Ross

As someone with a strategically ambiguous relationship to Anglo-Catholicism,

the Annulment Industrial Complex

Trump: "So I'm studying him. And I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his ass. I just wantasink. And then I looked at his feet & they were massive. I made the mistake of studying his anatomy. Maybe I should do that with Ken Paxton, but I'm not sure your body is gonna qualify."

Do we not have an extradition treaty with Brazil or what

Running a gambling pit is a version of theft in a similar sense as false advertising being theft. Both have the appearance of consent from the victim but both manipulate them into actions they would not take if they understood the truth

Laptop is completely busted

Meanwhile, one of the most harmful policy movements in America right now is a property tax revolt that is shifting us away from our most economically efficient tax, all so property owners can have a little more in their pockets next month.

Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Our $2M investment in the Sea Cliffs Exhibit Renovation Project has gotten a pretty clear seal of approval.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

now THATS a bribe: "They discovered Kushner had a bank account in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in which he had received hundreds of millions of dollars." www.liberalcurrents.com/jared-kushne...

Not even 10 minutes into CPE first day and we have already hit our first inscrutable bureaucratic roadblock. (Employee Health dept had wrong billing code for Religion, Spirituality, and Human Values dept and rejected me from getting my required TB test)

I saw this today, it was quite good

let's fucking go

Many have been saying that Gambling Abolition is a winning issue!

GOD FORBID you tell old white people in the suburbs that you plan to take public transit in the city

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

The world where classy straw hats become the symbol of democracy & liberty is my personal version of this meme

All Euched Up

Pianist has some truly beautiful modal cadences in his offertory improvisation tonight

By the Deathbed (Fever) 1893 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25008

Starting CPE tomorrow

Wildwood (2026)

Why doesn't TCM also have it's own streaming service. I don't want to pay $50 a month to also get football channels I'll never watch

Here is a video overview of the NYT investigation @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and I did that examines how President Trump moved first to grant pollution passes to chemical plants. Then former petrochemical lobbyists he appointed moved to make these waivers permanent www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

On the bus driving to our Debate tournament. The students behind me are relitigating the Sunni-Shia split. Save that energy for the debate chamber my friends

Sometimes I forget about Theology and then remember it again

I just sneezed and it was the Classic Sneeze sound. Like the platonic form of the sound of sneezing. A foley artist would have really appreciated it

Anyone who gets fooled by Ro Khanna is a fucking moron I'm sorry.

My students just got an insane picture of me eating pasta alfredo with my eyes crossed

If your screenplay is boring, just give one of the characters a Taser at the beginning of the scene. Whether or not they use it, even if it’s a false Chekhov’s taser, you successfully spiced things up

actual content of the story aside, this is very well written and well reported, and proves that there are people at the NYT capable of covering trans issues with both sensitivity and journalistic objectivity. interesting that this one came from the military beat.

lemme see if I get it GRU hacks Kushner's iPhone Dutch intelligence (MIVD) then recruits GRU spy, gives them hacked phone MIVD discovers that Kushner has 2 bank accounts (one Azerbaijani, one Israeli) where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposit money

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Very interesting

seeing Fjord (2026)

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

“A Popular Information analysis of campaign finance records reveals that the [Ramaswamy] ad was funded, in part, with contributions from the PACs and executives of major American corporations, including Bank of America, Deloitte, DraftKings, Kroger, and Nationwide.” popular.info/p/the-corpor...