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05/31/2026

BOYCOTTS WORK

Ms. Weiss, it doesn't matter how much you "streamline" 60 Minutes as a GOP tool. None of us are watching CBS anymore.

04/20/2026

Restaurant owners and associations have pushed back on the city’s phaseout of the subminimum wage, saying it will shrink their already tight profit margins.

04/20/2026

Pope Leo XIV and President Trump are trading jabs over the war in Iran. Leo says it's unjust. Trump says the pope is "weak."

It feels like a uniquely modern standoff – but popes and presidents (and kings, and emperors) have been squaring off for nearly a thousand years.

A few favorites we cover in our latest blog:

In 1077, Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV walked barefoot through a blizzard and stood outside a castle for three days waiting for Pope Gregory VII to lift his excommunication.

In 1809, Napoleon had Pope Pius VII arrested and held captive for five years. Pius still refused to fully submit. When Napoleon finally lost power, Pius went home a hero.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II told a crowd in Soviet-controlled Poland, "Do not be afraid." A decade later, the Iron Curtain was coming down.

The pope doesn't command armies, but history shows that moral authority has a way of outlasting the people who dismiss it.

So what do you think? Should religious leaders speak up when they disagree with world leaders, or is geopolitics outside their lane?

04/20/2026

Virginia High School Students Are Fixing Up Old Cars and Giving Them Away Free to Single Moms Who Need Them

At Louisa County High School near Richmond, Virginia, the auto shop class isn't just teaching kids how engines work.

A few times a year the garage door rolls up, a freshly repaired car sits inside with a big red bow on it, and a single mother who had no idea what was waiting for her walks in.

The program runs through a partnership with a nonprofit called Giving Words, founded by Eddie Brown and his wife Ginny after they both experienced life as single parents struggling to get around. Brown started fixing cars in his driveway. Then he figured out how to scale it.

"I could multiply what I was doing in my driveway by doing it in the school system," Brown said.

So far the program has donated more than 60 cars and repaired over 260.

The teacher leading the students, Shane Robertson, is a graduate of the same program. He knows exactly what a working car means to someone who doesn't have one.

"It's not just a car," Robertson said. "It's not just nuts and bolts. It's literally the difference between someone making it and someone not."

Jessica Rader, a single mother of three, received a 2007 Toyota Prius the students had rebuilt. Before that car she depended entirely on rides from family and friends. After it she went from part-time to full-time work and started making plans for college.

One of the students described the pressure of knowing a real family was counting on the work being done right.

"You have to make sure everything's torqued to spec so nothing falls apart."

This is the kind of story the internet was made for. Share it so more people know this program exists.

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