Good stuff. As an aside, I think there’s often a funhouse mirror thing at work here. Liberal universalism and post-liberal integralism share a mirror, whereas liberal pluralism’s FHM is post-liberal sectarianism.

this was supposed to be embargoed, but what the hell, here's his speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y6...

It's also just illiterate when it comes to the issues at hand. A central part of the YIMBY argument is that building more homes undermines the power of incumbent landlords and REITs.

Reuters: Russia recruited Moldovan priests to influence the parliamentary elections, paying them hundreds of dollars. It financed their pilgrimages to Moscow, which included anti-Western lectures, and asked them to spread propaganda on Telegram.

The administration celebrating Wounded Knee is congruent with the administration asking for dismissals or one-day sentences for cops convicted of civil rights violations. It’s part of a coordinated message. /1 apnews.com/article/woun...

This is a hugely important problem in reproducing modernity. Modern practices are guided by empirical evidence, which often yields counterintuitive results—results that may change. Traditional practices are informed by narratives, meaning that they’ll make a kind of sense in all times and places.

I SAID GET LIQUORED UP AND GO TO THE PEACHTREE DANCE* *is this the cure for male loneliness?

They already are. This topic is getting folks riled up here in Indiana. AES just increased prices again, and people are not happy.

“Freedom finds its limit in another freedom, and whatever happens freely marks of limitation and community.” Schleiermacher, _Soliloquies_

Collecting plastic. It’s PTA weekend!!

Probably no man bears more individual responsibility for electing Trump the first time, and this is also transparent bullshit bsky.app/profile/phil...

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

😳

An American libertarian is anyone who still can’t acknowledge a fundamental truth.

permission to lib out, sir

Bravo.

Welp, I read this, and now I feel worse

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

I’ve always liked reading Constant’s reflections on Rousseau, and his problems with JRR, as a descendants-of-Calvinists dispute.

"The applicability of the Danish Social Democratic strategy to the political situation in the UK is not self-evident. Rather, it serves as a warning that you cannot win over anti-immigration voters without simultaneously losing those who are pro-immigration." ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

good shit

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

Keep logging on, keep reading poasts. This too may happen to you.

Des Moines has you all beat

RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025), an icon of Italian cinema and the embodiment of postwar European glamour. Alongside her work with Fellini, Leone and Visconti she appeared in five Radiance releases, ranking amongst our most featured actors.

Me, when I’m kicking my nephew’s ass at RISK.

Gary Cohen wasn't sold on how the Cubs and Matt Shaw handled his absence to attend Charlie Kirk's memorial. "I don't want to talk about any of the politics of it, but the thought of leaving your team in the middle of a race for any reason other than a family emergency, really strikes me as weird."

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

CHOTINER: You recently wrote “It’s So OVer.” Can you elaborate? ME: Yes. Of course. By writing that, I sought to diagnose and provoke a conversation about the current moment. CHOTINER: But a few days later you wrote “We’re So Back.” Can you explain the contradiction? ME: Yeah well uhh you see—

Gym is playing Citizen Kane 👏👏👏👏🎬🎬

tfw you’ve lost John Yoo

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

good. lord.

I hate it here

You’re a Protestant preparing for the rapture. I’m a Protestant keeping my head down, working, being frugal, and hoping I can glimpse a fraction of God’s grace on this mortal plane. We are not the same.

We’re not sending our best.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

*logs on* *scrolls for one minute to catch up on the happenings [UN speech, along truth social post, rapture folks] Well, okay. What the fuck was that [waves hands everywhere]

Me to these people:

Has she seen our titans of industry? Has she read their books and speeches? Quite a few of them hate both democracy and even the markets that made them rich.

As a Protestant, I’ve valued some of the ways that the Catholic tradition can undermine marriage and family as the highest vocations. Protestantism, istm, has historically put those two much higher than the RCC does. Anyway, here’s the former Protestant turned Catholic VP:

This may seem wild but it was in fact inevitable. Conspiratorial people animated by grievance and grift invariably land on one of the oldest and most lucrative conspiratorial grifts of all. You can set your clock by it.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.