Kimberly Giulfoyle is right for America because she represents our one of our deepest values: crippling SUV debt
I have it on good authority that James Talarico was absent from the campaign for nine days because he checked himself into Union Theological Seminary, where he underwent intensive training in more social gospel talking points
kids thought adding 200 mega lucario cards to the grocery list would work
public executions by an authoritarian admin speak volumes about shifting ideas of sovereignty, discipline, and the sacred. In this case, those shifts are perilous
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7d agoThe Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan
non-religious people on this site think I’m Catholic. Catholics know I’m an annoying lib prot. Evangelicals think I’m non-religious. I’ve found a nice niche
saw a rights advocacy NGO post a job for “death penalty volunteer.” Has to be a better title…
I won’t let Big Stupid convince me not to read a book on the train wtf. Also, if you read Gadamer nobody will be interested enough in you to call it performative
fascism arrived against an “imminent” threat of revolution from the left. The symbolism here says clearly what others spend too much time debating
Vance tells Angie Nixon to leave America and “you don’t belong here.” Such rhetoric is so common from this admin it makes the news for half a day
Hegelian don corleone: “look how they negated my negation”
Cubs-White Sox World Series and Pope Leo throws out the first pitch
Deneen’s focus on nostos and restlessness in the Odyssey is flat but easily allows him to smuggle in right wing views. His reading cannot structurally connect the Phaeacians with Polyphemus and ultimately with Odysseus arriving in Ithaca as a stranger, the way, say, xenia does
Commonweal@commonwealmagazine.org · 2w ago"When we gaze into the Odyssey, a text of fathomless depth, we ought to see more than a reflection of our own preoccupations." Charles McNamara on Patrick Deneen's 'American Odyssey': www.commonwealmagazine.org/mcnamara-ody...
with all due disrespect, you have to be functionally illiterate (in English and Greek) to read the gospels and get anything resembling muscular Christianity
me: “your crypto-erotic hangups are not our issue.” them: “watch us make it your issue”
schleiermocker@schleiermocker.bsky.social · 3w agoTransparent cash grab by these losers. They included the pastor who famously malfunctioned for hours after he had a waitress who wore yoga pants. Basically disturbed individuals with podcast equipment religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
Transparent cash grab by these losers. They included the pastor who famously malfunctioned for hours after he had a waitress who wore yoga pants. Basically disturbed individuals with podcast equipment religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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simply making fun of meta glasses, calling them “pervert glasses,” is why Zuck is sheepishly retreating for the moment. Nice to see
STOP ASKING YOUR SON "HOW WAS SCHOOL." HE'LL SAY "FINE" EVERY SINGLE TIME. A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST TOLD ME TO REPLACE IT WITH THESE 3 QUESTIONS INSTEAD: “What can I know?” “What should I do?” “What may I hope?”
also, certain aspects of Rawls can be almost spiritual practices if you take them seriously. Liberalism as a way of life
schleiermocker@schleiermocker.bsky.social · 3w agoyears ago I shed the veil’s more technical implications and view it as basic political empathy. Too many arguments boil down to “if I look like X, have history Y, and/or believe Z, I should occupy a different level in society”
years ago I shed the veil’s more technical implications and view it as basic political empathy. Too many arguments boil down to “if I look like X, have history Y, and/or believe Z, I should occupy a different level in society”
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3w agobecoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum.
they don’t know optimization culture is deeply inhumane
👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃@bryb.bsky.social · 3w agoThis picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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AI is causing “cognitive surrender”? As a Platonist I reached that point years ago
I can’t believe somebody yelled “give us a thumbs up!” And an aid defensively responded “he already did”
