Phun-A Lonely Hermit

Live and Let Live, Love-No hate, DC Comics Fan

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Cactuscali19912 Stephen Miller is an ugly fuck.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Scott Pelley told the truth. So CBS News fired him.

[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

[Phun-A Lonely Hermit @phun_wang]

@HunterBiden Congratulations! Keep it up!

[Phun-A Lonely Hermit @phun_wang]

@bruce_barrett Great stuff. Birth control for mosquitos.

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

So yesterday Donald Trump posted a video of him crashing Stephen Colbert's final show, and literally throwing him in the garbage, and of course, I had to FIX it.

[Lev Parnas @levparnas]

After watching Stephen Colbert take his final bow last night, I made a decision:

I will no longer be watching CBS.

What happened to The Late Show was not just about one comedian or one television program. It was about something much bigger: whether billionaires, corporate executives, and media institutions will stand up for free speech — or bend the knee when Donald Trump comes after voices that challenge him.

Bari Weiss. CBS. The Ellison-controlled corporate leadership. Every powerful institution that believes it can silence criticism, appease Trump, and still keep the trust of the American people needs to hear us clearly:

Enough is enough.

Donald Trump is not a king.
Corporate America does not get to surrender our democracy for access, approval, mergers, or profit.
And the American people do not have to reward cowardice with our money, our ratings, or our silence.

So I am using my voice. I am turning CBS off.

I encourage every American who believes in democracy, free speech, and accountability to do the same. Stop supporting corporations that normalize authoritarianism. Stop giving ratings to institutions that bend when they should stand.

This is how we fight back peacefully: with our voices, our choices, and our power as citizens.

We do not have a king. We have a Constitution. We have a voice. And it is time to use it.

#BoycottCBS #StandWithColbert #NoKings #SpeakTruthToPower #EnoughIsEnough

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Trump finally admits it.

[Rachel Scott @rachelvscott]

I asked the president why focus on these projects now amid the backdrop of the war in Iran and as gas prices soar.

He said the question was “stupid” and a “disgrace to the country” saying he’s “fixing” the reflecting pool.

[Sarah Fitzpatrick @S_Fitzpatrick]

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/6Cp8XKVaqp

[Sarah Fitzpatrick @S_Fitzpatrick]

My latest story:

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

The profit motive will end life on Earth if we let it

[Amy @AmysGotBirds]

Lots of things that shitbag Donald Trump does can eventually be undone.

This cannot.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MIKE BROWN: “Everyone Trump surrounds himself with is fake. Fake lips, fake tits, fake gold, fake pools, fake bible verses for crying out loud.”

It’s so true though.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

It’s weird times for Indians in America. But pull out the world’s smallest violin for the lobby group that seemed to welcome Trump’s bigotry in other directions, but is now crying foul when he turns, as was always going to happen, against them

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @WhiteHouse: I’m Chinese American. I read donald trump’s racist post below. Please tell donald trump I said fuck you.

See you in November.

[Sarah Larchmont @SarahLarchmont]

Let me get this straight. Musk was paid $5 billion through the DOGE endeavor and the only thing DOGE did was dismantle the entities that were investigating him for fraud. Wow

[Bobby Umar | Keynote Speaker 🇨🇦 @raehanbobby]

OVERHEARD: For context on how big today is:

Viktor Orbán has been the blueprint. The proof that leaders can slowly dismantle democracy from the inside and stay in power forever.

His model spread across Europe and the USA.

Orbán’s playbook was the literal blueprint for Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation worked directly with Orbán’s allies in Hungary. CPAC held conferences in Budapest three times

Tonight that blueprint lost. In a landslide.

[Rep. Janelle Bynum @RepBynum]

How about no? A person's medical history is private information. It's none of the government's business.