I watched The Death of Stalin for the first time, and one great line: "I've had nightmares that make more sense than this."

This is true. My first time as a reporter on the Hill, my editor hazed me by telling me to go ask Barney Frank his favorite movie. While he had a bill on the floor. He was enraged and said it was the dumbest q and I was an embarrassment to journalism. Lol

hahaha YES

Cassidy, a doctor, was an advocate for PEPFAR behind the scenes. His legacy, as a believer in vaccines, is also that he cast the tie breaking vote to confirm RFK Jr www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

I talked to Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol about the news that American doctor Peter Stafford has contracted the deadly virus. Writebol, along with other missionaries who contracted Ebola, participated in CDC research to help develop a cure www.christianitytoday.com/2026/05/amer...

Serge shares that one of its missionaries, Dr. Peter Stafford, contracted Ebola in DRC. He was working at a hospital at the center of the outbreak.

I have now lived in New York long enough to hear a pigeon snoring

Fox copy pasted my story, but hey, at least there's a citation www.foxnews.com/media/studen...

new from me - a new federal earnings test could crater religious studies programs: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/05/chri...

The administration is diverting PEPFAR funds to do the administrative wind-down of USAID. Also has withheld about $1.7b in PEPFAR funds www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2026/05/07/t...

Well deserved. Local journalism at its very best.

This morning I’m waiting to hear back from, no joke, three Philips on three different stories

Hi, are there pastors/nonprofit folks among my followers who would be willing to share with me your salary when you first got out of college? Email me at [email protected] I'm working on a story about lower-paying missional jobs, and can share more one-on-one!

in 2022 😵‍💫 after the attempted attacks on Nancy Pelosi and Brett Kavanaugh I wrote about the confusion of American Christians on political violence (and in 2022 we reported on Reformed Christians specifically, whom the WHCD shooter appears to be) www.christianitytoday.com/2022/11/prot...

A must-read for anyone interested in the fallout of PEPFAR upheaval. NYT reporting on the surge in serious HIV patients at a mission hospital in Zambia www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

this is the most American thing.

NY considering a ticker tape parade for the Artemis crew? Yes. I will contribute $5-10 for admin costs

a little surprised NY is the first to do this - not, for ex, the more historically anti-gambling states like Alabama www.wired.com/story/new-yo...

I was in Minnesota to report this story of a refugee who was arrested - and his friends who went to Texas to bring him home. Minnesotans! www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/ice-...

Lovely piece about the last members of an order that "staffed and in some cases founded 188 schools and colleges, plus missions reaching across two continents. They were, without fail, the ones who showed up." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

You know those secretly Christian coffee shops? My cousin came up with the best name for one: Origen Coffee

Important topic, but this mishmashes religious freedom concerns with actions that are fully constitutional and acceptable. HHS giving grants to faith-based addiction recovery is not some scary weird thing. The NYC government does that, etc etc www.wired.com/story/govern...

“The chief was beloved in many ways.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/n...

I love this honest account from two retirees about how they get sucked into hours on their phones “fix-it videos, rescue-dog accounts, road-rage incidents, segments of “Justified” episodes” www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

The Citi Field scoreboard showed the Artemis II astronauts returning safely to Earth tonight! 👏

The one last thing that X had going for it was its search function, and now that appears to be put in the blender as well

reminder: take a walk and look at trees today

This was illustrated with the QAnon response to Epstein stuff last year. Broader QAnon was furious with Trump for not following thru on promises to release files. Christian Qanon was still on board - they had faith Trump had a good reason.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Nathan Hansen, the newest immigration judge at Fort Snelling, has a long history of sharing far-right conspiracy theories online.

Tonight's view in Pittsburgh is extra beautiful 😍

One reason for journalists to be on BlueSky is that it’s the only social media platform I’m aware of that still doesn’t downrank links to news and other sites. The corporate socials all seem to have adopted a casino approach to their users: lure in with shiny objects and *never show them an exit.*

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

A new survey of Minneapolis residents on the aftermath of Operation Metro Surge. 38 percent who had encounters with immigration agents said agents “already had their guns drawn when they approached them"

May Wikipedia live long and prosper www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Update: Today, opt-in online pollster YouGov revealed that bogus respondents biased their 2024 religion survey. Based on this survey, Bible Society's 2025 The Quiet Revival report claimed a massive surge of churchgoing in England and Wales. The report has now been retracted.

Apart from the actual functionality, I don't think ICE in airports is gonna be the political dunk that Trump thinks it is. ICE interacting with civilians in public places has been bad

Great reporting from @danielsilliman.bsky.social - including body cam footage (released w permission of the parents) that is a useful and heartbreaking window into the process of trying to report abuse - roysreport.com/former-ligon...

Why we're here: Democrats refuse to fund Border Patrol and ICE w/o changes including an end to masks and requiring warrants signed by a judge before entering homes/biz. Republicans/WH refuse to add those 2 items, and have refused Dem offer to fund rest of DHS w/o more money for BP/ICE.

I listen to French news radio to try to keep some scraps of the language in my head and the top stories yesterday were: - Iran - Ukraine - local elections - Labubu movie

A Trump friend in a custody fight came up with a novel way to try to get his son back: He called ICE and told them his ex-girlfriend was in the country illegally. She has since been deported. By Megan Tuohy @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

can i get a "contract" on whether or not this will someday appear in a charging document

Good reporting as always from @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

a wild read - a Methodist pastor who took on management of Epstein's island *after* news broke about him. The quotes from the minister in here are something else www.umnews.org/en/news/prob...

Pope Leo tells journalists: “It is up to you to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a videogame.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Michael B Jordan confession: I have never cried harder in any movie or tv show than when Wallace died

It's something to step back and think that we started a war that creates refugees and have no refugee program to take anyone in. Seems like a first in many decades