I'm thrilled that my novel has been awarded Second Place in CRAFT's 2025 First Chapters Contest! I'm honored by this recognition and look forward to the publication of my novel excerpt in CRAFT this December. Stay tuned! ✨ www.craftliterary.com/craft-first-...

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

Today, I asked my college students what year 9/11 happened & who was president at that time. Most of my class didn't know the answer to either question. I'm finally convinced that "common knowledge" no longer exists.

HOLD THE LINE, BRAVE SILWA. LET YOUR HATRED PIERCE THE HIDE OF THAT PRIDEFUL BEAST KNOWN AS ANDREW CUOMO!

My short story "The Great Renunciation" continues on this wheel of existence! 🪷 American Literary Review nominated "The Great Renunciation" for Orison Books' Best Spiritual Literature anthology! My story was also nominated for Best of the Net. Read here: americanliteraryreview.com/2025/04/03/l...

I'm excited to have a short creative nonfiction piece in the latest issue of carte blanche. ✨ Merci beaucoup à carte blanch for choosing this piece, and please check out this wonderful new issue/literary magazine out of Montréal! carteblanchemagazine.com/issue-52/bar...

Thank you so much, Hayden's Ferry, for the Best of the Net nomination! You can read my short story "Reputations" here: haydensferryreview.com/lauren-barbato When I first conceived this story, I was thinking about survivor narratives, the shifting politics of victimhood, and the role of the accused.

I'm so happy that American Literary Review nominated my short story, "The Great Renunciation," for the Best of the Net Anthology! You can read the story here: americanliteraryreview.com/2025/04/03/l...

Beyond the false claims linking Tylenol to autism, it is especially gross to see extremely wealthy men shaming women for not ‘toughing it out’ during pregnancy.

We also really need to start qualifying the term "Christian" and stop using it as an umbrella term assuming a unified belief system or sociocultural stance. (Looking at you, mainstream media.)

As a religion scholar (w/ a focus on Catholic history), it's mind-numbing to see the Catholic hierarchy fall under the spell of Technocratic Evangelicalism. Once upon a time, JFK was the model for U.S. civil religion. Father Ted Hesburgh exemplified liberal Catholicism & free speech. What a time.

creating AI slop of Charlie Kirk arguing in favor of progressive causes until conservatives get confused

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

“But Charlie [Kirk] also advanced another really important idea. And that is that he loved the people on the other side of that table” Here’s Charlie Kirk questioning whether Kamala Harris was Black and calling for Joe Biden to be executed Some people have a very different idea of what love means

Necropolitics: the culture of life has embraced the culture of death.

Did any of these people actually read or listen to what Kirk actually said or did? I don’t know how you can portray someone who created a “professor watchlist” as a free speech champion or how someone who said vile things about minorities and immigrants was being civil.

A montage of Charlie Kirk: Roll that footage…

"Charlie Kirk died as he lived: propagating hateful myths about marginalized groups in our society. He was both a profiteer and architect of America’s increasingly violent culture war. He spent his entire adult life pouring fuel on the fire. You reap what you sow." To Hell With Charlie Kirk

Opposing political violence requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s death. Opposing political violence also requires that we condemn Charlie Kirk’s life. Charlie Kirk spent his life encouraging his allies on the far-right to think violence was legitimate and concerns about it were fake.

As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”

He was a very talented shitposter who was adept at creating selectively edited, “own the college kid libs” content that made his boomer billionaire funders and MAGA Republicans happy. That’s what his fans admired him for. There’s no need to pretend like he was something other than what he was.

MSM is showing its whole ass right now. They know Kirk wasn’t a good dude, yet they’re bending over backwards to sanitize him, leaving out his entire racist and white nationalist record. Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.

While both men and women are struggling in Trump’s economy, women—especially young women—are bearing the brunt of rising costs, growing debt and dwindling faith in the American Dream.

The Heritage Foundation is hyping the Catholic-based "restorative reproductive medicine" as an "ethical" alternative to IVF. In reality, it’s just standard fertility care repackaged to advance a pro-natalist agenda. #reproductiverights #Catholic #Project2025 msmagazine.com/2025/09/03/t...

This is terrific factual reporting on lies of Republican HHS Secretary RFL Jr. Maybe some other journos can follow the AP's example. RFK's plans -with no real pushback from the GOP - will kill America's children; we need to get the word out.

A religiously inspired fertility approach is gaining traction just as Trump abandons his campaign promise to expand in vitro fertilization access.

Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM) is being promoted as a new "alternative" to IVF—but this medicine actually has roots in Catholic bioethics. For @msmagazine.com I explored the ideology behind RRM & its growing influence on fertility medicine & policy. #reproductivejustice #Catholic #IVF

In this new essay for Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social, I respond to the widely contested EPPC report on #mifepristone & explore how Catholic medicine has both fueled and resisted disinformation over the last century—particularly around #abortion. nursingclio.org/2025/06/19/s...

#a_short_story_per_day 23rd December 2023 The One About the Dead Man in Laurel Canyon by Lauren Barbato literarybohemian.com/postcard-pro...

“With its new paper, EPPC builds upon the most recent campaign against mifepristone, using pseudoscientific methods to influence public health policy” — writes @laurenbarbato.bsky.social in our first CLIO E.R. essay nursingclio.org/2025/06/19/s...

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.