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The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

It’s the best when this happens in the last 10 minutes of the day before bed

Pope Leo XIV today: "Brothers and sisters, those boats which hope to catch sight of a safe port, and those eyes filled with anguish and hope seeking to reach the shore, cannot and must not find the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination!"

Boo Baskets are so stupid. Kids are not supposed to receive a pre-made basket of Halloween gifts, they are supposed to beg strangers to give them candy while also lightly threatening them. It’s tradition.

It's always "These Jesuits" or "These nuns don't behave like I remember in school! They're a bunch of radicals now, not like the old days!"

and never

"There's a good chance as a high school student I wasn't paying very good attention and now I'm confused."

He’ll say nothing because he probably thinks he could be President one day 😂

Fwiw his time as Cardinal Archbishop will send soon. He’s 75 so his age-required resignation is with the Vatican and he will only continue until the Pope chooses his successor

"Protect Ya Nest" was right there...

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"

“Why did you have kids if you’re just going to complain about them” ok well I didn’t know they’d try to kill each other over who gets the green Play Doh

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME I had to listen to the SEC whine all offseason about 9-3 Bama not getting in to the playoff, only to have them get pushed around by 2-10 Florida State?

I paid more money to the government to tell everyone I don’t like taxes while I drive on roads paid for by taxes

The returns to schooling are higher now than they have ever been - at least according to causal estimates
Our (w/ Psacharopoulos) new working paper in Annenberg Institute's (Brown University) EdWorking Paper series: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

Me when I finally find a babysitter

I thought all the life saving assistance was suppose to continue 🙃

A couple days ago was the anniversary of the final RATM show at Madison Square Garden in 2022. In 1990 I was on tour with my band Lock Up playing a show on my birthday in rural Pennsylvania. There were zero people in attendance at the show. Literally ZERO.

The entirety of the 51st minute of the Amazon Prime broadcast of Spirit vs. Louisville in DC

Big shouts to @mikewattsonair.bsky.social and Lianne Sanderson for letting the crowd have that moment of airtime, however intentional or not it may have been

Happy feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola! @jesuitsglobal.bsky.social @jesuits.bsky.social

Elizabeth Weir (Torri Higginson) and Colonel Marshall Sumner (Robert Patrick) arrive in Atlantis.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to #StargateAtlantis! The show debuted with the 2-hour premiere "Rising" 21 years ago today. Were you watching?

www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/...

Seeing too many diff-in-diff reviews and and summary articles but not sure where to start? We propose a new way to synthesize this growing literature using a Review in Reviews approach.

Improving school leadership in Rwanda Can effective school leadership enhance high-stakes test scores in low-income countries? To address this question, we examine the short-term impact of…

Our @cgdev.org paper on @vvob.bsky.social school leader training in Rwanda 📚🇷🇼 is now out in the Journal of Development Economics, with Simeon Lauterbach, Jocelyn Kirezi, Aimable Nsabimana, & Jef Peeraer

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On Pentecost, Pope Leo calls for a church that “opens the borders between peoples and breaks down the barriers between class and race;” criticizes an “exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms.” 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Happy June 7 to all who celebrate! #ALLCAPS

YouTube video by NHL Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals lift the Stanley Cup!

It's officially June 7 here on the east coast, which means...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziez...

Respectfully, some of us in other fields are really going through hard times. So I’ve been accepting more random connection requests as small way to help others

Took a moment today in Dayton to visit “Holbrooke Plaza” which commentates the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, the singular role of the late Richard Holbrooke therein, but also the resilience of the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A modest space, rich in significance.

this is another example of the thing i was talking about in my last post - the idea that the ACA was "rammed through" got traction despite not having any basis in fact

I am gonna go out on a moral limb here and just say I don't think it's ok to "deport" people thousands of miles away to a barely functioning state not of their national origin ...