Belief: (still) today’s issue!

I’m just gonna leave this right here… www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-jonath...

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

Seems like it might be a good time for everyone to revisit my reporting on the Coffee County voting system breach and my analysis of the FBI’s affidavit in support of its search at the Fulton County elections hub: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what... www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fult...

Belief: once again today’s issue

Yoon literally nearly kicked off WW3 based on conspiracy theories from YouTube he'd completely destroyed his mind with.

sound familiar, anyone?

The U.S. has a robust military justice system and civilian courts (so far), so complementarity would ordinarily protect U.S. service-members, police, government officials, AS LONG AS WE GENUINELY INVESTIGATED AND PROSECUTED WHEN THE FACTS SUPPORTED THE CHARGES.

*Banging on the cell bars* YOON, YOON, YOON, YOON!

Admittedly, for someone who grew up in the 90s, it was a little disorienting to watch the left wing of American politics become moralistic, but really the whole thing boiled down to conservatives screaming “why won’t liberals acknowledge there are moral absolutes?” And then “Oh no no not like that!”

the answer is bexause the author of this article is party to many crimes of an international nature

While doing my PhD studies, I often felt like… not a imposter, but an interloper bc my primary training & interests were in philosophy. I kind of got over that for about a decade but lately the felt-sense of disciplinary alienation has been creeping back in around the edges

Lonergan on the “Question of God” in his *Method in Theology*

One of the chapters in the philosophy of the university book I’m writing makes an argument that theology departments (VERY broadly construed) should exist in every university, including the secular ones, & I am *extremely* curious to see what people make of that

Second best minivan dad joke I’ve seen, bested only by the below, which I prefer for professional reasons:

JUST IN: 13th straight rejection of DOJ's legal effort to compel states to turn over their voter rolls. George W. Bush-appointed Judge Thomas Johnston wonders what DOJ is really driving at. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal law enforcement authorities have turned over previously withheld evidence connected to the shootings of three Minnesotans by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge. The evidence includes body camera footage and Renee Good’s vehicle.

😳 youtu.be/qORTe1wW3Wg

Appreciate a dem running in Texas who will say this so bluntly

This Billy Madison reboot sounds dope

you’re saying that “cocaine leftist raccoon vibes” is your reason for *not* reading zizek?

OK I decided to test-run this ultra-elaborate labor history simulation if I can recruit enough people. It's for sickos. 8/28-30, all virtual (some synchronous). Based on Durban mass strike of 1973, demanding of time within that window. Below are intro doc and intake questionnaire if you want to join

This is Correct™️, but also if you paid me what they pay The Rock to be The Rock, I fear that I too would simply be The Rock

Sam Neill was such a wonderful proxy for the audience in Hunt for Red October, committed to Ramius, but also concerned for him. A soft human center to a film full of ambitious, hard-charging men.

If you’re looking for a Sam Neill tribute watch this evening, can I recommend this gorgeous film and performance?

Sam Neill truly was a legend. One of my favourite movie details is the patch on his sleeve in Event Horizon which he requested because he was a supporter of Aboriginal rights.

Woke up with this firmly in my head

Well, I didn’t get all the laundry done but I *did* eat a lot of kettle corn, so all in all I think the day has to be marked a success.

I like to deactivate for long stretches of time, but the problem is that the things I would otherwise release from my consciousness by posting them instead just rattle around in my head, like a handful of nickels clanging around in a dryer.

It can't be easy to walk away from a job but we should be grateful when civil servants decide their oath to the Constitution really means something

Another thing you notice in these 90s action movies is how the SWAT aesthetic hasn’t been displaced by the GWOT aesthetic yet.

Btw, this movie poster font isn’t actually the font used in the title sequence, which unfortunately looks like shit by comparison

Putting on Speed for a little bit before bed. This soundtrack is hype af. Zimmer clearly steals bits of it for The Rock a couple years later.

Not the same dynamic, but makes me think of the church I went to in grad school for a while that was planted by guys from Missouri who wanted to evangelize “secular Boston” 🙃

Where my personal Marian piety found its initial footing: music.apple.com/us/album/mar...

I taught a Sunday school class on Augustine’s Confessions at the otherwise pretty chill pietist evangelical church I grew up in and got in trouble for defending his veneration of Mary as obviously not idolatry. 🙄

I talk about this as trading the Toyota of Christian Nationalism for the Lexus of Catholic Postliberalism

My mom spent the last decade or so of her career as a palliative care nurse for a big hospital system and she is very clear about how she does NOT want to spend her final years

If your aging parents watch a lot of political news, this is a prime week to start talking to them about life/health-span extending behaviors and/or their end-of-life wishes!

If you sign up for a gym, go to it several times a week, and take your headphones off/out, I defy you to avoid making friends. Now, many of them may be retirement aged**, but beggars can’t be choosers ** this may just be a function of the time of day when I attend to the gym

Among the several reasons I wish we weren’t treating the SSPX situation as something fun to watch with popcorn, the one I care most about is: central issues at stake do actually affect everyone.

Lonergan, late in his career, will sometimes borrow Fred Lawrence’s term “the Second Enlightenment” to refer to the cascade of developments running thru non-Euclidean geometries, evolutionary theory, relativity & esp quantum theories, & historical consciousness. He thinks it’s a big deal.

“The real reason the critic exists is to make friend with the new, because the new needs friends.” Patton Oswalt

From the last page of an earlier draft of Lonergan’s *Insight*: “Anyone that has found himself in error on one point can initiate a scrutiny that cumulatively will bring to light any other errors in which he happens to be involved. Nor will he labor alone in the purification of his own mind…”

As a certain Canadian Jesuit once said: objectivity is the fruit of authentic subjectivity

"The use of this system has become so pronounced that a new national campaign is set to debut this summer with the aim of ridding college campuses of Automatic License Plate Readers." Read the latest from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4h2vzaA

A wood block print of a guy getting tarred & feathered, w/ print that reads “become ungovernable”

A wood block print of a guy getting tarred & feathered, w/ print that reads “become ungovernable”

What’s an undeniably cringe-y bit of music that you can’t help loving? I’ll go first: Standing Outside the Fire by Garth Brooks