David Gibson

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Deplorable. Once upon a time, if a president had use a speech to a military academy for partisan purposes, it would be considered a disgrace by both parties.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

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/5 Look at Vance, or Yarvin, or Miller, or any of these true believers and see how unhappy they are in their own skin, how they ooze resentment towards the world that finds them strange and creepy and doesn’t want to sit with them at lunch.

Sarah Mullally named the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leader of the Church of England.

Sarah Mullally has been named the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman chosen to lead the world's 85 million Anglicans.

File photo shows then Bishop of London Sarah Mullally giving a speech during the Lord Mayor's Banquet at the Guildhall in central London on December 2, 2024

Sarah Mullally was on Friday named the new Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England -- which can trace its origins to the Roman empire -- and the global Anglican community ➡️ u.afp.com/Sm3m

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Gary Larson cartoon about Jane Goodall

The Jane Goodall Institute threatened to sue Gary Larson over this cartoon.

Goodall told them not to be so stupid, sold it on a tshirt, and wrote the introduction to The Far Side Gallery 5. Absolute legend.

My question: Was Cardinal Prevost elected despite his American identity--or because of it?

My closing argument:

Grateful to be part of a forum in the Fall issue of the Journal of American Catholic Studies on Pope Leo XIV, "An American Pope."
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As deportation terror mounts, Cardinal McElroy asks U.S. Catholics, ‘Who is your neighbor?’ Cardinal McElroy charged that the nation has been experiencing “a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women” and to make life unbearable fo...

Cardinal McElroy charged that the nation has been experiencing “a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women” and to make life unbearable for undocumented immigrants. www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

From the homily of Cardinal Robert McElroy delivered in Washington this afternoon: adw.org/news/wdmr-ho...

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

FAFO Sunday at Mass:

Black pastors say Charlie Kirk is not a martyr, while decrying racism and political violence From the pulpits of Black churches, pastors used their sermons to denounce what they called hateful rhetoric from Kirk that runs counter to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Gospel.

Excellent @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy reporting on the *other* American Christianity's reaction to the canonization of Charlie Kirk:

Black pastors say Charlie Kirk is not a martyr, while decrying racism and political violence religionnews.com/2025/09/25/b...

Well done

NYT focus group with young Republicans: Do you think JD Vance would1 be a good next leader of the party? 1 person raised a hand.

L, and might I add, MAO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No mention of the CDC shooting. No mention of burning down the PA governor's home. No mention the Colorado school shooter apparently expressed neo-Nazi views. They included Luigi as getting "leftist" support when his support was bipartisan b/c every american has been screwed by health insurance

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Take a break from the madness. Come out for a free talk, free book (while supplies last!), and book signing with Blair Braverman. Lincoln Center, NYC. In person, insights, inspiration. And adorable sled dogs tales.

Trump is doing diplomacy in the right way….

Are these our only choices?

Democrats Don’t Seem Willing to Follow Their Own Advice Party leaders know they need to moderate on cultural issues to win back working-class voters—so why don’t they?

“Countless Democrats are barnstorming the country and the media, stressing the need to broaden their party’s appeal and reach voters where they are,” Marc Novicoff writes. “But they have yet to prove that they’re willing to do what it takes”:

My @commonweal.bsky.social review of Mark Massa SJ’s Catholic Fundamentalism book gets at some of the issues raised by Dolan’s recent comments: www.commonwealmagazine.org/rober-cathol...