Ben Young

"One To Watch" - Gordon Ramsay. Packers, Bruins, Red Sox. (dumb opinions are my own)

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@ChrisRstrib @danieljdonato Great sound and cover.

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@CheyCab Great album! “Ain’t that a Bitch” made me take a pause and be like, wow, he just said that. 🙌

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@chucktodd Gotta wait for the puppet show to commence

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@NWSTwinCities This weather was like having a great run on the blackjack table and now the new dealer comes in to slow down the fun.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years.

Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸

[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

Precisely. What he said…👇🏽

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.

Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@gottatrythispod @LargeBarstool @vivalafood_ Huge misstep by Heinz/Costco. Relish was just enough to sustain summer. Heinz BBQ sauce shouldn’t exist

[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

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@kpottermn Made a cool bank in Mendota Heights towards downtown St Paul. Big (oddly-quiet) aircraft

[Jack Leverentz 🇺🇸 @Bossman_10K]

Golfing at @LoggersTrail today in honor of Jessi Pierce, who used to work and frequent out here.

Help a guy go low Jessi!

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@StoolAfterDark So funny @OhioTate

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

COLLINS: But if someone was paying $2.98 a gallon before the war, and now they're paying $4.53, saying 'that's life' might not make them feel better

JIM JORDAN: Those are your words, not mine

COLLINS: You said that just now. I quoted you.

[Rear Admiral @RearAdBsBlog]

How fucking awesome would it be to bust ass like this in front of the boys?

Laughs for days.

[Minnesota Wild @mnwild]

keep going.

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@PLinUSA @packers @NUFC @NFL Now we just need to get @samfendermusic involved and the trilogy is complete.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP)
No vote in Florida (+4 GOP)
No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP)
No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP)
No vote in Texas (+5 GOP)

Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out.

MAGA has rigged the system.

[Kenny Jacoby @kennyjacoby]

In the last decade, a private investment firm has consolidated much of youth hockey, turning what was once a community-based activity into a profit machine for wealthy investors.

I spent nine months investigating Black Bear Sports Group. Here's our story:
https://t.co/dMs4pylHE8

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

@GlowSurfing I did the math since no one else will- according to GasBuddy data, Minnesota's average was over $4/gal for 6.4% of the days Biden was in the White House. You're just 94 percentage points away from being right.

[Ben Young @sncbenny]

@YHHMemes Hopefully it doesn’t go too late because we all have to sign up for hockey tournaments at 6am tomorrow morning 🤦🏼‍♂️