Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a MAGAt infested shithole.
New Pope Day:
In a historic moment, Pope Leo XIV made his first public appearance from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after being selected as the successor to Pope Francis. The 133 cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to be Catholic leader, in the fourth ballot of the conclave.
“JD Vance is Wrong”– New Pope Leo XIV Has a History of Criticizing Trump and Vance on Immigration
Before ascending to the papacy, Cardinal Robert Prevost publicly condemned U.S. deportation policies and challenged nationalist interpretations of Christian love
Prior to his election as pope, Prevost utilized social media to express his concerns. In April 2025, he retweeted a post highlighting Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjívar’s condemnation of the deportation of a U.S. resident, questioning, “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?”
Cops Behaving Poorly:
What happens next in Tyre Nichols case?
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith are to be sentenced in a federal trial expected later this year
The three former Memphis police officers acquitted of charges in state court in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols still face the prospect of years in prison.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith were found not guilty on all charges in a Tennessee courtroom, including second-degree murder, on Wednesday after a nine-day trial, more than two years after Nichols was punched, kicked, and pepper-sprayed after fleeing from a traffic stop in January 2023.
The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:
‘Cruel and heartless:’ Parents of murder victim slam Kristi Noem after DHS secretary cites their daughter in speech
Grieving Illinois couple tell Trump administration official her use of their late daughter for political ends ‘not just deeply painful to us – it is an insult to her memory’
The parents of a murdered woman have lashed out at U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem after she relocated a speech in Illinois, so that she could deliver it outside of the victim’s former home.
Community organizer Emma Schafer, 24, was fatally stabbed in her Springfield apartment in July 2023. The suspected killer, Gabriel P Calixto, remains at large.
Secretary Noem had been scheduled to speak on Wednesday in front of the Illinois Governor’s mansion, where outspoken Democrat JB Pritzker resides. Instead, she moved her lectern outside of Schafer’s old residence as she criticized the state’s “sanctuary” status and attempted to use the latter’s tragic story as an example of “migrant crime,” claiming that Calixto had been in the country illegally.
