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NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss: "Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes. Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over. In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom. Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes. Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it. The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters. To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less." Backstory: - January: puck.news/inside-bari-we… - April: puck.news/bari-weiss-pla… - May: puck.news/sharyn-alfonsi…

@CalltoActivism @TeaPainUSA Please tell me the messaging from the 2024 campaign isn’t being reused? What next, Hollywood stars are supporting democrats? Focus on policy and focus on democrats delivering job and wage growth nearly double republicans as presidents. Don’t be gross.

🚨HOLY SHIT THIS IS EPIC: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker just walked out on stage at the Sueños Latino music festival and received MASSIVE CHEERS from thousands in attendance. TRUMP IS GOING TO LOSE HIS MIND. Pritzker joined the stage to introduce Danny Ocean alongside Dr. Simi, the famous Mexican mascot known for promoting affordable prescription drugs. This is what it looks like when a leader is actually respected. Share this EVERYWHERE to ruin Trump’s night.

🚨Breaking news: Leaked docs from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda machine reveal a campaign backing far-right parties in EU elections and spreading disinformation to undermine Ukraine. Read further: vsquare.org/leaked-files-p… Let’s dive into the #FactoryofFakes🕵️‍♂️🧵 1/15

@Smacktalkn @historigins The GOP only cares about deficits under Dem presidents. They immediately forget their philosophy and get out the credit cards when their guy is in office. Why deficits are higher under Rs and growth is lower.

@historigins Thanks to a Republican Congress and a weakened Clinton. He was squeezed into signing it and welfare reform by a Conservative Party that was willing to do the right things for American citizens.

In 1998, the United States achieved its first federal budget surplus in 29 years, effectively ending a streak of deficits that had lasted since 1969. ⁠ ⁠ This milestone was achieved under President Bill Clinton, following the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which resulted in a fiscal surplus of approximately $69 billion for that year.⁠ ⁠

@Cubs Unfortunately he’s a one man highlight reel. Maybe get Ian Happ and Dansby Swanson to focus on making contact instead of trying to hit home runs every at bat regardless of the situation on base and time of the game. Maybe watch some e highlight of Jeter under pressure.

Nico makes the play by going between his legs 🤯

Ukrainian ambassador to the UN @MelnykAndrij: I'm not sure that I will have any appetite to visit Moscow. Even when Russia is defeated, even when and after Putin's regime has collapsed, even after Russia has paid war reparations, even when the next government in Russia were to beg on its kneels for an apology, even after all the Russian war criminals will be sentenced, there will be no reconciliation between Ukraine and Russia for decades, maybe for centuries. I will even refuse to visit Moscow as a member of the Ukraine delegation that will travel to Russia to witness Russia's signature of its declaration of capitulation.

Our intelligence services reported receiving data, including from American and European partners, about Russia preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile. We are verifying this information. We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry. The specified intermediate-range weapons could be used in such a strike. It is important to act responsibly on air-raid alerts, starting this evening. Russian madness truly knows no bounds, so please protect your lives – use shelters. Second, we are drawing the attention of our partners in the United States and in Europe to the fact that the use of such weapons and the prolongation of this war also sets a global precedent for other potential aggressors. If Russia is allowed to destroy lives on such a scale, then no agreement will restrain other similar hatred-based regimes from aggression and strikes. We count on a response from the world – and on a response that is not post factum, but preventive. Pressure must be put on Moscow so that it does not expand the war. Third, we are preparing our air defense as much as possible, and we will respond fully justly to every Russian strike. We have given permission for a parade, but Russia has no permission for madness. This war must be ended – we need peace, not some missiles satisfying the sick ambitions of one individual. I thank everyone helping to protect lives. Once again, please take care of yourselves and use shelters tonight.

Pat Ryan on the War Powers vote: "These chickenhawk motherfuckers are gonna send us home for Memorial Day weekend where I'm gonna honor my veterans that I served 27 months in combat with and they're gonna not even give an up or down vote on continuing this war almost 3 months in while Americans are paying almost $5 at the pump. It is fucking pathetic when they use this procedural bullshit argument and every American should just be absolutely outraged about this, it is a disgrace" (Video: @EricMGarcia)

She Called The FBI In 1996. They Opened A File. Then They Told Her It Never Existed. She Spent 29 Years Being Called A Liar. September 3, 1996. A file is opened inside FBI headquarters. Classification: child pornography. The woman who made the call is identified only as "a professional artist." She described photos she had seen inside a Manhattan mansion. She described the man who owned those photos. She described what she witnessed being done to young girls. She gave them everything. Then she waited. Nobody called back. Nine years later, a local detective in Palm Beach knocked on a different door. Found forty victims. Handed the FBI photographs, videos, and documented evidence of child trafficking across multiple states. The FBI opened a formal investigation. Two years later — they closed it. One plea deal. Thirteen months. Out by noon every day on work release. The trafficking continued. The FBI kept receiving tips. For eleven more years, women were brought to his island, his Manhattan townhouse, his private ranch. For eleven more years — the file sat there. It took a newspaper reporter to force the arrest in 2019. Thirty-three days later, he was dead. Now twelve women — listed only as Doe 1 through Doe 12 — are standing in federal court. They're not suing his estate. They're suing the FBI. They want $100 million. And they want every internal document, every memo, every email showing exactly who received each tip — and made the decision to do nothing. But here's the part that changes everything. When the FBI's own internal review was published in 2020 — it didn't mention the 1996 complaint. Not once. For another five years, the woman who made that call was told: your report doesn't exist. In December 2025, the DOJ confirmed it did. One page. Dated September 3, 1996. Which means someone inside the FBI knew that file existed — and chose not to include it in their own review. The question isn't whether the file was real. The question is: who decided to make it disappear?

@EWErickson On the bright side, he’s paying the Jan 6 protesters to stand by, is planning to deregister democratics challenge losses in court and basically do everything in his power to disable and disavow any Dem wins in the fall. There is aspect of life he won’t try to cheat.

The President could fish or cut bait on Iran and bring some resolution there to help the economy. But he won’t. The President could end all his tariffs to stimulate the economy. But he’s been convinced by people infatuated with the 1950’s that they work. They don’t. So the GOP will head to the midterms in this environment.

WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker heavily criticizes Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team this morning for their handling of the Chicago Bears deal and lobbying state government in general. “I know that the mayor has no plan. He has come up with no plan at all about how the Bears would end up in the city of Chicago. So that’s problematic. I’d love them to be in the city but we are three years in now and he still has no plan.” “The mayor has shown up every spring at the end of session to pronounce what he would like to see happen. As you know the budget gets put together starting in November…I present that budget to the legislature in February. So that seems like a good time period to come talk to the governor’s office. Then there’s February to May. There’s all that time to come talk to the legislature, which has my budget in hand, or the governor’s office.” “Again, we’ve seen almost nothing out of the mayoral administration here on that subject or really any other. So to show up in May and have a bunch of demands seems like late in the game. And it’s unfortunate that’s happened most years.” Johnson’s chief of external affairs is Kennedy Bartley, who formerly worked as a Chicago Teachers Union-funded organizer for police and prison abolition. The mayor’s former top lobbyist, Sydney Holman, resigned in 2024 after Johnson elevated Bartley to oversee the mayor’s office of intergovernmental affairs.

@RepDonBacon If only we could have struck an accord to remove enriched uranium and limited further enrichment to 3% that wasn’t signed by a black President that could have avoided all this war and economic problems and stuck to our word.

If Iran could have struck New York or Washington, D.C., they would have done it. We all want this conflict resolved, but any agreement must ensure Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon or rebuilds its ability to threaten Israel, its neighbors or the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and members of other nations went through the Soviet machine of terror. The overwhelming majority of them – simply for being who they were. Today, together, we honored the memory of those killed by political repression at the Bykivnia Graves National Historical Memorial Preserve and also laid flowers at the Memorial Sign of Polish Burials. These historical events of Russia’s savagery remind us again and again that evil cannot remain unpunished; otherwise, repression and abuse return with renewed force. Now, when thousands of our people – prisoners of war and civilian detainees – remain in Russian captivity and are going through the same trials, it is important not to forget this. At all levels, the necessary efforts must be made to bring back each and every one of them. And above all, we must ensure that justice is served and that the criminals are held accountable for their actions. The free world has enough strength to ensure this.

Only five wars in Europe's very bloody history of wars have been more bloody than the war in Ukraine: WW2 (1939-1945) WW1 (1914-1918) The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) Napoleonic war(s) (1803-1815) Russian civil war (1917-1923) This is how serious it is. Remember that every single day and support Ukraine to end the suffering.

This Ukrainian soldier finally returned home after spending 730 days at war. I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

@RichardHanania Ben Stein wrote a great book about the role of the Fed during the depression. They continued to remove reserves from banks when they didn’t loan money, reducing the money supply and future demand for goods and investment, causing less lending and more reductions in M3.

FDR probably the objectively worst performing president ever based on economic data and they’ve got him ranked second.

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Today’s attacks on humanitarian workers are war crimes. The world cannot accept this as normal. Too many aid workers have died like this around the world. Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council but it attacks UN and WCK vehicles in Kherson, Ukraine. While the aid workers survived unharmed, one resident died. This war needs to end now. The suffering needs to end now. We are an American-based NGO @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS @SecRubio #ChefsForUkraine

@stevemur @simongerman600 Reading is fundamental. Slow down, don’t get mad and read the article. Combine all taxes and rates even out. The lower quartile pay 15% combined for social security and the Medicaid that state income & sales tax and property tax & renters pay that indirectly as well.

@simongerman600 No, your gut is not, it’s been misled by charlatans

If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

While the UN tries to avoid to point at the obvious culprit of the strike against their convoy in Kherson, Ukraine, Russians released FPV footage of that particular strike, making absolutely clear this wasn’t some kind of accident, but a deliberate terrorist strike, which civilians in Kherson have to endure on a daily base.