EIon luvs blueskies

Third dog is here! Father, husband, smartass and sometimes pilot. AFL-CIO member. My ancestor was hanged as a witch in Salem, what’s your excuse?

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

This is the last photo I have of Sable

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

60 Minutes made $206 million in advertising in 2024. It was not a struggling relic. It was the most profitable serious journalism operation in American broadcasting.

Then David Ellison bought Bari Weiss's website for $150 million and handed her CBS News. She spiked a story on El Salvador's CECOT prison. She let Benjamin Netanyahu pick his own interviewer instead of sitting across from Leslie Stahl. She fired the executive producer, two on-air correspondents, and the behind-the-camera producers who actually ran the place.

The replacement EP has never worked a day in broadcast news. Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire endorsed the hire.

This is not mismanagement. Ratings are down across CBS News. The journalism is getting worse. The audience is leaving. But Ellison's other corporate deals - the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition - got a presidential thumbs-up while Netflix got frozen out. Trump said out loud he would remember which companies played ball.

That's the transaction. CBS News bleeds so that Paramount profits. Sharyn Alfonsi doesn't have a job so that David Ellison gets his merger.

The people who watched 60 Minutes for fifty years to find out what was actually happening in the world... they just lost something that cannot be rebuilt under corporate ownership. Not in this environment. Not while the president is keeping score.

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

✍️“Out of the great cloud of Al hype, the outline of the crash can now be clearly discerned”

Here’s some maths from today’s @TeleBusiness column, now online:

🔗 https://t.co/4MkFivjjER

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@60Minutes Mindless drivel

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

For men who love that era, you can still wear an opera pump today. The men I know who wear formalwear and cocktail attire best still wear them. Doing so requires some self-confidence and a willingness to stand out. To me, this looks tremendously elegant:

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@MerriamWebster I’m flummoxed

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

Since Liberation Day, a year ago today:

* US foreign direct investment is lower

* US factories employ 89,000 fewer people

* US goods trade deficit is UP 2%

https://t.co/LJ7h0yLJXG

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@FM_Szijjarto @realDonaldTrump Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@NancyMace How’s this going right now?

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@jbarro Let’s go back to Eisenhower tax rates

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@Sassafrass_84 Bots can’t be sick

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control:

TikTok
CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Cartoon Network
Comedy Central
DC Studios
Fandango
Miramax
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
And more

This is oligarchy.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This hits hard. 🥹🥹🥹👇

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@HeerJeet Trump likes quickies? Hahahahahaha

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@BarndoLife Fugly

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@nickgillespie @reason @kmanguward @nytimes Hillary was right about everything

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@Mebeta2023 @JakeSherman Projection

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@FBIDirectorKash @FBI @TheJusticeDept

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@JDVance Are you in the files?

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@MollyJongFast Hi, @elon! How are things?

[EIon luvs blueskies @lizardpilot]

@Rainmaker1973 Did it long ago. Where’s my $?