Little Blue Guy

[Paris @goodyhilton]

A lot of mental health issues can be solved by isolating and lashing out at people

[pxt @paulxt]

Finding Nemo is unmistakable as a 2003 text because the supposed heroes gain the information they need through torture

[david c. porter (read NTTN) @toomuchistrue]

plenty of real and bleak news about the Literacy Situation these days but if you can't clock the seething, reality-distorting resentment of an aging professional-class mediocrity in the authorial voice here you probably shouldn't be judging the reading comprehension of others

[Little Blue Guy @TeeThirtyFour]

@mazecorner2 @steviesmother The good news is the don’t have to.

[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

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

“opposing our megamerger is antisemitic” is an instant hall of fame line lmao

[SkinwalkerActual @nw_wolfrunner]

If you've ever helped empty out a boomers garage you know "we were just smart with our money and didn't buy tons of bullshit" is a bald faced lie.

[Little Blue Guy @TeeThirtyFour]

@GSVBemusementPk @peachtard Boomers mostly own trash, millennials don’t want it.

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

This is an odd one, because FL gov hopeful James Fishback was dating a very different woman just two months ago. https://t.co/VjznY4vNiT

[Little Blue Guy @TeeThirtyFour]

@unrulyfatblack @Angry_Misfit @xotwodkyra You might have to, though. Good thing it’s not hard at all.

[Little Blue Guy @TeeThirtyFour]

@xotwodkyra “Additional responsibility” like it’s unpaid extra duties at your job.

[Little Blue Guy @TeeThirtyFour]

@clrichmond77 @jonpeng @isaiah_bb @officerbill You are on a lot of welfare dude lol

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

SCOOP: The U.S. has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves, per DOD assessments of Operation Epic Fury 🧵

[Little Blue Guy @TeeThirtyFour]

@CyberdyneC @nkulw No, they just fund all of the Republican candidates.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Several people asked this question, so let me explain. I deeply believe the best opinion journalism is based on new reporting, so my columns are rooted in travel and reporting. In this case, I saw a story and pursued it, and because I'm a columnist it ran in the opinion section.

[Beany Tuesday @beanytuesday]

Social Media in 2035

[Holly Otterbein @hollyotterbein]

Scoop: Josh Shapiro secretly helped a Republican state treasurer's 2024 reelection bid after the official's Democratic opponent had criticized Shapiro as a potential VP pick, a close Shapiro ally said last week.

w/ @AlexThomp https://t.co/TOAFnUMaxP

[just matt @questionableway]

chicagoan perspective: DO NOT DO THIS EVER FOR ANY REASON NO NO NO

[BasilianThought @BasilianThought]

LMFAOO the jawwwwww

[J @verythickvajjjj]

This lady has been putting belt to ass