Incredible game by HH ☘️

US Women's Curling dramatic OT advance --> US Women's Hockey dramatic OT Gold --> Alysa Liu's dramatic comeback Gold. Incredible Olympics Day

Oh ffs

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

The Olympics are the best. A week ago I forgot curling was a thing. Now I’m deeeeply invested in the American Curling K/Coreys

Macbeth: SHIT

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Me: I don't totally understand what I'm watching but I love it. Them: I don't totally understand what I'm watching so I hate it.

Here’s something (largely though not entirely personal) I wrote about reading Infinite Jest

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again. And nothing above is hyperbole. God, but you are not a leader for this time.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Yeah — this feels very prescient

Wrote about George Saunders’s new novel — and his literary project more broadly

After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…

Immigration is a net good. It improves the lives of the people who immigrate and the people in the areas the immigrate to. Supporting immigration is both morally and economically sound and a good government would encourage and facilitate it instead of making it as difficult as possible

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Due to weather, we’re closed all day today, Jan 25. Stay safe and perhaps read a great book like George Orwell’s 1984, which includes poignant and relevant quotes such as, “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

are they not monsters?

2026 national title run starts now ☘️ #goirish

Wow

"Lord, if you're listenin..."

the leaders of the civil rights era could not propose or veto legislation. they had no "power." but they had legitimacy because they were out there. Letter from a Birmingham Jail was written...FROM JAIL. But with these guys "Hey it's crazy right now and we can't do much, but give us money." LOL ok.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Reviewed the (great) new book by @themountaingoats.bsky.social for America

I wrote about the most thought provoking show of the year whttps://jesuitmedialab.org/pluribus-and-the-gift-of-ambiguity/e

Reviewed @rianjohnson.bsky.social ‘s new Knives Out (it’s fantastic)

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

I keep coming back to this: Notre Dame's two losses were by a combined four points. Their most recent loss was on September 14th. Alabama lost by 21 yesterday.

There's reason to rank ND ahead (especially if, like me, you're not an "h2h is everything" person), and there's reason to rank Miami ahead. Pushing Miami ahead after neither of them played a game and only ND's résumé changed even slightly (for the better) makes me insane. bsky.app/profile/coun...

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Ooof Liverpool 😔

Post a movie where you are from

America in late 2025: “Every American must unite and condemn the President's calls for our murder.”

Thoughts on Frankenstein, Pluribus, and the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social album and Quan Barry novel

Wishing a joyous 83rd birthday to the legendary Martin Scorsese!

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

Frankenstein review — if you want to watch Oscar Isaac be Victor Frankenstein in a really great movie…watch Ex Machina

On some level, I’m always looking for works that capture the feel of the opening of The Stand. Pluribus episode 1 delivers

ahhhh that one beautiful day when it felt like these people finally became a punchline rather than a threat, that the whole world could see these halfwits couldn't even organize a press conference let alone run a whole country then 4 years later they're back failing to run the country again

Wrote about the 🌊 and collective online joy (and why AI sucks, and why the ability to correctly interpret a story matters)

If I had a shitload of money and wished to hasten the arrival of the Kingdom of God I would simply follow the clearly labeled instructions by housing immigrants, freeing prisoners, and so forth

Great mail day, @sheaserrano.bsky.social !

In which I rank the stages of the writing process on a ten point scale

I assume we’ll figure out a way to keep playing USC, but if we don’t, glad to get the final W. Go Irish ☘️