May 3, 2026

04 Culture

PBS Attacks Trump Admin’s Pope Criticisms– www.newsbusters.org

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Ever since Pope Leo assumed the papacy, PBS News Hour Friday contributors MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart and The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks have tried to claim him as one of their own in their fight against the Trump administration. That continued this Friday as the duo essentially told Vice President JD Vance to shut up when it comes to criticizing Leo’s remarks about the Iran War, with Capehart claiming they are among “the most insulting things” a VP could say and Brooks arguing the Iran War is permissible under just war theory, but also isn’t because Trump.

Host Amna Nawaz began with Capehart and wondered, “Pope Leo issued a pretty strong statement rebuking the war in Iran. Trump then unloaded on him online. Vice President Vance jumped in to criticize him as well, telling him to be careful on matters of theology. Is it smart for the president to be getting into it with the pope? What does he stand to gain from that?”

Using logic he would never apply to abortion, Capehart replied:

No, it’s not smart at all to be getting into it with the pope, to be fighting with the pope, even though the president says, ‘I’m not fighting with the pope.’ Yes, you are, and over something where it’s like the president is taking the words from the pope very, very seriously, when any pope, Pope Leo, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul, would have been saying the same thing, because this is about life and death. This is about right and wrong. And it’s something big that’s happening in the world that has commanded the pope’s attention.

Why Journalists Are Going Indie (with Maddy Myers)– www.404media.co

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This week, Sam is joined by Maddy Myers, editor-in-chief of Mothership. She’s also a co-host of the video games podcast Triple Click.

Maddy launched Mothership with co-founder Zoë Hannah in January. It’s a queer and women-owned independent publication that focuses on gender and games. They discuss Maddy’s early days of games journalism at a (print!) alt-weekly in Boston and then at the Mary Sue, how she and Zoë decided it was time to quit their jobs and launch their own indie outlet, and the importance of owning your own work as a journalist.

Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode’s bonus content and to power our journalism.

SETH ORANBURG: Local Municipalities Weaponize Bureaucracy Against Prayer– dailycaller.com

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As Congress debates antisemitism legislation and the Religious Liberty Commission holds hearings on rising hate, a case pending before the Supreme Court reveals a more mundane threat: city officials who use zoning bureaucracy to shut down Jewish prayer in a private home.

Daniel Grand invited a handful of neighbors to his house on a Saturday morning to pray. The City of University Heights, Ohio, served him with a cease-and-desist order, calling his home an “illegal house of worship.” Mayor Michael Dylan Brennan then encouraged Grand’s neighbors to surveil his home and report any religious activity for punishment.

When a city criminalizes home worship, you’d figure the homeowner has recourse. On paper, yes. In practice, no. In reality, municipalities across the country destroy faith communities not through action but through something more sinister: selective inaction.

Pope Leo warns African youth against emigration, urges battle against ‘scourge of corruption’– www.lifesitenews.com

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Pope Leo XIV called on young people in Africa to resist emigration and corruption, and to work for the good of their own countries.

On April 17, Pope Leo XIV addressed students and faculty at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé and later celebrated Mass in Douala, urging African youth to remain in their homeland, combat corruption through moral integrity, and contribute to national development, during the midpoint of his pastoral journey to four African nations.

“Do not give in to distrust and discouragement,” the Pope said during the Mass in Douala. “Do not forget that your people are even richer than this land, for your treasure lies in your values: faith, family, hospitality, and work.”

A new force of nature is reshaping the planet, study finds– www.sciencedaily.com

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Human societies have not just adapted to the natural world. They have steadily learned how to transform it. Drawing on research from archaeology, ecology, anthropology, and evolutionary theory, Erle Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, explains how cultural practices have evolved to give humans extraordinary influence over the ecosystems that sustain them.

From early uses of fire to cook food and shape landscapes to modern systems like industrial agriculture, global trade, and rapidly growing cities, societies have developed powerful tools and institutions. These social and cultural advances have allowed humans to reshape the planet on a massive scale while improving their ability to survive and thrive.

What This Dem Operative Just Said Only Reinforces the Push to Nuke the Filibuster– townhall.com

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We cannot collaborate with Democrats. Period. They’re insane, motivated by the overeducated, wealthy, white, nose-pierced, and blue-haired radicals that form the core of their political base. They’re held hostage by activist crazies. That’s why we need to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate and accomplish as much as possible, give our members something to energize their supporters at home, and stop the Democrats’ use of illegal aliens to boost their political power. We need to pass the Save America Act.

At the very least, we can ensure that only Americans vote in our elections. Plus, whatever economic action items that were deemed DOA due to the 60-vote threshold.

If we don’t act and Democrats retake Congress, the list of atrocious policy points here is staggering. Look, not everything will get passed, but imagine the disastrous Biden agenda on steroids. Here’s what the Left is cooking up, based on what Democratic operative James Carville said on the Policon podcast.

  • Grant statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, so that the Democrats can unlock 4 extra seats in the Senate.
  • Pack the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 Justices up to 13 Justices, adding another 4 Left-wing Justices to the court.
  • Reopen the U.S.-Mexico border and grant mass-amnesty to every single alien currently inside of the United States.
  • His advice to Democrat politicians: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

Undercover video exposes immigration rights group coaching migrants to claim they’re LGBTQ to cheat the asylum process– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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The left’s key trick to import new citizens to replace current citizens is to have migrants claim “asylum.” See, if you just enter a country illegally, it’s illegal. However, if you claim “asylum” because you’re afraid for your life in your own country, then it’s considered compassion and equity. There are Marxist open-border NGOs set up to coach illegals on how to claim asylum in order to be migrants. In the UK, that means claiming you are on the rainbow spectrum and might get thrown off a roof if you can’t move in.

I don’t know if you’re aware, but there are people on the internet who believe that the UK has a migrant problem. More so, a UK citizen having an issue with migrants problem, but…know what I mean?

What’s interesting is that this video is from an undercover operation conducted by…the BBC. You have to wonder how bad the migrant crisis has gotten that even the BBC is calling it out. You also have to wonder if the BBC calling it out could have them arrested for hate crimes.

A shadow industry of law firms and advisers is charging thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay in order to stay in the UK, the BBC has found.

They then apply for asylum claiming to be gay and in fear for their lives if they return to Pakistan or Bangladesh.

This group now makes up 35% of all asylum claims, which topped 100,000 in 2025.

VA School District Encourages Student Commitment To DEI As Achievement Metric– thefederalist.com

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Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS), a district in a far-left county in Virginia, encourages students to make a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology as a “core competency,” and has an “equity” grading system that guarantees at least 50 percent on incomplete assignments.

According to documents obtained by Defending Education, the county, home to the Charlottesville metro area and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, is fully steeped in “anti-racism” — an ideology used in curriculums to browbeats white students into denying their self-worth as human beings based on race. The majority of ACPS students are white.

“Albemarle Schools don’t only promote a worldview based in social justice ideology but they tell students that they too must hold this worldview,” Erika Sanzi, Senior Director of Communications at Defending Education, told The Federalist. “Teachers’ lessons are judged using an anti-racist vetting tool to ensure they are sufficiently integrating power and privilege and teaching students to resist oppression. This is not normal.”

Pride Folds

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Pride Events are shutting down across America, with the latest being Tucson Pride. They announced they were cancelling the next Pride event, saying “This decision was not made lightly…We recognize the deep importance Tucson Pride has held in our community since 1977, serving as a space of visibility, advocacy, celebration, and resilience for nearly five decades.” 

Many Events Cancelled, Scaled Back Nationwide – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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If you were to celebrate the Tucson Pride Festival this past February, you were out of luck. Organizers of Tucson Pride had to dissolve their organization and cancel the annual festival, which for some reason wasn’t held during national Pride Month, which is in June.

On a Facebook post, the organizers told their followers that, “This decision was not made lightly…We recognize the deep importance Tucson Pride has held in our community since 1977, serving as a space of visibility, advocacy, celebration, and resilience for nearly five decades.”

The group blamed poor financials, mismanagement, and lower attendance as the reasons for the demise of both the organization and the annual event.

Maybe if you really have a hankering for some Pride, you should go to Orlando in June. That’s when Mickey Mouse’s hometown always has its annual GayDays event. Thousands from all over like to go to this event because of the theme parks and the attractions, we’re told.

Oh, wait! Darn! That one is canceled, too. Organizers of that event have reportedly said the current political climate made it difficult to pull this one off due to several factors, including the loss of sponsors and changes to its facility arrangements.

Tax Day Brings Kids to Christ

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Organizers of “One Big Wednesday” led thousands of teens to Christ over a three-hour event at Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs, CO. The event was held on Tax Day, April 15, 2026.

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We are the church, thousands of teens will proclaim at Christian unity event in Colorado Springs – Colorado Springs Gazette

What’s known as Tax Day for adults will be God time this year for thousands of middle school and high school students in the Pikes Peak region.

Organizers of “One Big Wednesday” expect up to 4,000 teens ages 12 to 18 to spend three hours Wednesday night at the Norris Penrose Event Center seeking unity and hope in the Christian faith.

“Our hearts’ hope is that they would see each one of them is seen, valued and loved,” said Paden Rogers, student pastor at Cross Fellowship Church in Black Forest. He’s part of Colorado Springs Area Youth Ministries, which is presenting the regional event for the second year.

Twenty-nine local churches are involved in producing the inspirational worship activity, which is free for attendees, who can bring their friends. No one has to be attached to a church or identify as a Christian to participate, Rogers said.

Doors open at 5 p.m. at the center at 1045 Lower Gold Camp Road, with the event held 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.

“Our vision is we want to be in the community with the community of churches, supported by the community,  to reach a community of teenagers with the Gospel,” Rogers said. “Students hear the Gospel, experience the hope of Jesus, and they know their life has meaning and purpose.”

Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani’s $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled – RedState– redstate.com

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We told you that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would be bad, and the democrat socialist has proven to be as terrible or perhaps even worse than we warned.

He’s continued his antisemitic rhetoric and demeaning of police, wants to tax the wealthy out of existence (or at least, out of the state), and is striving to make DEI great again — just what nobody needs.

On Sunday, he announced that the city’s first city-run grocery store will open in East Harlem, and it will cost $30 million to build and take over a year to complete.

Trump could probably build a dozen of these for $30 million. Why so much? Union wages play a part, but that doesn’t explain it all, considering Mamdani had earlier promised five stores for a mere $70 million:

Even assuming New York City’s priciest union-driven construction costs, a standard-sized 25,000-square-foot grocery store should only be about $15 million to build, said Adam Lehodey, an expert at the Manhattan Institute.

“Thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering land prices are a significant part of the capital costs of new construction, and the city has announced that rents will be waived,” he said.

The ghosts of the old Soviet Union leaders are beaming with pride when they watch this video:

Massive Coinky Dink: Trump Administration Cancels Catholic Charities Contract– crooksandliars.com

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The Trump administration abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back more than 60 years to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

Gee, do you think this has anything to do with Pope Leo not kissing his ass like the evangelical fundies do?

The Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for several years to house immigrant children who enter the U.S. without parents or adult supervision. The non-profit operates the equivalent of a federally funded foster care system, separate and apart from state agencies that have custody of abused and neglected children. The federal government reached out to the charity in late March about the cancellation of the funding.

Amid his one-way feud with the pope, Trump has abruptly canceled funding for Catholic Charities of Miami to provide housing and foster families for unaccompanied immigrant children, ending a 60-year partnership and possibly forcing hundreds of children to be relocated.
-Keith Boykin

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Uk Doctor Suspended: UK doctor struck off for working while suspended after asking Muslim patient to remove niqab three times | World News– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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A UK doctor who repeatedly asked a Muslim patient to remove her veil during a consultation and later continued working despite being suspended has been struck off the medical register.Dr Keith Wolverson was previously suspended for nine months after being found guilty of multiple misconduct charges linked to incidents between January and May 2018 while working as a locum at urgent care centres in Derby and Stoke.

Doctor urges support for bill to halt euthanasia expansion in Canada– www.lifesitenews.com

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(LifeSiteNews) — A Montreal doctor called on the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney to support a private members’ bill that will stop a planned expansion of euthanasia to those with mental illness in Canada.

In a Monday press conference on Parliament Hill on Monday, members of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), including Dr. Peter Blusanovics, who has treated many with mental illnesses, urged support of Conservative Private Members Bill C-218.

Blusanovics, who is a family doctor based in Montreal, said he spoke to be a voice to “provide a voice for our most vulnerable — those who have and are suffering from mental illness.”

“Bill C-218 needs to pass to put a stop to euthanasia for people with mental illness,” said the doctor, adding, “Basic needs are currently not being met in our health care system.”

“Without this bill, we are condoning a bypass towards suicide and blatantly admitting defeat. Mental illness needs to be properly identified and treated,” he said.

Trump Ally Warns Pope Leo & Obama Are Plotting Against Republicans– slaynews.com

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Hal Lambert, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump and CEO of Point Bridge Capital, has sparked controversy by warning that former President Barack Obama’s political network is working in coordination with Pope Leo XIV to weaken Republican support among Catholic voters ahead of the midterm elections.

Lambert made the remarks during an appearance on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip.

He laid out what he described as a coordinated political effort involving the Vatican and top Democrat strategists.

Lambert Alleges Coordinated Political Effort

“This is 100 percent political, ok?” Lambert said.

“This is all about trying to hurt President Trump’s Catholic vote during the midterms and Republicans in the midterms.”

Vacate the J6 Convictions, DOJ Declares

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) officially filed motions to have the convictions of numerous J6 protestors vacated. The request simply stated, “The United States respectfully requests that the Court vacate the defendants’ convictions and remand to the district court so that the government may move to dismiss the indictment with prejudice under Rule 48(a).”

BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ moves to vacate Jan 6 seditious conspiracy convictions for members of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers – The Post Millennial

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President Trump has long maintained that the charges brought forward by former President Biden’s DOJ were disproportionate, the consequence of witch hunts and lawfare.

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed motions to vacate federal convictions against members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers stemming from the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.

The motions were filed on Tuesday, just days before an appeals court was set to hear some of the defendants’ requests to reverse their seditious conspiracy convictions. President Donald Trump commuted these individuals’ lengthy prison sentences last year, but they did not obtain pardons.

The first court filing applies to the following individuals, who are members of the right-wing group, the Proud Boys: Ethan Nordean, 36, of Washington; Joseph Biggs, 42, of Florida; Zachary Rehl, 38, of Pennsylvania; and Dominic Pezzola, 49, of New York. Each of them was convicted in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on seditious conspiracy charges and several other felonies, including obstruction of an official proceeding, according to court documents.

Nordean was sentenced to 18 years in prison, Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison, Rehl was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Pezzola was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Proud Boys are known for street fighting members of Antifa, a designated terrorist organization.

“The United States respectfully requests that the Court vacate the defendants’ convictions and remand to the district court so that the government may move to dismiss the indictment with prejudice under Rule 48(a),” the motion states.

Court Overturns Mosque’s Attempt to Ban Christian Evangelists from Sharing the Gospel Just Outside– www.westernjournal.com

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A controversial Islamic project in Texas tried to stop Christian evangelists from preaching and distributing literature on property outside their mosque.

But a Texas court dismissed the lawsuit, enabling the Christians to continue sharing the gospel in the area.

The East Plano Islamic Center — also known as EPIC — filed a lawsuit against Testimonies of God, a Christian evangelism ministry, in October 2025, according to a report from The Christian Post.

The mosque complex wanted a “temporary and permanent injunction” barring the Christians from “handing out evangelical pamphlets, letters, fliers, or other documents offensive to the Islamic faith.”

Mississippi Governor Signs Bill to Ban Mail-Order Abortions– www.lifenews.com

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Although it was completely expected, it’s wonderful to hear that Mississippi pro-life Gov. Tate Reeves has signed House Bill 1613.

HB 1613 amends the state’s drug trafficking statutes to make it illegal “to create, sell, barter, transfer, manufacture, distribute, dispense or prescribe an ‘abortion-inducing drug.’”

HB 1613 passed both the House in February and the Senate in March by overwhelming margins

“Penalties for those convicted of a crime include up to ten years in prison,” according to Bridget Sielicki. “Additionally, the legislation allows the Attorney General to bring a civil lawsuit against anyone accused of violating the law” but imposes “no penalties on the mother taking the abortion drug — only those involved in trafficking and distributing.”

Sperm whales may make their own vowel sounds, similar to human language– www.scientificamerican.com

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Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

“On the surface, [these vocalizations] sound like this alien, ocean intelligence that has nothing to do with us,” says lead author Gašper Beguš, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, who works with Project CETI, a nonprofit that is dedicated to studying sperm whale communication. “But when you actually look at it closely, you realize, ‘Oh, we’re way more similar.’”

Sperm whales flap “phonic lips” (a structure akin to human vocal cords) in their nose to create clicking sounds. They combine these clicks into rhythmic series called codas, which can vary from whale clan to whale clan. In the past, scientists trying to make sense of their communication have tended to focus on the rhythm of these patterns, almost as if deciphering morse code.

Behar Claims Jesus Never Called Himself The Messiah, Says Only A Narcissist Would Say Such A Thing– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Joy Behar says a lot of dumb things, but this might be the most foolish thing she has said to date.

Many instances in the Bible prove that Jesus confirmed he is the Messiah. You don’t even need to be a Christian to understand this very obvious truth. In fact, the entire premise of Christianity was founded on the idea that Jesus is the Messiah. This is why it is bizarre, naive, and objectively stupid for Behar to claim Jesus never said he is who he said he was. And when she was called out of her stupidity, she decided it was narcissism that caused Jesus to confirm he is the Messiah…

We have Matthew 16:15–20, Matthew 26:64, and John 4:25-26, to name several. Does Behar believe all of this was fueled by narcissism? Because if so, that screams more about her arrogance than anyone else’s.