Yes Prayer in Schools No Prayer in Protests

I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

I did not criticize the administration. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I criticized the administration.

“Integralists for Joe Biden” was a good joke; “Integralists for Andrew Cuomo” is a better one.

Friendly reminder that we never know who’s sitting in our classrooms out here www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

Attendance has dropped at Chicago schools in communities with increased immigration enforcement. Chalkbeat reports: blockclubchi.co/43hlTBr

I wrote about the decline of inner life in the latest issue of @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/inner-life-t...

Lead with beauty!

Cuomo, ever so gracious

Cuomo still mispronounces the name of the guy who beat him twice

Why did the attacks on Mamdani’s socialism fail? A key reason: He made clear he was a “sewer socialist,” a forgotten American tradition created by left-wing mayors who asked to be judged not by theories but by whether they deliver public services effectively & fairly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

AOC should absolutely primary Schumer in ‘28.

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

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.

Some professional news! I have so much respect for their leadership and team and look forward to contributing to their excellent content.

This is such incredibly welcome news. @heidischlumpf.bsky.social is one of the most experienced Catholic journalists in the US with a deep perspective. Commonweal is the oldest and most thoughtful lay Catholic journal we have. Great things are coming. Ad multos annos.

Very happy to share the news that @heidischlumpf.bsky.social joins @commonweal.bsky.social today as senior correspondent. Welcome Heidi! We're thrilled to have her as a colleague. Read all about it here. www.commonwealmagazine.org/news/heidi-s...

Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration

Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights

Back in 2020, I profiled a random Long Island dad named Bill DeBlasio, who constantly received vicious hate mail intended for Bill de Blasio. This is the same guy who just pranked The Times of London into publishing anti-Zohran quotes from Mayor de Blasio. God, I miss MEL Magazine.

A conversation with Brandon Taylor about his new novel, "Minor Black Figures," and lots of Catholic stuff for @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/learning-zola

Great stuff from the writers you love in the Nov issue of @commonweal.bsky.social - @mollieoreilly.bsky.social on the perils of praising a senator's humane approach to immigration, @tonydomestico.bsky.social w/ an interview of Brandon Taylor & @alexwstern.bsky.social on our endangered inner life

It is astonishingly ugly. People I once thought were decent are spouting delusional, baseless, vile stuff about what they "know" Mamdani believes and about what he's going to do. In NYC, this has turned into a real "Well, now we all know who we are" election. There'll be no bridging that rift.

something new (and good) by @mollieoreilly.bsky.social for @commonweal.bsky.social

I'm going to keep saying this: I ❤️ Chicago The schools in my area are on soft lockdown because of ICE. A teacher posted in the neighborhood group for help at dismissal - and now there's 40 or so of us surrounding the school with whistles ready to make sure these kids make it home We keep us safe

Amid news of a $300 million WH ballroom, a widening wealth gap, & millions of dollars going to weaponry for ICE, Pope Leo's call to care for the poor provides a dose of moral clarity: the editors of @commonweal.bsky.social on an urgent exhortation www.commonwealmagazine.org/leo-dilexi-t...

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

Lucky to attend an IAF-sponsored mayoral forum on affordable housing at Queens College this afternoon. Cuomo: arrived late, preened, over-promised, left early Mamdani: arrived early, sat with the people, admitted challenges, stayed for closing prayer The people noticed www.amny.com/politics/nyc...

Calling Democrats "too woke" won't save the party. It just buys into a zero-sum Republican framing of the issue. Isabella Simon responds to Kenneth L. Woodward: www.commonwealmagazine.org/whos-really-...

Morning thought about last night’s debate: it’s astonishing how much Cuomo radiates that he doesn’t actually like NYC. Like he’s being forced to drag himself here and run for mayor.

Based on how many canvassers I see nearly every night and weekend, I won’t be surprised if he gets closer to 60% than 50%.

A pair of essential recommendations being made here by @mollieoreilly.bsky.social !

People of New York: join us @commonweal.bsky.social at KGB Bar on Tues 10/21 at 7:30 pm for a talk w Paul Elie @paulelie.bsky.social - author of The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex & Controversy in the '80s. And yes, it's as good as it sounds! RSVP: www.commonwealmagazine.org/crypto-relig...

Mamdani is persuading center-left doubters by making clear his goal is to deliver services to New Yorkers under stress, not to build some left-wing utopia. Welcome to the old American tradition of Sewer Socialism. My @nytimes.com column: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Wildly, this happened on Oct 15th, today, then calendar.eji.org/racial-injus... @jamellebouie.net

I'm really looking forward to talking with Paul Elie at KGB Bar next Tuesday!

men with guns and body armor are so very brave

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Like much of that this regime does, the murders of Venezuelan fishermen and boat passengers seem to be being conducted for the sake of making social media content that demonstrates Trump’s masculine dominance. So one way to describe them is as snuff films.

Amen for this beautiful Paul Baumann remembrance of a great soul and good friend, Pat Jordan. Deo gratias for your beautiful life, Pat, and every consolation to your family. @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/paul-baumann...

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social

Fellow New Yorkers and honorary NYers alike: please join me @commonweal.bsky.social at KGB Bar for a talk w author @paulelie.bsky.social about the confluence of religion, politics & art in '80s NYC - Tues 10/21! www.commonwealmagazine.org/crypto-relig...

Paul Lakeland's must-read review of John Gehring's book about Catholicism and Trump: www.commonwealmagazine.org/heavy-lift

"No university can present every possible outlook in equal measure, nor should it." thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/10/s...

I gotta say: the papacy of a Chicagoan with the cultural competency to comment firmly, yet carefully, on U.S. events has been a hell of a plot twist.