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Remember these words General Mark A Milley 🇺🇲

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

I've never seen it so well put before.

Pope Leo XIV gets emotional when receiving the Fisherman’s ring at his inauguration event at the Vatican.

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

I've said it before, and I'll repeat it: The expulsion of expertise from government and academia during Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated China for decades, particularly in science and technology. That profound harm led the country to take education as seriously as it does today. wapo.st/3YTivKW

Pope Leo with a message so many need to hear. (cc: @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @TNGOP @TNHighwayPatrol @JDVance @RepTimBurchett @SenatorHagerty @CSexton25)

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

Cardinal Robert Prevost is the new pope, the first American to be pope.

Church bells rang and crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square cheered as white smoke billowed over the Vatican on Thursday evening, announcing that the conclave had elected a new pope. The world will learn their choice when he appears on a balcony overlooking the square. wapo.st/452zHRU

Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

"It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. . . . If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." - Pope Francis

"In the classroom, I often found myself at odds with both students and faculty, many of whom treated religion as a kind of cultural performance similar in character to pop-culture fandom. I couldn’t accept that." ICYMI Daniel Gullotta:

Notice the pattern? California is the engine that makes the American economy go & makes the federal budget go. Numerous red states are literally funded by California.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Unfortunately for me, I have the paper towel habit of a much wealthier woman

When a good friend's loved one passes away, it can be hard to find the right thing to say. NPR readers share words of comfort they've shared with others — or wish they'd heard themselves.

“I’ll stop drinking if you let me run the Pentagon” is maybe the most alcoholic thing anyone has ever said

It’s so wild how quickly this place became a spot I want to spend more time in.