Catherine V Mott

Founder Mng Partner BlueTree VC BlueTree Venture Fund & BlueTree Allied Angels, Independent Voter,Lutheran,Entrepreneur Advocate, Pet/Animal Lover

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

REP. DEAN TO BLANCHE: "The president lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove it. It's all covered up. The 🇺🇸 people are not stupid.”

(H/T @atrupar)

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

Because of your voice on Delaney Hall, the Trump admin just released 18 yr old high school senior whose story I told. They released the pregnant women held inside. These releases show ICE isn’t targeting the violent criminals. ICE is feeling the pressure. Keep raising your voice.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends.

He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission.

Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Justice Sotomayor BLASTS Trump’s justices in a scathing dissent over yet another rubber-stamping of Republican racist election-stealing shenanigans!

She didn’t hold back…

The right-wing conservatives on the Supreme Court just voted to allow Alabama to use a 2023 map which was so obviously racist that a three-judge panel of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump appointees again found that the map was unconstitutional.

But nothing except Republican power matters to Trump’s justices on SCOTUS, who voted 6-3 to allow Alabama to use the racist map anyway.

Justice Sotomayor eviscerated her fellow justices in her dissent, writing that they “disregard both democratic values and the rule of law.”

“In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public. It debases the democratic process by upending Alabama’s entire election in the name of permitting Alabama to discriminate against Black Alabamians.”

“It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama’s gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders.”

“It is long established that ‘he who comes into equity must come with clean hands.’ Alabama’s hands, however, are far from clean. Instead, it defied the District Court’s order in these cases even after this Court affirmed it, and took utterly irreconcilable positions at different stages in these cases to suit its own purposes.”

“Now the Court is squarely faced with a record of the turmoil it has caused and the harm it has wrought. Yet just as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.”

It is absolutely abhorrent the way that Trump’s justices have allowed state Republicans to play legislative Calvinball with the law and the rules, arguing one thing one day and against that very same thing the next when it suits them.

No precedent matters, no good faith interpretation of the law, nothing matters except the exercise of power and advancing the MAGA agenda.

Once we retake power, impeaching Trump’s justices and reforming our courts has to be a top priority – because if we don’t, they will pack the courts even more and entrench one-party rule forever.

Like and share to spread her powerful words to EVERY American!

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree with Thomas Massie. Netanyahu is using Trump as a puppet just as Putin has done. 😡

[Catherine V Mott @mottcv]

@MarcoFoster_ Have been boycotting since John Dickerson left and made exception for 60 min. Unfortunately I will have to also boycott 60 min. It’s really sad to see what has happened at CBS. I am saddened immensely!

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Trump is repeating “2020 rigged election” lies again. Why?
He’s setting it up to deny the midterm results when Republicans lose the House.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Watch Scott Bessent completely unravel when Rep @CortezMasto questions him on whether the 400K taxpayers will get a settlement like the one that Trump is trying trying to get.

Masto: "You had said earlier you had concerns about those 400,000 taxpayers whose documents were leaked by an independent contractor with the IRS. If you have concerns about those 400,000, do you intend as acting or whatever role it is you have as the IRS commissioner, do you intend to give them the same type of treatment"

Bessent: "We will follow the instructions and the settlement by..."

Masto: "That was not part of the settlement. That was not part of the settlement. So clearly...

Bessent: "Let me just say that was not part of the settlement."

Masto: "It's been very clear you're dodging this and you're trying to use it as an excuse. It's just outrageous on behalf of the American public."

[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

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

On the resignation of 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens.

Anderson Cooper: "If there is a settlement... How damaging is that to CBS?"

Scott Pelley: "It would be very damaging to CBS, to Paramount, to the reputation of those companies."

[LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961]

USA Today: "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley on Bari Weiss: "She's murdering "60 Minutes." She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she's doing exactly that."
#VoteOutEveryRepublican #VoteBlue26

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Wow. Scott Pelley just got fired from 60 Minutes for standing up to the right wing grifters who are trying to destroy it. Thank you to Pelley, Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Cecilia Vega (all people who left or were fired) for doing the right thing. Crazy stuff.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 THE ACCUSATION JUST ESCALATED.

Media reporter Oliver Darcy says some CBS insiders no longer believe the upheaval at 60 Minutes is simply a management dispute.

They believe it's connected to a much bigger prize.

🔥 According to Darcy, insiders are drawing a direct line between the dismantling of 60 Minutes and David Ellison's effort to secure government approval for a major media merger.

The theory goes like this:

60 Minutes has become one of the most politically sensitive properties in American media.

Remove the friction. Remove the controversy. Remove the headaches.

And it becomes easier to get a deal approved.

To be clear, this is what insiders are alleging, not a proven fact.

But that's why the firings, departures, and internal revolt at 60 Minutes are generating so much attention.

Because the question is no longer:

"Why were these journalists pushed out?"

The question some inside CBS are now asking is:

"Who benefits from 60 Minutes becoming less confrontational?"

And in media, that's usually where the real story begins.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

In a world of craven opportunists like Bari Weiss - be a moral compass like Scott Pelley.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

To flourish, fascism is dependent on lies, propaganda, and incompetence. After CBS's MAGA editor-in-chief Bari Weiss fired Scott Pelley, this is where 60 Minutes is headed. 👇

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Scott Pelley Just Made An Extraordinary Accusation Against CBS Leadership.

In a written statement, Pelley says executives instructed him to "inject falsehoods and bias" into a politically sensitive story.

He says he refused.

🔥 Think about what that means.

This isn't a dispute over ratings, budgets, or personalities.

It's one of America's most respected journalists accusing his own newsroom leadership of trying to alter the facts of a story.

CBS has not publicly responded to the allegation.

But if Pelley's claim is true, the fight at CBS is no longer about who runs 60 Minutes.

It's about whether editorial independence still exists inside the building.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Scott Pelley speaks out on his firing from 60 Minutes. It’s refreshing to have correspondents with integrity! I wish CBS News and Bari Weiss, who murdered 60 Minutes, nothing but the worst along with tanked viewership! 👍

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Scott Pelley atood on business, and told those clowns at CBS the truth. He helped make 60 Minutes the respected, high quality show it was before Bari Weiss showed up.

She's RUINED the show.
She's ruined the station.

FUCK @CBS.

I stand with Scott Pelley. 🙏💪🏽

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

One day we will look back on the murder of “60 Minutes” as one of the travesties of Trump’s reign.

In the meantime, thank you Scott Pelley for telling the truth. Thank you, former “60 Minutes” producers, correspondents, and staff, for telling the truth.

And now, we should boycott CBS. https://t.co/dusMiZXyVn