Dame Averil Cameron obituary Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer

A beautiful obituary for the great historian Averil Cameron by @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social

Discovering Prince, Ten Years Later - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...

Netanyahu Says Israel Is Refuge for Christians After Soldier Hammers Jesus Statue in the Face Amid Israel’s bombardments, Netanyahu said Israel is the only place where the Christian “standard of living” is growing.

Netanyahu has said that Israel is the only place where Christians can thrive in the Middle East, after bombing countless churches and Christian sites across the region amid outrage over a picture of an Israeli soldier taking a sledgehammer to the face of a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon.

Thank you for being a thoughtful caring person. I admire you for taking this on. You're the best.

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Pope Says News Outlets Misread Some of His Remarks as Criticism of Trump

Oh the Pope isn't battling with Trump. Don't believe the hype.

Same anthea butler folks. But when I am on my fellowship, I cite the place I'm currently at.

The Atlantic responds to Kash Patel's $250 million lawsuit:

"We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit."

Please come to Philly. People who hate watch the Cowboys like me here are a field day for your research.

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.

This is the point. Make universities uninhabitable for the people that make universities wonderful.

Texas Tech faculty are “close to the brink,” Schiller said. “It’s a nightmare … Tears are commonplace. I have a colleague who told me recently that going to campus felt like attending a wake.”

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

Let me summarize simply: they know they will have to pay too many descendents of the enslaved, so let's kill the project.

Pope Leo XIV heads to Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade Pope Leo XIV has called for Angolans to fight the “scourge of corruption” with a culture of justice.

apnews.com/article/pope... Leo XIV heads to Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

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Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face . ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .

They told the Pope he doesn’t understand the Bible and then they quoted Pulp Fiction.

+1

Pope Leo XIV's visit to an African church linked to slavery reflects on his own complex heritage The pope’s planned visit to a Catholic chapel in Angola that was connected to the slave trade is seen as a symbolic moment by some Africans.

I'll be watching this part of Pope Leo trip to Africa carefully...
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This whole timeline is!!

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He is a real one!!!

Ty!

@matt-avery-sutton.bsky.social how come I haven't been following you ugh fixed that!!

Folks if you want to tell me what I should have said on TV please send round your email and I'll pass it on to the show 😉

I'll let them know you'd like to be on next week. Send round your email

Thank you!

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine All citizens and all governments are obliged to work for the avoidance of war. However, "as long as the danger of war persists and there is no international authority with the necessary competence and power, governments cannot be denied the right of lawful self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed." (CCC, no. no.2308) The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: 1 The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; 3 There must be serious prospects of success; 2 All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; 4 The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modern means of destruction These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the weighs very heavily in evaluating "just war" doctrine. The evaluation of this condition. these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good. (CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, NO. 2309) The Church and human reason both assert the permanent validity of the moral law during armed conflict. "The mere fact that war has regrettably broken out does not mean that everything becomes licit between the warring parties." (CCC, no. 2312) PRAY FOR PEACE.

Bishops doubling down

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Unless Jesus comes before 4 est I'll be on with @nicollewallace.bsky.social on @deadlinewh.bsky.social at the top talking Hegseth,Pope etc.