Steffanie Dupree

Writer/Producer @cbschicago, Vegas native, Chicago transplant and troublemaker.

Opinions are my own.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

He doesn’t even know the allegations—which are not evidence.

In our country, we resolve these disputes in courts of law, where rules of evidence developed over centuries discern fact from fiction, truth from BS.

All the GOP claims die under that scrutiny. Every single time.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Extraordinary Letter.

Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger.

"The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who
collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr"

[Ed O'Keefe @edokeefe]

The memo to staff Thursday said staff "must immediately change email signatures, letterhead, and other documents to reflect the name as 'The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,' or 'Kennedy Center.'"

Changes to interior and exterior signage and any furniture carrying the current name must be switched back by next Friday, according to the memo.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

NEWS: A @lawfare report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

Incredible work from Katherine Pompilio:
https://t.co/AJMPxwb1al

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

Sexism and misogyny all in 30 seconds, along with the usual bloviating, self-aggrandizement.

Here's what I don't understand: Why isn't the next thing we hear from a WH reporter: "Mr. President, with all due respect, you owe Kaitlan an apology for your uncalled-for attacks."

[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

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Late Kakistocracy" is that phase of democratic decline where the regime starts running out of ppl who will work for it, and so the folks who aren't qualified for their current positions are promoted to even larger positions for which they are even more unqualified

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Economists call this diminishing marginal utility. The first dollars change your life. The billionth doesn't. So the argument stops being about consumption and starts being about power.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i cannot think of a more perfectly distilled example of why so many survivors of sexual assault don’t come forward

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

As the Trump DOJ mass-deletes government information about the Jan. 6 cases, reminder that you can still access NPR's database covering every single prosecution.

We also provide access to hundreds of videos presented in court.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Officially posted

Here’s Rep. Brian Firzpatrick’s (R-PA) bill to outlaw Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund

https://t.co/BZCQ0dmawU

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.”

“We could have fixed it right then and there.”

https://t.co/XCN3s4UzWN

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

FLAG: The Trump Justice Department is now acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection — calling the information about the prosecutions "partisan propaganda" (it is not). https://t.co/mrKxV1hOBy

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Weird. It's almost as if COVID antivaccine conspiracy people are lying liars.

[hannah gais @hannahgais]

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Dept.

Court dismisses indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case).

Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power."

The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

[Meryl Kornfield @MerylKornfield]

The Trump admin is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the DOJ website as it prepares to give funds to J6ers. This week, DOJ deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray. Before and after:

[Michael Moran | APC Injury @internetuserf12]

If Ebola becomes a pandemic, it will be in no small part because millions of people now view public health measures as oppression rather than the most basic infrastructure of a functioning and sustainable civilization.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NEW: Appeals court will allow Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to file arguments opposing Trump Administration's attempt to dismiss seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oathkeepers in US Capitol Siege

Judges want to hear arguments