'Following J.D. Vance’s comments earlier this week that the Pope should “stick to morality,” Williams said that he feels “slightly sorry” for the recent Catholic convert – “with just a hint of schadenfreude.”'

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

Colleagues leaving, students losing out. Sure would be nice if we lived in a world where other universities could do some serious poaching, but alas it's bad all over. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I finally got around to /was in the right mood for/ Rachel Bloom's "Death, Let Me Do My Special." She can make anything funny while simultaneously hitting you right in the gut

I came here to say this! He always looks so good and so confident

Homeland Security klogo: More Third World Violence: ICE Requests Texas Not Release Illegal Alien Who Murdered His Co-Worker with a Sledgehammer Release Date: April 20, 2026 If you import the third world, you become the third world WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an arrest detainer requesting local authorities not release Josue Abraham Chirino-Leonice, a 19-year-old criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, who is charged with murdering his co-worker to death with a sledgehammer.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is using official press releases to message that Westerners (they mean white people) are superior to people from the Global South (they mean non-white people). This is a dangerous, backwards position for our government to take.

/also, "murdered .. to death"?

How Merck turned its wonder drug into a blockbuster — and priced out cancer patients worldwide - ICIJ The pharmaceutical giant has built a fortress of patents, traded in secrecy and relentlessly lobbied to guard its revenue kingpin Keytruda.

ICIJ's #CancerCalculus investigation reveals pharmaceutical giant Merck has built a fortress of patents, traded in secrecy and relentlessly lobbied to guard its revenue kingpin Keytruda.

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Federal agents detain wife of another US army member: ‘ICE is out of control’ Jose Serrano, a sergeant, said Deisy Rivera Ortega, his wife, was arrested at an immigration appointment

ICE detains the wife of another US army member at her immigration appointment.

“I don’t really understand why, because she followed the rules of immigration by the T since day one,” he said.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A week or so ago I was working on my presentation on Aya of Yopougon (for the French class I take) when, to my shock, I found out about the death of its illustrator, Clément Oubrérie. A talented artist with so much visual verve and imagination.

Thank you, Leslie! Solidarity and I'm glad you're here, too🌸

The teen, Rihan, is the son of Zia, a former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan who spent three months in ICE custody last year.

The ICE agents who arrested Rihan on April 6 were trying to rearrest his father, according to a court filing by Rihan’s attorneys. #nutmegsky

I think it would be good for business, for ticket sales and concession sales! It would certainly make me more likely to go to a theater for a big (in all senses) movie

in a hopeful/positive sense? Holding my breath for that kind of "end of beginning"

thank you, Mary ❤️

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

What a story. What a blessing she was to the fight.

"At that first meeting, Dr. Long realized that the activists needed a guide who was fluent in science to help them expedite the approval of drugs to treat AIDS & the H.I.V. virus that causes it.

“She was their scientific North Star."

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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Chat couturier, 1927, oil on canvas, 7 5/8 x 9½ in. (19.5 x 24.1 cm.), Private collection. Signed and dated "Foujita 1927" and signed again in Japanese

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Chat couturier, 1927, oil on canvas, 7 5/8 x 9½ in. (19.5 x 24.1 cm.), Private collection

A Variety post of Pedro Pascal in shorts and glasses on a green vintage bike

Pedro Pascal on a bike this is not a drill

A black t-shirt with white text: SINISTER MINNESOTANS

My team jersey arrived

Calico cat playing with a rainbow string toy

I’m still here. Here= on this round Earth and on bluesky. Haven’t been posting due to *waves hands around• everything. Happy #Caturday to those who celebrate and those who don’t

OK, but what's the downside?

Today was a good day for me but also a day in which I kept on making lots of pesky errors, like calling people by mistake, misreading and miswriting things. Need to give my brain a little rest

Whoops I meant to reference a completely different photo! Sorry for the confusion.

I see I attached the wrong photo to the alt text. Sorry for the confusion!

Never mind, my mistake

Just wishing for better leaders (less horrible government) in general for the US. That’s all.

Calico cat in foreground, orange cat behind her, sprawled on blankets

A lazy #caturday

I love this!

a black cat beneath a full moon. I drew the face of the far side of the moon using the latest NASA photographs as models.

Hello from somewhere on the far side of the moon

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What cuts to Medicaid mean for American hospitals Obstetrics care could be hit especially hard.

"Obstetrics care could be hit especially hard. It’s one of the most expensive categories of service provided by hospitals. And Medicaid funds nearly 40 percent of all births in the U.S." wamu.org/story/26/04/...