john 🌵

Hailing from the Dust Coast / Husband / Colorado Raised / Redeemer Church / Sports Fan / Dog Lover / Texas Tech / Cubs / #COYS / @LubbockAO / 🛒

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

Having attended one of her pop-up shows phone free, that was arguably one of the best large gathering social situations I’ve been to in years.

It was incredible how different human interaction was and the concert experience itself was improved with more attentive audiences

[🏁 @concertleaks]

Phoebe Bridgers has announced The Lost Tour with support from Alex G and Isaac Wood!

Each show will be phone-free, using Yondr pouches that will be unlocked when leaving the venue.

[Makenzie Means @makenzie_means]

There’s a lot of talk about how much Tech spent on NIL and the ROI. We may not have won the championship, but these girls have grown the game, represented the brand and have made our entire fan base love softball. Every dollar spent was worth it. Thank you @TexasTechSB ❤️

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

@CodyBellaire Vince Carter 💯

[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

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

The official end of 60 minutes as we’ve known it for decades

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

LETS GOOO!!!! @TexasTechSB

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

See Allred knows how to jump!

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

RING THE BELLS AND GO BEAT TEXAS

WRECK EM FOREVER!

@TexasTechSB

[ESPN @espn]

MIA WILLAMS MOON SHOT HR TO FORCE A WINNER TAKE ALL IN OKC 🔥

Texas Tech and Alabama will face off once again on ESPN and the ESPN App 🍿

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

Let’s play 2!!

MIA WILLIAMS

[Makenzie Means @makenzie_means]

I can’t believe my stress levels are directly impacted by a group of girls in visors

[Texas Tech Softball @TexasTechSB]

CRASHING THE SEMIS ONCE AGAIN‼️

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

Lightning round spelling bee is insane

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ken Paxton has won the Republican nomination for US Senate in Texas and will face James Talarico in November.

Paxton was impeached by his own party for bribery and corruption, said the Uvalde school shooting was “God’s plan,” and offered a child rapist a 1-day jail sentence.

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

Go be great!!

[Christian Anderson Jr. @chrisanders2024]

“ Thank you @TexasTechMBB x Red Raider Nation “

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

They literally suggested you should change the rules to disallow it. So ridiculous

[Shelby Hilliard @ShelbyCHilliard]

ESPN's brain is actually breaking because Texas Tech has two aces athletic enough to hit and pitch and reenter back and forth.

Changing the game. Texas Tech effect.

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

RUN RULED EM!

WRECK EM TECH

Go win it all in the WCWS

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

Frank 26 matches 29 points
Tudor 5 matches 1 point
De Zerbi 7 matches 11 points

Not sure what he got paid, but De Zerbi deserves every penny

As many points in final 7 matches as in previous 17

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

SPURS ARE SAFE

Never again!

[john 🌵 @johnlaf13]

9 minutes of stoppage time???

#COYS