Instead of shivering with dread at the hellfire Kirk revival, better to know that white Evangelicals are surprisingly off-putting to a majority of Americans outside their faith. (This fact can be weirdly hard for intellectuals in US and elsewhere to accept) www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

"Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike...long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome." apnews.com/article/ital...

Now that’s what I call a pivot

the end of their sentence. For a closer look at the problems, and some proposals to start addressing the issues identified, the report is available here: www.nacdl.org/Document/Emp...

Thanks to Walter Pavlo & @forbes.com for highlighting my new report with @nacdl.org on the failures of criminal restitution. Rather than satisfactorily compensating crime victims, it enmeshes people owing restitution debt in the criminal legal system long past…1/2 www.forbes.com/sites/walter...

Juicy con law hurdle to the Zucman tax. I hope they leap over it gracefully like a socialist gazelle-- www.reuters.com/business/fin...

DOG BITES MAN IN SHOCK TO NATION!!!! www.reuters.com/world/france...

New from me @prospect.org: the collusion between lawmakers, regulators and executives was out in the open at Anthony Scaramucci’s unhinged crypto conference in Wyoming last month.

"every stupid idea Trump has is actually kind of brilliant" There I've written the Washington posts editorials for the next 4 years.

"Cycling isn’t just good for the planet, your wallet and your fitness. Choosing this form of transportation for your errands instead of driving or taking the train may also help you prevent cognitive decline, a recent study found." www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/h...

a day of protest in brasil.

"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."

What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish

RFKJr’s shocking lack of empathy for CDC staff who were shot at or the police officer who died defending them isn’t the worst thing he has done but it might be the most revealing. Stone-cold sociopath

My thought when I watch any US sport

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Most Americans do no want our country to be a sleaze-ridden megachurch. Progs, rads and mods all need to remember this as we boldly go forth

I really do not think that the 65-70% of the US electorate that is not hard MAGA is going to look at this kind of thing and be able to relate to the aesthetics of it socially, politically, or religiously

Indeed. Will rotisserie right next to Spelman in the sweet hereafter 🔥

Instead of shivering with dread at the hellfire Kirk revival, better to know that white Evangelicals are surprisingly off-putting to a majority of Americans outside their faith. (This fact can be weirdly hard for intellectuals in US and elsewhere to accept) www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

By the time commentators were warning that Kirk’s murder heralded a new wave of violence, extremist activism on the ground was at a multiyear low, according to ACLED. interc.pt/47L3q3e

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

This is who the Archbishop of New York called “a modern-day Saint Paul” and a “hero.” What a fuck-you to the tens of thousands of Haitian-American Catholics in the tri-state area! nypost.com/2025/09/19/u...

I volunteered for the District 7 recount today, and recounts are so fascinating because you get to see how every possible ballot combination that can exist, will exist, and how so many voters make absolutely no sense. 10/10 Would do again.

I agree that we need to apologize for the excesses of wokism. Specifically everyone in 2019 who told their friends to watch Nanette.

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

Parole has fallen across the country in recent years as parole boards have succumbed to political pressure and media narratives that stoke fears about crime.

My sense is that Schumer feels bitter and betrayed by his party owing to collapsed support for arming Israel, and is happy to get some petty-old-man revenge by withholding support from the 33yr old nonzionist Dem Socialist

Doomerism is a bore. Best response to Trumpish revanchism is resolute calm, unity, and aggressive, risk-tolerant counterpunching

I'm going to be laughing about this line from Lucien Freud for the rest of my life www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My friend @jonahblank.bsky.social knows Afgh and its region very well. As a scholar. As a working reporter and book-writer. As a government official. Thread very much worth reading. Whoever wrote and approved this lunatic editorial for the WaPo should at least put his/her name behind it.

New family member Jasper at the “pulled taffy” phase of his cat-dolescence

It would be nice if “Congress” had “abdicated” but that is not the case; the party with a slim majority in both chambers is actively assenting to this executive’s agenda and methods. That’s rather different, and significantly worse

Speaking of canceling your Disney+ subscription, my students occasionally think I’m going some sort of “Irish people invented everything” bit when I first tell them where the word “boycott” comes from.

Loudmouth Charles Sumner and the RADICAL LEFT kept pushing and pushing, insulting the GREAT STATE of South Carolina. They shouldn't be surprised that someone did something about it! We don't want to see violence but enough was enough!

My review of Kerry James Marshall’s stunning 2016 show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for @monde-diplomatique.fr mondediplo.com/2016/12/11ma...

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

Kirk’s phrase “false God of a race-obsessed modernity” has a certain ring to it, but I don’t think it accurately describes MLK’s vision.

Learned so much from Sandipto. Check it out!

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

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Here's what chronic under-funding/neglect has done: my dept is down 8 TT faculty as peeps quit & lines are not replaced. Fin aid, academic advising, fiscal and business + other units all under-staffed, making it harder for students, remaining taff to operate. Infrastructure crumbling. ⬇️ morale.

Inspiring to see the Post acquire a whole new vice – Hindutva 🥲

“Though most Poles hate Russia, many devote more energy to hating other Poles.”

Abolishing ICE is just minimal human decency.

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

As addictive as high elected office is, the intense dislike for this 74-year-old that I see erupting from moderate liberals (arriving about 23 years later than it should have, but that’s the normie Dem for you) cannot be lost on his pollsters or even on him

I’ll be surprised if Schumer runs again in 2028