05/09/2025 05:06 CDT/Online version

FIRST AMERICAN POPE EVER IS SELECTED; PIRRO REPLACES ED MARTIN AS NOMINEE FOR U.S. ATTORNEY IN WASHINGTON D.C.

TODAY’S TOP TEN

AMERICAN LIBERAL POPE SELECTED

FIRST AMERICAN POPE EVER SELECTED IN ROME, a former Chicagoan who will be called Pope Leo XIV. Just the News.

• Another leftist pontiff? Power Line.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT of Judge Jeanine Pirro to replace Ed Martin as nominee for U.S. Attorney, Washington D.C. The Last Refuge.

SMARTMATIC HID MEETING WITH DEM MEGADONOR Reid Hoffman who financed its lawsuits against conservatives. The Federalist.

FBI OPENS CASE AGAINST NEW YORK AG Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud. Legal Insurrection.

VIRGINIA, NEW JERSEY GUBERNATORIAL RACES show “leaning Democrat” trends in early polling. The Daily Signal.

BIDEN FAMILY IS GOING BROKE OUT of office and looking for other sources of income, Halperin says. Hot Air.

BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HE CAN ONLY “fight oligarchy” using private jets like the ones the oligarchy uses. Fox News.

12-FOOT STATUE OF OBESE BLACK WOMAN appears in Times Square, New York City. PJ Media.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS OFFERING minor irreversible hormone treatments without parental consent. Breitbart.

VIRGINIA’S DEMOCRAT GUBERNATORIAL candidate Spanberger swears off corporate money but all her top donors are big business insiders. Restoration News.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• Thom Tillis is wrong — it’s time to confirm Ed Martin. Miranda Devine.
• Time to bring the hammer down on every corrupt Soros prosecutor. New York Post.
• Antartica not cooperating with “climate change” hypesters. Issues & Insights.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Surveillance video shows prisoner escaping custody at Seattle airport. Jeremy Harris TV.
• NIH Director Bhattacharya: Restoring gain-of-function ban a “tremendous step forward.” Real Clear Politics.
• Ned Ryun: DC Swamp trying to cover up J6 Fedsurrection by denying Ed Martin. Real Clear Politics.

LATEST FIRST RIGHT PODCAST

• Host Hayden Ludwig interviews culture warrior Terry Schilling about American Principles Project’s fight to expose “Trans Inc.” Rumble.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• The destruction of Hitler’s Sixth Army. World History.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@sfmcguire79) Learn to weld. Philadelphia students are getting job offers before they graduate. “A decade ago, administrators often snubbed employers in the skilled trades who tried to get a table at a high school career fair…but with more high schools trying to give students alternatives to college…that attitude has changed.” Tweet.
• (@greglaurie) Don’t be known as someone who burns bridges; be known as someone who builds bridges. Don’t be known as someone who kicks others when they’re down; be known as someone who reaches out to people and pulls them back up again. Don’t denigrate and tear down one another. If you have something to say about someone, say it to them, not about them. Paul said, “Make every effort to keep yourselves united” (Ephesians 4:3 NLT). Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• BIDEN TURNED LAW ENFORCEMENT LOOSE on Americans engaged in “concerning non-criminal behavior,” unearthed memo shows. Just the News.

BONGINO REPORT TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• Conclave Elects Cardinal Robert Prevost As Pope - the First American Pope in History. BONGINO REPORT.

DOGE SAVINGS

• $165 billion. DOGE website.