John R. Anderson

Waiting to see what happens next

[Rep. Joe Courtney @RepJoeCourtney]

Mike Johnson calls Social Security an “entitlement” and says he has a plan for it to be “adjusted and fixed.”

Social Security is an earned benefit – not an entitlement – and as we’ve warned repeatedly, it’s about to hit a cliff, now in 2032. In Connecticut, that would mean an average loss of $556/month in benefits. 

The way to prevent this is by making the rich pay their fair share in payroll tax – the same as middle and working-class Americans.

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

So Ken Paxton's wife, co-workers, and lawyer all agree you shouldn't vote for the guy.

That's something worth pondering.

[John R. Anderson @jayrandel]

@Riffraff3232 Los Asaderos

[John R. Anderson @jayrandel]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Nope. Actually LOVE her

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Scott Pelley told the truth. So CBS News fired him.

[The Cowboy Regg ✭ @Irish_Cowboy88]

Who else misses 80’s NBA?

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Hey everyone!

Let’s get #IStandWithPelley trending right now to support him after CBS News fired him!

#BoycottCBS

[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

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Some women are cool. Some women are really cool. Some women are extremely cool. But only one woman is Joan Jett.

[John R. Anderson @jayrandel]

@RichOToole Hey Dude and Clarissa Tells It All. Classics

[John R. Anderson @jayrandel]

@RichOToole 🤣👍🏼

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema has blocked Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund to pay January 6th insurrectionists.

RETWEET to thank Judge Brinkema for standing up for our democracy!

[John R. Anderson @jayrandel]

@RichOToole Love that place

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

This Republican attack ad is going viral after the GOP deleted it because it's attacking their new nominee for Texas Senate, Ken Paxton:

"Texas deserves better than the sound of Ken Paxton."

[John R. Anderson @jayrandel]

Well, this is embarrassing

[Jeff Leach @leachfortexas]

This is Adam Hoffman. He repeatedly raped a Texas boy — for nearly three years — dozens and dozens of times.

Tomorrow morning, May 25th 2026, he will be released from McLennan County Jail after spending just a few weeks there. He will not be required to register as a sex offender. And very soon he’ll be allowed to practice law again.

A real and dangerous predator — a present threat to Texas children — will be as free as you and me. A slap on his wrist and a spit in the face to his victim.

Why?! How?!

Because that’s the deal he made with Ken Paxton.

Vote accordingly.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Stephen Colbert was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. A fitting honor for a champion of our democracy.

RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!