Georgia Democratic Rep. David Scott, 80, has died The longtime lawmaker was the first Black chair of the House Agriculture Committee.

Georgia Democratic Rep. David Scott has died.

The longtime lawmaker was the first Black chair of the House Agriculture Committee.

Health impacts of redlining:

“This finding demonstrates that historical redlining, one of the many mechanisms through which public and private institutions have practiced racial housing discrimination, has lasting impact on the well-being of Black and Latinx birthing people today…"

#BlackSky

What Everyone Got Wrong About Jobs and the Immigration Crackdown More than a year into President Trump’s immigration crackdown, there is little evidence of widespread disruptions in the labor market, or of meaningful benefits to American workers.

Fewer immigrants mean more jobs and higher wages for American workers, right?

The data tell a different story.

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Prince passed away 10 years ago today.

RIP, your music lives on.

As a New Yorker and Mets fan (as much as I'm a baseball fan), I could barely get through reading this to my partner. I laughed so hard the tears were STREAMING down my face.
How do they do it on camera with a straight face? How??

Death of Haitian immigrant in southwestern Pa. still an unsettling mystery seven weeks later • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Daphy Michel, a Haitian national who lived in Charleroi, was found in a South Shore bus shelter on March 2.

ICE took Daphy Michel Michel, a 31-year-old Haitian immigrant with an active asylum claim, from the Washington County jail, without notifying her family.

Three days later, she was found unresponsive inside a bus shelter and later pronounced dead at a hospital.

From @publicsource.org

Searching the 1926 census by map YouTube video by Claire Bradley

I've done another video to explain how to use the #1926census map search as well. Please share. #Speirgorm #IrishGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Arthur Holquin • Follow 9h • 0 When the Neophyte Corrects the Vicar of Christ On JD Vance, Theological Hubris, and the Gospel He Has Yet to Learn There is a particular arrogance that takes root in the newly converted - the zeal of the autodidact who, having just discovered the tradition, mistakes enthusiasm for mastery. JD Vance, who received baptism into the Catholic Church in 2019 at the age of thirty-five, has now committed the singular error of instructing the Bishop of Rome to "be careful when he talks about matters of theology!" We should sit with the full weight of that sentence. The Vice President of the United States - seven years a Catholic, formerly an evangelical, before that a self-described atheist - stood before a Turning Point USA audience in Georgia and publicly admonished Pope Leo XIV about theological precision. "If you're going to opine on matters of theology," Vance informed the successor of Peter, "you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth." The audacity is breathtaking. The irony is almost comic.

While Vance was dispensing theological warnings from a stage in Georgia, Pope Leo XIV was standing at the archaeological site of Hippo in Algeria - the episcopal see where St. Augustine served as bishop until his death in 430 A.D. Vance, who claims Augustine as his patron saint and frequently invokes him in speeches, was lecturing on Augustinian just war theology to a political rally audience. The pope he was lecturing - who served as Prior General of the Order of St. Augustine for more than a decade and holds a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - was planting an olive tree at the very ground where Augustine lived, prayed, wrote, and died. If God governs history with a sense of irony, this moment surely pleased Him. The occasion for Vance's correction was Pope Leo's statement that "God is never on the side of those who wield the sword." Vance responded by invoking the thousand-year tradition of Just War theory as if the pope were unaware of it. But Leo did not say war is never permissible. He said God is not simply enlisted as a combatant on any nation's side. That is not a negation of Just War doctrine. That is its foundation. The Catechism at §2309 is unambiguous about the conditions that must all be simultaneously met for a war to be just. Archbishop Broglio stated plainly on Easter Sunday that the war against Iran does not meet those criteria. Cardinals Cupich, Mcelroy, and Tobin, along with Archbishop Coakley, have spoken with notable unanimity. Cardinal Tobin put it plainly: Pope Leo "will continue to speak clearly against war and other offenses against human dignity and to call for authentic dialogue, because the Church's witness is grounded in the peace of Christ, not in partisan interests." That is episcopal fidelity. What Vance offered was its precise opposite.

The deeper problem is not merely that Vance is wrong about just war. It is the ecclesiological framework he is importing from American Christian nationalism into a tradition that explicitly rejects it. Vance told Fox News that "in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the president of the United States stick to dictating public policy." Let that formulation stand naked for a moment. The pope — who holds a universal pastoral office precisely because the Gospel speaks to every dimension of human life — is being instructed to confine himself to the sacristy, while the president is assigned the role of "dictating" the political world. This is not a Catholic understanding of faith and public life. Catholic Social Teaching from Rerum Novarum onward has always insisted that the Gospel is not a private spiritual comfort but a public moral claim. When Vance tells the pope to stay in his lane, he is not defending Catholic doctrine. He is betraying it.

JD Vance's forthcoming book on his Catholic faith is titled Communion. Its cover features a United Methodist church. I do not say this merely to mock. Symbolism matters in Catholic theology, and the symbolism here is telling. A book about Catholic unity, bearing Protestant ecclesial architecture on its cover, written by a man who publicly contradicts the pope on Just War doctrine - this is not communion. This is confusion dressed in piety. Archbishop Coakley said it plainly: "The Pope is not Trump's rival, nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls." Communion, in Catholic theology, is not a feeling of spiritual warmth. It is a participation in the Body of Christ that carries radical obligations — to the poor, the stranger, the enemy, to peace. It is a table the powerful do not preside over. They are guests at it, like everyone else. A seven-year Catholic who tells the pope to watch his theology, while defending an administration that posted an Al image of the president as Jesus Christ and refused to apologize, is not in communion with the tradition he claims to be writing about. He is in communion with power. And that, as Augustine himself understood deeply, is a very different thing.

A pretty comprehensive takedown of JD Vance by a Catholic priest, Msgr. Arthur Holquin

open.substack.com/pub/liturgya...

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

MoveOn said it simply so even Congress could understand it: Fund. Healthcare. Not. Warfare.
Apparently that’s too complicated for Republicans cutting Medicaid to pay for bombs. 😤
#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
#USDemocracy

The money for healthcare was always there.

#HealthcareNotTrumpsWar

my subject. I'm not very experienced in English research, so this will be interesting. I hope I can get it sorted out.
#genealogy #familyhistory

I'm currently researching someone for the Canada Project at WikiTree. He was born in England and went to Canada in his 50s.
I've got my work cut out for me there. I'm going to have to research another John Whittingham as well to make sure I have the right records for
#WikiTree #Canada #England
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BREAKING: Hundreds of anti-genocide activists who were rallying outside the offices of Sen. Gillibrand & Schumer have mobed into the street on 3rd Ave in Midtown Manhattan.

They’re calling on Gillibrand & Schumer to vote YES on an upcoming vote to block a weapons sale to Israel.

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Kushner being involved as he has deals with MBS is insane

Pro-tip for the Swalwell campaign staff now maligning the women accusing their boss of sexual misconduct: it's not worth it. There will be other campaigns and other candidates but there will never be another time that you won't regret behaving this way towards survivors.

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.

"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”

“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."

azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

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"Trump has touted the layoffs of hundreds of thousands of government employees from their “boring federal jobs” as one of his crowning achievements."

Especially because so many were held by Black people, primarily Black women. They're positively giddy about that.
msmagazine.com/2026/02/05/b...

Excited to announce that my journal article on women printsellers in early nineteenth-century Dublin has been published in @eshsi.bsky.social It explores the gendered dynamics of the family print shop and how labour was divided in these domestic and commercial spaces.

One of? Surely we can do better.

I know where I live, but as a dual citizen, I'm only acknowledging my Prime Minister now. 🇨🇦

He wrote this one.

War fighter? At my direction? United?

Aujourd’hui, nous soulignons la Journée internationale de la visibilité transgenre et les personnes trans et non binaires qui font partie de notre communauté 🩷💙

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Just got alerted to a large urgent rent need for a family in Bloomington who has eviction court scheduled TOMORROW and needs $3800+ to prevent eviction.

Adopt a rent has about $2400 we can send toward this family now but can we raise the $1400 balance? 🌻🌻🌻

Pleeease @thepwhl.com don't move out of market games to Prime in the U.S.!
Jeff Bezos does not align (I hope) with the values of this league.
I don't give him my dollars or my views. I love women's hockey, go @victoire-lphf.bsky.social , but I'll give it up in a second if it goes to Prime.

Thank you for posting about this. I spent last year doing work on my Ancestry tree using their tree checker with a group from the Virtual Genealogical Association but the Ancestry checker only looks for a few things. This looks better.

Impressive. There's no way I would ruin dinner if I tried that.