Fun facts about Shawn Copeland: - she uses as much Bernard Lonergan as she feels like and does not care if you find this stupid or great - she frightens me a bit (smartness intimidation check) - she never, ever remembers that we’ve already met. several times. many times. (I’m fine with this.)

I’ve been miserably sick all day. Yaaaaay. I realized belatedly I didn’t take a full dose of some daily medicine I need so it’s just pure bodily electro-chemical discord that thankfully only lasts a day. (What a day though.) Yaaaay. Bodies are great. The Lord made them for some reason.

On 2/17, Professor Emeritus M. Shawn Copeland will receive The Univ. of Scranton’s annual Pedro Arrupe, S.J. award for Distinguished Contributions to Ignatian Mission and Ministry. Dr. Copeland’s lecture is titled "Healing and Creating in History: The Redemptive Praxis of Christian Community.”

There was a big essay about it recently I enjoyed, positing her as suspended between two modes of heroism, and how informed that is by his studies and experience of war. acoup.blog/2026/01/03/n...

Weird situation in the propaganda battle since they've chosen to publicly signal hate for much of popular culture, while also refusing to claim "high art" as their own, and often deriding "high art" as lacking in trumpite volkishness instead. They come off bad no matter what pretty much

Back in the day racists weren’t one million percent bad at art. The colonial project — hell, the Crusades — were a march of horrors, but also had some cool art. Edgar Allan Poe is the haunted weirdo conscience of early America. Mark Twain is witty, human, and a problem. *These* guys are dipshits.

“I love Bad Bunny. He was in the WWE. Rick Flair was in one of his music videos.” (my favorite baseball podcast never fails me)

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

the UK with some real “shorter cycle of decline” energy I see.

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

I hate alcohol discourse on this website. You’re all annoying and unreasonable. Whatever your position.

If y'all wouldn't mind: share some of your favorite (and least favorite!) protest photos featuring Christianity in reply to this post. I'm hunting around to make a little slideshow for students to talk about some of the different religious stakes as interpreted by the various Christians.

Absolutely could not figure out a simple point system with which to meditate on the cost of safety for ancient societies by handing some decision-making about keeping their city "safe" to students. Oh well. I'm cool in the universe where I figured it out.

What really gets me about this particular space dreaming is its nihilism. Weirdly, Cold War entities doing space stuff is way less nihilistic. Sending lil’ robots to putter around Mars and scan stuff is way less nihilistic. And so on. It doesn’t crater Earth, for one thing.

Mars doesn’t have a magnetosphere. Before we talk oxygen, or terraforming, or literally anything else: remember that having a dynamic core is nice to protect from radiation and such. And imagine trying to make one of those. (The energy alone required??) … You know what else lacks a magnetosphere?

Dialoguing and Encountering back on the old hellsite

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

the next halftime show will be Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

It’s so funny to make the most intergenerational and family oriented halftime show in years to highlight how genuinely delusional (and fundamentally racist) MAGA culture war derangement is

“Love is greater than hate.” (everyone dances)

The Turning Point USA halftime show makes it clear: our multicultural society is keeping us from watching a guy dressed kinda like Ben Franklin play the violin not particularly well

It was kind of wholesome. A celebration of life in all its stages. I wonder if the electric pole number was a slight dig at Trump (thinking of that hurricane during Trump 1 and the power outages).

It’s absolutely bonkers how much Bad Bunny is signifying Puerto Rico specifically, which I am loving.

See, I was thinking it was racism.

Love this show.

also, the evil in LotR is way more Old Christian than pagan. A rebellious ambitious angel-like spirit who crafts, rather than a ring arising from eros and nature and revenge, like in Wagner

YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)

Karma - Do Ho Suh (2010)

I am against concentration camps. They are not good. In fact, the human ability to hold large numbers of other human beings in captivity with any degree of humane and responsible treatment is demonstrably and repeatedly terrible. So we shouldn’t do it. The end.

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

This seems very Gale to me.

Dramatic and radical compassion vs. acting like a school bully Just a real stark difference in moral maturity here.

Sir Thomas More and his family. Fantastic study for (alas!) now lost painting by Hans Holbein. So unusual as a family portrait, but then, this family was unusual too. Today is Thomas More's day.

I’d watch a BG3 sequel on HBO. And I don’t care if they pick or change an ending because the climax of that game and many of its major character choices were the stupidest things about it. In general I hate brains and squids, which was really unfortunate for me.

It’s kind of wonderful to have fellow feeling with a faraway crowd about America the contradictory symbol, the ally and the threat.

"Lonergan’s philosophy of history anticipates that, in situations like ours, things will get better before they get worse." @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social on how Bernard Lonergan can help us make sense of our chaotic present: www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-jonath...

Life drawing for Holbein's portrait of Thomas More, pricked for transfer. You didn't think More sat there for as long as it took to paint a portrait, did you? In the painting, More looks both sadder and more resolute.

Yeah. American apocalyptic thought as it developed in the 19th century really started to hone in on the idea of a single Antichrist, leaning into the Book of Revelation (which, to be clear, is unclear on this point). The epistles and Gospels assume there’ll be many deceptive Christ figures.

Hegseth treats getting a degree from Harvard like an ambassadorship of the military to Harvard (which is too “globalist” I guess, which is to say: too Jewish), and the essay casually mentions getting degrees for *employability after military service.* Fuck that I guess. apnews.com/article/harv...

They don’t actually interact much at all — I doubt Kara hates him; it’s just me — but the one time Jon tried to bond with her about messy childhoods she had a traumatic flashback and flew away. Good job, Jon! Good job!