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Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week The rapid relocation of the Afrikaners stands in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and John Eligon nyti.ms/3F4uT3V

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Cardinal Robert Prevost made his first speech as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, shortly after being elected pontiff. This is a transcript of the speech, translated from its original Italian.

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Months before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pope, he expressed criticism of Vice President JD Vance on social media, sharing an article that called the vice president’s interpretation of Christian doctrine “wrong.”

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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized. The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.

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Here’s what to know about the new pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who was elected on Thursday. He is the first American pope and will be known as Leo XIV. nyti.ms/43kapNM

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We have another progressive Pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American, is now Pope Leo the XIV. We can all breathe now. The Church will continue its path to inclusion.

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The first American pope? This cardinal has the best chance of making history in this conclave www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

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Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.

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U.S. Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy on the economic impact of the budget bill. Full episode: link.chtbl.com/2NHNIxjP @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @jessicatarlov.bsky.social @profgalloway.com

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Really enjoyed this conversation with Anne Applebaum on the pod. 👇🏻 open.spotify.com/episode/06N8...

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www.nokings.org

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I'm not sure that tariffs will lead to shortages. They might lead to price hikes, or a recession instead. Let's dig into the #economics101 of supply shocks.

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Maybe we can crowdsource trying to understand what the President is saying. It's the clearest statement yet from the Administration about what it's doing, yet I can't really follow. Please give it a read, and let me know in the replies what you think is going on, and how this will end.

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PBS President Paula Kerger is ripping into Donald Trump for attacking PBS (and NPR) with a "blatantly unlawful Executive Order, issued in the middle of the night." Unlike cowardly corporate media networks, public broadcasters are prepared to fight for free and independent media. And for democracy.

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PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR was blatantly unlawful. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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On Thursday RFK Jr announced that all new vaccines will require testing against a placebo. Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of Brown University School of Public Health, explains what it means to the American public and our annual updates of common vaccines like Covid or influenza. @ashishkjha.bsky.social

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

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A race played out across the globe, from Europe to the Middle East and the U.S., led by Eric Trump & Don Trump Jr. as they pushed new ways to profit off of the Trump name & Trump's status as POTUS. The NYT today investigates this extraordinary drive to cash in. nyti.ms/4iNzTYv

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Trump Crypto Deals Provoke Senate Backlash and Calls for Investigation Some Democrats who had supported legislation for so-called stablecoins are now demanding tougher language to prevent fraud and money laundering. By David Yaffe-Bellany and Eric Lipton www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

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Our CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joined Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels, and Jackie Alemany for their new show The Weekend on @msnbc.com this morning! www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/...

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Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE. But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States. My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

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I hate watching myself on TV so I haven’t watched this yet. But thanks to @maddow.msnbc.com for having me on to talk about how DOGE is building the kind of surveillance system authoritarians dream of. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Reports are that Mike Waltz is out as national security advisor. I wrote in @thehill.com that while he may have made a mistake, his firing is a terrible outcome for America. Read the column and interested in your thoughts. thehill.com/opinion/nati... #SignalGate #mikewaltz #whitehouse #Trump

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I’ll be on an @msnbc.com Town Hall tonight sharing my thoughts on what the firing of Inspectors General like me means for Americans. IGs are the watchdogs inside of government rooting out corruption, fraud, waste, and mismanagement. I hope you’ll tune in and let me know what you think. #100days #IG

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#KRASNOV & his merry band of traitorous imbeciles are doing a bang-up job leading our once-great nation, aren’t they? Helluva week - and it’s only Tuesday. #Ftrump #Fmaga

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New column: staggering and crazy combination of defiant lawlessness and laughable incompetence. newrepublic.com/article/1944... via @newrepublic.com

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Congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their election victory. The bond between Europe and Canada is strong — and growing stronger.

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Joe Biden congratulates Mark Csrney on winning the Canadian election! 🇨🇦🥳 Thanks Jack 😎 😂 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️ #canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #voteliberal #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state #buycanadian #supportlocal

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Pritzker: As a Ukrainian American Jew who built a holocaust museum… let me say this to Donald Trump: Stop tearing down the constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about combatting anti-semitism.

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ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…

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Coming tomorrow is The Atlantic’s June cover story, by staff writers Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. Ashley and Michael have interviewed President Donald Trump twice along with dozens of top advisers, senior aides, allies, and adversaries. (1/3)

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“The president’s appointees often appear to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs rather than actually doing them.” By Ashley Parker www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Exclusive: The Trump administration discussed allowing some Afghan refugees to remain in the U.S., after a group of potentially vulnerable migrants received emails revoking their humanitarian parole status.

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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

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I often thought about how the rise of Hitler happened. There may have been people warning them, screaming into the void and yet no one listened. The gaslighting, fear & cult mentality was maybe easier without information at your fingertips- as a child i wondered how this happened- now i understand 😢

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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He was "mistakenly" deported to prison camp, and it was just a "slip-up" that they then posted his wife's address. Bullshit. If these are all accidents, who's getting fired?

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Can't wait! If you're not already watching, please tune in!

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❤️ “I didn’t intend to get arrested—If I had, I wouldn’t have worn my nice jewelry & slacks.” 🦸🏻‍♂️ Lynne McFarland, the 80yo woman troopers carried out as she protested the cruel Lamberth & Watson bill to keep undocumented kids out of schools, in her own words: www.facebook.com/share/1UaV65...

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WATCH: Rep. Justin Jones honors Lynne McFarland— the 80yo woman who made national news when troopers carried her out of committee in protest of the cruel @SenBoWatson @WilliamLamberth bill to keep undocumented kids out of school.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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They won’t fire Hegseth unless and until they can find someone equally suited to the project of destroying American institutions and endangering American lives.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

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Breaking News: A federal jury ruled against Sarah Palin in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

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The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday.

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