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18 years after 67 professors protested the planned visit of Pope Benedict XVI, that was ultimately cancelled, Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by the faculty at the Sapienza University of Rome with a standing ovation.


Something (obvious) I'm noticing about Pratt is that his campaign updates get coverage in non-political outlets, because he's TV famous already. Happens all the time w celebrity candidates, I remember seeing Inside Edition at GOP debates in 2015 bc Trump was good copy.



You would have been summarily fired for doing something like this in the Bush43 White House, and rightly so.

There are a great many laments over the death of book review sections in America. I share those. But it's time to talk solutions. @the_met_review reviews books regularly and is trying to fill the void. It can be done. Be part of the solution. metropolitanreview.org/p/reviews-can-…

SAVE THE WINE! In defense of taking booze from the WHCD.



He's right, from their point of view Silicon Valley might've swung the California Governorship from ultra-progressive billionaire Tom Steyer to Silicon Valley technocrat centrist Matt Mahan, but Brin's MAGA girlfriend got in the way x.com/mattyglesias/s…

A few days after Sergey Brin donated $1 million to boost Matt Mahan, Mahan blew up his schedule to meet with Brin and his girlfriend at Tahoe. Mahan took a private jet belonging to a different tech titan. The dinner did not go as Mahan expected — no new money came his way. A few days later, Brin's girlfriend was calling him "boring" with the "personality of a wooden spoon."







