Friday, May 9, 2025

Today's news and jokes

and boy what an incredible run Cardinal Parolin has had as the Vatican Secretary of State. I tell everybody, Cardinal Parolin might be the best Vatican Secretary of State I’ve ever seen! (Long pause as the Cardinal Parolin fans go crazy) …BUT IM GOING WITH CARDINAL TAGLE! (He puts on a Tagle head)

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM


(Nova, obviously)



Extremely funny to me that right wingers are combing through the new pope’s old tweets and trying to cancel him like Disney just cast him in a live action Frozen remake

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— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM


new pope! *crowd goes wild* American pope! *crowd boos* woke for an American! *crowd goes wild* bad on protecting abusive priests! *crowd boos* hates JD Vance! *crowd goes wild*

— Micah (@rincewind.run) May 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM


Best Chicago controversy of the new Pope is the Cubs trying to lay claim to him and his brother having to speak up to clear up that he's a Sox fan. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/08/p...

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— dan sinker (@dansinker.com) May 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM


(Don't look it up)



Bishop Robert Barren to CBS yesterday:

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— Joe Uchill (@joeuchill.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM


The 80 year age max was instituted in 1970. The Vatican realized that gerontocracy and having a bunch of senile guys running the show might be a problem *over 50 years ago.*

— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM








The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.

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— NPR (@npr.org) May 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
("will establish a secure tech-enabled mechanism to enhance this data sharing with timely, privacy and security compliant data exchange")







Chef Geoff’s, an American restaurant founded by CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell’s husband Geoff Tracy, was raided by nearly a dozen ICE agents on Tuesday morning.

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— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
(One of several raids in the area apparently)















CDC leadership just told staff on Monday that they could stop sending their "5 things I did last week" emails. Finally. Per source, people were mostly just sending the same things every week. Many folks added read receipts and were able to see that no one at DOGE was actually reading the emails.

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
























FT: "The world’s largest offshore wind developer [Ørsted] is halting work on a vast UK project [2.4GW Hornsea 4] blaming rising costs and risk of delays, in a blow to Britain’s clean energy goals." DESNZ quote making a brave face of it… www.ft.com/content/7015...

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— Simon Evans (@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org) May 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM


Guess which government “policy” has come up more than any other in the last two weeks of interviews with members of the London public? (I wasn’t seeking comment on it, just keeps popping up.)

— Jim Waterson (@jim.londoncentric.media) May 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
(Referring to this, I think. Going to be amazing when one actor is manipulating the weather in a way that disadvantages another)







The Kentucky Derby-winning jockey whipped his horse too many times, and is now facing $30K in penalties. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/alvarado-fac...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
("I needed to do what I needed to do at the time")







What a story from Carl Nassib, detailing a particular display of allyship from the Cleveland Browns’ offensive line before they even knew he was out. And kudos to Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder and Fred Taylor for channeling that same vibe. It’s what I saw in Tampa too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGqm...

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— Jenna Laine (@jennalaine.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM




























@tahismayte_ Traveling with your bags in Japan is not for the weak #fyp #fypviral #japantiktok #japantok #tokyo #japanlife #tokyojapan #japantravel #traveltok #japantrip ♬ GO KYLIE GO - xkqliex








@thatmanderek.clips Driving in Japan be like @ThatManDerek #thatmanderek #jdmcar #japan #jdmcars #nissan #r34gtr ♬ original sound - DoseOfDerek








@buddy_n_bear This is what true love looks like 🥹 they are actually soulmates and get so upset when they’re not side by side #pugsoftiktok #pug #pugs #puglife #pugpuppy ♬ Ordinary (Wedding Version) - Alex Warren








@maui_thegoldenpup Oh to be a puppy being loved and spoiled sm #goldenretriever #puppy #goldenretrieverpuppy #cutedog ♬ Chest Pain (I Love) - Malcolm Todd








@tara.austin1111

We get flooded almost every spring. I went down to the river to get pictures and this happened...

♬ Welp, Didn't Expect That - Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX




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