Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV - Catholic Review Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the name Pope Leo XIV.

Mildly disappointed we don’t have “Malort I”

I see what you did there

Apple juice!

Does the latter beget the former?

Cast a real-time readout of your heart rate next time, maybe

Some other strong cast members, too. A then little-known Billy Bob Thornton, John Cusack, Ethan Hawke and a totally rando moment with Dave Navarro from Jane’s Addiction

His performance in “Floundering” is criminally unknown.

Here’s a great topic I’d like to see on #MasterClass: How to help MasterClass appreciate the exploitative vibes of its no-refund auto-renew policy. Unlike all the others, I’d actually watch this one.

Met someone today who defied my theory that every Nebraskan of a certain age knows who Conor Oberst is.

Trail Blazers vs. Pacers (Nov 27, 2024) Live Score - ESPN Live coverage of the Portland Trail Blazers vs. Indiana Pacers NBA game on ESPN, including live score, highlights and updated stats.

May the less-worse team win @phil123.bsky.social
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This is not at all a commentary on you or your experiences, but that song was popular during my childhood and I grew deeply sad every time it came on the radio. Not since have I experienced such discordance between words and music.

Opinion | The Detroit Lions are no longer a holiday turkey For generations, this football team helped ruin my family’s Thanksgiving. And we aren’t even fans.

Happy Thanksgiving @jamesebriggs.bsky.social

NYT Reporters Look Back on the Lady Jaguars Basketball Team When we met them a dozen years ago, they were teenagers in trouble, playing for a basketball team that always lost. Did they find a way to win at life?

Everything about this deep dive of a story — the reporting, writing, photography and presentation — is gripping, empathetic and accessible. The care for craft and the lives involved just glows. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

No sophomore slump detected

Alice Brock, namesake of Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83 Guthrie’s 1967 antiwar anthem with the refrain “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant” begins with an eventful Thanksgiving hosted by Ms. Brock.

Her life was inspiring. Her death is heartrending. Its timing, though . . . www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Here’s my presidential transition strategy. Meet the newly adopted Theo Henry James

As an Indiana expat, asking: Where is this?

Three chapters in and am fully engaged. So crisp and urgent in its prose

Update: We think he's more a Theo than a Buckaroo

I am subscribed to a couple of good topics: science and news, for instance. What are some others folks might recommend?

Beard as hypeman is the frosting

Buckaroo? BlueSky. BlueSky? Buckaroo. #gotchaday

A question I’ve been wrestling with: What foundational presumptions of mine will I have to reconcile with political reality? I don’t have a clear answer yet.

Insomnia cookies are better, no?

I am a journalist who tried texting a colleague tonight and got a “wrong number” response — from a journalist at a rival newsroom.

Put another way, I’m in D.C.

All history should be this deftly written: “On the other side was this invasive weed of a man, D.C. Stephenson, no Hoosier at all, a thug in a fancy suit. ‘He was born in the state of Texas,’ said Cox, letting the word linger, like gas passed at a church.”

To all who exert, happy Worksgiving

(judgmentally clears throat)

Peak X/Twitter experience is reading a post about Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution,” a song that (among other things) was in heavy rotation during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, and seeing in the comments an ad for BetMGM.

My first post here 🙂 Up on the top floor laboring for my employer while my wife enjoys the company of our cat and the new book by one of my colleagues