If you can run an entire marathon while wearing an inflatable T-Rex costume, you can do anything—including propose to the woman of your dreams! After the London Marathon on April 22, 2018, one Cretaceous Period apex predator took the leap and got down on one knee!
H/T - Mashable, Twitter, @BBCGetInspired
Historically conservative Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami issued an official statement on Thursday, July 3, addressing immigration enforcement tactics employed by the administration of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump.
Posted on the Archdiocese's website, it was also shared on the Archbishop's personal X account.
This is a big deal. When large churches get involved is when social movements, like opposition to oppressive immigration enforcement, really take off. Statement by Archbishop Thomas Wenski on Immigration Enforcementwww.miamiarch.org/CatholicDioc...
[image or embed]
— Michael Froomkin (@mfroomkin.bsky.social) July 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Speaking to multiple local news outlets, Archbishop Wenski said:
"We all want to make America great again, but you're not going to make America great by making America mean."
You can watch his interview with CBS Miami here:
In his remarks to various outlets, he added concerns over the conditions the people abducted by ICE are being placed in.
"No matter how well secure you have the tents, in a strong storm I would think they would be hazardous. Plus the Everglades out there is very hot."
He also touched on the Trump administration's propaganda.
"It's unseemly to take pleasure in the suffering of others. We should not make fun of other people’s misery."
"To mock these people that are detained here is to forget, that they… have parents, mothers, fathers children, brothers and sister that are very distressed by people being detained here."
You can see his remarks to ABC Local 10 News here:
The Archbishop also cited the unnecessary cruelty against people who have peacefully contributed to American society for years.
"Well, the policy is broken. And unfortunately it’s breaking people, people that are–– have been here for many years, hard working people, many of whom have a quasi-legal status, and now the administration wants to take all that away and start deporting them and that ignores the contributions these people have made and continue to make to our American society."
"What makes it cruel right now is the arbitrariness of this push to deport more people that really have a stake, who've already been here, that put in sweat equity in staying here."
The Archbishop also spoke to NBC 6 South Florida.
In his written statement, Archbishop Wenski acknowledged that immigration reform is required, but it should:
"...enhance our immigration system, respect human dignity, and promote the common good."
He added:
"...as employers in the agricultural or services sectors of our economy can tell you, most immigrants are hardworking and honest and only want to build a hopeful future for themselves and their families."
"The US faces labor shortages in many industries, including healthcare, service, and agriculture. Removing immigrant workers will only exacerbate these shortages."
Archbishop Wenski—who is from Palm Beach, Florida, where transplanted New Yorker Trump's Mar-a-Lago is located—wrote:
"Rather than spending billions to deport people who are already contributing positively to our nation’s well-being, it would be more financially sensible and more morally acceptable for Congress, working with the Administration, to expand legal pathways for non-criminal migrants to adjust to a permanent legal status."
The 2010 appointee of Pope Benedict XVI then addressed what is happening in his backyard.
"As the new detention center at Dade-Collier Airport, also known as 'Alligator Alcatraz,' becomes operational, it seems necessary to take stock of recent developments in immigration enforcement and reiterate the need for more than enforcement-only measures."
"It is alarming to see enforcement tactics that treat all irregular immigrants [those not having permanent legal status] as dangerous criminals. Masked, heavily armed agents who do not identify themselves during enforcement activities are surprising - so is the apparent lack of due process in deportation proceedings in recent months."
The Archdiocese of Miami is condemning a controversial migrant detention facility in Florida [...] calling it 'unbecoming of public officials' and “corrosive of the common good.'"The last time Archbishop Thomas Wenski criticized the DeSantis administration they called him a liar.True story.
[image or embed]
— SFDB (@sfdb.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
He then called out the propaganda being produced and posted online by Donald Trump, the White House, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, other members of the Trump administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Archbishop Wenski wrote:
"Along these lines, much of the current rhetoric is obviously intentionally provocative."
"It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of 'alligators and pythons' at the Collier-Dade facility."
"Common decency requires that we remember the individuals being detained are fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of distressed relatives."
Republicans have used the detention center to fundraise by selling branded merchandise bearing its name.
Archbishop Wenski then called on the Christian nationalist-backed Trump administration to meet the detainees' spiritual needs.
"We wish to ensure that chaplains and pastoral ministers can serve those in custody, to their benefit and that of the staff."
Familiar with Florida, he brought up the reason the site is ill-advised and poorly planned.
"We also raise concerns about the isolation of the detention facility, which is far from medical care centers, and the precariousness of the temporary 'tent' structures in the Florida heat and summer thunderstorms, not to mention the challenge of safely protecting detainees in the event of a hurricane."
He ended with a call to prayer from "all people of goodwill."
"We call on all people of goodwill to pray for our government officials, for those in immigration custody and their families, for those who work in enforcement, and for justice for all in this nation, whose prosperity immigrants have always contributed to."
Archbishop Wenski doesn't stand alone in his criticism and condemnation of the Trump administration.
Archbishop Wenski is not even the only Catholic leader to call out the Trump administration's racist and xenophobic immigration policy.
Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez wrote in an OpEd for Angelus:
"The vast majority of 'illegal aliens' are good neighbors, hardworking men and women, people of faith; they are making important contributions to vital sectors of the American economy: agriculture, construction, hospitality, health care, and more. They are parents and grandparents, active in our communities, charities, and churches."
"But the current administration has offered no immigration policy beyond the stated goal of deporting thousands of people each day."
"This is not policy, it is punishment, and it can only result in cruel and arbitrary outcomes. Already we are hearing stories of innocent fathers and mothers being wrongly deported, with no recourse to appeal."
Archbishop Gomez added:
"This situation is not worthy of a great nation."
"A great nation can take the time and care to make distinctions and judge each case on its merits."
Before his death, Pope Francis also spoke out against the Trump administration's actions, stating:
"What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly."
Unfortunately, the Trump administration has proven impervious to calls to display common decency, empathy, or humanity.
South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace was widely mocked after she challenged California Governor Gavin Newsom to a debate—only for him to directly address her "Don't California My South Carolina' campaign with a list showing the stark differences between their two states.
Mace posted a video on X in which she extends a "FORMAL INVITATION" for Newsom to debate her "common sense policies," chiding him with the following message:
"He's [Newsom] challenging everybody to debate and he's too scared to hit the stage with me. We definitely don't want a California, South Carolina, and I hope like heck that he will accept my debate challenge."
"I love a good debate and I would love to take him and his hair gel on."
You can see her video below.
Newsom responded not long afterward with the following brutal list showing just how far California is ahead of Mace's own state:
"So you don't want: lower homicide rates, lower gun death rates, lower taxes for working families, lower maternal mortality rates, higher GDP, higher wages, higher life expectancy, free pre-kindergarten, free community college, free school meals, and total domination in every major industry."
He then made the following pointed remark mocking Mace for pushing transphobic legislation and for policing for transgender women in bathrooms:
"Time for a bathroom break, Nance."
You can see his post below.
Many applauded Newsom's response and criticized Mace themselves.
Newsom has not responded to Mace's debate offer.
He remains a major target for the Trump administration, which last month sent the National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles as part of its widespread immigration crackdown.
Newsom called President Donald Trump "real scum" while responding to reports about a federal immigration raid on a large cannabis farm in Southern California that prompted demonstrators to clash with ICE agents who sprayed tear gas in an effort to disperse them.
Workplaces have professional standards to maintain, or at least they should. While it's great to have fun in the office, there are some things that are appropriate during leisure time that aren't OK at work.
But some people never seem to get the memo.
Reddit user MommaOnHeels143 asked:
"What’s something a toxic coworker did that made the whole office go silent?"
"Coworker lost his elderly mom and dad in the same week, one expected soon anyway, one not so expected. Took a couple of weeks off compassionate leave to organise everything and grieve."
"The timing was horrendous for the team, but these things aren’t exactly scheduled in are they‽‽ Manager moaned but it is what it is, sorry for your loss and let us know if you need anything is the only correct response."
"On his return, toxic manager commented in his first meeting back to work that both parents going in the same week was convenient because he wouldn’t need more time off in the near future leaving us in the sh*t."
"This is the same manager who a few months later told an employee to maybe give up trying when she took a week off following her 3rd miscarriage. Moaning she had time off for the first 2."
"He was let go shortly after. Because this is just 2 examples of how toxic he was."
~ dcpb90
"Supervisor stormed into break room while everyone was having a 15 minute coffee break. Told everyone off for taking a break and talking too loudly."
"If that’s not bad enough, we had a part time/casual employee who would come in to do a specific task when needed. Sometimes she’d be there 2-3 days a week, sometimes we wouldn’t see her for a few weeks, all depending on demand."
"She showed up about 2 minutes before the boss came and freaked out. During the freak out the boss singled her out, saying that everyone had so much free time to take coffee breaks then we probably didn’t need her to come in on a casual basis and that she should look for another job."
"Everyone went silent/dispersed from the break room. A few minutes later the part time/casual lady held back tears as she went into his office to give him her time card for the previous week."
"No one was upset when that supervisor got transferred."
~ elasticball123
"A principal in my district will, as retaliation, move teachers at his elementary school from their preferred teaching position—the one they have all their practical experience and accrued resources in—to a position they are certificated to teach but have no practical experience in."
"It's not that the previous position no longer exists—he either hires a new teacher or 'rewards' a favored teacher by giving them the position (thereby ostracizing them from other staff)."
"He did it again this year."
"The same day the news went through the district, I got an email from a non-district, teacher-advocate publication titled, 'Why Do So Many Toxic Principals Fail Upward?' that talked about the phenomenon of principals and admin engaging in bullying, retaliation, and sexual harassment toward employees (and, in some cases, even students), only for them to be transferred elsewhere in the district when their behaviour grew so egregious it could no longer be ignored."
"Basically, the article said the same thing is happening in education that has happened in police departments and with countless other employers: the sector is responsible for investigating itself. There is no independent community investigatory panel they must submit concerns to."
"And, of course, for the management class, HR prefers transfers over accountability. A transfer is simple—move the offender to a different department, hope they're out of sight, out of mind."
"Accountability means paperwork as contracts are terminated, jobs are posted, and potential candidates are vetted and interviewed and eventually hired. Accountability means explanations to the public. Accountability means potential lawsuits."
"Accountability is expensive, time consuming, and embarrassing, especially the longer they turn a blind eye to the toxic asset."
"So toxic managers in every field fail upward because they suck so bad that nobody wants to work with them, but HR doesn't want the black eye that comes with admitting they hired and maintained a toxic asset."
~ CimoreneQueen
"I worked in corporate marketing/sales. We worked on commission based on marketing campaigns that we created."
"Last year we got a new boss who decided to 'restructure' our commission, effectively cutting our pay by about 25-30%. Morale became quite low."
"A month after this happened, she called us all into a meeting. She then showed us a chart for the past year where we had ALMOST TRIPLED PROFITS FOR THE COMPANY. This was met with stunned silence."
"'Hey guys,' she said, 'where’s the enthusiasm?! Aren’t you happy with these numbers?' Flat, dead silence. The outrage was palpable."
"I wanted to say something, as I’m sure others did, but I didn’t. I just found a different job a few months later."
"To be clear, the pay cut had not gone into effect yet at the time of the meeting—the charts reflected the past year. So we tripled profits for them and their reward was a pay cut."
"The pay cut did not influence the profits since it happened after. That profit was all us and our hard work."
"I worked for a company that brought in a new CTO. After a month or so he realized that because of a labour code loophole, we were getting 1.5x pay for working overtime, but the company only needed to pay us 1x."
"So he called a meeting and told us that 'to stay in line with the law' they were cutting OT pay."
"A month later he calls another meeting and with full sincerity, not a hint of understanding, asks the full room, 'Why is nobody working overtime anymore? Our ticket queues are a mess'."
~ shaidyn
"We were in the women’s bathroom in the morning and a co-worker walked in after extended maternity leave. Everyone greeted her and asked her how her baby was."
"She was smiling at first, but as soon as we mentioned her baby, her face fell, and she went a bit pale. She said it died."
"Before anyone could say anything, another woman right in front of her replied with, 'my baby is gorgeous, she’s just 4 months and she laughs beautifully'."
"The lady who lost her baby has a heart of gold, she put a smile on her face & started polite enquiries after the other woman’s baby."
"I on the other hand stood there at an utter loss for words."
~ mischiefkar28
"I started my career at a federal agency and worked with a guy who was extremely troubled and just weird as sh*t in general. He did all kinds of crazy stuff, but the thing that kind of shook the whole office was an email he sent out one morning."
"He was evidently dating another employee in a different division of the agency and they broke up, so he sent out this email to like 200 coworkers with the subject line: 'Please Respect Our Privacy'."
"He then rattled off like 3 pages of narrative explaining every detail of his relationship with this woman who broke up with him and it concluded with 'so we will no longer be getting married'."
"I will never forget the morning that email went out and the whole office went silent for like 5 minutes. No typing, no phone calls, no small talk, just a bunch of people trying to wrap their heads around what they just read."
"Nobody knew they were dating, nobody cared if they broke up, it was not ever going to become a topic of office conversation, until he brought it to everybody's attention in the weirdest way possible."
"Then, to make it worse, the woman found out and was like, 'Married? We went out like 5 times!'"
"So somehow this guy thought that casual dating was a guaranteed path to marriage and he had to announce to everybody that the marriage was off."
"So f*cking weird."
"He made a flippant comment about a coworker 'just being fat all along' instead of pregnant less than a month after she had a miscarriage. HR got involved."
~ JustCallMeJennifer
"The guy sent a racist joke by email and he used the company global address. That went to everyone in Ireland, UK, China, Africa, the EU, Canada, the US and Mexico."
~ Ewendmc
"This happened at my company too! Corporate deleted it very quickly, but most people had seen it."
"We don't have offices in Africa or Mexico, otherwise I might think we work for the same company."
"He was trying to send it to his friend and accidentally cc'd the corporate global distribution email address."
~ LiaLily
"A new hire at where I worked kept talking about how attractive his boss was. Dude, stop... Nah, kept bringing it up, randomly, for weeks."
"And then he just wasn't there anymore."
"Apparently he hit on her in front of some people and that was that. She was married too. The guy was an idiot."
~ summonsays
"One coworker's father had had a stroke. This happened on a Thursday when we were pretty busy."
"The next week, another coworker asked if the father was going to have a stroke EVERY Thursday as it was really disruptive to the workflow."
~ firelady1530
"At the first department meeting following my mother’s death, our boss read through the minutes from the last meeting."
Then she paused and added: 'Oh yeah: I almost forgot. Lisa’s mom died last week. OK. First agenda item?'.”
~ Seated_WallFly
"Usually at my work place, if a coworker's family member died, everyone was free to go to the funeral if they chose.…. Owner made this rule."
"We get a new department supervisor…"
"When my mom passed away, unbeknownst to me, he sent out an email to my coworkers stating that my mom’s funeral was going to be a family-only private affair."
"So none of my coworkers came to my mom’s funeral."
"Some of these people were very good friends of mine and I was very hurt by that. When I got back to work after a few days off, that’s when I found out our new supervisor had done this."
~ NotTheBadOne
"I was required to work a weekend (which was not normal for me) and got a call half-way through saying my father passed.
"When I told my coworkers I needed to leave, one of them mentioned they thought him dying was super 'convenient'. I couldn’t look at them the same way after."
~ befree01
"I was in a line in the cafeteria, and the lunch lady was chatting about her boyfriend as she was making my sandwich. She was talking about what a great guy he was, and how happy he made her."
"I said, 'I am really happy for you, and I really hope I can meet someone like that someday' and she said, 'You probably never will'."
"You could hear a pin drop in the line behind me. I ended up just leaving without my sandwich."
~ SueBeee
What's your toxic coworker story?
Conservative podcaster Andrew Schulz had social media users rolling their eyes after he criticized President Donald Trump, saying Trump is "doing the exact opposite" of everything he promised during his campaign, like stopping wars and shrinking spending.
Which begs the question: why tf did Schulz believe a word Trump said during his campaign, since he is a well-known serial liar and con man?
Speaking on his Flagrant podcast, Schulz said:
“Everything he campaigned on I believe he wanted to do, and now he’s doing the exact opposite thing of every single f*cking thing. There’ll be people that they’ll DM me like, ‘You see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this.’"
"I want him to stop the wars—he’s funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget—he’s increasing it. It’s like everything that he said he’s going to do — except sending immigrants back, and now he’s even flip-flopped on that — which I kind’ve like.”
“I already expect politicians to not do most of the s-–t they say. I don’t want to be too cynical, but now I’m getting to the point where it’s like, ‘Can they do anything?’”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
ANDREW SCHULZ: “I voted for none of this. Trump is doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for.”
[image or embed]
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Though Schulz maintained he is not naive, he seems to have forgotten that he played a significant role platforming Trump.
Trump appeared as a guest on the Flagrant podcast in October during his presidential campaign, an episode that racked up 9.6 million views and sparked backlash against Schulz, who was branded by some as “a right-wing MAGA lunatic.”
Speaking to The Daily Beast earlier this year, Schulz said he wrestled with the decision to have Trump on and give him a platform, but ultimately stood by the choice. He insisted the episode didn’t influence the election—though, as he put it, “it wouldn’t bother me” if people believed it did.
People didn't have much sympathy, noting that Schulz had for a long time ignored the trove of evidence showing that Trump—who infamously boasted about loving the "poorly educated"—was always lying to his base.
I mean this could have meant anything really
[image or embed]
— Not Sure (@snake-lloyd-wright.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
No, he voted for every bit of this.
— NoFortunateSon (@nofortunate.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Sorry bud. If you think that you didn’t vote for this, you weren’t paying attention and/or were misinformed. No one who was paying attention is surprised by what is happening.
— jlong03.bsky.social (@jlong03.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Trump is doing exactly what is written in Project 2025. You were warned America. April 2023 was when the Heritage Foundation published it. And nobody did anything to stop it.
— Chris Grumpy & Getting Grumpier (@fusewiretheloud.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
He voted for a liar, and now he’s surprised that the liar lied to him.
— gildygirl.bsky.social (@gildygirl.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
T did all those things the last time he had power, the only thing he DIDN'T do was "send immigrants back".So Schulz voted specifically FOR racism.
— Jean Paul Satire™ (@rickybrad.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
He said he was going to have mass deportations, so yeah, YOU VOTED FOR THIS.
— MikeBnTN (@mikebntn.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If only we had a 78 year history to evaluate Trump’s worthiness as a president. Hell even if we gave Trump a four year test run just to see if he would keep his promises as a president. We could call it like a first term or something. 🤔
— IBS Liberal (@sewagepoet.bsky.social) July 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Schulz later said that Trump supporters like Trump because “when you feel like the status quo will do nothing and change nothing, you have way more of a longer leash for the outsiders’ ideas than you do the status quo’s ideas."
He noted that not only has Trump not stopped wars—considering the tensions he's exacerbated between Iran and Israel—but he has also not released the infamous "Epstein files," which are said to contain detailed lists of some of the late financier, pedophile, and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's most high-profile enablers. In fact, Trump's DOJ recently concluded no such list exists, despite claiming the exact opposite just months ago.
Trump, who is widely believed to be on the list that has captured attention from left and right alike, deflected calls by his MAGA base to release the files, instead seeking to distract his followers by threatening to revoke the citizenship of comedian Rosie O'Donnell, with whom he's long feuded.
Imagine being on time for your flight, only for takeoff to be delayed while the plane sits on the tarmac, with temperatures inside the plane cabin climbing to 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
Due to sweltering heat and complications, TikToker @brigchicago and her fellow passengers waited for their flight to take off. Whie the flight attendants did what they could to keep everyone calm and patient, some found their comments to be disingenuous.
The TikToker captioned the video:
"POV: It's 130 degrees on the plane, and you're being told to meditate."
Speaking over the announcement system, the flight attendant reassured the passengers that they were "doing their best," and she encouraged them to stay calm and to "meditate."
The TikToker spun the camera around, revealing her shocked friend from across the aisle, fanning herself with paper and laughing hysterically, before turning the camera to herself as she covered her mouth with her hand in shock.
An older woman over her shoulder also looked shocked, as her mouth dropped open at the realization of what she had just heard.
You can watch the video here:
@brigchicago All of us with our little fans 😭😭 #fyp
Some were so shocked by the recommendation, TikToker @brigchicago shared a confirmation video.
@brigchicago Replying to @C_smithereens yes she really said meditate 😭story time coming soon… and somehow it got worse 💀
A TikToker later called meditation "crazy," to which TikToker @brigchicago showed people fanning themselves as "meditation."
@brigchicago Replying to @ki ✨ the most expensive hot yoga class I’ve ever taken😭😭
Some were concerned about the passengers being in that kind of heat for a prolonged amount time.
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
But there were some who empathized with the flight attendant and were certain that she was doing her best.
After all, the crazy temperature and weather were not the flight attendant's fault, and neither was the fact that the airplane had a prolonged delay on the hot tarmac. Rather, she was coming up with something to help pass the time and hopefully calm some people down, no matter how out-of-touch the recommendation seemed.
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
@brigchicago/TikTok
Traveling is already difficult enough without delays and record high temperatures, and it can only be worse to get on your plane on time, only for it to be delayed and for the temperature to keep rising while you wait to lift off.
All any of us can do is be as patient as we can, be kind to those around us, and take care of ourselves, especially in these record-breaking heat waves.
