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!

Tomorrow we begin again. #blacksmoke

🎯

The doors just closed on the conclave, and my most sincere wish is that one of them has the spine to write a woman's name on the first ballot. Just putting it out there into the universe.

This. Universities are not businesses, and never have been. And when you try to run it like a business, you kill it. EVERY. TIME. Some of the downstream consequences are already apparent. But it will get worse.

Ever been invited on a podcast you love and felt right at home despite never having met the hosts? That's what I felt doing this: www.latinousa.org/2025/05/02/f... alongside Fernanda Echavarri and Antonia Cereijido.

After a week of Francis postmortems, I don't think I've heard anyone mention this change to official Church teaching on the permissibility of capital punishment. If we're not going to talk about ending the death penalty now, when we're all reflecting on what Francis tried to do, when will we?

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

The most brilliant and most generous professor I ever had the privilege to learn from. Never hit every belt loop. Blew you away with every lecture, but always made you feel like your work, your insights, were the most important thing he'd read.

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Cue Logan: you are not serious people. And I don't even love these people. But they are not serious people.

I will be on NY1 and Spectrum+ covering the pope's funeral until later today. "today"--it's 3am.

wait, weren't we supposed to report "anti-Christian bias?" and not only "liberal" Catholics should report this, but ALL CATHOLICS.

Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)

Francis a legend for blanking Rod Dreher, who believed that the Pope should have known him on sight.

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

As ever, Anthea is ON POINT here.

One of the longest-lasting impacts of Pope Francis' pontificate may be his appointment of more women than ever before to top Vatican positions. But he also disappointed some by putting off the question of allowing women to be ordained as clergy. For @reuters.com:

Acompañamiento.

This one. Not even satire, you know it's coming.

If you work at or attend a university this is extremely important!!

THIIIIISSSSSSS

Seeing a lot of "Francis didn't change official doctrine" (and also "Church teaching can't change"), and I want to remind everyone that the Catechism used to approve the death penalty "in cases of extreme gravity," but that changed in 2018. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Devastated for the church, even as I'm grateful for his life.

My entire experience with Costco is counter-evidence of this claim.

Another world is possible and some people are living into it already.

Tonight! @mollieoreilly.bsky.social will be in conversation with Cristina Lledo Gomez as a part of our 'Catholicism and Gender' series, in partnership with Fairfield University. Register here: events.fairfield.edu/event/cathol...

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler