A convicted priest is back at work. Child advocates want Pope Leo to act. Carlo Alberto Capella served prison time for a child pornography conviction but was allowed to return to work at the Vatican, posing a test for Pope Leo XIV.

Rev. Carlo Alberto Capella was released from prison and quietly returned to work after being convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography while serving as a Vatican diplomat, according to reports on Catholic blogs.

White Christian Nationalist Senator Joni Ernst from Iowa flippantly told a town hall member “we are all going to die sometime “ in response to Medicaid cuts. In her sarcastic apology she doubled down by saying those who want to live forever can do so by embracing Jesus. Vote this heartless skank out

🤡 Donald Trump has LOST his MARBLES!

🔻YOU know it
🔻I know it
🔻World Leaders know it
🔻Corporate Media knows it
🔻Billionaires know it
🔻Trump’s Cabinet knows it
🔻The Republican Party knows it
🔻Melania knows it
🔻Trump’s kids know it
🔻EVERYONE bloody well knows it

A mother elephant cuddles her baby.

From the Oregon Zoo:

Rose-Tu and baby Tula-Tu

Sarcasm and humor require intelligence.

Morons think literally.

Over the years I've probably rescued 200+ bugs from certain death. Now whenever I'm in trouble and there are bugs nearby, I call on the bugs for aid. Hasn't worked yet but when it does it's going to change the world forever

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Always be a Bruce.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. From Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

50-year-old Willie Mays makes a great running catch during the New York #Mets Old Timers Day Game at Shea Stadium! (1981) Happy Birthday In Heaven To "The Say Hey Kid"! #MLB #Baseball #Legend #LGM

“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.”

EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.

In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.

Kittens not guns…

You are the Morning…🌺

27 years ago today, Kerry Wood struck out 20 🔥

(📸: Cubs)

National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.

More firings at the National Cancer Institute, including the Cancer Information Service, “which provides answers to doctors and patients about cancer, and updates to databases summarizing cancer information for healthcare providers”.

I mean who needs it, right?

www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

Rewatching the Righteous Gemstones, but the French dub.

Why have the Trail of Tears Camps, the Japanese interment camps, and even the Mexican labor camps (filthy, and horrid) been so shamefully forgotten? Geez these United States have a disgraceful history and shuddering experience in detention of “others”.

With love in my heart for my grandchildren, One can only hope.