"Instead, liberal Protestants like Talarico have ended up affirming as good and true whatever polite tastes require and abandoning any aspect of Christian teaching that appears to stand in the way of progress."

Can attest to this firsthand, my team advises 65% of all pre-major students at UVA A&S. Students love classes where they engage with texts, people, and ideas. They are going back to flip phones here! Very few people want to be on line for class

"This is just to say I have eaten all the plums in the ice box... but if you get hungry I saved a half for you, it's in the fridge with a little note on it."

Arguing that a group is not discriminated against by asserting that a few members' relatively advantaged position proves that the rest are not victims of discrimination is what we call...damn, I can't remember the word for it.

~*~screams in Gender *and* Religious Studies~*~

I'm working on a book outline that argues democracies rely on the constraint of power through functional verification, deliberation and accountability and how thats been hollowed out and captured in the US, and he just tweets it out.

If anyone wasn't of the belief that he's trying to create a state-run media, the fact that he shared this should take care of any hesitation on that front.

It honestly doesn't have enough content to be truly offensive. Even the pro forma AI hype just sounds like them going through the motions. Our real crisis is letting know-nothings like this establish themselves as educational sages to sell books and roll in consulting fees.

To put this in language that members of this administration can understand: Pete Hegseth is scared of a girl.

"But my fee fees" also counts as evidence, checkmate.

This is too much fun. Somewhere I have the original FOI zip of all of the announcements. My favourite (and message tone for a while) was no 0051, "please ignore any information currently displayed".

It’s not the Zionism. It’s the Judaism. Link to full essay here: charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/its-the-ju...

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

I am 100% convinced the current Secretary of Defense has no clue what "no quarter" means outside of an action movie he saw at age 12 and is parroting now (against international law) because "warriors men strong war words good."

I know a grandfatherly emeritus state bar association president (with assorted other pillar-of-the-community credentials I wish I could mention without identifying him because he's a paragon of respectability to the point of it being actually comical) who is 100% down for guillotining some bitches.

Accurate. At a panel yesterday on customs enforcement, I had someone ask me if we should be encouraging all our clients to register their marks with CBP so that they would be too busy doing brand enforcement to go shoot immigrants. My answer: fuck, give it a shot. Who knows.

It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business. A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.

New from 404 Media: the removed DOGE deposition videos have already been backed up across the internet. A judge ordered their removal from YouTube on Friday. By Saturday, the videos were available on the Internet Archive and as a torrent file www.404media.co/the-removed-...

If your Oil & Gas Megacorp isn't already aggressively pursuing this then you're already falling behind.

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

Sorry to hear about Habermas, but...thought he had already gone? Anyway, RIP king.

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

the speed at which I unfollow somebody who recommends anything written or said by ross douthat is preternatural

can this be a solution?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o... Crazy story about Grammarly (bad) creating fake editor versions of real authors without their knowledge.

The first time I saw a cargo ship I was at a Charleston beach and I thought when I first saw it it would be in the harbor in a couple of minutes. It took an hour and a half. It was so big I could see it coming from an hour and a half away.

Saying a quick prayer for my Scottish friend watching the Six Nations Ireland vs. Scotland match in Boston this morning.

Siri, what invaluable resource does the United States export that the Trump administration sabotaged, while at the same time implementing a suicidal tariff policy?

"Motion to Quash" under a gavel being the best self-aware-liberal, anti-fascist t-shirt idea produced by the Trump 2.0 era so far.

Same energy.

I think it’s a particularly American thing. Our sense of humor is very stuck in an adolescent phase.

Holy shit, he just came up with a dystopia more dystopian than anything I've ever read or seen.

Shhhhhhhhhut the fuck up

Being attracted to the "frisson of transgression" is something we forgive because it's when 15 yos sneak out of their parents house to go joyriding, not when adults join and prop up fascist cults, which is what we call evil.

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

I'd love a long read on exactly what in God's name happened to the ADL jewishinsider.com/2026/03/adl-...

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Nazi on trial at Nuremberg: "You cannot hold me accountable for my actions, I was just following orders." DOGE staffer: "You cannot hold me accountable for my actions because I am so fucking stupid I didn't even understand the orders."

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

This is correct.

Here's my idea about writing: If you hate to write, don't write. And here's my idea about reading: If you can't read, STFU about writing.

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Indeed, assuming this represents current policy, it is an open admission that the regime change effort has failed, de-nuclearization is likewise impossible or impractical and the only objective that remains is to extricate from a costly failure.

Yes, you are mentally paralyzed and psychologically traumatized by the satanic prayer wheel of dystopian events you cannot escape, but also, you are dehydrated.

A third sovereignty concern: your contractor is your ideological enemy, deeply embedded in government, with more resources than many nation states, and willing to use his power to undermine your policy goals. I don't think Dems have thought through if and how they would dislodge such contractors.

Heavens yes, get their asses. (Our Lord and) King shit. *(gift link)*

Ah yes, the NYT reporting on the controversial politics effects of literally time just passing.

I wrote about the Republican Party’s historical trajectory: From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump. How the hell did we end up here? Some thoughts from my new piece - an attempt to identify key moments and dynamics in the history of the modern Right: 🧵

What is it about our society that leads us to desire being lectured at constantly like we're waxing nostalgic for Sunday school?

Just so y'all know, it's not real, noteworthy violence if no white people died. It's just sparkling racism.