MAC

There is nothing new under the sun

[MAC @mclark1630]

American social media companies are destroying democracy

[Mykhaïlo Golub @golub]

The Polish far right is making it clear that Ukraine is its primary enemy

[MAC @mclark1630]

Greedy fucks

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

US defense giants Lockheed and Raytheon are reportedly resistant to licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine because they fear that Ukrainian manufacturers will be able to “improve the Patriot and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money.” -The Atlantic

[MAC @mclark1630]

Emoluments

[The Associated Press @AP]

U.S. President Donald Trump approves a nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that may allow the kingdom to enrich uranium, two AP sources say. https://t.co/4XjKipdMGO

[MAC @mclark1630]

@RpsAgainstTrump None of it is legal - Emoluments clause of The Constitution

[WestLoopTom @WestLoopTom]

The air quality is so bad in Chicago that people are stopping in Richard’s just to get some fresh air.

[The Rest Is History @TheRestHistory]

Tom Holland meets a fan

[MAC @mclark1630]

ESPN is a joke

[Jeff Fuller @jjfuller72]

This is how the sausage is made

While I don’t exactly know if it’s chicken/egg between:

-all 16 SEC schools have a top 20 SOS
or
-12 of 16 SEC being ranked in FPI top 23

… it definitely sets up a self-fulfilling reinforcement system where the SEC always stays on top.

Guess ESPN isn’t concerned with the optics of their proprietary metrics system clearly favoring the conference they partly own…

[MAC @mclark1630]

@BleacherReport How is PCA trade not on this list?

[MAC @mclark1630]

Object lesson in Trumpism

[tern @1goodtern]

You couldn't make this up.
If you plotted this in a movie or TV show it would seem too ridiculous and unsubtle.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

No two people are more different than Roosevelt and Trump. The former won a Medal of Honor, crushed monopolies, explored the Amazon, and was tougher than nails. The latter is a rapist, draft-dodger, and corrupt Gomorrah-appreciator riddled with insecurity. Piss off with this.

[MAC @mclark1630]

God forbid his master’s crimes are uncovered

[Acyn @Acyn]

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

[MAC @mclark1630]

National Socialism

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump on taking govt stakes in AI companies: "We're talking about giving back something to the public. And if we do that, the public will become very rich. I think they'll do that."

[MAC @mclark1630]

@Hstorical_Facts @historyinmemes

[MAC @mclark1630]

@Hstorical_Facts @historyinmemes This is not exactly true. The 1st MN suffered vast majority of casualties on 7/2 (Day 2) counterattacking rebs that were about to charge through a gap in the line. See “Anderson’s Assault” section on wiki. Map shows 1st MN vastly outnumbered in the middle https://t.co/c3hNsV4hUw

[MAC @mclark1630]

Freedom of speech is dying

[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

[MAC @mclark1630]

What a loser

[Mykhaïlo Golub @golub]

Pete Hegseth is doing some masculine shit

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[In The Bayou With Tyrann Mathieu @InTheBayouPod]

Larry Fitzgerald reveals what led his son Devin to choose Notre Dame over other schools 👀

“There were some unofficial visits we took where he had an unbelievable time, and he’d be like, ‘Dad, I really like this place... but the guys are undisciplined, they’re not focused…’ I didn’t say anything, but I would think, I’m so proud.”

[Tyler Horka @tbhorka]

Jeremiyah Love says the transition to the NFL has been “a seamless switch.”

Why?

“I went to Notre Dame.”

[MAC @mclark1630]

Irony is incomprehensible to Trump supporters

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: MAGA evangelical leaders gather in Mar-a-Lago to bless and dedicate a gold statue dedicate to Donald Trump.