Trace amounts of lead can have life-changing effects on young children. It invades their brains, attacking areas that govern reasoning, aggression and impulse control. It can lurk in the body for decades, clinging to bones like a belligerent squatter tampabay.com/projects/2018/i…

"Sal Pizza! Put some championships on these mutherfucking walls" - Buggin Out

NEW YORK PLEASE BE SAFE!!!!!!

Mike Brown is one hell of a coach. Pulled the right strings all postseason and Game 5 was a fitting end. With Karl-Anthony Towns in foul trouble all game, Brown picked the perfect moments to roll with Mitchell Robinson or Ariel Hukporti, and when to use small ball. The Knicks took a lot of heat for firing Tom Thibodeau one year ago. But there's no way New York wins the title with a coach as rigid as Thibs. Brown showed adaptability and quick thinking all playoffs: Putting the ball in KAT's hands against Atlanta, Shamet over Hart in the East Finals Game 1 comeback, rolling with Alvarado in Game 4. What a masterful coaching performance.

In a league of killers, Jalen Brunson is one of the best winners of his generation. He won two chips at Villanova in three years, and he's made the New York Knicks into NBA champions. At 6-foot-1-ish. He's a great, GREAT basketball player.

Perfection, from @CBSSports

EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magaz…

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

Scott Pelley fires back at "60 Minutes" after being fired and says Paramount-Skydance is weakening the news show "apparently to curry favor with the Trump administration." “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... 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. Incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc." variety.com/2026/tv/news/sco…

Nick Bilton has cemented his legacy as one of media's biggest losers, full stop. What an absolute moron of planetary proportions — thin-skinned, pathetic, someone who cemented his legacy of firing one of the greatest journalists of an era because he couldn't take an ego check.

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

Former "60 Minutes" boss Bill Owens speaking at @NYPressClub while accepting its Truth to Power Award tonight: Scott Pelley "can smell a fraud from a mile away." Owens said "I couldn't be prouder of him, and I know all of the people at '60 Minutes' couldn't be prouder of him."

NEW: A slew of well-known journalists, including Dan Rather, Lowell Bergman and Alex Gibney, have released a letter to David Ellison asking him to affirm his commitment to editorial independence at “60 Minutes.”

This upcoming IRE Investigative Managers of Color Task Force Zoom conversation will feature Ron Nixon, who will discuss his journey from reporter to newsroom leader and share insights on navigating leadership as a senior editor and manager of color. Attend via Zoom: bit.ly/4ttoYZi

For more than two years, my @journalsentinel colleague @caitlooby and I have investigated employee complaints about unsafe conditions and chemical exposure at the Lower Fox River PCB cleanup site in Green Bay. Here's what we found. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ jsonline.com/story/news/inve…

a triumph of reporting and the most comprehensive look yet at ICE arrests in New York and New Jersey, from @THECITYNY projects.thecity.nyc/ice-str…

INBOX: Journalists at 5 McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune & The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites.

We’re proud to welcome investigative journalism powerhouses Carol Leonnig and Hannah Natanson for a special keynote conversation on Friday, June 19 at IRE26. Leonnig, senior investigative correspondent for MS NOW and former reporter for The Washington Post, helped uncover the National Security Agency’s expanded surveillance of Americans and is a five-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Natanson, a narrative enterprise reporter for The Washington Post, was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team covering the Trump administration’s transformation of government and has earned a Peabody Award, Toner Prize and more. Join us for an unforgettable conversation about investigative reporting, government accountability, navigating high-stakes reporting projects and the future of watchdog journalism. Read more about the IRE26 keynote conversation here: bit.ly/4tCnZpD #InvestigativeJournalism #Journalism #Accountability #WatchdogJournalism #PulitzerPrize

Have you checked out @propublica’s new podcast, Paper Trail? Great work by a stellar team with years of experience in audio storytelling Listen here propublica.org/series/paper-…

We've launched a new pilot program: the Ida B. Wells HBCU Data Journalism Fellowship! The program will help students from HBCUs strengthen their portfolios by producing work that incorporates skills associated with data journalism. Meet the Fellows here: idabwellssociety.org/2026hbc…

My commencement address to the Columbia Journalism School Class of 2026 Congrats to all the graduates. youtu.be/WUzPWlomvoo?si=zs1H…