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[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley responds to Trump saying he doesn’t care about the country: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan, and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the president has ever done any of those things for his country. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment, you love the country. While all the other descriptions the president used about me might be applicable, not that one”

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

"May they be welcomed, appreciated, and never discarded, right from their mother's womb."

– Pope Francis on individuals with Down syndrome ❤️

[The Associated Press @AP]

Pope Leo XIV has issued a manifesto calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence. His first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” has sparked widespread online reactions. Many young people appreciate his stance, seeing few leaders addressing AI's rapid rise.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[The Obama Foundation @ObamaFoundation]

Today, we celebrate the birthday of President John F. Kennedy: a leader who believed, above all else, in the courage of the American people.

We invite you to reflect with us on the leaders who shaped us—and the work that still remain.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 JUST IN — IT’S OFFICIAL: US Senate unanimously BANS all senators from getting a single paycheck if the federal government is shutdown, filed by Sen. Kennedy

FINALLY! This should've already been the case 👏🏻

Don't give them a DIME if they defund TSA and other crucial agencies.

This is called FAIRNESS 🇺🇸

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

A Eucharistic billboard proclaiming “All who hunger, I am the Bread of Life” has been erected by Catholics in St. Augustine, Florida

Image: Ruby Galatolo

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Pierce Brosnan: "Prayer helped me with the loss of my wife to cancer and with a child who had fallen on hard times. Now prayer helps me to be a father, to be an actor, and to be a man."

"At the end of the day, you have to have something and for me that is Jesus"

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

Pope Leo XIV made an apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.” https://t.co/0QrhAGCZsQ

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

this seemed and seems real now

[Everybody Loves Raymond @Raymond_Quotes]

MY GOD YOU’RE A TEENAGER!! 😂 #EverybodyLovesRaymond #RaymondQuotes
Season 5 Episode 8 “Young Girl”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders brutally mocks billionaires over his proposed wealth tax: “Poor Elon Musk would only have $737 billion left!”

Sen. Bernie Sanders just delivered one of the funniest, most savage takedowns of billionaire whining in recent memory.

While pushing for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy, Sanders mocked his opponents who claim such policies are too harsh on the poor, suffering billionaires:

“My opponents claim that this legislation is punitive and confiscatory. Oh, we’re just picking on these poor billionaires. I mean, my God, how cruel can you be?”

Then came the punchlines that had the room laughing:
“If that bill were in effect this year, Elon Musk would pay $39 billion more in taxes. This confiscatory, terrible, drastic, radical piece of legislation would leave Musk with just $737 billion left to survive on.

Now, I know you’re worried about him, but what do you think? Think he can make it on $737 billion?”
Of course, Bernie couldn’t let the Amazon and Washington Post owner off the hook:

“Jeff Bezos would owe about $14 billion more in taxes, but he would still have $265 billion to put a roof over his head.”

The crowd loved it. And seriously, who wouldn’t? The idea that taxing the richest people in human history a little more is somehow cruel while millions of Americans struggle to afford groceries is peak billionaire propaganda.

Bernie was referring to the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, which he and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced earlier this year. The bill would impose a 5 percent annual wealth tax on the roughly 940 Americans with a net worth of $1 billion or more.

Economists say this would raise trillions over a decade to fund direct payments to working families, expanded healthcare, affordable housing, and other priorities, while leaving even the richest Americans with hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth.

Bernie’s point is crystal clear: the ultra-wealthy have more money than any human being could possibly need in multiple lifetimes, yet they still cry victim the second anyone suggests they pay their fair share.
The ultra-rich can absolutely afford to pay more, and pretending otherwise is getting harder and harder to take seriously.

If you are on board with Bernie and his 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires, like and share this post.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

A pilgrim did the famous path of Fatima on their knees, rosary in hand, praying, asking God for mercy for the world.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

A firefighter retrieves the Eucharist from the tabernacle, which remained untouched, after a fire severely damaged Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Church in Flores da Cunha, Brazil.

Video: Elizandra Biazus

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Actor Harrison Ford encouraged graduates at Arizona State University to "build something that didn't exist yesterday" in a rousing commencement speech on Monday, telling them to "go change the world."

"When opportunity presents, recognize it. This is your time. Own it."

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Thousands of pilgrims are gathering in the Shrine of Fatima tonight to commemorate 109 years since the apparitions of Our Lady. This is how the shrine looks on the eve of her feast day, which is May 13th. In this place, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in 1917.

[Alerta Mundial @TuiteroSismico]

🚨 ¡BOMBAZO QUE DUELE! 😳
Trump miró a Xi Jinping con ojos casi suplicantes y soltó esto que dejó la sala en completo silencio… como si estuviera rogando:
«Traje conmigo a los 30 líderes empresariales más poderosos del mundo… y todos aceptaron venir.
No mandé al segundo de a bordo ni al vicepresidente…
Quería al número uno de cada imperio: Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, Elon Musk… los mejores del planeta están aquí, justo delante de ti…»
Luego, con voz casi temblorosa y esa sonrisa forzada, remató casi rogando:
«Hoy están aquí para rendirle respeto a ti y a China… Vienen con ganas de hacer negocios, invertir y construir.
De nuestra parte… te pido que sea 100% recíproco… por favor.»
Esto no es dominio.
Esto es un presidente rogando por un sí de China. 💼🇨🇳
¿Viste eso? El “art of the deal” convertido en súplica en vivo.
RT si estás viendo cómo cae el mito.