Wow: the Archdiocese of Baltimore is proposing to slash the number of parishes from 61 to 21, closing several dozen historic churches.
Incredible stat: in a city that was once home to 250,000 Catholics, total weekly church attendance is now about 2,000.
baltimoresun.com/2024/04/14/pro….

Every BA 335 Organizational Management class at SMU News has a viewing of Enron: Smartest Guys In The Room by Alex Gibney = a fantastic way to show how corruptive business culture creates an epic downfall of morals & ethics in enterprise.

what everyone’s watching on TV today

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what the Supreme Court is quietly doing today at the exact same time

levernews.com/the-supreme-co…

The new FISA mass surveillance bill has a new amendment that gives the NSA/FBI access to any 'service provider who has access to equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store wire or electronic communications' w/a few exceptions. That's many public Wifi networks.

Please read this: nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi… Our health care outcomes are so bad because we accept - and often manufacture - so much poverty.

Jewish faculty at Columbia denounce the weaponization of anti-Semitism and call for the defense of the university as a 'site of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production.' Really good letter, worth reading in its entirety. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

They just don't make films like this anymore

The Chemerinsky episode is very sad. The commandeering of the dinner was bound to backfire, and there’s no serious argument it was protected by the First Amendment. I also think it’s a mistake for students to vilify Chemerinsky. (1/2)

Only in Gaza you will see airdrops and airstrikes in one picture.

No one should look to the sky and wonder if what's falling is death or dinner.

Your reminder that Robert Elswit also shot
—There Will Be Blood
—Magnolia
—Boogie Nights
—Michael Clayton
—Punch-Drunk Love
—Inherent Vice
—Bad Influence
—The Night Of
—Two “Mission Impossible” installments
—The Sure Thing
—The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
—etc., etc., etc.

This is the single biggest free speech case in the entire U.S. court system — but somehow, all the pundits who have amassed huge audiences casting themselves as Brave Free Speech Absolutists™ have absolutely nothing to say about it 👇

concerning lawsuit if, unlike Exxon, you care about the future of the planet.

Jon Stewart checks in on the war in Gaza and examines how America's 'values' stack up against its support of Israel

God bless America, indeed. Nothing like a country where a no-talent hack can rise from her crypt to gloat over the fact that she's sabotaging student loan relief for defrauded borrowers in exchange for bribes from the for-profit college sector. Huzzah!

Please read this: I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them. wapo.st/3TUjTtp

America’s billionaires are $1.2 trillion richer than last year: The Countries With The Most Billionaires 2024 forbes.com/sites/devinsea…

Israel's killing of foreign aid workers with World Central Kitchen drew headlines, quite rightly. But the vast share of the aid workers, journalists and health workers killed in Gaza are local Palestinian heroes who take risks to help others and mostly die anonymously. RIP, Mohammed Abed.

Great shout out to a powerful episode of 'Search Engine.' nytimes.com/2024/04/08/art…

A window into Israeli conduct in Gaza: In one of the deadliest single incidents, Israeli forces unlawfully attacked a residential building in Gaza on October 31 without an apparent military target, killing 106 civilians including 54 children -- @HRW report hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

Netanyahu, stop murdering innocent people.