By skyforbes 
Presidential bribes, Medicaid cuts, and distracting fluff stories
With the media floundering to keep pace with the unprecedented government crises and ethical affronts oozing from the White House, strange distractions have emerged as reprieves from the madness. Some of the fluff or less serious news is entertaining and some of it’s weird, but it’s all oddly connected to current political anxieties.
- Let’s not talk about the pope but his brother
- Don’t speculate on the health of this president but the last one and, for even more escapism,
- Lower the ethical bar for controversial but now dead baseball players (during baseball season when we could discuss actual, live baseball played by living humans)
The Views of Not the Pope
What the new pope’s brother thinks is not really a story. The brother seems to be right-leaning and even a “MAGA disciple,” according to The New York Times. He’s apparently toning down the rhetoric now that the his brother’s in the spotlight.
What Pope Leo XIV thinks is a story. In contrast to his brother, Leo promotes a more Christian view of treating people and the world, which checks out. He’s been emphasizing kindness in general and compassion in particular toward immigrants…