Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Fantastic profile and discussion of our new book #ScienceUnderSiege by the great @willbunch.bsky.social!

My parents are exactly the same age as the Pope and grew up with immigrant parents/grandparents, attending parish schools in a small city dominated by immigrant communities. They were raised on a blend of post-WWII American optimism and Catholic social justice from the beginning.

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6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday. "Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

I'll always remember, during the Harris/Trump debate, someone naively (ignorantly?), arguing that they did not believe Project 2025 was a part of some "secret agenda" that Trump was going to implement when he was in office. Infuriating. There has never been anything secret about Project 2025...

As far as normalization efforts go, it’s hard to top Axios’ repeated framing of Trump’s actions as “accelerating a trend.”

This is absolutely horrific. To attack a synagogue and kill people, and that too on Yom Kippur. Vile and inexcusable.

Excellent that Judge Young's ruling has spurred journalists to dig into the trial transcripts. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

If you're a government employee and you want to talk, you can reach me at Vittoria89.82 on Signal. We can speak anonymously.

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

I do fault a young writer. Because there are other young writers who do not make this mistake, and I've been in the newsrooms and discussions where culture/ trend reporting/ social plan on letting them use this framing to make non affiliated creators fill in the gap

"I used to say the Army’s No. 1 job was segregation,” he added. “Winning the war was No. 2.” George Hardy, Tuskegee Airman Who Fought in Three Wars, Dies at 100. Hail and farewell. #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

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Most telehealth covered under Medicare is set to expire today. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Impactful news coming out of #Philly re PA 3rd Congressional district , via @jterruso.bsky.social : share.inquirer.com/FIuhgS

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George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

I listened and it was one of the most chilling conversations I’ve ever heard.

Such an interesting and tragic story. #History

It’s a constant reveal of his own bias and his stereotypes of other Americans

Ezra Klein is trying to make Coates accept a job of being an intermediary between him and people he doesn’t respect And it’s GROSS

This is the person gearing up to be in charge of US TikTok, if you want to know why I got that shit off of every device in my home.

An unprecedented meeting with unprecedented risks. Gift link: wapo.st/3IJUS2s

War-ravaged Portland

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

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What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like? From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans. grist.org/global-indig... #Law #Oceans #Climate #Legal #Indigenous #Seas #Mining

During Reconstruction, South Carolina congressman Robert Elliot put his own life at risk to enact measures to litigate & suppress Klan terrorism. He delivered a powerful speech in 1875 in support of the Civil Rights Act that banned discrimination in public transit, accommodations, & schools.

While the art at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation dazzles, culturati might be unaware that Dr. Barnes chartered the foundation as an educational institution. Happily, art critic Blake Gopnik’s new biography provides a much-needed account of the visionary collector.

Folks had no idea who owns their local TV stations - until large, faceless corporations, Sinclair and Nexstar, said they can't watch Jimmy Kimmel because of politics This is why they've been warning us: media consolidation is a threat to democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

We wrote about just this! buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

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A new trend or more of the same? After speaking to Trump voters in swing states, two things are clear: While national elites are spiraling, everyday Republicans are willing to reason away Trump's violations of free speech and absolve the president, again. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/maga-fr...

Lol AFT, AFL-CIO, and a journalism nonprofit (all DIS shareholders) are demanding the company to reveal docs related to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. Fun one.

Imagine one of those campus interruptions that the right denounced as an assault on free speech, only the president of the university personally set aside some seats so activists could heckle a conservative speaker. Also Yasmin Williams is a phenomenal talent and you should go see her live.

This will need a click on your phone! The Heart and Soul nebulae. A full framed widescale image as captured in a single session last night by the Dwarf3! 180 minutes of 60 second exposures (the best 132 of which were stacked) #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

anyone who tells you there are non-criminal reasons for accepting $50,000 in a pita pocket is probably: 1) a member of the Trump administration 2) a Supreme Court justice 3) effectively both ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

As more people cut cable cord and young viewers can't name a broadcast station if you put a gun to their head, I'm not sure it's wise for Sinclair and Nextstar to boycott tonight's return of Jimmy Kimmel Live! BUT his whole show is on YouTube, so viewers have options. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

Seattle's Cascade PBS announces it will layoff 17 people and end its longform, local online journalism after losing $3.5 million when the federal government ended funding for public media. DETAILS: https://loom.ly/NoNUcXk

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

Has anyone found this news reported in @nytimes.com or @washingtonpost.com ?

“Woman seated wearing a white cotton blouse and skirt with a dark fur stole around her shoulders” c. 1915 from the Missouri State Archives.