Trump Loosens Restrictions on Psychedelic Drugs

Really? Because I thought we'd all been on #psychedelics since January.

Philz Coffee Reverses Pride Flag Ban: ‘I Made a Mistake,’ Says CEO “It was about whether queer people, and the employees who show up for them every day, feel safe and seen,” said Suzanne Ford, executive director of San Francisco Pride.

🏳️‍🌈Phuck Philz Coffee. 🏳️‍🌈That they even thought about it, let alone announced it, is enough for me to say enough.🏳️‍🌈 Yup, you did more than "make a mistake." You showed your true colors. And they aren't pretty. #boycottphilz

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈Phuck🏳️‍🌈 Philz 🏳️‍🌈Coffee 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Sure. You can find me at @scu.edu.

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors

Because let science guide medical treatment.

So disappointed that #PadmaLakshmi seems to have had no idea that sexism would be so central in round one face-offs. #AmericasCulinaryCup

Sometimes I feel like I'm being surveilled when I water the garden...

Horrifying because it's probably not wrong.

Plus they can't afford new cars.

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How does Cirie get eyelashes in the jungle??? #Survivor50

RS Colleagues, list classes you teach & the level (1-intro, 2-intermediate, 3-advanced). Me:
Exploring Living Religion (1)
Xtn Traditions (1)
Religion in America (2)
Nonreligion in America (2)
Urban Religion (2)
Religion & Popular Culture (3)
Science of Religion (3)
Mapping Living Religion (3)

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

The level of evil here is incomprehensible. "The biggest change took effect in Florida on Sunday, when officials cut off benefits for at least 16,000 residents living with H.I.V. The state also will no longer cover Biktarvy, the most widely prescribed H.I.V. medication."

Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless

So, red state America, you want your daughters & sons to be killed for this? #IranWar

Yes, please!

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Not gross at all that you have your phone in the bathroom. Not gross at all.

I not watch with you. Hard.

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So looking forward to corporations dropping prices back down and me getting a slice of the #tariff money I've paid!!!

True. Nonetheless it matters.

Handsome at Any Cost

Dozens of genuinely gifted journalists are being let go from news outlets for which they covered important news that impacts people's actual lives. But, sure, @nytimes.com, pay @bernstein.bsky.social to "investigate" this.

Emerged from the house this morning to find the neighbor's cat dead on our driveway. Clearly an omen. But of what?

The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities Is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the last best hope for American arts and letters—or is it killing them?

Have a go at the dreck while you're at it. What the what is going on at The Atlantic?

Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.

Have at it. Please.

Did you actually read it? Awful headline. But hardly a glowing review.

How Alex Pretti’s Death Became a National Tipping Point

"It is never possible to say with certainty why one tragedy widens the circle of outrage and another does not." Sure. But a straight, white dude, legally carrying a gun is always going garner more public outrage than a black man, a black woman, or, certainly, a lesbian, white, black, or otherwise.

Behold, I winking doodle in jammies!

Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy

A statement of contrition for failing to use moral influence that translated to political power from the 1970s on to denounce economic, racial & social injustice at the macro-level—structural forces that complicate reproductive decisions beyond pro/anti-choice—would ground moral authority now. 1/2

Three Catholic Cardinals Issue Rare Joint Statement on the Morality of U.S. Foreign Policy - Archdiocese of Washington Cardinals Cupich, McElroy and Tobin cite Pope Leo XIV’s direction to diplomats Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Newark, (Jan. 19, 2026) – Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Robert ...

Important, of course. But one wonders to what extent the Church's fixation on anti-abortion & anti-LGBTQ politics ignored their own call for "balancing of national interest with the common good" given the power they ceded to forces of "a diplomacy based on force" that they now denounce. 1/2

And the "YOUR woman" part didn't trouble you at all?

Is there any chance that correcting poor grammar could save the world? Because that would win me my own, legit Nobel Peace Prize.

Every time I open @nytimes.com Cooking to this picture of pesto chicken meatballs, I puke in my mouth a little. Who thought this looked appetizing.