Sure, I may be a no-good liberal Christian social justice warrior, but do *you* own a copy of BAPTIST DOCTRINES from 1884?

Yes, yes, the encyclical is fascinating and there’s much to discuss. But I’m still stuck on the part where the actual Pope reads his encyclical and he sounds like the guys scalping tickets outside Wrigley.

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

Now that he’s retired, Cardinal Dolan’s mask can come all the way off

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

As I told some people on the Hill recently, Trump is writing the Dems’ ads for them. He’s at -50 on handling prices, and 50% of persuadable voters say the economy/prices is their top issue, and they trust Dems by 10 on it (will likely increase with new data). This is a huge easy W for Dems

Dems are still favored to win the House. But we can't ignore or downplay how Republicans essentially won 10 seats IN A WEEK through gerrymandering, lawsuits, and judicial rulings. This isn't the kind of democracy we should be comfortable with. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Anyone else have a child who goes into an anxiety spiral every time something like hantavirus is in the news because the COVID experience looms over his childhood so much that now he’s terrified another global pandemic will crop up every 5 or 6 years? No? Just me? Cool, cool, cool.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

They’re not even trying to be Christian any more…

All I’m saying is that if you make Mother’s Day breakfast-in-bed but then leave her cast-iron griddle soaking in soapy water, you owe that woman a dozen presents. In addition to a new cast-iron griddle.

We are super post-racial. bsky.app/profile/alex...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

God this chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

In a complete coincidence, this group matches the same 6 justices who just weakened the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court's Republican supermajority, afraid of the blowback from declaring what remains of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, instead says only they know the one true way the Voting Rights Act can be constitutional, and nothing will ever meet their new standard.

Welp. Hello, permanent minority rule.

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

This’ll totally help with the Pope

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

I’m obviously not the conflicted voter target for this, but imo this pitch is pretty damn good

100%. They thought being anti-abortion gave them a free pass to do whatever they wanted on literally any other issue. And to be fair, the hierarchy let them get away with it for decades.

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Just learned Vance didn’t go through RCIA—the Catholic Church’s program of study for adult converts—which…tracks. Instead, he found a like-minded Dominican fresh from ordination to tutor him. Either Vance retained nothing or they didn’t linger on just war theory or subsidiarity or the Gospel itself

For all the bombastic God talk, the religious illiteracy of this administration is staggering.

I see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a response to Vance (and you, too, Mike Johnson, swerving way out of your lane). “When Pope Leo XIV speaks…he is not merely offering opinions on theology…” 🔥 www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

Just a few of the times U.S. Catholic leaders have singled out/threatened Catholic Democrats for taking public stances in conflict with Church teachings (usually abortion or LGBTQ issues), arguing that Catholic office holders have a particular responsibility to represent the faith accurately: 🧵

Another way of putting this is that the effort to reduce teen pregnancies is one of the most successful domestic policies in history, certainly of the last 30 years.

Is “Remedial Catechism” a thing? Asking for our vice president.

I’m neither a Catholic nor an apologist for the Church, but it was bananas for Trump to start this fight. The Church has survived two millennia of empires. And it will be here long after Trump is dust.

Hoping my beloved divinity school prof Msgr Bryan Hehir (85) makes it through this nonsense as well!

This is how my congresswoman gets treated by the Archbishop. www.foxnews.com/politics/san...

All I’m saying is that U.S. Catholic leaders have told Dems FOR DECADES that they may not call themselves “Catholic” if they’re a public figure who disagrees with church on key teachings. The idea being that if you’re prominent & Catholic, you have a special responsibility to represent. 🧵

Real emotional divide between those of us who watched the Challenger explode in real time and those of you who did not. Super excited for the safe return of the Artemis II crew. But a big no thank you on watching that live.

This stephen miller tweet aged like stephen miller.

In other news, Happy Publication Day to my hard-working husband, whose latest book is an incredibly smart work of reporting and analysis that will scare the bejeezus out of anyone with college-age children. Read it anyway.

If you’re not watching the Fab Five broadcast of the Michigan-Arizona game, what even are you doing? It’s chaotic and perfect. #GoBlue

Bears repeating that he is threatening Iran over something that wasn’t a problem until he bombed Iran. In this sense it’s very much like many other problems he’s promised to “fix” bsky.app/profile/pale...

When it comes to elite tastemaking, the Atlantic and the New York Times are unparalleled. That's why it's so concerning that both outlets are committed to an anti-trans political project. New, from @billiejsweeney.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

We had fifteen candidates on the ballot in this race. That’s bananas without ranked choice voting.

Ranked choice voting now, please.

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