Henry B. Thomas

Pope on 60th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate: “We walk this journey not by compromising our beliefs, but by remaining true to our convictions. Authentic dialogue begins not in compromise but in conviction – in the deep roots of our own belief that gives us the strength to reach out to others in love.”

Pope Leo & ICE

Growing share of Americans say the U.S. higher education system is headed in the wrong direction In both parties, the share that say the higher education system is going in the wrong direction has gone up by at least 10 percentage points since 2020.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... #edusky #academicsky

UVA, Dartmouth Reject Trump Compact The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

FIVE out of NINE and counting ...

"The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

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#AcademicSky

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown University...
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Pope urges Italy to remain open to migrants during rite of passage visit to presidential palace Pope Leo XIV has thanked Italy for its efforts to combat human trafficking but urged the country to remain open to welcoming and integrating migrants.

Pope Leo...
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S. Koreans have developed an impressive lithium-ion battery sub fleet that offers speed, endurance, and durability.

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’

Peace Prize...
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Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know' - Vatican News Addressing a global network of leading news agencies, Pope Leo thanks reporters who every day work to share the truth, often risking their lives. It ...

Three cheers for Pope Leo...
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Pope Leo signs first exhortation, ‘Dilexi te,’ focused on love for the poor The document, which will be issued Oct. 9, can be seen as a companion document to “Dilexit nos,” the fourth and final encyclical issued by Pope Francis.

Dilexi te: I loved you...
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A reminder that proposals for municipal grocery stores in New York isn't some crackpot proposition - there are concrete instances of these initiatives providing food assistance to neglected communities throughout the country.

Private Equity’s New Playground: America’s Schools Under the guise of championing “school choice,” the new school voucher program will likely divert millions in taxpayer dollars to private equity firms.

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill is poised to accelerate the privatization of our schools — and private equity wants their piece.

My latest for
@levernews.com:

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Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks And China is gaining in the process

“The biggest winner from the new alliances may be China. Its exports to the global south have doubled since 2015—and it sells more to South and South-East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East than to America and western Europe.“
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ICE arrests superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools in Iowa | CNN The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools in Iowa was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Friday morning, according to a statement from the school district.

Iowa school superintendent arrested by ICE...
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YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Her Dad Being on Nixon’s Enemies List, the Elaine Dance & Meeting The Rizzler

Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Jimmy Kimmel...
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In Brazil, Romani people living in peripheral areas fight for recognition of their identities Brazilian Romani groups are fighting for recognition and for their rights, but prejudice continues to work against them

Brazilian Romani groups are fighting for recognition and for their rights, but prejudice continues to work against them

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Google Teases Android for PC to Converge Mobile and Desktop Experiences Qualcomm's 10th annual Snapdragon Summit kicked off yesterday in Hawaii, with CEO Cristiano Amon and Google's head of platforms and devices, Rick Osterloh, participating in the opening keynote. During...

Google...
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Pope on Gaza: ‘There is no future based on violence, forced exile, and vengeance' - Vatican News At the Sunday Angelus, Pope Leo thanks Catholic associations committed to solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip, and renews his heartfelt plea ...

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Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Russia and North Korea...
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Welp. 😬🇺🇸

Don't be chickenshit.

I read 1984.
And Fahrenheit 451.
And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale.
And The Giver.
And The Road.
And The Lottery.
And The Parable of the Sower.
And The Hunger Games.

I know what I’m seeing.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

It would be a 'big mistake' not to integrate Ukraine into EU defense architecture, Kubilius says "That would be a big mistake on our side, not to find the best way how we can integrate Ukrainian capabilities," Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defense Industry and Space, told the Ky...

⚡️It would be a 'big mistake' not to integrate Ukraine into EU defense architecture, Kubilius says.