Says it all.

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

Mo Gov. Kehoe insists he's "pro-life" even as he prepares to execute a prison pastor tonight (www.firstalert4.com/2025/10/14/m...). Kehoe also says he's Catholic, so words of Pope seem relevant: "Someone who says, 'I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty,' is not really pro-life."

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Aside, of course, from the Palestinian state, is there any player in this whole Middle East arrangement who hasn't bribed Trump, his family, or his aides and their family, or done psy-ops for Trump's campaigns? This is the art of the deal in the 21st century, post-democracy

We need work requirements for Congress.

I reread the Declaration of Independence Saturday & saw how the arguments against the tyranny of the king then are relevant today. I started to post on it but then thought, someone who knows what they're talking about should write an article about this. Guess who did this morning? Excellent read!

the gutting of the national center for health statistics should be considered its own five alarm fire

Murders per 100k residents: * Houston 19.0 * Dallas 16.6 * San Antonio 15.9 * Ft. Worth 10.8 * NYC 4.6

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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

also "retribution" implies he was wronged in some way by the people he's persecuting, subtly justifying what he's doing. bsky.app/profile/reun...

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

In Chicago, a federal government that is supposed to protect us has decided to terrorize us instead with an armed force of masked thugs.

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

The perennial problem with Trump these days is it's hard to tell if he's speaking from dementia or just lying again. I think that's one reason the press doesn't know how to cover it. It's unclear if he's really this deluded/forgetful, or if he's just lying. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Um… isn’t this the sorta thing a judge shouldn’t have to order?

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I frequently call the GOP a “lie-based” political party. The lie changes minute to minute. But the lying is utterly, dreadfully consistent.

The best team goal ever in the Europa League

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security. www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

Sounds like Jesus of Nazareth: " The...preferential option for the poor has existed from the start, is non-negotiable & is the very essence of what it means to be Christian. apnews.com/article/vati...  Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

“ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police,” he... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton. In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

As Iago (of all people) pointed out: “You shall mark many a duteous and knee-crooking knave that (doting on his own obsequious bondage) wears out his time much like his master’s ass for naught but provender, and when he’s old, cashiered.”

"We took the freedom of speech away." - Donald Trump, 10/8/25

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

"The U.S. economy is very close to falling into a damaging contraction — and many states are already experiencing a recession, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.: www.marketwatch.com/story/are-we...

“Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire,” @jackjenkins.me reports. “We could hear them laughing,” Rev. Black said: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Manchester City Breakdown ⚫️ Bees Buildup Problems 🟡 Out-of-possession setup ⚫️ Stats Analysis

"Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that Trump’s immigration enforcement is destroying the agricultural sector and threatening food security, or they are pretending this threat is real in order to crush wages for both foreign and domestic agricultural workers."

So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

After a long break, I finally wrote another blog post on Howard Thurman and the Quest for Community, this time on chapter 5 which starts explorations of the prodigal son parable and Thurman's insights abut it: parablesreception.blogspot.com/2025/10/howa...

New from @thevcs.bsky.social - Bible and Art Daily will take you on a series of journeys through the world of Scripture and the history of art. Watch the exclusive preview by @benquash.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/shorts/Mpy9w...

No troops, or no deal to reopen the government With masked goons running wild in Chicago and the president murdering people on boats, Democrats must seize the shutdown crisis as an opportunity to wage the fight against fascism we need to happen NOW My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...