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[Jiggly: Trash Enthusiast @Jiggly_333]

Crashing out of the World Cup because you miss Chicago so much is actually completely understandable and, in a way, iconic.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

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[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

A few hours after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV last year, I was standing in the courtyard of the Augustinianum, the headquarters of the Augustinian Order to which Robert Francis Prevost belongs, just a few feet from St. Peter's Basilica.

I had just finished helping out ABC News (we were, providentially, using the rooftop of the Augustinianum) and they wanted to interview me about the new pope "on the street." I was quite moved by his election and actually wept after we had finished up the coverage on the set.

It was around 9 PM, and people were already coming to the Augustinianum to snap photos of the "former home" of the new pope. One group of sisters posed by the sign affixed to the outside of the building.

Not surprisingly, in addition to many reporters, I was standing among several excited black-habited Augustinians in the courtyard.

I said to one, dressed in a clerical shirt, "Are you an Augustinian?" "Yes!" he said. "Congratulations!" I said.

An American, he was very friendly and very excited. We joked a bit about having a Jesuit pope and now an Augustinian pope.

Then I said, "Do you know him?"

He said, "Who, Bob?"

I laughed and said, "Yes, I guess: Bob."

"I've known him for 40 years," he said.

I said, "I know him a little from the Synod, and he seems wonderful, but what's he like?"

"Oh well," he said, "you know we elected him twice as Prior General: the first time because we really liked him; the second time because he had done a great job." (Being elected twice as superior general by your brothers in a religious order is some feat.)

"But what's he like?" he said, repeating my question. "Bob is smart, kind, humble, a hard worker, a great listener, quite reserved, close to the poor, and beloved by our men. Everyone loves Bob."

Then he paused.

"But he's no pushover."

I think we saw that today.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The future Pope Leo XIV firing up the grill.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

These are known as "concentration camps".

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real news here is that Trump is willing to tolerate this.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Reminder that Russia is still banned by FIFA, but Israel can continue its genocide and kill Palestinian players without consequence.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

An unusual scene unfolded on the steps of the U.S. Capitol this week.

Active-duty U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested while protesting in uniform and calling for the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump.

Watson stood on the Capitol steps holding a sign reading, “IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE.” before U.S. Capitol Police arrested him and took him into custody this morning. 🧵

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

“The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy. Yet often, a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild.

“They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation. Yet the resources needed for healing, education, and restoration are nowhere to be found.

“The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.

“They are the descendants of Abraham as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

when cruelty is packaged as strength and injustice paraded as “God’s will,” our hearts break. And that heartbreak is holy.

Grief is a form of patriotism, too.

Lament is an honest form of love.

We mourn because this is all just a continuation of our nation’s sins of the past.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Grief Is a Form of Patriotism, Too.

This 4th of July, many of us won't be waving flags or watching fireworks.
Not because we hate our country, but because we love it too much to pretend everything is fine.🧵

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

This is what it feels like watching some of you celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Hebert Ibarra Castro is a 20-year-old mariachi from San Antonio who was detained by ICE on his way home from performing at a birthday party.

Still in his mariachi attire, a detention facility worker taunted him: "If you sing me a song, I'll let you go." What was meant as mockery, mariachis across San Antonio have turned into an act of solidarity and are banding together to sing for his release.

Hebert came to the United States when he was just 4 years old with his family, fleeing violence in Mexico. Hebert’s wife is a U.S. citizen and is desperate for his return. My office is working to bring Hebert home where he belongs, with his young wife and family.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

I just heard a woman say “never trust a man who would rather teach you a lesson than make sure you’re safe” and I had to share.

[✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @chi_urbanist]

Chicago bitches be like “beach dayyyyyyyy 🤩”

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Wait this is so pathetic

[Phil Thompson @wonder_city_]

I spent a year drawing Chicago's lakefront like an "old world" map. 👇1 / 3

[Outspoken™️ @Out5p0ken]

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded:

“Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn