The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

A triathlon sounds so hard! What if I told you there was a "sprint" (short) distance? What if I told you there was a Super Sprint distance? And it was 1,000 women ages 11-82? Fundraising to support women and end racism? Ah! Now I have your attention! You can do it, too! 🏊‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️❤️ Stupid Nike. 😡

As someone who does the YW triathlon every year (and never ran more than 10mi), endurance sports need to be welcoming enough to grow, but they're obsessed with projecting a hardcore image. Focus on the first part!

Over the last two weeks I had three night meetings for a tough project at work, yesterday I gave a 3 hour presentation on a different project at work, and today I facilitated an hour long conversation at church. I'm wiped.

I admit we're bigger on the library than buying books. But we've bought from at least three different indies in the last year!

Fact: Prince was born five days before Paul Douglas

This is incredible. Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

i'm pretty sure this is the literal nightmare of every suburban republican

Just never forget that the Vatican — in addition to its obvious religious purpose — is, again, very much a political entity. Do you know of any other religious *entity* (as opposed to a state w/a religious affiliation) with UN observer status? No, because the only one that does is the Holy See.

The big upshot here is that you can’t assess the Pope Leo vs. Trump back-and-forth using a solely U.S.-centric political lens. But you also can’t assume the Vatican doesn’t have a ton of geopolitical/geotheological subtext undergirding all of this as well. Relatedly: hire more religion reporters.

Pansies Joseph Plaskett 1970

MSP Light rail riders: keep this link handy but hidden in the months-long Blue Line shutdown is that Green Line will not run downtown Mpls from end of June to end of July!

See, this is good. This is what I mean by a posting Great Silence.

Tonight I had a tough but fair meeting for work. I don't often ride at night (early riser, etc) but as I came down WRR I nearly gasped at this view I've seen hundreds of times. I love doing what I do and where I do it. (And I'm still so homesick for NE/SE 😭)

EXCLUSIVE: When ICE arrested a Connecticut high school student last week, it was trying to rearrest his father — a former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan who spent three months in ICE custody last year. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky

Wow! The Minneapolis speed cameras actually work... Now 👏 can 👏 we 👏 please 👏 do 👏 this 👏 everywhere!! lims.minneapolismn.gov/file/2026-00...

Six deer in the Bryn Mawr Meadows this year, double last year!

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

The most political thing you can do.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

im gbr its very funny seeing US evangelicals demand political neutrality from a CHURCH

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

Anyways, we had no sermon and consecrated wafers, finished in under 25 minutes! 😂

On vacation in Chicago I decided to go to an 8am service. The poor verger announced the substitute priest didn't arrive due to being stuck in traffic..I know Chicago traffic is bad but at 7am Sunday?? 😂😂 🕯️📕⚓

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Or, just hear me out: a policy preventing kids from making it to 4th grade unless you’re sure they’ll pass the test is going to make sure the 4th grade scores are good, but it doesn’t reflect any actual improvement in educational outcomes.

NEW from @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social and myself: In which we attempt to wade through the drama over reports of the Pentagon-Vatican meeting from January, which has triggered a flurry of statements and denials that, notably, do not *uniformly* dispute major claims. religionnews.com/2026/04/10/u...

I know we all love the flag that MN won't give back to VA. But I have a Black co-worker not from MN and they do a jump scare every time they see any iteration of that flag, and certainly had to read up on why we highlight that one in particular. I do love your skeets! Just won't repost.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Thread!

seems p. clear that Pierre called his boss the minute he got out of that Pentagon meeting and Leo DID NOT TAKE IT WELL because he - the only Pope in history who has ever been to a Fourth of July barbecue!!! - declined a direct invite from the White House to be a VIP guest at the America250 shindig

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

"Don't write your graduate thesis on religion and space" they said. "That's a ridiculous topic, and it's extremely niche, and you'll never use that knowledge in the real world" they said. HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW, HATERS?!

new mural going up on nicollet ave in whittier, minneapolis depicting alex pretti filming federal agents with his phone during operation metro surge before he was shot and killed, just 4 blocks south of here

June 2020, my dad was found by the side of a west metro bike trail. He has no memory of getting on his bike, what route he took, or how he crashed. Someone found him, called an ambulance, and he was taken to HCMC. Because that's where you go when that kind of thing happens to you. ❤️

“In a new study, Wrigley-Field and a team of researchers used machine learning to analyze death certificates from March 2020 to December 2021. They estimate that more than 155,000 COVID-19 deaths were missed, about 19% more than the official count.”

Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"? They were lying www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

Both on point and extremely metal.

Watching Connecticut NIMBYs contort themselves into arguments about why providing affordable housing isn’t in line with Christian ministry is extremely funny ctmirror.bluelena.io/lt.php?x=4lZ...

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and giving life to those in the tomb. The Sun of Righteousness is gloriously risen, giving light to those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free. He has destroyed it by enduring it. From an Easter homily by St. John Chrysostom, circa 400 A.D. Christ is risen!

Children's Vigil counts as vigil attendance! See you in the morning.

"Bridgerton B-plot" ☠️☠️☠️😂😂😂

Relatedly: Per Space dot com, the wakeup song for the astronauts aboard the Artemis II moon mission today was Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club".* Mission commander reportedly told mission control: "We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus." www.space.com/news/live/ar...

"Religious language is just a helpful vehicle for our underlying political project" is really not the win they think it is

This is the integralism I want (closing off major streets in the town of Sewanee for the Good Friday procession)

Every time I go to the MOA I have a deep, intense craving for a smoothie from the place that closed over 15 years ago.

Veiled for Good Friday 🙏