Pope Leo says many “hidden” poems are written daily “not with words but...with kindness", which only God can completely read. #thisweekthosebooks on a novel about a new pope & the church’s “real battleground...secret landscape of the individual spirit” thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-s...
As Pope Leo's 4-nation tour of #Africa ends, #thisweekthosebooks offers context via @medium.com from 2 relevant reads:
A leading historian picks 10 popes over two millennia.
A bestseller on a new pope with an idealistic agenda.
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Pope Leo ends his tour of Africa in Equatorial Guinea, meeting its 83-year-old leader, the continent’s longest-serving president. Which popes navigated change well? #thisweekthosebooks has context from Eamon Duffy’s book on the 10 who shook the world thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-s...
Is Chicago-born #Pope Leo now the most prominent American voice of moral authority? #thisweekthosebooks offers context on how some popes throughout history have gone beyond the traditional remit of leading the Catholic church to playing a temporal role thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/pope-leo-s...
Is Chicago-born #Pope Leo now the most prominent American voice of moral authority? #thisweekthosebooks offers context on how some popes throughout history have gone beyond the traditional remit of leading the Catholic church to playing a temporal role. Free to read
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Again — Communication increases understanding while decreasing frustration. I like knowing what’s happening and what we’re working toward
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Troubling story by @nicdawes.bsky.social in @codastory.com on Peter Thiel's new 'AI tribunal', which will be "a team of intelligence and law enforcement veterans" who will make "it much, much cheaper to indulge in the quasi legal harassment of journalists".
Via @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of @millmedia.bsky.social & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of @zetland.dk #ijf26 open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...
Via @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of Zetland. #ijf26 open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...
Via @nikatalbot.bsky.social: “How can you not be romantic about #journalism?” A question (and manifesto of sorts) from @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media & @leakorsgaard.bsky.social of Zetland open.substack.com/pub/nikatalb...
via @timesofindianews.bsky.social : The spectacular defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is a sign of European publics’ disenchantment with the #Trump gospel of militant Christian nationalism. The EU establishment still won't abandon its mad, uncrowned king
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Courtesy @sarayasin.bsky.social 's The Key, Huda Fakhreddine's moving reflection on her family home in south #Lebanon, along with fragments of her father's evocative poetry. "This is us, again and again./ We resist. We take refuge in the storm that is to come." www.thekeymagazine.com/p/huda-fakhr...
@muckrack.com quotes @semafor.com: “Media newsletter recapping media newsletters acknowledges errors recapping media newsletters.” It's about One Sheet, launched by @mediaite.com, which had “[a] series of mishaps...including misattributed information & made-up quotes", perhaps because of #AI use
“Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?” —Neurologist Steve Polyak, quoted by @mikereilley.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/journali...
@edwardluce.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com : Even were #Vance to regain his place in the Trumpian firmament, there is no such thing as a Vance base. His standing relies solely on #Trump.
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2/2 Sometimes, the system meant to protect a child can become part of the problem and today is a good day to look at this as the head of the family division retires.
@tbij.bsky.social Family Courts Reporter Hannah Summers has a moving and urgent story about Florence (not her real name), who was 10 when she was caught in the middle of a protracted family court dispute between her parents while the professionals did not listen to her at all. 1/2
@tansyhoskins.org's investigation into textile waste – where our clothes end up; who profits from fashion – had her spending 16 months sorting through donations at a #London charity shop to explore the things dropped off! Sounds like an interesting book tansyhoskins.org/my-new-book-...
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Octavia Butler's 1990s novels came five years apart and are so prophetic the writer might have been denounced as a witch in an earlier age...
In the past 24 hours, President Trump has accused Pope Leo of being “WEAK on Crime,” announced a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, got McDonald’s delivered to the White House for a photo op...& shared — & deleted! — a Truth Social post that portrayed him as a Christ-like figure.
Fascinating history lesson on #Hungary from Viktor Orbán's old professor. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/hungary-or...
Hungary votes out its proto-Trump. #thisweekthosebooks open.substack.com/pub/thisweek...
As #Hungary votes out its proto-#Trump, #thisweekthosebooks via @medium.com offers context from two relevant books:
* A right-wing British view of Hungary’s history.
* And an extraordinary meditation on the human propensity to war.
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A history lesson from Viktor #Orbán's old professor. A Nobel laureate on the culture of #war. #thisweekthosebooks offers context from two books + the back story on #Hungary. Free to read thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/hungary-or...
All eyes on #Islamabad . @arabnews.bsky.social editor Faisal J Abbas offers his take www.arabnews.com/node/2639372
@moveon.org has a public petition to stop #Trump from building a giant arch in Washington, D.C.
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MoveOn has a public petition to stop #Trump from building a giant arch in Washington, D.C.
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The first humans to fly around the Moon in more than 50 years are headed back to Earth. #thisweekthosebooks has two great books on our fascination with that orb in the nighttime sky. Free to read. thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/moon-artem...
