Amy Laura Hall

What did Pope Leo mean by ‘healthy secularism’? americamagazine.org/short-take/202…

@berlinerblau Reading this asap.

@berlinerblau Thank you.

@nerdosyndical Ugh. I suspected this might be true as I drove to the grocery store. I thought, dang it, these manosphere guys have taken a fashion tip from Eric Metaxas.

Sometimes this site is really confusing in a creepily specific way. For all the obviously tacky “manosphere” podcasts there are men with bow ties who type words like these. I’m a Methodist, so disavow the aristocracy, and, this take is bad. All before 9 am.

By this I mean the analysis is true. He did not technically call for physical death but rather spiritual death. So much fun parsing which Christians *really* want to kill other Christians and which ones only want their psychic humiliation, their noses figuratively shoved in dirt.

Yep. Technically true.

Must have a walk outside before I can deal with a careful take about who called for the death of whom.

It’s astounding how many people (including many Catholics) treat the question of whether the Iran war meets just war criteria as if the burden of proof were on the critics of the war rather than on the defenders. This is like saying that when deciding whether to execute someone, the burden of proof is on those who say that the condemned man is innocent, rather than on those who say he is guilty. Most would never take this insanely reckless attitude if the other party were in power, even if the issue were less momentous than war. For example, most of these same people (rightly) did not take this ridiculous “the burden of proof is on the critics” attitude where lockdowns were concerned. This alone shows how corrupted by partisanship and emotion their judgment on the war has become.

It would, in fact, be incoherent for a settler colony that has yet to acknowledge in full its own origins in vast dispossession and genocide to do this. That's no excuse but an explanation.

Yes, this is the bit that grates.

Why going to an HBCU might be better for Black students’ health A study found correlation between the environment and long-term wellness in sample of 1,978 who attended college between 1940-80 theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

“This institution doesn’t mind if you’re picked off one by one.” Professors at UNC schools say the new public syllabus policy will make them targets. #ncpol #nced #unc wunc.org/education/2026…

It’s better in a union!!

and Melania says she is Catholic

True to its propaganda mission of creating legitimacy for the hegemonic state, the mainstream corporate media fails to help Americans understand that in their individual family struggles to survive or just about make ends meet, they are not alone. commondreams.org/opinion/class-…

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declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

I have a new essay in @BostonReview, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition bostonreview.net/articles/hunte…