R Meier

[R Meier @rileygmeier]

Life doesn’t have to be perfect for you allow yourself joy

[Shaji Prabhakaran @Shaji4Football]

What a historic moment! 🇨🇻 Cape Verde, the 3rd smallest nation to ever qualify for the World Cup, just held powerhouse Spain to a draw in their debut match!

Despite Spain 🇪🇸 dominating with 74% possession and throwing Lamine Yamal into the mix late in the game, Cape Verde’s defensive masterclass couldn't be broken. Perfectly disciplined, incredibly brave on the ball, and completely unfazed by the giants.

This isn't just a draw; it feels like a massive win. This is why we love the World Cup. Dream big, smaller nations!

#FIFAWorldCup #CapeVerde #Spain #UnderdogStory

[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

[R Meier @rileygmeier]

@Sin_Diego @Padres @PetcoPark @erikgreupner An empty can makes a lot of noise

[JFK Library Foundation @JFKLibraryFdn]

James Farmer of CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) wrote to President Kennedy about the Freedom Rides, stating that “We travel peaceably to persuade them that Jim Crow betrays democracy.”

📄https://t.co/Ges4ONN4W8

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

The all powerful Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, currently under EU sanctions for his attempts to destabilize and threaten the territorial integrity of both Moldova and Ukraine, has been sentenced today to 19 years for a theft amounting to roughly 12% of Moldova’s GDP.

[Sheel Seidler @sheel_seidler]

Baseball turns you into a philosopher in the late innings.

You sit there bargaining with the universe…
don’t move, don’t think it, don’t jinx it.

And then everything disappears in a flash.

Jackson Merrill walks it off.

No logic. No superstition. Just Padres joy.

Life is good again. Padres win. #ForTheFaithful #walkoffsarelifeyall

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

USA and Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz together

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Absolutely massive win for the people of Hungary, Europe and fans of democracy. Also, hell of a week for @JDVance. Everything that guy touched turned to shit.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

JD Vance strikes again.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Chants of “Ruszkik haza!” (“Russians go home!”) in the Budapest metro tonight

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Finally, Hungary will be sovereign, no longer a vassal of Russia.

[R Meier @rileygmeier]

Godspeed to Hungary on Sunday and in the coming days, weeks. Power to the people

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

With less than 24 hours left until Hungarians head to the polls, I figured it is a good moment to take one final look at what Viktor Orbán has achieved in his 16 years of uninterrupted, near absolute reign in Hungary, by comparing Hungary’s performance with that of Romania.🧵

[Jessy Han @hjessy_]

Wikipedia editors are now debating if Eric Adams should be described as Albanian-American

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

While Orban continues to get shouted off stage with "Russians go home", opposition leader Magyar's crowds only grow anywhere he goes.

We still have no doubt that Orban will refuse to leave no matter the result, then it'll be crowds like this that matter

[rwlk @sherlock_hodles]

Trump every time the S&P 500 drops more than a percent

[Dan Clark @DanClarkSports]

This is probably the most incredible baseball photo I've ever seen.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

WATCH: Chief Justice John Roberts asks the U.S. solicitor general about birth tourism:

D. John Sauer: "We're in a new world now ... where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's a U.S. citizen."

Roberts: "Well, it's a new world. It's the same Constitution."

[VacksceneGaming @VacksceneGaming]

LOLOLOL What a fucking joke