Lady Duncan

[Lady Duncan @comrie4ever]

https://t.co/w1h6vJPcPF

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Chicago woman mocks Democrats by speaking in a squeaky, high-pitched voice, who say black people's voting rights are in danger.

The woman also called out the commissioners one by one to their faces.

"I'm 63 years old. I've been voting since I was 18. I have never had a problem voting..."

"So now you're all gonna drag black people in here, definitely some senior citizens, and gonna have them come up here and talk about how they're scared to vote... all that junk, when you know it's not true."

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.

Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.

The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.

The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.

At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.

Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.

Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.

But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.

Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Armenia is building what will be the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world 🇦🇲✝️

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨PRAY FOR TREY ISLES — SHOT 15 TIMES AT POINT BLANK RANGE!

Trey Isles is fighting for his life in a Kentucky hospital after being gunned down execution-style — 15 shots at point-blank range — in Newport, KY.

He was simply walking to the store with his girlfriend when three suspects pulled up, stood over him, and unloaded.

He’s still alive by the grace of God… but he has a long, painful road ahead.
And the national media?

Crickets. Zero outrage. Zero wall-to-wall coverage. Zero hashtags. Zero marches in the street.

The suspects — Kortney Alford, Tiance Combs, and Terry Moses — are still on the loose.

Pray for Trey. Pray for his family. Pray for justice.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“If Islam is so fantastic, why do Muslims always flee to Christian countries?”

[Kristan Hawkins @KristanHawkins]

It genuinely blows my mind that we have incredible photos like this and people still argue that children in the womb aren’t living human beings.

[OjiUgo™️🍫👁️‍🗨️ @OjiUgo_nwa]

A US soldier shared a testimony from her time overseas.

She said her team used to laugh at her and call her "church girl" because she prayed before every mission. Some told her they did not want to hear her prayers. She prayed anyway.
Later, she was pulled off the road as punishment.

She said her team started getting hit by bombs every time she was not with them. Then her team leader came to her and asked her to come back.
He told her, "We keep getting hit and we need your protection. Whatever you're praying, it's working."

She said she went back out, and they were never hit again.
Maya Johnson brought home 300 people, and nobody from her group died.

This is a powerful reminder that prayer is not weak. This testimony shows that the one true God hears, protects, and still answers prayer.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Croatia has stormed the Eurovision final with a historic anthem that denounces the Ottoman occupation and revives the ancient Christian tattoo tradition to protect young girls from rape

Performed entirely in Croatian, the song slams centuries of Islamic Turkish occupation of their lands and recalls how Catholic girls were tattooed with Christian motifs to stop them from being abducted, converted to Islam, and forced into sexual slavery

"That’s why many chose the grave, our mothers did not birth slaves”

Turkey is already attacking the group for performing the song

[mrredpillz jokaqarmy @JOKAQARMY1]

Mention God watch their true character comes out

[Lady Duncan @comrie4ever]

Accuracy matters.

https://t.co/NQufQ6Deuk

[Trad West @trad_west_]

>Modern Hollywood has completely failed at making historical epics, choosing to rewrite history with modern agendas instead
>Mel Gibson decides to do it himself, announcing a limited TV series about the Great Siege of Malta
>The true story of roughly 700 Catholic Knights of St. John and local Maltese citizens facing down an Ottoman invasion force of 40,000 men
>The Knights believed they were fighting for the absolute survival of Christianity itself
>After four months of brutal, non-stop bombardment, the massively outnumbered defenders miraculously broke the siege and won
>Gibson is to film on location in the exact ancient Maltese fortresses where the battle actually happened
>Just pure, unapologetic European excellence and Catholic heroism

We need this.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

At the Wedding at Cana, Jesus says to Mary: “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” (John 2:4)🇻🇦

And from the Cross, in His final moments: “Woman, behold your son!” (John 19:26)

Why “Woman” and not “Mother”?

Because Jesus was intentionally pointing back to the very beginning, to Eve, the first woman.

In the Garden of Eden, Eve (the woman) listened to the serpent and brought sin and death into the world through disobedience.

But Mary, the New Eve, listened to the angel and said, “Let it be done to me according to your word” bringing the Savior into the world through perfect obedience.

When Jesus calls Mary “Woman,” He is declaring:

“Here is the New Eve. Through you, the woman, redemption begins.”

Just as Eve was the mother of all the living in the old creation, Mary becomes the spiritual mother of all the living in the new creation. At the Cross, Jesus gives her to us as our Mother when He says to the beloved disciple (and to all of us): “Behold your mother.”

This is why the Church has always honored Mary, not instead of Jesus, but because of Jesus. She is the perfect model of faith, the woman who crushed the serpent’s head by her “yes” to God.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

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[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 ♱🇻🇦 @BillArnoldTeach]

If the early Christians believed what modern Protestants believe,

the Church Fathers forgot to mention it for 1,500 years.

One Catholic just dismantled that myth piece by piece.

Watch this.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

An Iranian woman with a brutal reality check for the West. Goldie Ghamari: “No one in the Middle East blocks intersections to pray in the streets and shout ‘Allahu Akbar.’ They do it in your countries to assert religious dominance over you.”

Listen carefully.

This is not prayer. This is a show of force.

Follow @gghamari i if you want to understand the real ideology behind what’s happening in Europe and North America.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

The people of Poland are NOT playing around. If you try to install a demonic statue near them they will not stand idle. In the Bieszczady Mountains of poland A 4-meter statue of Saint Michael the Archangel now stands watch over this Polish region. Why? A pagan demonic statue was installed nearby.

The monument serves a unique purpose: to dispel local myths connecting the area's name to the demon "Bies."

Locals gathered to pray the Rosary and the Litany of St. Michael, declaring that the land belongs to Christ, not to darkness. It was a courageous demonstration of faith and reparation.

Moving forward, the Archangel, not the demon, is the recognized protector of the Bieszczady
This isn't just a political statement; it is a literal declaration of spiritual warfare on the spiritual decay of modernity.

St. Michael is the supreme warrior of God, the Prince of the Heavenly Host who cast Satan out of paradise. By placing him there, sword drawn, draped in the colors of the Polish flag, they are actively claiming the territory for Christ and reminding the modern world that the ancient battle between good and evil is still raging.

You put up a demon; we raise the Archangel. Checkmate.

[That Trad Gal @thattradgal]

Scott-Vincent Borba, the co-founder of the multi-billion dollar cosmetics brand e.l.f., will be ordained a Catholic priest on May 23, 2026, in the Diocese of Fresno, California.

At age 40, Borba walked away from his multimillion-dollar career. He donated his entire fortune to charity and entered Saint Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California at age 42.

He credits the Blessed Virgin Mary for his conversion.