vote for a gay man. If polling starts to reflect otherwise, I could see Pete getting a lot of momentum, because he’s actually the candidate people like most when they’re not triangulating for the perceived preferences of other Americans.

[The Liberal Femitards @Thelibfemitards]

Here's some numbers to bolster your skepticism:

March 3rd Democratic primary results: Dems SHOWED up at the polls, Total votes cast: 2,073,750

Talarico won handily with James Talarico — 1,103,371 votes (53.2%) beating out a very popular TEXAS Democratic seating congresswoman, Jasmine Crocket to get the democrat nominee.

Yesterdays results: Republicans, by comparison, SHOWED up.. with almost 1M less votes cast. One Million.. Total turnout: 1,387,674 votes

Paxton received: Ken Paxton — 885,949 votes (~64%)

Now.. Trump and Republicans ARE calling this a victory lap, and on its face it might seem so.. But in a RED DISTICT primary, TALARICO pulled in more votes with 2 opponents than Paxton did with 1 and a Trump endorsement to propel him forward.

Make no mistake, Talarico will have to run a strong campaign to the finish, but the numbers SHOW a very favorable outcome for him if hes able to energize the base and show up in November!

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

Fu#$ you guys. Mandolorian and Grogu was great. #mandolorianandgrogu

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

Sick burn.

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Hey @elonmusk why so very few RT? I have. A feeling that @X brings down RT people they don’t want and exponentially RT people no one wants to know about…..any ideas or comments?

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

Homoerotic guilt with redirected aggression I think. Come out the closet, Elon. You and the rest of the world will be better for it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The character based on him is killed in it.

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

Fucking eww. Too bad. Smh

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jaxson Dart: I'm grateful, I'm honored, I'm pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump.

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

😂😂

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

Why does she have Nathan Lane on her back?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing.

The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs.

ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries.

Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year.

Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize.

Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now.

Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

Lizard person in skin suit supports sociopath-in-charge vanity project costing taxpayers billions.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Fetterman: I think the reflecting pool and the ballroom are entirely appropriate. America is turning 50 years old. Why would we want to make sure everything looking great. We need a ballroom.

[Variety @Variety]

Javier Bardem speaks out in #Cannes on toxic masculinity:

"That problem also goes to Trump, Putin and Netanyahu... the big balls man saying 'my cock is bigger than yours and I'm going to bomb the shit out of you' is a f*cking male toxic behavior that is creating thousands of dead people."

https://t.co/XAPnz8vSKP

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

Ugh. Not toyota...

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

The corruption runs through the whole administration. A bunch of grifters using the taxpayers to subsidize their reality TV show masked as politics.

[ManDcat3 @GreenMandee]

The irony is lost on these fucking menaces. Don't give 2 shits about teachers and others who make "extreme sacrifice". Stock trading is a fucking LUXURY that if any profit is actually made on, already shows they have the means to spend it!

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.”

Americans are tired of watching corruption dressed up as virtue.