Amy Ferrell

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Love Does Not Abuse: The Parenting Philosophy of bell hooks It is my hope that more progressive activists and thinkers will reflect on parenting and child care just as hooks has.

“Every hierarchy, every abuse, every act of domination that seeks to justify or excuse itself appeals through analogy to the rule of adults over children.”

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Freida Parton “I want to clear something up. I didn't mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She's been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up. Your love truly makes a difference.”

Freida Parton says she did not mean to scare anyone when asking for prayers for her older sister, Dolly:

Colonial powers have always portrayed anti-colonial resistance as savagery, barbarism, and terrorism.

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’ Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

"Hitler sought a resurgence in traditional family values... Bringing back the patriarchal system destroyed during Weimar was one of the Nazi party's goals."

~Samantha Sullivan, "Germany's Children"

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Thanks, New Yorker

My two cents: Cry about that thing you’ve been telling yourself you shouldn’t be sad or mad about.

Quiet the voice saying, “You’re above feeling sad about THAT. Only petty people cry about that. Chin up. You wanted this.”

No sweetie. Your tears are valid. You’ll move mountains in your truth.

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

YES. At its deepest root, oppression is a matter of hiding from the truth.

Whatever the psychology is behind this tactic (satire I presume), it's working. It's all so absurd.

Lol @ the BlueSky moderation here. And by "lol" I mean "ignorant and enabling."

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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It is the honor of my lifetime to share that @universitypress.cambridge.org will publish the @lingsocam.bsky.social's new Journal of Black Language & Culture. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language & culture through a global, diasporic lens.

Bakhtin’s carnivalesque!

"Having a little sip of whiskey at the beginning of a talk is sometimes really, really good." ~Jane Goodall, March 2025, Netflix interview, Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall

Hey if you were raised evangelical or your parents used James Dobson parenting methods (corporal punishment for every act of willful defiance) then you might be struggling right now. It might feel terrifying, shameful, and hopeless to stand up to authoritarian rule. That's very much on purpose.

It has become clear to me that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency & bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.~James Hollis

My new @christiancentury.bsky.social article is a reminder that violent cultural imperialism and Christian mission has gone hand in hand throughout American (and not only American) history. www.christiancentury.org/features/yes...

A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore.

Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.

"The antidialogical individual, in his relations with others, aims at conquering them-increasingly and by every means, from the toughest to the most refined, from the most repressive to the most solicitous (paternalism)." ~Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Fascist Cringe: A Theory Why Pete Hegseth’s performance of shamelessly toxic masculinity rings so hollow

I have a theory that fascist cringe will be the enduring aesthetic legacy of the Trump era katemanne.substack.com/p/fascist-cr...

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

If you want to understand propaganda you have to realize that what we call "reality" is really just mutually agreed upon hallucinations. Our sense of reality is easily manipulated by the creation of intersubjective hallucinations. They create "truth" that serves the interests of the propagandists.

An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.