He’s rotting, you know

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

It's been a little more than one year since Trump and Elon cut USAID funding and more than 500k children have likely died due to malnutrition and disease

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Nice to see Susannah just come out and say she has less imaginative capacity than Richard Scarry

The Spanish anarchist and personalist Catholic philosopher Carlos Diaz on Emmanuel Mounier's theory of destituent revolution.

New from @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social, J.E. Morain and I discuss play, games, and the like via Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga. The work is one of the more important historical touch-points in game studies, and we tried to take his work to task by thinking games as ideology! Plz have a listen

Most ethical Republican

Getting back into running + calisthenics

Wassup

Frankfurt School 2

This is fascinating particularly given that Leo himself solicited meeting (as opposed to past situations of whistleblowers begging for one): open.substack.com/pub/garethgo...

The latest in my series on the Itinerarium, in which I discuss the problems raised by the work’s structure—clear as it might seem at first. “The work seems to be zeroing in on an Incarnational center, finding in the hypostatic union the most wondrous site of sustained contradiction."

In his last political act, Habermas tied the survival of the public sphere & the democratic ethos of the Federal Republic of Germany to genocide denial & the state repression of its critics. He died in principled solidarity with the barbarism of 21st century liberalism

BREAKING: Exactly one year since she was detained, an immigration judge has just ordered the release of Leqaa Kordia — the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention. DHS has kept her, despite a magistrate judge recommending her release and an immigration judge already *twice* ordering so.

NYC-NPM BIBLE STUDY UPDATE: Because of people traveling up to Boston for their inaugural NPM meeting we will be cancelling Friday and moving around the readings to make sure we still get through all of Luke. We hope to see everyone on March 20th! Attached is an updated schedule of readings:

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

It's crazy how good the new Gorillaz album is. I'd go so far as to say it reaches the heights of Plastic Beach...

turns out that ICE has been hunting a congregation that is majority deaf/mute refugees with a large child population

finally finished the complete rework of translations for 2 short essays Horkheimer wrote (w/ Adorno) printed alongside the 1st version of Dialectic of Enlightenment in 1944: “Struggle & Non-Violence”; “Poetry & Morals.” On militants & martyrs, & the crisis of modern art! 🔗 ⬇️

Excited for when spring hits so I can finally listen to frutiger aero youtube playlists in good faith again 🤩

For a spirit-filled summer.

Devil on the mountain: All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me American evangelicals: Deal

Trump 1 imagery: gay Cuban dancing on rollerblades to YMCA Trump 2 imagery: Male Fantasies by Klaus Theweleit

1946 GERMAN POWs: war ist over we cann go home yah? LOUISIANA SENATOR: By order of President Harry S. Truman, you all are now subject to WHITE ENSLAVEMENT

This is such a bad misunderstanding of the fault lines here. Talarico’s religiosity is not the chud religion thing. He’s a liberal Protestant seminarian. You don’t have to like it to see what the difference is.

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

He’s rotting, you know

i sent in the manuscript for my first journal submission ever... (tbf undergraduate research journal but...) which me luck oomfs

Woke up late last night to a friend's text saying to look up the news, doesn't matter which channel, and thought the Big One had happened. But it turned out that Smiling Friends ended

The cover for the Japanese translation of adorno and horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment is impossibly raw

Trump's mass deportations really are a Forever War. It'll take 3 presidential terms at current pace. The prison camps are a new carceral state. It has its own growing public-private bureaucracy: Contractors, mercenary army, etc. 6/ (h/t @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Boots, that's my ego boost! 🤩

I think, as far as generative AI goes, I am less interested by the question whether or not these tools are capable of thought or intelligence, but what their development, as well as the way they are marketed and discussed publicly, tell us about what people think thought is.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Since we now know just how involved Thiel and Epstein were I propose we refer to “Hallow” as “The Jeffrey Epstein Prayer App”

really good book by an important (but sadly not really talked about) Brazilian liberation theologian. Also useful for "religious groups" taken in the most general sense (not just religious communities or orders as the name might imply):

tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...

Common Augustinian win

This is the common trajectory for many empires. The fruits of empire entail the depersonalization of violence and insulation from its consequences for its most privelleged castes. It's why Augustine argues that the punishment of empire is spiritual stupidity for most of its subjects

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

The “Adorno & Communism?” seminar series starts next week! Excited to talk about these texts with you all!

[Paid post] My translation of this classic Belgian Catholic personalist and antimilitarist text open.substack.com/pub/temporal...

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.

If Karl Rahner were a zoomer he'd be an unemployed grad student calling himself a fat fuckin chud every day on twitter dot com while his SEEK catholic comp lit frenemy from notre dame gets another high five figure fellowship at CUA's Mary Magdelene Institute for Marital Debt Studies