Jim LaPorta
@JimLaPorta
National Security Coordinating Producer at @CBSNews
Pulled these out when I got home. My backstage passes for @TheOzzFest for 2002 and 2003. Rest in Peace to the Dreamer @OzzyOsbourne - I watch the sun go down like everyone of us I’m hoping that the dawn will bring a sign A better place for those who will come after us this time
BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne, legendary British heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, has died at age 76. cbsn.ws/3GCOQzN
Now that Trump supports giving more arms to Ukraine, Hegseth attends a key meeting on military aid to Kyiv after skipping the last session w/@johnismay nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/…
How a haunting photo of a deadly fire led to changes in Boston's fire escape regulations. cbsn.ws/40vUsCw
The Trump administration is rolling back programs that were meant to assist more than 250,000 Afghans with planned resettlement in the U.S. Many, including those who risked their lives to help Americans, could now face retribution from the Taliban. wapo.st/4lDLyLF
Envoy Steve Witkoff expected to travel to Europe to press for ceasefire and peace deal in Gaza - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/steve-wit…
The journalist who really cracked open the Epstein story —>>
The reason I took up the case is because a woman filed a lawsuit against Mr. Trump alleging he raped her when she was a teenager. At the time, (2016) Mr. Trump was running for president of the United States -- and had nominated Acosta for a top cabinet position. Acosta was the…
This is in the running for most insane thing to have said on the record this year so far. taskandpurpose.com/news/fort-polk…
A passenger who was aboard the SkyWest flight that turned to avoid a B-52 bomber said it felt like going around a "sharp turn on a roller coaster." cbsn.ws/3GFxNgt
BREAKING: Ozzy Osbourne, legendary British heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, has died at age 76. cbsn.ws/3GCOQzN
An American airman who was killed after being trapped on a mountain with his unit during the Vietnam War has been accounted for nearly 60 years after his death. cbsn.ws/417JV0t
New from @HopeSeck for @TaskandPurpose A command investigation obtained by Task and Purpose via a Freedom of Information Act request attributed the head-on collision to human error, finding it was the result of “a breakdown of basic mariner skills.” taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-lcac…
.@RepRalphNorman - two other Republicans and a Democrat lawmaker - wants to give a Congressional Gold Medal to @TimKennedyMMA and others for efforts during the Afghan withdrawal. Kennedy, a Green Beret, is under investigation for his combat valor claims govtrack.us/congress/bills…
President Trump is pulling the U.S. from UNESCO, the United Nations' scientific, educational and cultural arm, insisting it "supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes." cbsn.ws/4maRpYX
I think it’s part of the same fantasy, becoming more divorced from reality. So in the original Turner & Hooch, he’s still a police officer which fits into his current fantasy at the time. But in the sequel (2021) he’s the mayor which shows his delusions are worse than before.
Where does Detective David Sutton from Turner & Hooch fit in?
Chicago Cop Carl Winslow from Family Matters is secretly Sgt. Al Powell from Die Hard, and that his experiences in Ghostbusters are part of a shared, extended narrative where he encounters paranormal activity as part of his delusional fantasy of being in a sitcom in his mind.
What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?
"This is not normal at all": A pilot flying a Delta Air Lines regional jet on Friday apologized to his passengers after making an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber. cbsn.ws/4f06mL1
In Feb. 2022, I started submitting FOIA requests to the @SpaceForceDoD for their Delta command climate surveys between Jan. 2020 to to Feb. 2022. Today, I just received my first batch. Reading through the anonymous comments, I saw this one. Not a bad idea.
Still no answers or details from the Air Force washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
No, no, listen–it's fine that we learned from a passenger on TikTok that a Defense Department B-52 bomber almost collided with a Delta commercial flight full of civilians because DoD and FAA both fucked it up. It's fine!
D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy's bluffs in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life, has died at 102, his family announced Sunday. cbsn.ws/44WIjbg