Mark Urban
@markurban8plus1.bsky.social
Grateful husband, father, & Holy Cross educator; Goonie; Tralfamadorian; Rider of Rohan. In a world of 11s, be a Hopper. Sober & Vigilant. PEACE
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https://themarkivesblog.wordpress.com
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https://themarkivesblog.wordpress.com
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The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished
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This is just comically racist:. There is something a bit “off” about Mamdani. Sorta like Obama.
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is just comically racist:. There is something a bit “off” about Mamdani. Sorta like Obama.
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Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal.
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.
By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma
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It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.
Trump: "It's funny, I settled 8 wars. Some were going on for 35 years. And we got them settled in a couple of days. Some of them -- one was going on for 37 years. I settled it in one day. But this is a very complex one."
December 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.
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A thoughtful, important and timely piece from Christine Zuba, a remarkable Catholic, now on Outreach: outreach.faith/2025/12/what...
What is it like being Catholic and transgender? - Outreach
For one transgender person, now more than ever is it important for greater visibility and witness in the church.
outreach.faith
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A thoughtful, important and timely piece from Christine Zuba, a remarkable Catholic, now on Outreach: outreach.faith/2025/12/what...
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The Rock and Roll Capital Killed Its College Radio Station for Smooth Jazz and the Students Are Fighting Back www.spin.com/2025/12/the-...
The Rock and Roll Capital Killed Its College Radio Station for Smooth Jazz and the Students Are Fighting Back
The white ON AIR light was still glowing when the cops walked in. A tiny bulb in a dirty old studio, shining on as if it had no idea its world was about to chan
www.spin.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Rock and Roll Capital Killed Its College Radio Station for Smooth Jazz and the Students Are Fighting Back www.spin.com/2025/12/the-...
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She followed around a Parkland kid to harass him about how school shootings aren’t real, and her doing this shit propelled her to conspiracy internet fame then Congress. You do not have to hand it to her.
December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
She followed around a Parkland kid to harass him about how school shootings aren’t real, and her doing this shit propelled her to conspiracy internet fame then Congress. You do not have to hand it to her.
She Hasn’t Come Back
Thoughts on Catholic hospitality— and a lack thereof
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Thoughts on Catholic hospitality— and a lack thereof
themarkivesblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/s...
She Hasn’t Come Back
“Jesus stands with the demonized until the demonizing stops.” -Fr. Greg Boyle During two of the most intensely vulnerable days of my life I was shrouded by grace in a Catholic space. That grace has…
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December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
She Hasn’t Come Back
Thoughts on Catholic hospitality— and a lack thereof
themarkivesblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/s...
Thoughts on Catholic hospitality— and a lack thereof
themarkivesblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/s...
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Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
December 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
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No one should have to make the decision between a paycheck and taking their child to the doctor.
With paid family leave, Minnesotans won’t have to.
With paid family leave, Minnesotans won’t have to.
December 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
No one should have to make the decision between a paycheck and taking their child to the doctor.
With paid family leave, Minnesotans won’t have to.
With paid family leave, Minnesotans won’t have to.
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Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...
Cheap, Fast, and Easy
We’re snowbound here in the wilds of Connecticut, stuck in place until the guy with the truck comes to plow us out.
michaelianblack.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...
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Rogan continues his unbroken streak of marveling at how messed up Trump is without taking any responsibility for helping to get him elected.
December 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Rogan continues his unbroken streak of marveling at how messed up Trump is without taking any responsibility for helping to get him elected.
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We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
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Irving Berlin was a Jew born in Russia, (probably Siberia) and his early life there was defined by trauma and religious persecution. When he was five, his family home was burned to the ground in a violent pogrom.
He loved America and everything it stood for, and was very patriotic.
He loved America and everything it stood for, and was very patriotic.
Should someone tell him who wrote “White Christmas” and where that person was born.
December 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Irving Berlin was a Jew born in Russia, (probably Siberia) and his early life there was defined by trauma and religious persecution. When he was five, his family home was burned to the ground in a violent pogrom.
He loved America and everything it stood for, and was very patriotic.
He loved America and everything it stood for, and was very patriotic.
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
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“We live during a time where all the institutions and corporations I worked for—or leaders I looked up to—they caved or remained silent, so we are now finding hope in everyday people…”
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www.thebulwark.com/p/defiance-i...
Defiance in a Time of Cowardice
She sang the national anthem in Spanish as deportation forces assaulted L.A. Now she’s headed to Sundance.
www.thebulwark.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“We live during a time where all the institutions and corporations I worked for—or leaders I looked up to—they caved or remained silent, so we are now finding hope in everyday people…”
www.thebulwark.com/p/defiance-i...
www.thebulwark.com/p/defiance-i...
www.cleveland.com/open/2025/12...
Yet Ohio lawmakers’ focus is on idiotic SB1 policies and targeting mail-in ballot arrival dates
Currently, your children are better off in another state, Ohioans
The time is right for a lot of changes, Ohio
VOTE @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Make
Ohio
Purple
Again
Yet Ohio lawmakers’ focus is on idiotic SB1 policies and targeting mail-in ballot arrival dates
Currently, your children are better off in another state, Ohioans
The time is right for a lot of changes, Ohio
VOTE @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Make
Ohio
Purple
Again
Ohio children face barriers to accessing mental health services, report finds
Seventy-five of Ohio’s 88 counties were designated as experiencing shortages in mental health care professionals as of July 2025, according to a policy brief released earlier this month by Health Poli...
www.cleveland.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
www.cleveland.com/open/2025/12...
Yet Ohio lawmakers’ focus is on idiotic SB1 policies and targeting mail-in ballot arrival dates
Currently, your children are better off in another state, Ohioans
The time is right for a lot of changes, Ohio
VOTE @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Make
Ohio
Purple
Again
Yet Ohio lawmakers’ focus is on idiotic SB1 policies and targeting mail-in ballot arrival dates
Currently, your children are better off in another state, Ohioans
The time is right for a lot of changes, Ohio
VOTE @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Make
Ohio
Purple
Again
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“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
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Acton: [Ramaswamy] literally treats Ohio like a flyover state.
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
December 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Acton: [Ramaswamy] literally treats Ohio like a flyover state.
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
When you love Ohio the way I do, you don’t treat it like a flyover state. You don’t move your business from Ohio to Texas. You don’t pit Ohioans against each other with endless culture wars…
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A Big Boy Snowglobe in Cleveland, Ohio
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A Big Boy Snowglobe in Cleveland, Ohio
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Not only does this intentionally violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, it’s vile to watch mean-spirited, selfish ghouls who starve the poor and kidnap people for their skin color sanctimoniously pretending they follow any of the teachings of Jesus.
December 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not only does this intentionally violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, it’s vile to watch mean-spirited, selfish ghouls who starve the poor and kidnap people for their skin color sanctimoniously pretending they follow any of the teachings of Jesus.
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How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.
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It's not that they don't know. They want to own the culture that would have hated them or hates them now, so they conveniently ignore the heart of the issues so they can claim the shiny part. I'll tell you what though—they know their voters are stupid enough not to know.
Yup.
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡
Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money.
Actions:
Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly.
Words:
Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine
December 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
It's not that they don't know. They want to own the culture that would have hated them or hates them now, so they conveniently ignore the heart of the issues so they can claim the shiny part. I'll tell you what though—they know their voters are stupid enough not to know.