John W. Martens

Health Experts Speak Out After RFK Jr. Eliminates $500 Million In mRNA Vaccine Contracts He is a danger to us all.

This man is a danger to us all.

The Promise and Praxis of Catholic Education: Hope for a Wounded and Divided World? Keynote Lecture of Rev. Dr. Stan Chu Ilo Podcast Episode · What Matters Most · 2025-08-08 · 1h 19m

Please listen to Stan Chu Ilo of DePaul’s center for global Catholicism on the hope of Catholic education for a broken and polarized world. Powerful and challenging. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

What the F are we doing, people????

I had reached that point a few months ago, but it will be sad not going to SBL/AAR for the first time in who knows how long.

This is as close as you get to an open announcement of genocidal intention, from a member of Netanyahu's cabinet.

Quick, someone Google "current NYC mayor" before hitting publish.

Does it put the NFL on the spot? Our inability to treat mental health problems? The ease with which people get firearms? The current mayor who was a cop?

Of course not.
Blame the Indian guy who is not mayor.

Dilexit Mundum: A Christian Education and the Love of the World: Keynote Lecture of Samuel Rocha Podcast Episode · What Matters Most · 2025-07-24 · 1h 28m

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Sam Rocha’s plenary lecture from the Promise of Christian Education conference presented by the Centre for Christian Engagement at St Mark’s College is now available on the podcast! Enjoy!

“Before the second Trump era, it would’ve been seen as a ridiculous violation of the First Amendment to have some kind of monitor making sure the media was being nice to the president.”

@gizmodo.com $PARA
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Infuriating and embarrassing.

💯 You deserve the second reviewer’s 💯 too.

"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”

The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Nun’s skeleton reveals that some ancient women were extreme hermits Self-tormenting practices were all the rage in ancient Byzantium, from wearing chains to living on top of small pillars—and women were just as hardcore as the men.

My latest for National Geographic about Byzantine female asceticism featuring the work of @ctschroeder.bsky.social, Christine Luckritz Marquis, and Caroline Walker Bynum.

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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

I'm sure most of you have seen this, but yeah, it's a bfd that it's coming from an Israeli, an IDF vet, a scholar of the Holocaust.

I hope it (and Haaretz' stellar work) begin to move parts of my community that haven't been willing to hear up until now.

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Bandit, from Jonny Quest!

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

I wonder how long there will be a Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

I'm having a really hard time processing the news about SCOTUS allowing this particular president to dismantle the D of Ed. Funding, school lunches, disability rights, civil rights and desegregation. We would not have even halfway decent public ed w/o the Dept

simplest explanation is that the court conservatives believe trump is sovereign and thus free of all limits on his authority

A screenshot of a message attributed to Marc Andreessen appears in a chat format with a gray background and white text bubbles. The first bubble states that he was born in 1971 in Iowa, raised in Wisconsin, and that his generation was told to endure discrimination as repayment for past American bigotry, even though the discrimination was now directed at them. The second bubble claims the last eight years, especially the summer of 2020, ended that complacency. The third bubble says “my people” are now furious and unwilling to tolerate it. The fourth bubble accuses universities of being central to a “counterattack,” alleging they both discriminate against “us” and spread the opposing worldview. The final bubble claims: “They declared war on 70% of the country and now they’re going to pay the price.”

Only in America could a white man with a current net worth of $2 billion see himself as part of a victimized group. 🤦‍♂️

... Even Beyond This Life What Racism, Lying and LBJ Can Teach us about Eternity

Kevin O'Brien has today's must-read: open.substack.com/pub/theatero...

@ktob.bsky.social

Veteran U.S. diplomats baffled after mass layoffs at State Department Current and former foreign service officers gathered outside federal buildings on Friday to "clap out" their colleagues who had been laid off.

Inhumane, degrading, idiotic mass firings of career diplomats is par for the course in Trumpworld
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The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’

Toxic Masculinity is OUT!
Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!

- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes

Yes! I loved it as a student and I have been doing it now for 30+ years and it is about engagement with the material and connection with the students.

This can’t be serious…unless they mean more vengeful and cruel?