Now this is just me, but I wouldn’t mock the God of Abraham on Easter Sunday

I've said it before, but Francis backed Leo because Leo is a better diplomat than he was. Francis spoke off the cuff too much, and he knew it. Leo chooses his words carefully, but this is not just knowing when and how to duck. He seems to understand force and how much he can get away with.

This is one of the reasons I canvass for her. It's fun to talk to people about what's she's done in Frankfort, and what she'll do in DC.

This is about astrophysics and AI, but any teacher on any level in any field should read this for the same reason that you should read anything: it's true, it's beautiful, and it's good. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Minas Karamanis dropping BARS. "We have built an entire evaluation system around counting things that can be counted, and it turns out that what actually matters is the one thing that can't be."

Since Liberation Day, a year ago today: * US foreign direct investment is lower * US factories employ 89,000 fewer people * US goods trade deficit is UP 2% @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

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Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Trump on Fox just now: “I’m more popular than I’ve ever been” The circa-2024 Biden was less senile than this.

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

As long as you stay curious, you won't ever get stuck. www.gq.com/story/jay-z-...

"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."

The only disappointing thing about @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social conversation with @mattsitman.bsky.social and @samadlerbell.bsky.social was that there was absolutely no discussion of the NY Mets. Gentlemen, I expect that on Mr Kristol's next visit.

“A veteran of Iraq like Mr. Hegseth should know better. The enemy always gets a vote, and even after a victorious campaign, the effect of war on a population may have complex, unwanted and sometimes catastrophic consequences” I wrote about Iran for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

It's March 21, 2026, and people still pretending there is logic to Trump flailing.

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

Me watching Hector walk out to fight Achilles by himself

60 days until the primary. KY-06 is on the DCCC's radar. Cook Political calls it a real opportunity. But national buzz means nothing without local fuel. That's you. $5, $25, $50 — every dollar funds the fight. We are this close. secure.actblue.com/donate/cs_we...

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

I’m actually amazed that human minds can generate, hold on to, and multiply so many opinions, as if occasionally saying “I don’t know” were a shameful admission of human failure. It’s actually a noble expression, sobering, and more true than a lot of things we commonly say.

It's interesting because like, part of US soft power has always been sports. *Everyone* on earth knew about Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali. You'd have to try hard to fuck this up, and the US is managing to do it.

Happy to say this is a good St. Patrick's Day homily, too.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

He'll be quoting Joyce and Herbert McCabe and spitting out Kneecap and Fontaines DC lyrics. You know every woman under 40 in Brooklyn who voted for him (to be clear, that's all the women in Brooklyn under 40) loves Sally Rooney.

You know what book, written before 1910, has absolutely no introspection? Augustine's Confesions.

TIL that a student appreciated my explanation of the resurrected body as "you, but glowed up."

[Sade voice 🎵]

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

Pour McCabe l'amour humain est une route de campagne, qui peine pour gravir les collines. Parfois elle dégringole joyeusement dans les vallées. Il arrive qu'elle doive prudemment contourner la propriété d'un puissant. L'amour divin, lui est une AUTOROUTE. Droite. Lisse. Indifférente. Destructrice.

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

I once told my son that Bernie Sanders was actually a millionaire. He asked why. I told him that Sanders had written a book. "You wrote a book, and you're not a millionaire," my son replied.

“The Constitution vests the power of declaring War with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorised such a measure.” —George Washington to William Moultrie, 28 August 1793

i’m beaned up rn

Tbh, I'm kinda disappointed that Chris Hayes, NYC kid, Hunter College High School alumnus, really smart guy, doesn't know that the East River is technically a straight.

with wapo advocating for regime change in cuba, it's never been a better time to divest from all amazon products and services

For 2024, the *household* income quintiles were Top: 175k+ 2nd: 105-175k 3rd: 65k-105k 4th: 34.5k-65k Lowest: 0-34.5k Obviously somewhat subjective to living area, but most upper-income folks have very little sense of where they sit.

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this about a week after 9/11 and god he nailed it

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Something I find particularly interesting and telling about the consciousness BS is that it’s pretty clear these people think consciousness is about language use. But it isn’t! My cat is almost certainly conscious, but she cannot use language at all.

Just found a piss-poor rewrite of this article by an "AI" "reporter" so I'm going to re-up it again. Because while LLMs can write as poorly as the best of us, only we humans can get the info in the first place.

Hegseth has offered more clarity on his war on the Boy Scouts than on the current war with Iran.

It would be good to read the USCCB amicus brief in defense of birthright citizenship. For one thing it reminds us that the 14th Amendment was a deliberate reversal of the dreaded Dred Scott decisión denying citizenship to slaves and their children. 1/5 www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Teach and learn and know hope.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.