Over the weekend, we wrote about how dozens of judges have found ICE's new detention policy — seeking to lock up millions of people facing deportation without a chance for bond — is illegal. Last night, four more judges added to the growing list: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Art-Deco Gangster (Bride of) Frankenstein Movie? Yes plz. youtu.be/hE-Kgxge8a4?...

BREAKING: Two of the three people shot at a Dallas ICE facility are dead, officials say. All three people shot were detainees at the facility, an ICE spokesperson says.

This conversation is very crass (CW: sex & love addiction), & folks are justified to have strong feelings about these guys, but also I’m glad that folks in their audience are being exposed to their account of encountering their own powerlessness & the help they were able to find youtu.be/O-L001RGw0g

"Ayala-Uribe is now the 14th detainee to die in immigration detention since January"

I’ve said this before, but I made what turned out to be a very savvy decision to focus on the boring stuff over the sexy stuff in philosophy grad school. I was operating on the theory that if it’s pretty boring and people still fuck with it, there’s likely some substance there.

One big difference btwn 2 kids and 3 kids is when I had 2 kids, I still sometimes ironed my shirts

The macros on Transparent Labs protein powder are *so* good, I genuinely don’t get their entry into the protein bar market: 270 cal, 15g protein 17g of fat protein bar, at the same price point as the 150 cal/28g protein David bar. What are they thinking?

I wouldn’t say I’m a liberal Catholic, but I am a Catholic liberal and so I will further say: liberalism is for persons

Look, when I converted to Catholicism, I knew how the rapture was gonna shake out for me.

This is grounded in a Christian metaphysical commitment at least as old as St. Augustine, that being, the true, and the good are coterminous and that evil is a privation of being (an absence of something which ought to be).

ABCNews is reporting that the 14 African migrants DHS deported to Ghana have now all been forwarded to the home countries from whom US immigration judges had granted them protection due to credible fears of persecution, torture, or death. abcnews.go.com/amp/Internat...

I take the even stronger position, as you probably have heard me say ad nauseam, that what is evil is always also stupid and the evil-er it is, the stupider in direct proportion.

“Jesus, we need more wine over here!” “On it Mom!”

leaving this here as a service to the tragically uninitiated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Il...

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

So…Aaron Glenn’s sideline celebration is 🔥🔥🔥 with Earth, Wind & Fire attached to it.

Got completely dressed after the gym and realized my shirt has a small but prominent stain, but I just can’t be bothered to change. 🤷‍♂️

Say what you will about George W Bush, but he could duck a shoe

No one let DBH find out about this or it’ll be a 9 part series on his substack

I mean surely The Simpsons answered this question for us.

Oh and Mary making sure everyone has had enough to eat

I’m not exactly sure what Catholic heaven consists in, but I know it’s def got espresso, tacos, and an open bar.

This is where Lonergan’s argument about the change in the West’s culture of knowledge and notion of science becomes really relevant and interesting to me. He’s outside the direct battle, but also at the Gregorian writing manuals, so he’s sort of sniper-locked on a fundamental, emergent issue.

I think, post-council, there was a tendency to hunt for which magisterial genius one was going operate beneath, but Anne & my generation has circled back to these guys to say “what if they’re very smart & so very helpful insofar as they facilitate answering particular, live questions?”

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In a July sit-down with Crux, Pope Leo XIV said his Black ancestry is part of an ethnic and experiential tapestry giving him "a real appreciation for the wonderful wealth of traditions and cultures and languages that make up the world and, of course, the Church."

We keep to the old ways here

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Bernard Lonergan stop reading my diary cataloguing the slow death of the humanities and the sciences to Business Majors and MBAs.

"If you conceive philosophy simply as a matter of eternal, timeless truths... such philosophy cannot be timely; it is timeless." Lonergan, *Topics in Education*, 21

elite decadence (disney) vs popular anti-authoritarian vitality (disney adults)

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Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

"Specialization very easily results in a notion of education as the information belt supplying students w/ a great number of pieces & leaving to them the task of putting together what the professors cannot put together themselves." Lonergan, *Topics in Education*, 17

"If (one's philosophy of education) appeals simply to what is immutable, then one appeals to what holds equally for (every age). And that is not meeting the challenge. It grounds an abstract education for abstract human beings." Lonergan, *Topics in Education*, 9

this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.

Literally God damn

This is what I have in mind when I lament the tendency to use the term “orthodoxy” to refer to holding certain positions on controversial points of moral theology regarding sex/gender and not, say, the dogmatic definitions re: Trinity, Christology, or—in this case—soteriology

Endorsements are up for "Christological Dogmatics" on amazon: tinyurl.com/mudt9ts2 I asked people who wrote some of the best and most stimulating works I read in writing the book. I'm thankful they were willing to say something nice about my work.

A new interview with Msgr Richard Liddy by Jon Radwan here at @setonhall.bsky.social. Msgr Liddy recently finished a book about Bernard Lonergan's relationship to St. John Henry Newman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eQc...

I'm not a big starbucks guy, but I owe a debt to their single-use sriracha packets.

Fr. Henri Nouwen was right: “What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.”

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What are your favorite secondary texts on Vatican II? I'm working on two different Vatican II lectures in the next couple weeks and am happy for further suggestions

Make Congress a Coequal Branch of Govt Again