every headline is an onion headline

It begins.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

FINALLY.

Two headlines from last week tell an interesting story if you’re paying attention. 👀

Maybe that's all that we need Is to meet in the middle of impossibility We're standing at opposite poles Equal partners in a mystery

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

This is it. This is the take. 🎯

Doubling down on the crime line. I mean. Wow.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

"Surely, body cameras will fix this."

"In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it."

yes. More of this interpretation of the second commandment plz.

pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood

occurs to me that we might be getting the "there's a problem of lonely males with no friends or romantic partners" and "there's a lucrative industry of toxic male influencers who tell young men to act like assholes" causation arrow backwards

It would be heartening to hear prophetic teaching from U.S. bishops on issues like violent mistreatment of immigrants, extrajudicial murders in international waters, military support for genocide, etc. They have some great models of prophetic, saintly episcopal leadership. #USCCB #SaintOscarRomero

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

In 1920s, Pius XI explained how he had approached negotiations with Mussolini: "When it comes to saving souls, we feel the courage to negotiate even with the devil." In later years, Pius XI understood the cost of those negotiations. Some US bishops seems to have learned nothing.

If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.

BINGO! fanfics is spot-on.

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

You can't talk about a big tent party and do this too.

Bingo. Remember this, Catholics. Learn your American Catholic history.

I wrote an undergraduate senior thesis on this co-redemptrix movement in 1998. Who says undergraduate research isn't important ;)

Mollie, Susan, Rita, Heidi? DREAM TEAM of writers (to say nothing of Claudia, part of the dream team of editors). Catholic lay-led journalism that values women's voices and analysis is exactly what the church/world needs.

Social media amplifies our worst tendencies: bloodlust, baseless speculation, the hunger for vengeance. We were not made to see people repeatedly murdered on camera. We were not meant to read every person's unfiltered opinions. It is corrosive to the soul.

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

and three in some disciplines!

Thank you, @jackjenkins.me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social for this article. Bishops speaking freely & forcefully in defense of the vulnerable should be the norm, not the exception.

Departments should better track male versus female true workloads— including ALL service work—and make this info transparent.

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Never a bad day when I get to talk church with @mollieoreilly.bsky.social (my favorite interlocutor, like, ever) and @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social! Tune in for some thoughts on Pope BAAHB from ChicAAAHgow.

As I said on MSNBC, in 1960 white evangelical christians accused JFK that he would put the Pope over our Constitution. Today we have a new Pope who supports our Constitution more than our current President. And the white christians support this anti-constitutional President and attack the Pope.

Pope Bob-From-Chicago!

Everyone should listen to my friend Mollie preach. And support Catholic Women Preach! Because exposure to Catholicism shouldn't only come in one kind of voice.

Two women were lectors at the pope's first mass? 👀

omg @antheabutler.bsky.social !!!!!!!

on point.

In Lincoln Park: "He has eaten our dogs"

Whoever it was who posted that Woke Marxist Pope tracks onto Pink Pony Club has given me absolute brainrot, because I woke up singing it, thank you very much.

omg FLORA!

Derek Guy retweeting NCR, the pope retweeting NCR--why aren't YOU reading @ncronline.bsky.social ???

earworm alert.

DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS

POPE!