Scott D. Moringiello
@sdeltam.bsky.social
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Associate Professor and Chair of Catholic Studies at DePaul University. Fan of Dorothy Day, John Fluevog, Bryan Garner, and Mookie Wilson.
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 2d
It would be funny if our Augustinian Pope weighed in on this ...
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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d
a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."
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Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2d
a fascist president, a corrupt president, a vindictive president, a senile president we might endure — but a pelagian president?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7d
People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.
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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 7d
This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7d
People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 8d
Maybe go bowling tonight? Might help …

Okay, no more Lebowski references
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 8d
If you will it, it is no dream.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 8d
Wait until you become a Pynchon AND a Gaddis guy.
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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 9d
A meme for the modern university...
Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 10d
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 11d
It’s such an amazing book. It still haunts me more than a year after I read it.
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 12d
I, for one, would not call that a comeback.
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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 13d
It’s also why there’s no way around it—combating the loneliness epidemic will take virtue/ascesis because it will require many people to engage in the momentarily painful act of putting down PHONE and spending time with other awkward, sometimes unpleasant people.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 13d
The loneliness crisis isn't from a lack of third spaces, it's from being at home becoming ever more appealing thanks to broadband / phone combined with suburbanization.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14d
This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.

What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14d
Well, I guess my question for all of the doomers now would be why they think no one can stop Donald Trump from taking our democracy from us?

The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16d
So many coverups.

Release the Epstein files.

Release the Homan tapes.

Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16d
this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.

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The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 16d
This is the Beshear 2028 play.
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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 16d
Basically stuff like centrist dems/swing voters in purple and light red states getting that if you’re in a blue state using a lot of social-justice coded language is mostly the local equivalent of talking about how you pray on every decision because it makes the church grannies happy and vice-versa
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 16d
The only way to understand the MAGA movement is as a giant collection of people dumb enough to imagine they’re not being tricked but everyone else is. I really believe this, all the way down.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 20d
“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian
The following eighteen majors were put on “pause”: African American Studies Applied Mathematics B.A. Chemistry B.A. Classical Civilization Classics (Greek and Latin) Digital Humanities Fine Arts French and Francophone Studies German Language, Literature, and Culture B.A. History of Architecture Italian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A. Latino-Latin American Studies Middle Eastern Studies Modern Jewish Studies Music History and Cultures Religion Russian Language, Literature, and Culture B.A. Statistics B.A.
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 19d
Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death.

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead.
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 19d
Evergreen, really. But today especially.
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 19d
Image is of a statue of St. Catherine of Siena, wimpled and veiled, eyes narrowed, lips tightly drawn, and a quote: "Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified." (I got it from the geniuses at Women's Ordination Conference.)
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 21d
The syllabus line was, of course, a joke, and they laughed at it.

But they have a better appreciation of their gen ed classes now, so mission accomplished.
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Scott D. Moringiello @sdeltam.bsky.social · 21d
In class today:

"I can't indoctrinate you guys because I can even get you to read the syllabus. But, here's my indoctrination: The world is wonderful. And the more you learn about it the more wonderful it becomes. It's broken and scarred, but it's wonderful."

Then we talked about liberal arts.
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John W. Martens @jwmartens.bsky.social · Aug 8
Please listen to Stan Chu Ilo of DePaul’s center for global Catholicism on the hope of Catholic education for a broken and polarized world. Powerful and challenging. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
The Promise and Praxis of Catholic Education: Hope for a Wounded and Divided World? Keynote Lecture of Rev. Dr. Stan Chu Ilo
Podcast Episode · What Matters Most · 2025-08-08 · 1h 19m
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