Cannot stress how much modern sports betting has ruined the experience of communally following and watching sports.

sitting in quiet contemplation of the bleakness of everything

If the Vatican officially endorses the moral and legal travesty that is the Trump Gaza plan, I will have a genuine crisis of faith.

J.R.R. Tolkien, commonly known in the fantasy world as “the Catholic Brandon Sanderson”

Pete Hegseth talks like someone who has never had his friend come home in a body bag.

I refuse to believe this isn’t a joke

Herman Melville published his first novel 179 years ago and this is like ten pages in:

Everyone is a Laws of War officer

Has anyone done the math on how many millions of dollars Hegseth wasted flying in every general from around the world to tell them they need a haircut?

I like my job and it helps make the world a better place but every day I think about how I could have just lived near the water and worked on a boat instead.

I’m starting a therapy service for kids whose sociopathic parents paid $900,000 to turn them into a business grindset freak and convince them to get into painting or something instead.

Genuinely thought this was satire.

Reminder that everyone in that chain of command is criminally liable under both international and US law.

Tell me your favorite genre and I’ll tell you my favorite book in that genre

One of the most confusing aspects of the Trump administration to me is how Stephen Miller, the world’s least likable and unremarkable man, who is openly detested by his coworkers and everyone who had known him in the past, somehow runs the entire government.

Had a dream that Wendell Berry created a social media account right before he died and his only post was this meme

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days” It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

Need someone to do a wellness check on me tomorrow

Describe your theology in a tweet

The Trump administration authorized the military to use “full force” against American citizens. Here’s a thought. Why don’t you use “full force” to lower the price of milk.

24 hours after revoking the Colombian president’s visa for telling US troops not to shoot civilians if Trump orders them to.

Everyone says “Jake, Jake, you should watch more movies” and then I go watch Aftersun and now I have to go lie down for several months

Gonna be a lot of really interesting, really quiet hotel bar conversations among the generals after this meeting.

To be clear, he was urging US soldiers not to commit war crimes if ordered to by Trump.

Would be grateful for your prayers that I’m able to reverse a bad situation before it gets worse.

All of this is obviously fake and dumb and future generations (if any exist) will look back in horror on this.

It’s deeply funny that hundreds of generals and admirals with 30+ years of military service are going to get lectured about warrior ethos by a TV anchor who did a few years in the National Guard in between stints at Bear Stearns

If you said this to any founding father they would sh**t you with a musket

There’s no reforming this.

Describing my taste in books

To be clear, the gazan aid flotilla was attacked by drones here, hundreds of miles from Israel. This is after they reported similar harassment/attacks off the coast of Tunisia (even further away) Israel is attacking civilians (including European and US civilians) far from its borders with impunity

I’m sure this won’t be deeply stupid.

The Sisters of Charity in New York publicly rebuked Cardinal Dolan for going on FOX and Friends and gushingly praising Charlie Kirk as the modern day St. Paul, reaffirm their mission to minister to the poor and marginalized and to defend the dignity of LGBTQ+ communities

My kids have both looked at me in the last week and asked me why I was sad, and I don’t know what to say

The Sudanese city El-Fasher has been besieged for 500+ days and the quarter million people inside (half of them children) are starving. In two weeks Gaza will hit two years of unrelenting genocide and ethnic cleansing. 20,000 children murdered with my government’s explicit and material support.

There’s a whole book about this.

This is, to be clear, a lie.

If you lose your place in an audiobook you might as well just quit reading it

Word on Fire is fully bought into the Reichstagsbrand

Evergreen invite

If you want a personalized excerpt from an unhinged Greek Orthodox socialist, lemme know

I’m not saying it’s good that Kazantzakis has been so formative in my spiritual life, I’m just saying it happened

Threw up in my mouth a lil bit

I understand the physics of it but it still feels wrong that in certain conditions you can sail faster going against the wind than you can sail with the wind.

So cool that our ambassador to Türkiye and special envoy to Syria is a corrupt real estate mogul who is equal parts racist and ignorant.

Dangit.

Which makes it all the more infuriating when nobody ever pushes back in the slightest.

There was a meeting last week where someone legitimately asked what color fireworks were most appropriate for a memorial service.

When was the last time a Catholic in Barron’s diocese has seen him?

Immediately after college, Stephen Miller’s parents bought him a half-million dollar condo in DC and he started working as a press secretary. He has literally built nothing, produced nothing, and created nothing in his entire career.