A strategic conflation of moral and legal non-culpability that condemns the “enemy” and apotheosizes the “friend.” Trayvon? Legally non-culpable but morally suspect (because reasons). Ergo, legally culpable and rightfully killed. CK? Legally non-culpable and therefore also beyond moral reproach.

Local man shares ONE WEIRD TRICK for maintaining orthodoxy (Arminians *HATE* him): When asked about the Trinity, quote a relevant credal formulation. If pressed further on how this makes any sense whatsoever say: “It’s a mystery!”

Just heard the news about Jonathon Lear. His Freud and Philosophy course at U of C was a classic. I didn’t agree with him on some finer points, but he really broadened my sense of how to read and leverage psychoanalytic literature. Such an insightful and energetic teacher. What a loss.

TRUE LIBERALISM HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED! by Cass Sunstein

Tfw the dude trying to remove the katechon is trying to convince you the removing the katechon is the only thing that can prevent the removal of the katechon.

I have this problem where I have several book proposal ideas and I keep skipping from one to the other and not getting any of them actually done. I swear it is pathological. I need some grad students to pass half-baked ideas to.

I have this problem where I have several book proposal ideas and I keep skipping from one to the other and not getting any of them actually done. I swear it is pathological. I need some grad students to pass half-baked ideas to.

French President Emmanuel #Macron: "All lives are equally valuable. And the duty that we all have is to protect one another – a duty that is indivisible, just like our humanity.." "I declare that, today, France recognizes the State of Palestine."

Tfw the dude trying to remove the katechon is trying to convince you the removing the katechon is the only thing that can prevent the removal of the katechon.

"the fascist international must be defeated. what do you mean this also includes my favorite apartheid state?"

“Yes, Kissinger was directly responsible for the deaths of some 3-4 million people. But he came to my book launch which was really nice and made me feel important. So I don’t wanna say anything bad about him.”

“Yes, Kissinger was directly responsible for the deaths of some 3-4 million people. But he came to my book launch which was really nice and made me feel important. So I don’t wanna say anything bad about him.”

Good God

TRUE LIBERALISM HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED! by Cass Sunstein

Time to posit the I (…I posited the I)

Absolutely nothing to do with the harrowing events of the day: I hate that “performative” has come to mean “not genuine” or “for the benefit of an audience.” The technical philosophical and linguistic significance is being totally lost. We are nearing a “begging the question” type situation 😔

“He’s not a freak, Daddy! He’s a body without organs, and I love him!”

Age Verification? I remember smoking cigarettes in the video rental store

“Everything is not enough and nothing is too much to bear.”

Bingo

Ahh yes. Known democrats, GWAR

“US envoy Toma Bouraq then followed with a brief explanation of how WVO Quine’s discussions of ‘indeterminacy of translation’ affects his view of foreign policy.”

Just heard the news about Jonathon Lear. His Freud and Philosophy course at U of C was a classic. I didn’t agree with him on some finer points, but he really broadened my sense of how to read and leverage psychoanalytic literature. Such an insightful and energetic teacher. What a loss.

Local man shares ONE WEIRD TRICK for maintaining orthodoxy (Arminians *HATE* him): When asked about the Trinity, quote a relevant credal formulation. If pressed further on how this makes any sense whatsoever say: “It’s a mystery!”

“US envoy Toma Bouraq then followed with a brief explanation of how WVO Quine’s discussions of ‘indeterminacy of translation’ affects his view of foreign policy.”

Ahh yes. Known democrats, GWAR

Gonna need to read this one

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's the culminating day of our Twentieth Biennial Conference in Gettysburg. After hearing from Jesse Mann on Birgitta of Sweden, we're now learning from Ben Crosby on Julian of Norwich, Francesco Bossoletti on infinite vision, & Joseph Ahmad on Bonaventure.

In this fascinating essay from 1943, “Acephalic Mysticism,” Nicolas Calas compares Georges Bataille’s “Guilty” and André Breton’s “Arcane 17” in order to adjudicate whether “the Hegelian conception of the hero must be opposed to the Nietzschean Unknown Victim and to New Gods.” Some passages:

Bingo

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

A strategic conflation of moral and legal non-culpability that condemns the “enemy” and apotheosizes the “friend.” Trayvon? Legally non-culpable but morally suspect (because reasons). Ergo, legally culpable and rightfully killed. CK? Legally non-culpable and therefore also beyond moral reproach.

“Everything is not enough and nothing is too much to bear.”

I think quite a bit about commenting on student work. It is, in some ways, the most consistently onerous part of the job of instruction, but, to me, that labor is not detached from the broader project of learning in a way that makes it impossible to comment on student work with a tool. brief 🧵 1/5

they mean difficult like Derrida, right? ...right?

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

The deadline for our CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026 is fast approaching! We are organizing a panel series on “In & Out of Time: Mystics and Holy Persons Engaging with Time”. Abstracts due by September 22, 2025. We can't wait to see them! #MysticsandTime #Mysticism #medievaltwitter

My flowers for Feast of the Holy Cross; red anemone, carnation, and love-lies-bleeding

Age Verification? I remember smoking cigarettes in the video rental store

“He’s not a freak, Daddy! He’s a body without organs, and I love him!”

A very long thread on Georges Bataille and Donald Trump

Big if true