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Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale - Two months into his pontificate, a man named Robert Prevost picked up the phone from the Vatican and called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account.
The teller asked the standard security questions, and he answered every one of them. Then her screen flagged his file: any further changes had to be made in person, at the branch, with a photo ID.
Coming in person would not be possible, he told her, in the polite tone of a man who knew the answer before he asked the question. The teller apologized.
He paused, then asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?”
She hung up on him.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/would-it-matter-if-i-told-you-im
https://x.com/ChristopherHale/status/2052007283190583658

CNN @CNN - Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
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https://x.com/CNN/status/2052029282239565967

Colleen Coble @colleencoble - I don't get upset about much, but there's an issue going on in the publishing world that's very distressing. I keep seeing people tell writers not to use em dashes or ellipses because people will think their book was written by AI.
Here's the truth--54 of my books were stolen to train AI. Stolen books happened to most authors I know. We used those em dashes and ellipses FIRST. They are OUR tools and don't  belong to AI. Authors, use all the tools at your disposal and fight back!
I use Grok to research medical stuff, especially about my husband's cancer. I ask it things (anything you search on a search engine uses AI) but it never writes anything for me. Every em dash and ellipse in my books are put there by me and they will stay there.
There's a frenzy of AI accusations out there, but as readers, please don't join in on the witch hunt. Most of us are just using the writing tools they've always used.
https://x.com/colleencoble/status/2051790493005348872

Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug - THANK YOU GOD!
MY SON HAS ARRIVED HE IS DOING WONDERFUL RESTING WITH HIS MOTHER.
GOD IS GOOD THANK YOU GOD
https://x.com/ComfortablySmug/status/2051663862152269885

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Walter Isaacson on the late Ted Turner: "The most fearless journalist I've ever seen." RIP
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Biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on late Ted Turner & future of CNN: "When you have a founder like Ted, he was just the heart and soul of the place."
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2052244595983945804

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - House Oversight GOP Chair Comer on Commerce Secy. Lutnick's closed-door testimony on Jeffrey Epstein
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Q: "Do you feel like you got direct answers?"
.@RepJamesComer: "Yeah…[Lutnick] said that somehow Epstein found out that his family and friends were going to be vacationing in the Caribbean…He invited them to lunch, and they docked there, he thinks, for no more than 2 hours."
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2052152040864788666

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - House Oversight Democratic Rep. Ansari on Commerce Secy. Lutnick's closed-door testimony on Jeffrey Epstein
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.@RepYassAnsari: "Howard Lutnick is a pathological liar who is enabling the most egregious cover-up in American history."
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2052151960476762305
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