My personal brand is truth. As an investigative journalist, I hunt the truth with the goal of promoting clarity, understanding, and positive change. Uncovering systemic and institutional failures is the first step to fixing them.

THE GULF: Let’s have a quick discussion this morning about “the Gulf”. Earlier this morning, I posted the tropical weather outlook from the National Hurricane Center, which referred to the “Gulf of America”. I immediately received some nasty messages from people calling me everything from some type of “phobe” to a “racist”. Last season I made the mistake of calling it the “Gulf of Mexico”, and was quick called a “libtard” and “communist”. In an ocean of mindless intolerant political extremists that are not capable of critical thinking, they are always looking for a reason to attack someone, I guess this isn’t surprising. In early 2025, the U.S. government directed federal agencies to use “Gulf of America” in certain official U.S. contexts, and some U.S.-based maps and documents adopted that terminology. It is used by all National Weather Service agencies. However, many countries, international organizations, publishers, and maps continue to use “Gulf of Mexico”, which has been the standard name for centuries. I do my best to simply say “the Gulf”. No doubt I will slip up and make the mistake of saying “Gulf of Mexico” or “Gulf of America” at times this hurricane season. I am asking that you have a little grace here. I don’t do politics here… I’m sorry. I am just a weather guy passing along information, sometimes very important. Thank you.

The same people who demand “this is America, speak English!” travel abroad & don’t learn a single word of the native language. I just heard an American repeating “croissant!” louder & louder at an Italian café. The irony of an American shouting a French word while insisting an Italian understand English in his own country. When traveling to another country, WE are the foreigners. Learn hello, please & thank you in the local dialect. It’s okay to butcher the pronunciation. Just try.

This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful

You know this was written by Lesley Stahl (or Bill Whitaker) because of the two spaces after each period. They’re both absolute national treasures.

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it. More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months. And here’s the part that should make your blood boil. Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence. The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it. Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price. We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us. wapo.st/3QmJjSz

What's most evident in the @BariWeiss era at @CBSNews is not so much journalistic malpractice-at least not yet-but managerial malpractice. The clumsy incompetence of Weiss and her lieutenants reveals more about their inexperience as leaders than it does their inexperience in TV.

Also of note: Maria Gavrilovic (a former producer for Scott Pelley) was just promoted to senior producer. To me, this seems like an olive branch to the "60 Minutes" stalwarts.

I want to say something about @60Minutes since so many conservatives are trashing it. When my Dad was first diagnosed with Glioblastoma and we were trying to decide who he and my mother should sit down with and talk about the end days of his life - we ultimately landed on Leslie Stahl and @60Minutes. Leslie came to our ranch in Sedona and sat down and profiled both my parents together for an exclusive sit down. We ultimately chose Leslie because of her prestige as a journalist and respected history of the show. Leslie and her crew were simultaneously professional and respectful of the delicate emotional state my entire family was in. She was in our secluded home as we all grappled with the concept that my dad was dying and fast from a rare cancer in front of the entire world. She and her producers did a wonderful job. Feel free to watch it, it’s beautifully done. This is not a situation just any person without experience can airdrop and handle the dynamics of. This is not something a rookie commentator or podcaster could have maneuvered with the respect needed. Experience does matter. Not all legacy media is garbage nor are all reporters. This “throw all the bastards out” mentality is obnoxious and just going to breed more insanity and distrust on both sides. I don’t want woke journalism. I don’t want anitwoke journalism. I just want great journalism. Be careful what you wish for conservatives, - there could come a day when Rachel Maddow is put in charge instead of Bari Weiss and then tell me how you feel. The pendulum swings both ways.

Bilton's termination letter says Pelley chose "ambush" over "civil, private conversation" and showed "remarkable incivility." Pelley said true things in a staff meeting. The staff applauded. Bilton left the room. Then fired him for cause. The most decorated correspondent in 60 Minutes history, 37 years at CBS, terminated because he wouldn't take his objections to dinner privately and pretend in public that everything was fine. That's the letter. That's what it says. Read it again.

A CBS News spokesperson says this is false.

Watch out for those scammers in Italy. It’s the old shell game scam I used to see in NYC on 5th Ave. in the 1980s. They do not like when you record them. We were lucky all they did was spit on us. (The ‘winners’ are all in on it, including the guy who tried to grab my camera).

Factual thoughts….@ScottPelley and @mhenryschuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too. I wrote him when I was hired.

The remedy for claims of covert political bias is not the implementation of overt political bias. Journalists hold power to account — all those in power. I can’t believe I witnessed Scott Pelley accept his last Emmy for 60 Minutes just last week. Darkest day. Finest hour.

SCOOP: Bari Weiss is preparing to announce broad-sweeping changes at 60 MINUTES *today*… Sharyn Alfonsi has been fired Tanya Simon, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, has also been fired, per source More to come… @PuckNews

Storm must be immanent! Jim Cantore in the house. @newsemmys

I’ve never seen a cop get owned this bad in my entire life. 😂

They did, it was called America

Trump DOJ prosecutors: 1. Vouched to GJ that case was strong 2. Kicked out grand jurors who disagreed with them. 3. Talked to the jurors off the record (wtf) 4. DID NOT TELL THE DEFENSE THERE WAS A NO BILL 5. Redacted those bits from the transcript