Christina MorseEdgar

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[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

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Get back in your coffin.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Bragging about $4 gas is a new flex I’ve not expected

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.

He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.

He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.

He was impeached by his own party for corruption.

Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.

Together we will stop him.

[🇺🇸 David J. Urban 🇺🇸 @DavidJUrban]

Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C.
November 21, 1864

Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

Abraham Lincoln

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here’s what Trump did today instead of attending his son’s wedding:

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Judiciary Republicans should spare us the faux outrage about @splcenter. No counterfeit finger-pointing will undo President Trump's careful cultivating and coddling of the extreme Right for as long as he has been in politics.

The real fraud in America is coming from the White House, not the SPLC: a $1.8 billion plunder of the taxpayers to pay off Trump’s private militia of white nationalist foot soldiers.

[Justin J. Pearson @Justinjpearson]

Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on.

This move strips nearly 2 million Tennesseans from the representation they deserve in TN state leg.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: I heard one of our colleagues across the aisle just say, “Well, yes, Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 does give Congress the exclusive, plenary, comprehensive power to declare war and not the president. And we could be debating it, but the president has already taken us to war, so it’s too late. It would undermine the cause for us to debate it.” 

What a humiliating, self-defeating argument for a member of the Article I branch of Congress to be making. Don’t you understand? That destroys our power to declare war if any president can plunge us into a war and thereby defeat our exclusive, plenary power over it—

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@RepRaskin to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: "Apparently when your special blanket, your blankie, was left on one of the government jets and not transported over to the new one, your special govt employee, Corey Lewandowski, chivalrously stepped forward to fire the pilot - mid air!"

[Principles First @Principles_1st]

🚨🚨 #PrinciplesFirst alert:

Sen. Tillis (R-NC) on Sec. Noem: “What we’ve seen is a disaster under your leadership.”

Thank you, Senator. Competence matters.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

A new form of intimidation targets federal judges: hundreds of unsolicited pizzas sent to judges and their children across the country. It’s an innocuous delivery with an ominous message: “We know where you live.” https://t.co/697NkyBXmn

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

The Trump administration doesn’t want you to hear what James Talarico has to say.

Come hear it in person: https://t.co/gtJnYRhlip

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

The crowd is LOVING @jamestalarico on @colbertlateshow

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

This rule would basically mean no presidential primary candidates in 2027 on network tv bc none of the shows are going to talk to all the loser alsorans. Can’t tell whether this decision is stupid or corrupt at this point, probably both,

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Trump is so concerned about flipping Texas, that he is using his FCC goons to censor his opponents.

To go to all this trouble, and coordinate with the FCC means they are having *SERIOUS* internal discussions about Texas.

And they know @jamestalarico is a threat!

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: Trump’s FCC kept this interview of James Talarico and Stephen Colbert off the airwaves. But they couldn’t keep it off the internet. They are scared of losing power. Retweet this interview that Trump doesn’t want you to see.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The party (GOP) and politician (Trump) who spent the past decade screaming about free speech and snowflakes have declared war on late night comedians, have tried to get them sacked, have banned their guests.

Putin and Orban would be proud.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Just because CBS kneels to Trump doesn’t mean the rest of us have to.

Pass this along on every one of your social media accounts.

Make sure it is seen far and wide in our country.