ok but shooting down airplanes with surface to air missiles and IR sensors isn't asymmetric anything

Shouldn't J.D. Vance, whom I hear is very Catholic, have a problem with this? Anyway, I'm sure Adrian Vermeule and his ilk will conclude they've made a terrible mistake any moment now.

It turns out that breaching the wall between church and state means that some branches of Christianity are officially elevated over others. Who could have known? When in the last 500 years could such a lesson possibly have been learned?

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. I'm not a huge decorum guy but I do find myself nostalgic for the version of confrontations between states that did not feature emojis

being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited

the pitt scrubs

whatever happened to the postal service (band)?

it’s true that overall likes are way down on bluesky over the past year. however, if you look closely at the data, that’s mostly an anomaly resulting from the fact that your The Format™️ specifically have gotten worse and are dragging the vibe down (2026)

The Archbishop for Military Services put out a statement last fall expressing frustration that the Army canceled contracts that help support Catholic chaplains and Catholic service members. It's starting to be a pattern, this lack of support for Catholics in the military.

it sure is cool being included in a DnD party!

Everyone activate emergency discourse topics: The Format™️ Edition (2026)

I don’t know how I feel about using John Brown’s trial, but it indicates that on the eve of the Civil War, even Southerners generally followed the common law for white men. One of the Most Famous Trials in U.S. History Disproves Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Case prawfsblawg.com/one-of-the-m...

what’s one of your favorite missions or levels in a game

what’s your favorite monster movie and disaster movie same but low brow

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i teleported into a sheetz in third person mode somewhere in the mid-atlantic in the early 2010s (2026)

the channel is there m.youtube.com/@theexhauste...

recorded a couple episodes of the exhausted historian just havent released them weird anxiety about being an interviewer and story teller no anxiety in applied research and literacy probably just have an interview show where the guest and i go to the archives or something

should probably bring @theloopcast.bsky.social back at some put during this era created a youtube channel and have recorded non interview content

The Format™️ will be the new family heirloom @gigansprogress.bsky.social gets this

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Cantor Thought™️ (2026)

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

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Brent oil spot price for actual cargo soars to $141, highest level since 2008 financial crisis www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/d...

swapping you this ^ for my "Breaking Cantor" meme like we're kids on the playground trading Pokemons (2026)

they should reboot star trek voyager

sometimes it's good to post something that's either complete gibberish or a direct strike on someone's cerebral cortex (2026)

what (2026)

whatever the outcome of the birthright citizenship case i the dunning school originalist branding needs to stick dunning school is more pointed than conservative originalist and highlights their inability to understand history either through voluntary myopia or over ambitious stupidity

should probably bring @theloopcast.bsky.social back at some put during this era created a youtube channel and have recorded non interview content

listening to this m.youtube.com/watch?v=GCyg...

i will retire from poasting if alito is the one who dissents there is so much historic irony there that my only choice would be to retire and bum on @machete.gay’s mad luxurious cat jungle gym for a quarter

I talked with @mjsdc.bsky.social about what is looking like a 7-2 or maybe even 8-1 decision against the anti-birthright EO. And now I am going to shut up about this for awhile because I don‘t want to screw anything up. slate.com/podcasts/ami...

Alito, with zero self-awareness, is going to write an unhinged dissent that describes penumbras (without using the word) and his strict originalist interpretation is going to magically involve a living breathing document that allows creating new exceptions to fit the times.

this is on the same level if @professormusgrave.bsky.social does a collaborative stream w westside gunn discussing political science i would retire from poasting simply cause the bar is so high as to be impossible

whatever happened to saves the day (band)? at your funeral is cathartic f i r e

what would happen if the scrubs fandom squared off w the the pitt fandom? who would win and what would their finishing move be?

but then barnett and wurman and the rest are not actually doing scholarship, they are doing hack work for a political cause. they would strip citizenship from millions to advance their careers and standing. they are beneath contempt. i would respect them more if they owned up to it.

originalism, i am told, is supposed to respect popular sovereignty. but here we have two “originalists” who insist that their language games — and that is what this is, a language game meant to extract meaning where it does not exist — ought to control over a sovereign act of the people.

"donald trump destroys the post-wwii order of american-hegemonic liberal institutionalism and, as a result, stellantis doesn't go out of business despite the existence of the mopar ecosystem, thus heralding the century of the chinese automotive industry" was, i will admit, not on my bingo card

congrats to the worm man. you did it. and i hope people remember your name.

Ian Wurman today:

oh are these attacks why every company's npm shit is getting hacked and leaked

to be clear, as other's have noted: I don't think this is the end of this story, and (despite trump's longstanding view that the strait has never been our problem) the troops we're surging into the theater are a bit of a tell. trump may well be singing a different tune when TSMC runs out of helium

note: payment in RMB. didn't think trump had the "begin the end of the petrodollar" dawg in him, but apparently www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

so we're just going to get a complete cut-and-run and leave the global oil market in abject chaos. catastrophic defeat for the united states www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

whatever happened to saves the day (band)? at your funeral is cathartic f i r e

this is on the same level if @professormusgrave.bsky.social does a collaborative stream w westside gunn discussing political science i would retire from poasting simply cause the bar is so high as to be impossible

gonna be honest esteemed skeeters without you sung by either air supply or harry nilsson will always make me tear up a bit