McElroy called on the Catholic Church to “embrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic and compassionate way the immigrants who are suffering so deeply because of the oppression they are facing.”

"...one woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the dead men said that her husband was a fisherman with four children who left one day for work and never came back." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

They’re right (Obama drove them insane) but for the wrong reasons (being black and defying their expectations of black people was unforgiveable) bsky.app/profile/smot...

It's not the job of intellectuals to do political strategy. They literally have political strategists for that. The job of intellectuals is to have the courage of their convictions and to think and write clearly about them.

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

literally replace every statue of treasonous losers with stanislav petrov

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

The reviews are in! Jeffrey Epstein Bad Pedophile is "half biopic, half true crime, and 100 percent dumb (complimentary)."

absolutely love this "I'm a dipshit in public" ritual

For those interested, my review of three (fairly) recent books on Roman emperors is out in @nybooks.com.

oh hell yeah, my students (all of whom are devoted to the socks-and-sandals life) will be reading this

New free post! Everyone should know about the Haitian Revolution - here are five resources for learning more or for classroom use 🗺️🗃️ #histodons www.liberatingnarratives.com/...

whole lotta people missing the point and criticizing williams, a brilliant musician, for playing at the kennedy center in the first place. she was explicit about why she was there: to support its union and workers. in her own words: www.youtube.com/live/Mqz9BRW...

Not covering trans issues like this is a choice, and one that could still be rectified at any time

new Big Apple Archbishop Daniel Flores here. seems like a significant upgrade:

Featuring Julie Flavell, Mary Beth Norton, @michaelhattem.bsky.social, and @frankcogliano.bsky.social Super voice work by @gracemallon.bsky.social, Amber Pelham, Evan McCormick, @aipsmith.bsky.social, @kreggallagher.bsky.social, and @johntrterry.bsky.social

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Bouie is a national treasure

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

not sure there's a better expression of contemporary mainline reactionary evangelicalism than this. the wheel, the stage, the suit...

JUSTINIAN, to Belisarius: "You're still trying to replace the province of Italia. I told you we can't do it. But we can rebuild it in the aggregate."

As a parent of an autistic child, I am so fucking tired of a segment of the population feeling it needs to “fix” my kid rather than work to make an even mildly accommodating world that appreciates the wonder of life in its tremendous range and diversity.

idolatry

The CDC shooting which was much bigger and more straightforwardly political, was completely gone from newspapers in 24 hours.

losing even a single disney adult feels like a sign of the times, my goodness

Apollo and Daphne, artist unknown, 1630-60

Yes Indya. Immediately putting this into a future slide

I think more of us should call things idolatrous more often

Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.

grading

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

not trying to traffic in nostalgia but there have been shining moments in the past in which truth spoke to power and we would do well to be inspired by them

just got to the part in the new turning point series on vietnam where LBJ called up the president of CBS to get morley safer fired for accurate reporting and he was refused. thinking about that for no reason whatsoever.

whipping up a tasty sandwich sauce to impress the new waifu

just finished ch 3 of @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social's _the ai con_ on the exploitation of human workers and if you don't come away from this understanding that big tech and their ai projects are a new form of colonialism, I don't know what else to tell you

just got to the part in the new turning point series on vietnam where LBJ called up the president of CBS to get morley safer fired for accurate reporting and he was refused. thinking about that for no reason whatsoever.

imo the only people who get to toss around "saxon" unproblematically are funny little folk who hunt for gold (this is a detectorists appreciation post)

Today is the feast day of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), here surrounded by plants & a mineral she touted as medical treatments, her invented alphabet & model of the universe. One of my most popular prints this year! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci #histmed Her writings preserve not only her own knowledge & 🧵

he'll only get my vote as a last resort but I broadly agree with this

I think it’s good that he’s entering the race and I know some people are naturally skeptical, but it took a lot of guts for him to get on stage at the DNC and call Trump a felonious thug. He should be given a chance to make his case.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

said "67 BC" in class today, was met with a chorus of "hahah six seven"

just an absurdly handsome man

The life and death of Charlie Kirk and the response to it is the fastest case study of the difference between history and memory that I have ever seen develop.

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

between this and all the half-mast flags I am feeling insane