The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
The Platner story is worthy of discussion but I don't want to hear a damn word about trust or the importance of marital fidelity from any Republican who did not also vocally oppose electing Donald Trump and Ken Paxton, and confirming Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr.
I understand that nothing matters in a post-Trump world, but it’s fair to ask: Why didn’t the campaign get out in front of this? How many women? How sexually explicit? What else is coming?
Another day, another impeachable offense. Another grotesque abuse of power. When you commit a Watergate a day, you create a strange immunity. This is Trump's strength. The American people are too numb or propaganda-sodden to care.
Ben Sasse is my hero for so many reasons, including this: using what remains of his voice to call for rolling back the phone-based childhood, and giving kids the independence they need to develop the skills of democracy:
@BenSasse
https://t.co/AvgxyGCCnd
BRAVO Jessica Grose!
"If we want our children to be better at social interactions, we need to pull back on emphasizing all the bad things that could happen...when they talk to people they don’t know."
Stranger danger msg makes kids & parents ANXIOUS.
https://t.co/7BN5pSMog8
This is such a powerful monologue by @billmaher on the ramping antisemitism in the U.S.
Listen until the end, especially the point he makes on “Democrats where are you?!”
“I don’t want politicians to be ‘authentic.’ I want them to be decent. I want them to be honest. I want them to be competent. And if they fail those tests, they don’t redeem themselves by opposing Donald Trump,” @DavidAFrench https://t.co/nh1m8SoJ61
Grateful to see this kind of leadership.
My son had a class he was excited about at a public CO university, but it was overshadowed by repeated anti- Israel and anti- Semitic commentary. We reported it and were told tenure limits any real response. Hard not to feel unheard.
While I wasn’t there yesterday to see it in person, what I have seen is incredibly troubling and disappointing. It is very difficult to execute meaningful consequences on tenured faculty but as a leader I can help set the tone and expectations for their conduct.
His conduct was unbecoming for a leader of the greatest university in the world.
As the Board of the university we have an opportunity to make lasting changes that will change the course of this conduct.
I look forward to that discussion with my colleagues on the Board of Regents and the university Administration.
Moms on their phone: making a doctor’s appointment, sending pics to the grandmas, writing an email to an accountant, organising logistics for a visiting relative, tracking a package that was meant to arrive but didn’t, ordering things for the household because she doesn’t have time to go physically shop, looking up how to remove a particular type of stain, looking up recipes for dinner with some ingredients she doesn’t know what to do with
Onlookers: “look at her scrolling on her phone, neglecting her family”
Moms on their phone: making a doctor’s appointment, sending pics to the grandmas, writing an email to an accountant, organising logistics for a visiting relative, tracking a package that was meant to arrive but didn’t, ordering things for the household because she doesn’t have time to go physically shop, looking up how to remove a particular type of stain, looking up recipes for dinner with some ingredients she doesn’t know what to do with
Onlookers: “look at her scrolling on her phone, neglecting her family”