Nancy Rourke (she/her)

Cruelty in the US is Unacceptable: How Might We Repair the Harms to the Vulnerable? | Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church It is with regret that I write another missive about the sad state of our union here in the United States. It was only this past December when I wrote about the dangers that another Trump presidency…

In the North American Forum, Mary Jo Iozzio summons readers to disrupt the “momentum of the Trump administration’s cruelty” in light of its latest developments. catholicethics.com/forum/cruelt...

Listen, everyone is going to put their heads down on their desks and close their eyes, and whoever broke this timeline can fix it, no questions asked.

You are going to achieve your PhD.

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde

Map Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative states shaded in blue West Coast Health Alliance states shaded in yellow Updated September 18, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.

For me it was Sneakers.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I see that the great American experiment has reached the part where the phrase “anti-fascist ideology“ is being used as a reasonable reference to something

While everyone is chattering about that guy, at least 5 (number keeps growing) HBCUs have received campus threats and had to go on lockdown today including one here in Louisiana. This is not ok.

John Shin, a well known and respected violinist from South Korea, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Utah for violin performance, was detained by ICE.

John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah.

He is being detained in Colorado.

Mary Robinson travels to Rafah Crossing and says Israel deliberately blocking Gaza aid Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has travelled to the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza, where she said Israel was deliberately blocking aid from entering the starving and war-ravaged Pal...

Former Irish president Mary Robinson has travelled to the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza:

“What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide.”

www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

Israeli forces kill more than 80 people across Gaza as starvation worsens Among the Palestinians killed are scores of aid seekers and eight who lost their lives due to hunger and malnutrition.

Among the Palestinians killed are scores of aid seekers and eight who lost their lives due to hunger and malnutrition.

Except… #NOAA

We're gonna need a bigger Hague

I'm 100% behind protestors everywhere against ICE, and so should you be and so should your elected officials and you should tell them that.

Army preparing for largest military parade on the capital’s streets in decades, featuring 7 million pounds of hardware | CNN Politics Millions of pounds of military hardware are expected to roll down the US capital’s streets in less than two weeks, fulfilling a dream of President Donald Trump but also sparking concerns about how the...

Wot. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

a cat sobbing holding up a cloud and rainbow that says 'unfortunately I do give a fuck.'

Artist: @gemmacorrell.bsky.social

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and people responded #cts2025ud #theology #conference #cts and a bunch more ideas were born

and the idea started taking shape #cts2025ud

We had an idea cts2025ud

Environmental justice matters.

Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments The move comes as the Trump administration has sought to ramp up deportations and revoke student visas as part of his hardline immigration agenda.

We the people of the United States are regressing as quickly as possible
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Climate and weather scientists are joining the anti-Trump resistance in the most ‘scientist-iest’ way | CNN In the face of steep funding cuts for climate and weather research and forecasting, scientists have found a new way of engaging the public.

and the humanities need to do this too www.cnn.com/scientists-r...

Tell me, what is it
that zucchini does for
Zucchini bread, hm?

DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS

Word on the street: Leo is a climate guy!

Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope