I never thought that I would read these words.
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 i.t for centuries
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery
By NICOLE WINFIELD and PAOLO SANTALUCIA
Updated 11:59 AM CDT, May 25, 2026
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”
Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope had ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave “infidels.”
History’s first U.S.-born pope, whose family history includes both enslaved people and slave owners, delivered the apology in his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” (Magnificent Humanity), which was released Monday.
The sweeping manifesto is about safeguarding humanity in an era of increasing reliance on artificial intelligence. Leo raised the slave trade in relation to what he called the new forms of slavery and colonialism that the digital revolution is fueling.
Black American Catholics, activists and scholars have long called for the Holy See to atone for its role in the colonial-era trade in human beings, beyond generic apologies for the involvement of individual Christians.
“It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord,” Leo wrote. “For this, in the name of the church, I sincerely ask for pardon.”
Shannen Dee Williams, historian at the University of Dayton and author of the 2022 history of American Black Catholic nuns, “Subversive Habits,” welcomed the apology as a “monumental step toward the kind of essential truth-telling and reparation that many Catholics have prayed and worked to witness.”
“The Catholic Church has never been an innocent bystander in the history of white supremacy,” said Williams. “Black Catholics have waited a long time to hear the Vatican speak honestly about the church’s leading roles in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery–and thus by extension the enduring systems of anti-Black racism in the world today.”
Prof. Anthea Butler
@antheabutler.bsky.socialFollow
In the interest of being a good professor, if you want to read the pertinent sections of Magnifica Humanitas on slavery, the “apology” and the implications for AI, skip to sections 172-181 of the Encyclical.
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
http://www.vatican.va
7:07 AM · May 25, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/antheabutler.bsky.social/post/3mmogwjcjxk2r
Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
Peter Thiel is cooking up a plan B for fleeing the United States and hunkering down in Argentina, which I hope is an indicator of how bad he think it’s going to get for the new right and how dramatically JD Vance has failed as a viable political vehicle for Thiel’s agenda
https://x.com/emeriticus/status/2060057900014280841?s=20
Venus Cuffs
@VenusCuffs
If you are not a native New Yorker & you move here YOU NEED TO RESPECT THE CULTURE THAT MADE YOUR PUNK ASS WANT TO MOVE HERE.
This is the city that never sleeps & you are calling the cops for loud noise and block parties? Take your raggedy ass back to Iowa.
1:59 PM · May 27, 2026
https://x.com/VenusCuffs/status/2059711051885633910
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
DELL just secured a $9.7 billion Pentagon software agreement. (The Wall Street Journal)
Meanwhile, financial disclosures show Trump bought millions in Dell stock earlier this year, publicly told Americans to “go out and buy a Dell,” and the stock surged afterward. (http://Investing.com)
Now Dell lands one of the largest Pentagon software agreements in recent memory.
To be clear:
there is no public evidence this contract was improperly awarded.
But this is exactly why presidential stock trading creates so much public distrust.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2059983141796716719
Brennan Center
@BrennanCenter
The Supreme Court decision killing off the Voting Rights Act incorrectly assumes that politics in the South have moved beyond race.
https://x.com/BrennanCenter/status/2059984329028116912
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
These morons actually think airlines are going to divert all international flights from NYC, NJ, CHI, LA, SF, DEN, PHI, SEA and other cities to red states because of Markwayne’s edict. Stunningly stupid.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2060027474910593162
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Breaking news: Trump administration officials have pressed the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait, in what would be the first appearance of a living person on U.S. currency in more than 150 years.
https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/2059957879180824873
Aaron Blake
@AaronBlake
George Washington declined to be featured on currency when he was living, fearing it would be reminiscent of a monarch.
Congress in 1866 passed the Thayer amendment, which stated “no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States.”
https://x.com/AaronBlake/status/2059963364034404375
Jeff Artis (GrandaddySpeaks)
@grandaddyspeaks.bsky.social
Follow
I actually saw my Elders fired from jobs, humiliated, beaten, bombed, murdered, lynched and assassinated for the right to vote. I have a debt to pay. I repay that debt every Election Day when I vote for the candidate of my choice.
9:16 AM · May 28, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/grandaddyspeaks.bsky.social/post/3mmw7knkz5s22
suggestions from another blog:
brendancalling
May 28, 2026 at 8:54 am
if you have a restaurant supply store near you (or if you have to drive) why not stock up on staples: rice, dried (or canned) beans, whole peeled tomatoes, restaurant-sized containers of vegetable oil, etc. Gonna be an expensive and scarce winter.
go to your local hardware store so you can update your insulation. Weatherstripping; rope caulk, anything like that. The hit a home-goods store and buy extra blankets. Gonna be cold cold cold close the door, because fuel is going to be higher than Don Jr on a crack binge.
Was reading the Pope’s comments about AI.
I realize what I appreciate most about having an American Pope.
There is no bullshyt about ‘ misinterpreting’ what HE SAYS
Because his primary language is English.
He chooses his words carefully.
And, HE SAYS WHAT HE SAYS.
The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: Alabama asks the Supreme Court to allow a congressional map that would help Republicans, despite a lower court’s ruling of racial bias.
https://x.com/AP/status/2059667298546340214
Here For THEE Comments 1
@forthecomments1
Before Black people get all excited about the VIBE MAGAZINE, RE-LAUNCH, know who OWNS it. JAY PENSKE, a racist ass media mogul, who will use VIBE to push more of the Black THUG LIFE in Black culture, because the Black youth are waking up to how damaging it was to our culture.
https://x.com/forthecomments1/status/2059653566424322527
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
NEW: A federal court ordered the DOJ to quickly hand the DNC any documents on Trump’s plans to send armed agents or the military to the polls this fall.
With the midterms looming, the judge said the documents are necessary to “inform an imminent public debate.”
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2059688985706799169
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
MAGA HEADS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE 🤯
🚨 A new Cato study found immigrants reduced US deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994.
Not increased.
Reduced.
Even undocumented immigrants were estimated to have reduced deficits by at least $1.7 trillion.
The very people Republicans keep villainizing are working, paying taxes, and helping keep the economy afloat while billionaires and corporations dodge taxes with loopholes their lobbyists wrote themselves.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2059643751832965196
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
ALERT: 35 Former federal judges file motion in Florida asking court to *re-open* Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit vs. his I.R.S.
Filing: “This court was deceived”
“The ‘settlement’ commandeers the contrived sum of $1.776 billion from the U.S. Treasury”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.63.0.pdf
https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/2059726378027610480
Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
conservative pundits (sneering): actually our christianity is more a set of ideological views about race and gender than anything resembling faith or observance
everyone else: yes we know, it’s not a secret
2:47 PM · May 27, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/adamserwer.bsky.social/post/3mmublkdr4c2j
Hmmph
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
Tom Steyer wants voters to see him as a climate crusader now. But let’s be real about where the money came from.
Steyer built his fortune at Farallon Capital through investments tied to coal, fossil fuels, mining & global energy infrastructure. Environmental watchdogs spent years documenting it.
🧵
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
One of the biggest controversies was Farallon’s connection to the Maules Creek coal project in Australia, a massive open-cut coal mine accused of destroying endangered woodland ecosystems, disrupting local water systems, and encroaching on sacred Indigenous Gomeroi land.
2.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
Environmental groups protested it for years.
And it wasn’t just Australia. Farallon investments also backed coal infrastructure tied to high-pollution power generation in places like Indonesia and China, regions already struggling with severe air pollution and massive carbon emissions.
3.
12:21 PM · May 27, 2026
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
Critics pointed out something important that still matters today: even after Steyer publicly “divested,” the coal mines and infrastructure he helped finance didn’t magically disappear. Those projects were built to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere for decades.
4.
12:21 PM · May 27, 2026
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
The same fossil fuel billions are funding his political campaign, and we’re supposed to believe he’s suddenly the moral authority on climate policy because he says what people want to hear?
5.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
Steyer is able to fund his campaign with money he made from fossil fuels and private prisons, spending nearly 3X more than all the other candidates combined.
6.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
And here’s the other part nobody wants to talk about: the Steyer family’s financial interests are deeply connected to industries that could directly benefit from gubernatorial policy.
7.
12:21 PM · May 27, 2026
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
His daughter, Evi Steyer, owns Ponderosa Ventures, a regenerative agriculture investment firm. Land use policy, water rights, carbon credits, climate incentives: all things a California governor can heavily influence.
8.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
His son, Sam Steyer, is Head of Data Science at Halcyon, helping build AI-driven systems tied to energy expansion and infrastructure planning. Governors shape energy grid policy, utility regulation, permitting and state contracts.
9.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
At what point do voters stop falling for billionaire rebrands?
Because Steyer’s wealth came from helping build the very industries progressives claim are destroying the planet, maybe folks should ask harder questions before treating him like a savior.
10.
12:21 PM · May 27, 2026
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
Set this to memory: The Steyer FAMILY stands to PROFIT from gubernatorial policy. And we’ve seen how this works before — in the White House. Do we need to watch it play out in the California governor’s mansion too?
11.
12:21 PM · May 27, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mmtzevtlak22
UH HUH
UH HUH
Neera Tanden🌻
@neeratanden
It’s weird how many people who actually served with Becerra are willing to go on the record but the only people in these stories are blind quotes of people who very may well have axes to grind over their own failures.
https://x.com/neeratanden/status/2059466648369717567
Dr. Allison Wiltz
@queenie4rmnola
Mad at Black actresses for playing fictional characters like a Mermaid or Helen of Troy. Ya’ll mad about a Black president, a Black vice president, a Black woman on the Supreme Court, a Black president of Harvard. It’s never-ending. If you don’t like Black people, leave America
9:14 AM · May 26, 2026
https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/2059277018902966559
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
South Carolina Republicans: “Quick, let’s eliminate the one Black district before anyone catches on.”
Black South Carolina voters: “Hold my beer.”
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2059453065196126277
Mike Nellis
@MikeNellis
Newsmax: Why are college kids booing AI during graduation ceremonies?
Me: Because they did everything society told them to do — took on debt, got the degree, worked their asses off — and now they’re graduating into a brutal job market while billionaires openly brag about replacing human labor with AI and robotics. Honestly, I don’t blame them for being angry.
https://x.com/MikeNellis/status/2059393817761964240
This incompetent and corrupt agency
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
ICE deported a citizen born in U.S. to Mexico—now he’s filed lawsuit demanding to be allowed back into the country.
“I told 3 different agents that I am American citizen,” he said.
“They just called me crazy.”
Then they threatened him with 5 prison years for fraud—accusing him of lying to federal officers about his citizenship.
Agents refused to look at his birth certificate or social security card—or even medical records proving born in U.S. hospital.
Brian Morales was born in Denver, Colorado—he was detained as part of a construction crew in Fredericksburg, Texas.
ICE deported him just days later to a state in Mexico that he had never been to—far away from even distant relatives.
He is currently awaiting the outcome of his lawsuit in Aguascalientes, Mexico—485 miles south of the nearest U.S.-Mexico border.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2059650305386590482?s=20
The respect that I have for her….She’s fabulous.
Lauren Underwood
@LaurenUnderwood
We need to have an honest conversation about the Callais decision, the state of voting rights, and where we go from here.
One thing I know for sure — I’m done with this court. Their corruption. The lifetime appointments that protect them. Their abuse of power has to end.
https://x.com/LaurenUnderwood/status/2059363693108838457
Had not thought of this angle.
Mountain Ğeneral
@MountainGenera
Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious concerns as a reason to not use it at work
https://x.com/MountainGenera/status/2059567791288562125
Because, of course….
Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈🇺🇸
@Amy_Siskind
So on brand! Trump is sending U.S. citizens exposed to Ebola to Kenya, rather than bring them home for observation and treatment where they would have a much better chance of survival. This is a deadly disease that kills 50% of the people who contract it. He is abandoning U.S. citizens.
https://x.com/Amy_Siskind/status/2059630312137572853
Jerome Adams
@JeromeAdamsMD
Whoa 🤯
CDC begging staff to volunteer for Ebola airport screenings – no hazard pay, same regular salary, while exposing themselves to a deadly virus.
Why? Staffing & resources were gutted, so they’re scrambling to fill gaps with whoever raises their hand.
But sure… everything’s fine.
https://x.com/JeromeAdamsMD/status/2059576963824538060
Earl Landix 🇺🇸
@EarlLandix
Black American Professor Tressie McMillan Cottom on why no one is encouraging Black women to have more babies.
IG: tressiemcphd
https://x.com/EarlLandix/status/2059388501741752635
ICAM
was sad to see him lose.
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
Commentary account
Al Green was a real one, standing up to the Trump administration in a way that most Democrats should have.
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2059446215134343558
Acyn
@Acyn
Jennings: How does this how does the VRA case undermine black political power? All Americans had one vote, and now they all still have the franchise and they have one vote.
Coates: I was in the voting section of the civil rights division. And I’ll tell you, as everyone realizes that when you dilute the voting power of a particular population, the one person, one vote is essentially a myth.
If what you say was true, there’d be no reason to gerrymander districts with a goal towards what President Trump spoke about—trying to add numbers to one side.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2059478334455828585
I have no patience for those who won’t put their names out there with a quote. Anonymous to me will always = Bitchassness
David Weigel
@daveweigel
Good
@PeterHamby
story with more gutless Biden vets attacking Becerra only with anonymity.
You hear a lot of rumors that Becerra was a lightweight. But *Biden* people aren’t very credible when they say this guy he kept around for four years is terrible.
https://puck.news/is-xavier-becerra-the-best-california-can-do/
https://x.com/daveweigel/status/2059459165290988016
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Chip Roy, author of the SAVE America Act, lost his Republican primary for Texas attorney general to outright election denier state Sen. Mayes Middleton.
Middleton has signaled that, as attorney general, he would work to overturn results that go against his party — as incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton did for Trump’s 2020 loss.
While Trump did not endorse either candidate, he appeared to favor Middleton, who has praised the GOP for trying to “stop the steal” in 2020.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2059454556459687986?s=20
MORON
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Markwayne Mullin: “We are currently drawing up plans to say, listen, in these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2059452011636982241
UH HUH
UH HUH
Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand “against MAGA extremists.”
It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries.
But it’s funders and motivations have been secret.
Until now.
It’s a GOP dirty tricks operation.
🧵
7:59 AM · May 27, 2026
https://x.com/JuddLegum/status/2059620579234222239?s=20
Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc
“The pope is really doing the Lord’s work here, and I say that as an atheist. There are so few institutions left on planet Earth that have the gravitas, strength, communal network to take on this phenomenon, which is trying to become inevitable and superhuman.”
https://x.com/trbrtc/status/2059393488056090927
Jaime Harrison
@harrisonjaime
Putting folks on notice: the
@scdp
, led by
@ChristaleSpain
, with a little help from yours truly, did what folks said couldn’t be done: recruited Democrats to run in ALL 124 State House seats and every statewide and congressional race in South Carolina.
Every district. Every corner of this state. No hiding spots. No free rides. No uncontested power.
And let me say this plainly: we are about to walk out of this wilderness. The giant’s slumber is over.
For too long folks counted South Carolina out. Too long they banked on apathy, low turnout, division, and hopelessness.
But something is shifting. People are tired of the corruption. Tired of the chaos. Tired of politicians who serve themselves instead of the people.
We have the candidates. We have the fight. We have the energy.
Now we need the voters. Because if our people show up, South Carolina WILL change.
#LFG #WeWillNotGoBack
2:44 AM · May 27, 2026
https://x.com/harrisonjaime/status/2059541293391638982
theGrio.com
@theGrio
The Congressional Black Caucus helped sink the NCAA-backed SCORE Act, saying it would not support legislation benefiting college athletics while Black voting rights and political power face attacks across the South.
https://x.com/theGrio/status/2059477249120690392
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
SICKENING—Key officials responsible for leading US research on infectious disease threats have been barred by Trump White House / HHS from speaking directly with the World Health Organization (WHO).
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
I don’t think we have a functioning CDC anymore—RFK Jr’s CDC is now asking volunteers to goto airports to screen passengers for Ebola… to stand in line at airports to look for sick people… unpaid.
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
2) Can’t make this stuff up. Trump / RFK Jr slashed CDC by 30-40% last year. Now they want volunteers to do hazard duty unpaid.
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
3) by “unpaid” I mean no extra hazard duty pay. CDC staffers are salaried workers with official scientific jobs and duties. There is no hazard duty pay for these airport ebola screenings. They weren’t in the job description.
8:12 PM · May 26, 2026
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
4) But wait there’s more… top scientists can’t talk or consult with the WHO anymore!!!
https://x.com/DrEricDing/status/2059460089451262248
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Trump is reportedly considering halting immigration and customs processing at airports located in sanctuary cities.
If implemented, that would mark a major escalation in the long-running battle between the federal government and Democratic-led cities over immigration policy.
This would directly use federal airport and immigration infrastructure as leverage against local governments that refuse to fully cooperate with federal enforcement priorities.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2059493539814236231
hoococupa
@codyump
It’s almost impossible to to overstate the amount of economic disruption this would cause.
Airlines could potentially collapse
Tourism would ground to halt
Americans couldn’t travel overseas
Prices would skyrockets as cargo couldn’t come in
Just unfathomably stupid
6:18 AM · May 27, 2026
https://x.com/codyump/status/2059594974803407146
WarMonitor
@TheWarMonitor
The White House is considering plans to halt processing of international travelers and cargo at major airports in sanctuary cities, a move that could disrupt air travel, commerce, and World Cup tourism across major Democratic-led states.
https://x.com/TheWarMonitor/status/2059512422990266720
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
This plan is actively *insane.* Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they’d just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2059463644350410951
Tim
@trouble_man90
Republicans have no idea what do when in charge except to pass tax cuts and be endlessly corrupt. It’s been almost two years and they’ve passed not a single bill that actually helps Americans. They clearly feel better being in the minority, let’s put them there indefinitely.
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2059489408148033620
Ken Dilanian
@KDilanianMSNOW
Exclusive: Patel fires another career FBI official for what sources say are purely political reasons: Republicans didn’t like a conclusion from nine years ago about a shooter’s motives.
https://x.com/KDilanianMSNOW/status/2059462021179904140?s=20
David Weigel
@daveweigel
Paxton, Gill, and Sarah Gonzales all used their rally speeches to bring up Talarico’s 2023 interview on Superbloom.
Asked what he loved that wasn’t “family or friends,” Talarico said: “I love the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for their humanity.”
In GOP messaging, this has become: Talarico is a weirdo who thinks about “trans kids” all day. (Gonzales said “check his hard drive!”)
It’s not exactly subtle, but: One of Talarico’s premises is that he’s a moral, Christian man running against a creep with a messy divorce.
The counterpunch from Rs: Talarico is a childless pervert, probably gay (where’s the girlfriend he keeps talking about?). He awfully seems *concerned* about Ken Paxton’s litigation against gender medicine for children, doesn’t he?
It was predictable that TX Rs would go there. They got a media backlash to trans litigation/legislation in 2021, then swept the 2022 races. Message: This is a winning issue and we believe in it.
When Talarico got into this race, I asked him: Republicans cite scripture, usually Matthew 18:6, to explain why they legislate on this. Why are they wrong?
His answer:
“I think we agree that we need to protect children, and that’s good. That’s a solid piece of common ground that we should be able to come together on. You know, I think I just tend to trust parents to take care of their children more than I trust the government to take care of those children. I believe parental rights are sacred and shouldn’t be overridden by politicians at the state capitol or the national capitol. So I think that’s the primary difference on that issue.”
https://x.com/daveweigel/status/2059609196971086017
danny
@dabbs346
NRSC is also actively scrubbing their website on Ken Paxton releases. So embarrassing.
https://x.com/dabbs346/status/2059443194232774998
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
@RepJasmine
Three federal judges stepped in and blocked Alabama Republicans from using yet another congressional map designed to weaken Black representation.
The fact that Black voters are still having to fight this hard for fair representation in 2026 is outrageous. Republicans need to spend less time trying to dilute Black voting power and more time doing the jobs they were elected to do.
https://x.com/RepJasmine/status/2059371144935850330
The complete audacity of trying to gaslight someone Jewish for not being in support of someone WITH A NAZI TATTOO.
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
Commentary account
the white far left then attacked Rep. Jake Auchincloss for expressing disgust at Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo
Auchincloss is Jewish and has every right to be horrified & dismayed
this stopped being about “Palestine” a very long time ago
11:34 PM · May 26, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2059493431915765934
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
Commentary account
there’s “feral rudeness,” where they were never taught manners,
“narcissistic rudeness,” where they *were* taught manners but don’t give a fuck, and
“entitlement rudeness,” where they were raised to think of the entire world as a plantation to exploit & feel superior to
11:25 PM · May 26, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2059491035500179665?s=20
Not a Drag Queen.
Annie
@AnnieForTruth
76 yr old Michael Delar Morris, a former LDS bishop at a Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints congregation in Livermore, CA was arrested and charged with 18 felony counts of sexual assault and lewd acts with children. 😡 https://ktvu.com/news/former-livermore-lds-bishop-charged-sexually-assaulting-boys-over-decade.amp
Team Talarico
@TeamTalaricoHQ
This is Ken Paxton’s mugshot.
He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.
He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.
He was impeached by his own party for corruption.
Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.
Together we will stop him.
https://x.com/TeamTalaricoHQ/status/2059451508366680375
The Board of Peace….
Financial Times
@FT
FT Exclusive: Four months after its establishment, the organization’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. https://ft.trib.al/aqWkkaM
https://x.com/FT/status/2059494928556708093
NewsOne
@newsone
After decades of advocacy, Black Catholics received a long-awaited apology from Pope Leo XIV over the Catholic Church’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
More on #NewsOne.com —> https://newsone.com/6861537/black-catholics-pope-leo-xiv-slavery-apology/
📸: Getty
https://x.com/newsone/status/2059393232455294988
WAVY TV 10
@WAVY_News
Virginia Beach police say a white supremacist group that marched at the Oceanfront during Memorial Day weekend did not require a permit because the gathering met legal requirements and did not pose a public safety threat. Mayor Bobby Dyer disavowed the group, while the NAACP’s Virginia Beach chapter said they were shocked. “I told the police chief, this is not a good look for Virginia Beach,” said NAACP Virginia Beach Chapter President Eric Majette.
https://wavy.com/news/local-news/virginia-beach/white-supremacist-march-sparks-community-concern-in-virginia-beach/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_WAVY_News
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Veronica McDonald
@veronicamcdonald.bsky.social
They expected Black Americans to
a) fold like White Americans and just stay home from the polls
or
b) (their preferred choice) riot in the streets but stay home from the polls
YOUNG Black Americans (under 40) don’t vote anyway but everyone over 45 (who does vote) is locked in & activated.
Veronica McDonald
@veronicamcdonald.bsky.social
I don’t want to hear any crying about “Well I’m Black and 29 years old and I vote!”
Good for you. But younger people of any race do not vote. For all the moaning and groaning about “older Black voters” they are the ones who show up to vote every single time.
12:06 PM · May 26, 2026
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Ari Berman
@ariberman.bsky.social
Breaking: South Carolina Senate just failed to invoke cloture on 7-0 gerrymandered map eliminating Jim Clyburn’s majority Black district. It appears redistricting is dead for real this time as early voting begins today & 32,000 ballots already cast
12:43 PM · May 26, 2026
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Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊