As a Jesuit who will be single for life, I really enjoy when my long-time friends get married. It means that I can tell the same jokes and funny anecdotes I've been telling for years because they're new to their partner AND I can watch my older friend roll their eyes in exasperation.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

We are a worker advocacy organization dedicated to empowering workers against union-busting. laborlab.us/resources/

Your tax dollars 💵 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

This Day in Labor History: November 12, 1928. Workers for United Fruit in Ciénega, Colombia went on strike over the horrible conditions of their work and life. The response from United Fruit? Kill them.

It's fun when you tell yourself that you'll go to bed on time and then it's almost 2 AM. Doing final hardware installation, removal, and applying finish took a little longer than expected, but I finished this project just in time to drive it to DC Thursday after class.

Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night

Read this before we recycled it, and it is frustrating to see “wokeness ruined it” framing adopted uncritically with no attention to history or analysis of power 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

We're covering the Civil Rights Movement in class today. I realized most students have heard snippets of King's "I Have a Dream" but nothing from the other March on Washington speakers. So I want them to read those. Can you believe I haven't found a single digital transcript of the entire event?

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

In this case, the alleged problem -- men pretending to be women so they can dominate women's sports -- does not exist, and policies to prevent even any potential abuse of the system are already in place. This leaves the policy proponents actually want: banning trans people from public life.

“Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong-arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident, the current DHS official said.”

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

*Fighting Democrats win elections.* Democratic Party:

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

These passages come from the newsletter of Justin Kollar, an Urban Studies PhD who has a fuller grip on the data center boom than anybody I’ve read.

Pope Leo embraces Francis’ concerns on global warming and the environment religionnews.com/2025/10/07/p...

Remember three months ago, when we learned Trump was in the Epstein letters and wrote secret little notes to Epstein? And so to deny the connections between them, Trump sent a DOJ to make a deal with Maxwell, who helped Epstein run one of the world’s most notorious sex trafficking rings?

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

I’m not trying to be funny, but are there even 100 people that earnestly study AI?

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

"Repeal the 19th" was literally trending on X yesterday.

More info about Marta Leiva, the woman I witnessed being assaulted by plainclothed men in the SLC airport last week. She has a work permit legal through 2029, mom of 4 with sick kids: www.ksl.com/article/5139... You can donate to her gofundme for legal expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/apoya-madr...

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Me before the election: I love my candidate! I'm so excited to vote for them! As soon as they're elected:

It's hard to describe what a joy it is when a project is square. #woodworking

An important piece on unionization at Catholic institutions! goodfaithmedia.org/our-jesuit-a...

one good example of this was pretty recently when Ezra Klein adopted right wing criticism of a key broadband infrastructure program without pretty clearly not doing any original research into what he was complaining about

“Too many union leaders rely on staying in the good graces of Democratic Party leadership to maintain power because it’s easier than building enough muscle and engagement among rank-and-file members to enforce power in the old-fashioned way: through collective action.”

Conservatives spent the last few decades conjuring up a bogeyman of a communist takeover of the US government that would mean the incarceration of Christians and making practicing Christianity illegal, only to finally create their own version of such a bizarre fantasy.

Lex did such incredible work under extraordinarily difficult working conditions, and it’s an absolute outrage that this is happening to them and the other good folks who got got today

In the NFL, this would be a $17,000 to $31,000 fine. Kind of wild that something not allowed in a game is deemed acceptable by federal officials.

Well, I'll be . . . Amsterdamned!

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw: - Improved life expectancy - Lower chance of incarceration - Lowers chance of poverty - Lived in better neighborhoods - Higher human capital SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

We are told over and over that Mamdani's election would tell us nothing about the direction of U.S. politics. Yet, he would represent 10x the population of Hakeem Jeffries' district, who is constantly asked to tell us about the future of the Democratic Party.

I love what seems to be a staffer next to him and I'm wondering where one puts that on their CV for later campaign work...

The LLM economy is powered by two incestuous cycles: - A dozen AI companies pass the same billion dollars back and forth to make it look like their costs are actually revenue - AI-generated "knowledge" infiltrates our sources of truth, and is then scraped back into the training data

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

God damns attacking and oppressing immigrants. God damns taking food from the widow, the child, and those unable to work. God damns building palaces while communities go hungry. God damns pursuing wealth and power over and against the common good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Still recovering from being sick by breathing sawdust. Working on this dining cabinet for a good friend. Got the carcass all cut out and now I'll work on laying out the dowels and joinery. Made from solid cherry that was cut down to restore a natural prairie. #LaudatoSi #Jesuit #woodworking

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Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

“Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass and emailed and hand-delivered a second letter on Thursday. The request was denied,” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

“We're a small, rural, black community. We don’t have fancy lobbyists or billions of dollars," Greater Greener Gloster founder Krystal Martin said. "All we have is our truth and our stories and our testimony.”