Patrick Larkin

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of teachers begging for school supplies online, and yet there are people dumb enough to believe that this ever actually happened. They are horrible for even saying this, and you’re an idiot if you believe it.

[WEEI Red Sox Network @SoxBooth]

Yamamoto, meet Rafaela! His second homerun of the game to stay right with the Dodgers and tie things up 2-2 at the top of the 3rd!

(Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images)

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

A 25-year-old U.S. citizen was deported to Mexico by ICE after a traffic stop in Texas. His attorney says he had a U.S. birth certificate, Social Security card, and hospital records proving his citizenship, but agents refused to review them before deporting him.

[NESN @NESN]

You've forever got fans in Boston, Connelly ❤️🫡

[Khary Penebaker @kharyp]

A teacher buys her own pencils. A senator buys a third house. Only one of them is called overpaid.

[Patrick Larkin @PatrickMLarkin]

@PaulaWoodDMV Love James Wood! Woods, not so much!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.

What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.

Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.

Happy Fourth of July, New York City.

[Patrick Larkin @PatrickMLarkin]

@Savageboston Brad is following orders…

[Patrick Larkin @PatrickMLarkin]

@EricCrossMLB Pretty sure, he had to do it.

[Meghan Ottolini @Meghan_Ottolini]

I am about to side with Contreras on both these ejections

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

It made my day 🫣

[Jaylen Brown @FCHWPO]

Nobody has won more combined regular season and playoff games since I entered the league 10 years ago

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🤣🤣

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

Watching the Red Sox is one of the most harmful things you can do to yourself.

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

When the Red Sox have me agreeing with Dan Shaughnessy, you know something has gone horrendously wrong. Horrifying times.

[Patrick Larkin @PatrickMLarkin]

@FacetheFacts15 Yes

[Dan Shaughnessy @Dan_Shaughnessy]

Red Sox score one run again. Lose again. Everyday lineup is one of the worst in franchise history. Fans deserve so much better.

[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

[Boston Globe Pitchbot @BostonSatire]

Tough luck: Giant asteroid misses landing zone region had been praying for it to hit