When people link to a news media article and say “this should be a bigger story,” what do they mean? How does one measure story bigness? It’s already a news item (you linked to it) but what would need to happen for it to be sufficiently “big?”

Predictions of the Rapture remain undefeated in their wrongness.

For what it's worth, this isn't even the first time the Trump administration has called contraception 'abortifacient birth control'. They've been doing it as early as June but because no one thinks that's a big story, apparently, it went unnoticed

The Supreme Court is truly lawless at this point.

Kagan’s short dissent is unanswerable.

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Easily the most devastating argument against originalism.

To be fair, this is pretty representative of most anti-vaccination reasoning.

What is particularly "funny" to me is that universities before the current regime (even with all their diversity and ostensible progressivism) reliably posed no threat at all to capital or the national dominance of regressive politics, and yet that still wasn't enough somehow.

At Charlie Kirk's memorial, Christian artists play to role as GOP's political messengers religionnews.com/2025/09/22/a...

In stunning rebuke of Jesus' most important sermon, the current figurehead of American evangelical Christianity openly brags that he hates his enemies.

While the goal of infusing “biblical principles” into American civic life may seem innocuous to many Christians, it raises questions: Which biblical principles? Why those biblical principles? andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/five-eleme...

a substantial number of Episcopalians are most wary of language which strikes them as abstract

There are many different Christianities.

Cubs clinch a playoff spot then proceed to lose four games and abandon the division title chase. Inspiring!

Authoritarian theocrats in prestigious positions whose entire politics is “the state should force my religion on everyone,” which they rightly know sounds bad, so they use euphemisms “common good” and “civic purpose,” which they wrongly think sound good. Harvard law prof Adrian Vermeule is another.

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Presbyterian Pastor David Black in the trenches protesting ICE. Read liberation theologians like Gutierrez, Boff, and so many more. The time is already now. www.chicagofirstchurch.org/pastor-black/

LMAO WUT

New theology (generated via chatbot he apparently thinks is Jesus) just dropped.

“Bob Jones III, whose grandfather founded [Bob Jones University] in 1928, [said] the school is nonpolitical except when an outstanding candidate is on the ballot. [Then] the school endorses him, as it did with Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, and Strom Thurmond.”

Opportunities you could not imagine will open up at times you never could have predicted and you’ll diverge greatly from your original plans and it will turn out great.

You know that fatigued way your eyes feel after crying? My eyes feel like that all the time now even though I have not been crying. I’m sure this is fine.

make firm the feeble knees

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

this is absolutely wild the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a) so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

BREAKING: Judge Stephen Merryday strikes Trump's complaint against the NYT for being hot garbage — that is, for making a mockery of the rules for concise and precise pleading in federal court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Does your sense of the religiousness of the U.S. state you know best match up with what our data reveals? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Resolves the “stupid or evil?” question.

Thank goodness the Democrats dutifully restrained themselves in past years to prevent the Republicans from doing something like this.

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

In my culture it is extremely disrespectful to subject another person to AI-generated art or language.

People who think very highly of themselves in the most obnoxious ways cannot understand why nobody likes them so instead of some self-reflection and adjustment, they're just going to make it illegal to dislike them.

I've worked in writing -- academic, belle-lettrist, journalistic, technical -- all of my life and I still have no clue how paragraph transitions work. Every succesful paragraph transition is a gift that God grants in His mercy

among the sundry and manifold changes of the world

Anyway in other news today is Constitution Day

The problem with allowing most sectors of the economy to drift towards monopoly is that monopolies (and, by extension, their beholden, option-less customers) are easy for autocrats to manipulate and control.

Religiosity & gender attitudes go hand-in-hand. But which influences which? New study by McElroy et al. shows earlier gender views tend to predict religious trajectories more than the reverse (except for young women). Once again: Cultural/political conflicts --> Religion doi.org/10.1177/2378...

For some reason I don’t think they mean somebody like Žižek.

Looking at proofs for our forthcoming Kentucky employment law treatise and I honestly have no recollection of writing this 54-page chapter on state tort law. I know I did write it but this past summer was such a blur that my mind's eye sees only gray where memories of June and July should be.

Every last bit of the "free speech debate" in our major media outlets is made up of bad faith lying and double standards and everybody knows it but somehow nothing can make it stop.

This excellent reporting by @jwoodjourno.bsky.social probably won't help @govandybeshear.bsky.social podcast ratings. "Beshear’s staff declined to make the governor available for an interview despite repeated requests from The Courier Journal." www.courier-journal.com/story/news/i...

Adam eloquently describes a persistent frustration (resignation?) that I share: every time our leaders are presented with an important choice, they make the wrong one.

happy constitution day theonion.com/area-man-pas...

One insurance denial for Teressa's husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” ➡️ Full story: www.propublica.org/article/ment...