"Quiet, piggy," the president told a reporter who asked some good questions. Reminds me of the day Ed Koch ridiculed him for greedily seeking tax breaks: piggy, piggy, piggy!

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Not like the NY Post to try to defuse a sex scandal. They're much better at fanning one. nypost.com/cover/novemb...

Artists like Bono, Warhol, and Madonna sparked controversy in the 1980s for using religious images and motifs. Now, Paul Elie's new book recovers the artists' side of the story. @paulbmoses.bsky.social reviews 'The Last Supper' www.commonwealmagazine.org/saints-city

@ewtnews.bsky.social professes to offer "News from a true Catholic perspective" but this one-sided piece lamely defends the Trump immigration crackdown, ignoring the teachings of two popes as well as the reality of what's going on. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/267469/...

Geoff Bowser, my son-in-law, has done some very telling research on the propaganda art the US DOL has been posting on X.

With the NY Post is reporting that Eric Adams will pack the Rent Guidelines Board on his way out the door to deny Mamdani the ability to dictate a promised rent freeze, please note that my colleague @smaldo.bsky.social called this back in May.

As I read the the Pentagon press policy, it asserts that reporters lack the legal right to probe the government's secrets. It's twisted into an act of criminal solicitation. Chilling stuff. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"We are witnessing a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women." #CardinalMcElroy #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

If the president is going to be prosecutor-in-chief, shouldn't he have to follow federal court rules governing acceptable pretrial publicity? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

I think the Comey case will be dismissed for selective prosecution. It's rare but my hunch, based on observing various selective prosecution motions while a reporter in federal court, is that this one would be likely to succeed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Looks like the rare case that will be dismissed for selective prosecution. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

“As I write, my head is pounding from the cancer that is eating my skull. I am in extreme pain and have been for quite some time. Duwayne is all I have." Trump’s ICE Tries to Deport Man Caring for Terminally Ill Wife www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/22/d...

Jeffrey Stuart Falk, a Vietnam war-era conscientious objector, was one of the few to beat a federal criminal charge by arguing selective prosecution. But we may be seeing a lot more rulings like this if the DOJ follows Trump's orders. law.justia.com/cases/federa...

Interviewed a man ICE was able to keep in jail--despite a judge's orders to release him--under a federal reg so dubious that in the last 6 weeks alone, federal district judges have ruled 11 times that ICE had violated the Constitution through it.

Related Cos. is offering a job to Mayor Eric Adams to get him out of the mayoral race? I can't help noting the enormous tax breaks that company is getting from the city. www.thecity.nyc/2023/12/19/t...

The leader of this effort is an executive at Hudson Yards, which is heavily subsidized by the city and looking to expand. Anyone know what the candidates' views are on the expansion of Hudson Yards? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

You would think that the NYS Health Dept. would have updated info on its website about getting a COVID vaccination without having to go to New Jersey. But no. coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home

A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up, THE CITY has learned. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...

“Once Israeli leaders realized that they would face no consequences for killing Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the Arab world’s most prominent journalists, is it surprising they would conclude that they could get away with killing many more Palestinian journalists in Gaza?” — my latest @theguardian.com

It's hard to say anything original about Donald Trump at this point, but the Vatican official Antonio Spadaro, S.J. comes up with some interesting observations in this @commonweal.bsky.social piece. www.commonwealmagazine.org/donald-trump...

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

My latest piece for @commonweal.bsky.social: The crucial detail Rep. Jim Jordan leaves out in his crusade to persuade Catholics that the FBI is out to get them. Conservative media like EWTN and National Review do the same. www.commonwealmagazine.org/moses-fbi-ss...

Well this is insane

'Errors of Omission': A House committee report ignores the reason an SSPX priest was investigated. New reporting from @paulbmoses.bsky.social: www.commonwealmagazine.org/moses-fbi-ss...

Daniel Richman is right: AG Bondi is squandering DOJ credibility with judges, normally a big asset for prosecutors. Saw it when I covered Rudy Giuliani in the 1980s--but it took about 6 years. AG Bondi has managed to do much worse damage in 6 months. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

The city Board of Elections certified the results of a tightly contested Brooklyn Republican City Council primary Tuesday — and maintains that it had no choice but to count the ballots cast in the names of multiple dead people. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/30/b...

"Detention by any means": I observed immigration court hearings for months to see what evidence ICE actually had to detain people. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/28/i...

More to the point: House Republicans, who have long advocated for religious freedom as a foundational cause, are currently probing entire religious denominations. The reason: the lawmakers argue that by aiding migrants, faith groups "signal(ed)" to migrants that "they could expect such assistance."

With Bob Menendez now imprisoned on his corruption conviction, here is a rerun of my @commonweal.bsky.social article on him. Hard to understand how we got here. www.commonwealmagazine.org/bob-menendez...

If the Times is unhappy with the long-term direction NYC is going, maybe it should examine the impact of the paper's long-term withdrawal from covering city government. "NYers deserve better than the status quo." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

I spoke with the LA-area pastor who confronted masked men conducting an apparent immigration action on church property — men, she says, who said "the whole country is our property." DHS claims ICE wan't there — but I have video, and it may've still been a DHS team. religionnews.com/2025/06/13/i...

ABC suspended Chris Moran for posting that Trump and Stephen Miller thrive on hate. Maybe he should've just quoted Trump's own words, as Murrow did to McCarthy (at least in the play). I wrote a short history of Trump and hate in 2019 for Commonweal magazine : www.commonwealmagazine.org/history-hate

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“When I ask, what does it mean to be human? It's always myself as a human being that's asking. What is consciousness? It's my consciousness that’s asking...” —James Finley Turn towards life’s mysteries on "Turning to the Mystics" podcast from CAC. tinyurl.com/3dn2nhta

The hits just keep on coming for Leonard Leo

"Alongside revelation in sacred Scripture, there is a divine manifestation in the blaze of the sun and the fall of night (85)." #PopeFrancis #LaudatoSi #WeAreFrancis

"Cui bono?" Who benefits? A bishop's analysis of "mass deportation." www.commonwealmagazine.org/living-vein-...

NYU makes student commencement speakers clear their speeches beforehand with the administration? NYU? www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Another strong story from Pro Publica. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Check out our friend — and contributing writer — @paulbmoses.bsky.social on NY1 discussing the future of the Catholic Church under Pope Leo XIV with @errollouis.bsky.social! ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

What's next? I chatted with NY1's Errol Louis about that on the day Pope Leo XIV was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

I was surprised to see the NY Daily News criticize the state's expansive use of eminent domain; the News has always been pro-development, including its news coverage. Not stated, but the argument here applies well to the tax-abated NY Times Building. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/11/l...

New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.

Cardinal Müller won't persuade his colleagues to reverse the progress made under Pope Francis by being quoted like this in the NYT: “That is his style, to divide,” Cardinal Müller said on Thursday in his apartment. “All dictators are dividing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...

I don't think we have ever seen, in the DHS era, so many important internal documents published so quickly as we have since March 15. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... The press and the litigators are killing it.