TFW when your 82-year-old Midwestern dad can’t take your call because he’s too busy organzing against ICE.

Stealing this

I need to know more about this …

Say what you will, but AFP knows what readers want.

This kind of scheming among the world’s richest people is absolutely galling.

It’s Tom Cruise

Binance — whose owner Trump pardoned after he got a billion dollars from a crypto project — allowed the Maduro regime to stay alive in Venezuela and is now shown to be essential to sanctions evasion in Iran Totally cool for POTUS to profit from sanctions evasion right www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump has pursued regressive policies that threaten to unravel progress on renewable energy as well as diminish environmental and safety standards for domestic industrial pollution and agricultural pesticides. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

This is an embarrassment, I mean, another embarrassment. Our justice system is becoming a clown show. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Cubans have experienced previous crises, but things are far worse now. Garbage collects on the streets, power outages interrupt critical care at hospitals, food costs are out of control and no one knows when the suffering of everyday Cubans may end. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

That sink is a great metaphor for how A.I. works, however.

Trump has been such a generator of corruption, impropriety and scandal, I literally can't keep up. Thought I would start building a spreadsheet to help There's prolly more (what am I missing?), but here's a start:

when you put it like that, it sounds terrible

Cuba is experiencing its worst humanitarian crisis since the late 19th century. Day-to-day challenges faced by Cubans are even worse than those experienced during the “special period” when a collapsing Soviet Union suspended critical economic support. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

It's strange to me that this crowd & speakers include Catholics who say Catholics can't work w/ certain orgs b/c they're too woke or un-Catholic but they can share a stage & platform w/ speakers & orgs not only whose social beliefs contradict ours, but who are wholly anti-Catholic. Makes no sense.

UPDATE: Cuban president Díaz-Canel agreed to accept the humanitarian assistance offered by the Trump administration. The U.S. State Department had said that aid would only be delivered if Catholic Church in Cuba administered its distribution.
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“Hopelessness predominates” in Cuba, Father Roque says. The island’s economic and energy woes have been made far worse by Trump administration policies, but the suffering and despair “predates the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

CIA director Ratcliffe flew to Havana yesterday, could be something in the works. Maybe Díaz-Canel will step down to appease Trump and we get the Venezuela option Wenski suggests here? Trump’s ‘get tough’ on Cuba policy piles on island’s suffering www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Cubans have experienced power cuts and hunger during previous crises, but things are far worse now. Garbage collects on the streets, power outages interrupt critical care at hospitals and no one knows when the suffering of everyday Cubans may end. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Mr. Trump—and perhaps many American Catholics—may be surprised to discover how far the church has moved in recent years on moral questions related to #nuclearweapons. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

“The risks of miscalculation, escalation, and nuclear use in this environment are not theoretical,” Trump's attacks on Pope Leo shine light on church’s teaching on nuclear weapons www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

BBC is taking apart Trump's ranting and raging and fabricating on truth social the other night—something like 50 looney posts. Embarrassing business. I guess we have to take these trumping dark nights seriously but thankless work. Does America media even try?

World’s worst in-flight entertainment experience

You know, by coincidence I just published a book yesterday arguing the exact opposite of this: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

It’s the phones, stupid! Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

I'm delighted to share the book I have releasing in early December. 'A Year with the Classics' Here's the cover, the frontispiece, and Contents page. @stmartinspress.bsky.social 🙏❤️📖

Why might a society that has so consistently sought to distance itself from Catholic influence at the polling booth remain hesitant about abandoning ecclesial patronage over the classroom? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

“I guess if it’s up to the pope, he thinks it’s just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon” … This is not the first time Mr. Trump has made that allegation. He suggested the same during his first round with Pope Leo in April. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Catholic schools are partnering with Google on A.I. Will they be able to protect student privacy? www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Is the Hungary conservative think tank express all gonna turn out to be Russian financed?

Netanyahu gov called this 'blood libel' but many reports have been surfacing in recent years about sexual assault and other abuses at Israeli detention sites The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Most worried about the Sperm Whale count myself

What We Saw in Cuba Shocked Us www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

The campesinos and people that the future pope met in Peru “ended up recognizing him as a brother,” he added. “They ended up recognizing him as a friend; they ended up recognizing him as one of their own. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

“I guess if it’s up to the pope, he thinks it’s just fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” he told a conservative talk show host. This is not the first time Mr. Trump has made that allegation. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

This week in the continuing saga of the pope against the president, Mr. Trump suggested that Leo was a supporter of a nuclear-armed Iran, accusing him of “endangering a lot of Catholics.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

On Polymarket, gamblers have been laying money down on the likelihood of an Israeli nuclear strike. Meanwhile, inquiring minds at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists wonder if the Trump administration will beat the Israelis to it. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

“The church’s mission is to preach the Gospel, to preach peace.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

The trillion-dollar price tag of nuclear weapons modernization is another scandal before a world in need. The poor and vulnerable “are being cheated because of the money spent on these nuclear warheads.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

Santa Fe's Archbishop John Wester:. “We’re in a second arms race now that’s more dangerous than the first with A.I., hypersonic delivery systems and the geopolitical landscape that we are dealing with. The pope is right to be sounding the alarm and proclaiming the message of peace.”

That's a lot... Those tensions extend from major differences over the Trump administration’s sidelining of multilateralism, breaches of international law, mass deportation, gutting of USAID, wars in the Middle East, the crisis over Ukraine and Iran... www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

The Trump administration was responsible for three-quarters of the overall decline in overseas aid, its humanitarian and development assistance falling by 57 percent from 2024, “the largest reduction in volume by any provider in any year on record.” www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

Spending $12 million to shore up W.A.S.H. systems at 151 Catholic health sites in 23 low-income nations might have been an easy ask not too long ago. But after a historic collapse of humanitarian aid in 2025, finding new money may be more challenging. www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

After a historic collapse of humanitarian and development assistance in 2025, finding new money to address such persistent problems may be more challenging.