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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

Republicans are fucking the cats and fucking the dogs.

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

“Public opinion is gradually being shaped and conditioned by polarizing media narratives, which are often amplified by algorithms that prioritize conflict and confrontation.” -Pope Leo The pope just exposed the entire grifting social media influencer class

there was something beautiful about library checkout cards because you could literally see the history of human curiosity attached to a book. like a tiny ghost trail of strangers connected by the same story.

@vander4333 @JOHAWK580356 @historigins Wrong.

@ApocalypseConno @JOHAWK580356 @historigins Democrat social programs that are on auto pilot and full of fraud are driving up the debt.

In 1998, the United States achieved its first federal budget surplus in 29 years, effectively ending a streak of deficits that had lasted since 1969. ⁠ ⁠ This milestone was achieved under President Bill Clinton, following the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which resulted in a fiscal surplus of approximately $69 billion for that year.⁠ ⁠

@JOHAWK580356 @historigins Lol shame they can't do it when a Republican is president!

@historigins Yes and you missed the part where Republicans fought with Clinton to do it and when they had an OVERIDE majority he caved in and pretended it was his policy. I was there.

Me: at a Japanese aquarium. peaceful day, families everywhere, soft piano music. then I notice one employee SPEED WALKING past us carrying bucket. Employee: Excuse me. another employee runs by, then another. suddenly whole aquarium staff moving with Avengers-level urgency. Me: ... Friend: Something happened. we follow crowd to penguin section. absolute chaos, one penguin missing. not metaphorically, ACTUALLY escaped. staff members whispering intensely into walkie-talkies. tiny child beside me: The criminal has escaped. Me: WHY DID HE SAY IT LIKE THAT. then I spot the penguin. bro is BOOKING IT down hallway at shocking speed. sliding on stomach around corners like furry torpedo. staff chasing respectfully. one employee holding fish like hostage negotiator. Employee: Kenta please. PENGUIN'S NAME IS KENTA. Kenta ignores authority completely, runs directly into souvenir shop. now people buying keychains while rogue penguin commits grand theft atmosphere. finally old aquarium worker appears. everyone parts ways dramatically. this man kneels down calmly. pulls out single sardine. Kenta stops immediately. walks over with zero shame. Old Worker: Enough adventure. penguin allows himself to be carried away like drunk friend after party. crowd applauds. Friend whispering: He'll do it again. Honestly? absolutely.

@PellinoreWendy @ShePersisted001 That's it.

@ShePersisted001 If 14 years olds are considered adults, then their rapists can't be accused of sexually abusing minors. What an elegant solution for the Epstein class.

Me: entering Japanese cat café. employee stops me immediately. Employee: One rule. Me: Okay. Employee: Orange cat bites people from France. Me: I’m not French. Employee: Good. I sit down, cats everywhere, peaceful, adorable, therapeutic. then gigantic orange cat jumps onto table, built like retired wrestler. Cat staring at me aggressively. Employee watching nervously from distance. Me: I thought he only hated French people. Employee: He improvises. cat slowly pushes my drink off table while maintaining eye contact. Me: THIS IS TARGETED. small child nearby points at cat. Child: That one evil. Employee: No no, He just passionate. cat suddenly climbs onto my lap, starts purring violently. Me: …wait he likes me? Employee shocked. Employee: Impossible. another worker comes over, then another, entire staff now observing me like chosen prophet. Manager arrives. Manager: He has never trusted customer before. Me: What does that mean. Manager bows slightly. Manager: You must take him. Me: TAKE HIM WHERE. orange cat already asleep on me. Employee quietly bringing adoption papers. Me: I CAME HERE FOR COFFEE.

They didn't kill the cancer. They told it to go home. A team of Korean scientists at KAIST just pulled off something that sounds like science fiction. Instead of nuking colon cancer cells with chemo or radiation, they convinced them to turn back into normal, healthy colon cells. No killing. No collateral damage. Just a quiet U-turn at the cellular level. Here's how it works. Led by Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho at the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, the team built a "digital twin" of the gene network that controls how a normal cell becomes cancerous. They ran simulations. They hunted for the exact moment a healthy cell flips into a malignant one. Then they found the switches. Three master regulator genes — MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2 — were the keys to the whole transformation. Flip those switches back, and the cancer cell stops behaving like a cancer cell. It starts looking and acting like a normal enterocyte, the kind of cell that lines a healthy intestine. No gene editing. No permanent rewiring. Just the body's own natural signals, used in reverse. The team confirmed it in molecular experiments, cellular experiments, and animal studies. The malignant cells stopped multiplying out of control and went back to doing their actual job. The research has already been handed off to a company called BioRevert Inc. to develop into real-world treatments. This isn't a cure tomorrow. But it rewrites the entire playbook for how we think about cancer. You don't always have to destroy the enemy. Sometimes you just have to remind it who it used to be. Source: KAIST / Advanced Science (Gong et al., 2024) via ScienceDaily and OncoDaily

ICYMI: On Wednesday, Jeff Bezos went on CNBC and criticized New York City taxes, NYC schools, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. On Thursday, Mamdani’s administration announced it had recovered $9 million from Bezos’s company.

@strategywoman I can see why Stalin wanted Fedir to paint him.

He refused to paint Stalin, was stripped of his pension and privileges by the Soviet regime, and died in poverty and hunger. It’s his birthday today. 🇺🇦 Fedir Krychevsky (1879–1947) Girl’s Head in a Shawl, 1907

he gets into beef with everyone on the road 😂

Makes me laugh every time I see it.

Missouri Republicans are organizing a referendum that would make citizen initiatives basically impossible to pass: boltsmag.org/missouri-amend… They’ve decided to schedule it for August, not November: missouriindependent.com/2026/05/22/mis…

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT" WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

I washed my mom’s hair today and asked how it looked. She said “Paul does a better job “ I said “Mom, I am Paul…” She said “No you’re not. He’s better looking.” 🤣🤣🤣 Alzheimer’s is brutal, but can be so hilarious.

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally. Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater