This episode is great! These students are getting already truly getting the hang of reporting, writing, buildjng & presenting their own podcasts! #NYDOE #Education #PublicEducation #StandardizedTesting www.bellvoices.org/ps-weekly

The voice of “the Catholic Left” here: www.cnn.com/2014/01/22/o...

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Sure, but if he hasn’t kicked out all the bishops who cover up clergy child r^pe & sexual abuse, and the perpetrators themselves, who continue to abuse w/impunity all over the world, Pope Leo will probably leave JVee alone.

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime. No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

The trope that associates violent profiteering by elites and their henchmen with being “tough on crime” was pushed by both right wing and liberal media organizations for decades. It is one of the great achievements of modern propaganda to associate cruelty and domination and violence with “safety.”

Check out our report “Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.” ⬇️ Read results for your state. Teachers & teacher educators are engaging students in discussion of the report findings. #TeachTruth www.teachreconstructionreport.org

In face of ongoing white supremacist violence, voter suppression, & anti-history education EOs & laws, 250 U.S. history scholars signed a letter urging school districts to devote more time & resources to teaching the Reconstruction era. Read & share www.teachreconstructionreport.org/open-letter

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The use of the term “The Church” says a lot. #CatholicExceptionalism

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I certainly agree that Trump's comments about the Pope are shocking but if you listen to right-wing talk radio in a place like Philly - where there's a huge Venn overlap between conservatives and Catholics (think Santorum) - the callers and hosts are pretty much the same way about Francis and Leo

Sure, but if he hasn’t kicked out all the bishops who cover up clergy child r^pe & sexual abuse, and the perpetrators themselves, who continue to abuse w/impunity all over the world, Pope Leo will probably leave JVee alone.

While he’s at it, he could clean the house of Opus Dei and toss them too

Go, Tom! Bravo & thanks! x.com/acyn/status/...

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Please don’t use “unchristian” as an insult. Christian’s do not have a monopoly on goodness. Please! #Catholic & #Christian exceptionalism does not reflect Christ. It’s naked prejudice.

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1. Holy Thursday Thoughts on Eucharist open.substack.com/pub/indiethe...

Part 1, The USCCB's Public Relations Campaign: They Cannot Be Trusted. Don't Trust Them. open.substack.com/pub/indiethe...

two by Rosmarie Waldrop

Amazon wants all the control of an employer without any of the responsibility. It’s time to pass the Delivery Protection Act to say goodbye to Amazon’s union busting loopholes.

Re: Politics: Why can’t women run everything. I’m a realist. I know some won’t be good, but — Make an exception for Bernie & Zohran… y’all get the idea… maybe a few others.

On May 2nd, I'm hosting a one-day writing conference for memoirists at Rutgers! Our keynote speaker is Kimberlé Crenshaw and other guests include Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, Lauren Hough, Kelly Sundberg, Savala Nolan and Mary HK Choi. I hope you can make it! ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedispla...

The Catholic Hallow prayer/sleep/conversion app has very strong ties to #OpusDei. I’ve been researching & writing about this app since 2022. I’ve received some idiot crit for characterizing #Hallow as “a prayer/conversion/sleep app”. The beef is w/the “sleep” part. 1/

Everybody better read this terrifying thing. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Donald Trump is using foreign steel to build his gold-encrusted ballroom. It's a slap in the face to every American steelworker. "America First" was always just a slogan to Trump.

“His embrace may be a kiss of death for the Hungarian leader. Though MAGA supporters see Hungary as a conservative utopia, many Hungarians aren’t so happy for their country to play this role.” x.com/kenroth/stat...

Read this! by Christina Sharpe, Yale review: 1/ “Writers who try to do this work are told that our words don’t mat­ter. When we demand a ceasefire and an end to occupation, we are told that those words are meaningless, that they do not prompt action, and that they> yalereview.org/article/chri...

Just like this. You can keep it short and sweet if you’re not the chatty type.

Honored to have the support of @psc-cuny.org I will always defend academic freedom, fight for a New Deal for CUNY, and ensure our public universities are fully funded and accessible to working-class New Yorkers. Proud to stand with CUNY educators and staff.

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A landslide in Wisconsin will make it much harder for MAGA to steal elections

1/“Trump sat down, but not in his usual position at the head of the room’s mahogany conference table. Instead, the president took a seat on one side, facing the large screens mounted along the wall.> www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

#25Amendment #IranWar

“One of the more eyebrow-raising objects on display—next to a large plate embossed with a scene of a wife paddling her husband’s ass—is a copper aquamanile, a type of water jug that here is more like a small sculpture, in the shape of a woman riding a man. 1/ www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

New article by @katemanne.bsky.social just published! "Ordinary Cruelty: Explaining Misogyny without Dehumanization" The article argues misogynistic cruelty stems from moral vilification, entitlement, and devaluation rather than dehumanization, with broader implications for explaining cruelty.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/s...

ICE has detained over 6,200 children during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to recently released numbers analyzed by the Marshall Project. Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

1/ “In a sense, Hegseth’s spin is doing us a public service. By insisting Trump’s threat drove Iran to the table, it should force a reassessment of why the original talks fell apart, why we went to war in the first place, and what Trump’s vicious, sadistic bluster actually accomplished. >

I’d want to push him out.

If I was married to JD I'd want to jump out of an airplane too...

Sure Vance is a misogynist 🐷 who should have just married his sofa, but this is an unintelligible response to almost any question.

Israel is bad at Cease Fire.

“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network” emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...

I wrote about Jesus breaking down the gates of hell from the inside.

The collapsing of education, the disregard for proper journalism, & incursion of #Christian evangelization / #Christocentrism in the public square were well under way long before 2015-2016. t Rump could not have won w/o these.