David Gibson
@gibsonwrites.bsky.social
Director of Fordham University's Center on Religion & Culture. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." Recovering Vaticanista. Occasionally commit journalism. https://linktr.ee/gibsonwrites
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Nunca creí que los leopardos comerían MI cara
The co-founder of Latinas for Trump is now condemning Trump’s ICE raids:
“I’m afraid of someone stopping my son.”
“This is not what we voted for.”
“I’m afraid of someone stopping my son.”
“This is not what we voted for.”
January 27, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Nunca creí que los leopardos comerían MI cara
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“Boo hoo”
They’re not just killing people, they’re taunting the public they’re terrorizing after they do it.
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They’re not just killing people, they’re taunting the public they’re terrorizing after they do it.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
“Boo hoo”
They’re not just killing people, they’re taunting the public they’re terrorizing after they do it.
apnews.com/article/immi...
They’re not just killing people, they’re taunting the public they’re terrorizing after they do it.
apnews.com/article/immi...
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AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 PM
AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
Noem: "He intentionally drove his vehicle into that agent ... oh wait those are my notes from last time."
Noem: This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.
January 24, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Noem: "He intentionally drove his vehicle into that agent ... oh wait those are my notes from last time."
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I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 12:39 AM
I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
This was such a fun and insightful conversation! @blairbraverman.bsky.social is as great a writer as she is a musher -- and that's saying something!
BTW I walked past the Balto statue in Central Park the other night, frigid like the Yukon, it was. Reminded me that I asked Blair: Balto or Togo?
BTW I walked past the Balto statue in Central Park the other night, frigid like the Yukon, it was. Reminded me that I asked Blair: Balto or Togo?
Blair Braverman joins the Center on Religion and Culture on the latest episode of "Art & Soul."
@blairbraverman.bsky.social chats with @gibsonwrites.bsky.social about her memoir, her adventurous spirit, and her experience as one of the few Jewish women in dogsledding.
@blairbraverman.bsky.social chats with @gibsonwrites.bsky.social about her memoir, her adventurous spirit, and her experience as one of the few Jewish women in dogsledding.
Art & Soul | Blair Braverman talks dogsledding, writing, and finding herself in the Arctic
YouTube video by Center on Religion and Culture
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January 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
This was such a fun and insightful conversation! @blairbraverman.bsky.social is as great a writer as she is a musher -- and that's saying something!
BTW I walked past the Balto statue in Central Park the other night, frigid like the Yukon, it was. Reminded me that I asked Blair: Balto or Togo?
BTW I walked past the Balto statue in Central Park the other night, frigid like the Yukon, it was. Reminded me that I asked Blair: Balto or Togo?
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For JD Vance, wearing an extra heavy eyeliner treatment to show us how normal he is, dispatching known sexual predators to apprehend sex offenders who have already been apprehended by the police is a hysterically funny thing. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Vance in MN: "It's really cold outside. We in the Trump administration want to deport criminal aliens who are sex offenders. It takes a certain level of committed to sex offender criminal aliens to stand outside in -40 temperatures and attack the vice president, but they're committed to the bit."
January 23, 2026 at 2:19 PM
For JD Vance, wearing an extra heavy eyeliner treatment to show us how normal he is, dispatching known sexual predators to apprehend sex offenders who have already been apprehended by the police is a hysterically funny thing. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk
Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.
forward.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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That Erickson still thinks Trump is great is on him but the real nightmare he points to is the one no one is talking about:
"This summer, when Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas retire from the U.S. Supreme Court, I’ll be very happy Donald Trump is picking their replacements, not Kamala Harris..."
"This summer, when Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas retire from the U.S. Supreme Court, I’ll be very happy Donald Trump is picking their replacements, not Kamala Harris..."
January 22, 2026 at 1:52 PM
That Erickson still thinks Trump is great is on him but the real nightmare he points to is the one no one is talking about:
"This summer, when Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas retire from the U.S. Supreme Court, I’ll be very happy Donald Trump is picking their replacements, not Kamala Harris..."
"This summer, when Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas retire from the U.S. Supreme Court, I’ll be very happy Donald Trump is picking their replacements, not Kamala Harris..."
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NYT's house style is genuinely deranged
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM
NYT's house style is genuinely deranged
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He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
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“Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”
~Daniel Webster.
Webster was born on this day 244 years ago: Jan. 18, 1782.
Image: Public domain.
~Daniel Webster.
Webster was born on this day 244 years ago: Jan. 18, 1782.
Image: Public domain.
January 18, 2026 at 2:30 PM
“Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”
~Daniel Webster.
Webster was born on this day 244 years ago: Jan. 18, 1782.
Image: Public domain.
~Daniel Webster.
Webster was born on this day 244 years ago: Jan. 18, 1782.
Image: Public domain.
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I cannot emphasize this enough: the level of restraint from the anti-Trump resistance for the past year has been astoundingly commendable and surprising.
I do not know exactly what I’d do if the feds executed someone I loved and then the most powerful people in the world were immediately on live…
I do not know exactly what I’d do if the feds executed someone I loved and then the most powerful people in the world were immediately on live…
…street protester response in a variety of places across the country have been overwhelmingly peaceful to a level I was truly not expecting, given the level of federal onslaught and GOP depravity.
Maybe — *maybe* — there would be a ghost of a point if 2020-levels of rioting were breaking out…
Maybe — *maybe* — there would be a ghost of a point if 2020-levels of rioting were breaking out…
January 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I cannot emphasize this enough: the level of restraint from the anti-Trump resistance for the past year has been astoundingly commendable and surprising.
I do not know exactly what I’d do if the feds executed someone I loved and then the most powerful people in the world were immediately on live…
I do not know exactly what I’d do if the feds executed someone I loved and then the most powerful people in the world were immediately on live…
Same for Catholic conservative leaders:
MAGA’s Jewish intellectuals “lent their prestige” to the movement, “certain the hateful rhetoric was meant for someone else”—but “now that it has landed on them, they want credit for noticing the stench,” Franklin Foer argues:
Pity the Jewish Intellectuals of MAGA
The nascent effort to contain the spread of anti-Semitism is years overdue.
bit.ly
January 16, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Same for Catholic conservative leaders:
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The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 AM
The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
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January 13, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
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Trump’s posting about being “Acting President of Venezuela” when he’s not even acting like a president at home.
January 12, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Trump’s posting about being “Acting President of Venezuela” when he’s not even acting like a president at home.
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When Trump’s dead, and if we emerge from whatever white nationalist regime follows him and return to some normality, the media and commentariat are going to do everything in their power to normalize what happened and make it into simple policy differences suitable for “my two guests are.”
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January 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
When Trump’s dead, and if we emerge from whatever white nationalist regime follows him and return to some normality, the media and commentariat are going to do everything in their power to normalize what happened and make it into simple policy differences suitable for “my two guests are.”
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Pax Vaticana? In which I argue that the American pope is the best, and maybe last, exponent of the American soft power that America has abandoned. But Leo is not looking for a fight with Trump, he is looking beyond Trump...
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Opinion | Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Pax Vaticana? In which I argue that the American pope is the best, and maybe last, exponent of the American soft power that America has abandoned. But Leo is not looking for a fight with Trump, he is looking beyond Trump...
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Pope Leo Confronts Trump on His Own Terms www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
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As these thugs increasingly feel the pressure, they keep trying to say “stop following us.”
But why don’t more people say
“I’m just driving down the road. How am I supposed to know you are ICE? YOU’RE IN AN UNMARKED SUV. JUST ANOTHER CAR ON THE ROAD.”
They can’t have it both ways, trying to hide
But why don’t more people say
“I’m just driving down the road. How am I supposed to know you are ICE? YOU’RE IN AN UNMARKED SUV. JUST ANOTHER CAR ON THE ROAD.”
They can’t have it both ways, trying to hide
Minneapolis - Border Patrol stops a protester following them, and tells the car it’s their “first and final warning” to quit.
January 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
As these thugs increasingly feel the pressure, they keep trying to say “stop following us.”
But why don’t more people say
“I’m just driving down the road. How am I supposed to know you are ICE? YOU’RE IN AN UNMARKED SUV. JUST ANOTHER CAR ON THE ROAD.”
They can’t have it both ways, trying to hide
But why don’t more people say
“I’m just driving down the road. How am I supposed to know you are ICE? YOU’RE IN AN UNMARKED SUV. JUST ANOTHER CAR ON THE ROAD.”
They can’t have it both ways, trying to hide
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"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
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January 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...