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Hard working baby boomer.Native Texan & Brooklyn traveler.Independent respecting truth & dignity.

[Matt Macauley @VisualAlgebra]

My 7-year-old daughter heard me say that Dolly Parton died, and got visibly very sad. I was surprised she even knew that name.

“You know Dolly Parton?”

In the sweetest timid voice, she replied:

“Well, I don’t _know_ know her. But she sent me books.”

🥹😢😭

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@GeraldoRivera With our tax dollars as part of it??? No thanks.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.

That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

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@TrumpDailyPosts That you’re lying as usual. They have condemned all of those.

[General Gen X 🇱🇧 @chilicon73]

@TuckerCarlson Millions of Fox News boomers are gonna lose their shit 😂

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@tommysantos14 Because Trump wants to distract from the stupid war he started and Epstein.

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@NickKristof Well, unfortunately, for the USA team, everything Trump touches dies

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@HalfwayPost 😂😂😂😂

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@FmrRepMTG Why didn’t you know he was the snake back then? We did.

[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

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Ken Paxton has been reported to the FBI eight times.

Each time by his own senior staff.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’

@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.

Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

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@atrupar People in Texas don’t like vegans??!!😂😂

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@Cynthia08836097 @Miriam2626 I paid 4.25 on Mockingbird and Greenville

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@brianstelter @BrendanCarrFCC But he’s gotta have the WH correspondence event celebrating freedom of the press.

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@RpsAgainstTrump But “brilliant”😂😂

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@Franklin_Graham @realDonaldTrump Ridiculous!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This one is so much more accurate than the original.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

I blame his voters for this. I blame every Republican elected official. I blame his media sycophants. I blame every media outlet, university president, private company CEO, and world leader who bent the knee to him. They’re all to blame for this. They ALL taught him to believe he can do whatever he wants. They ALL taught him to believe he should be worshipped.

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@JamesMartinSJ @NickKristof Nope no bottom