Chris Sardo

100% it's not that they want to follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, they just think that modernity has become too permissive in very specific unsurprising ways.

With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.

One of TJs worst takes.

The utter erosion of public institutions and the destruction of all trust in them is going to have such long-lasting and far reaching consequences that it makes me genuinely fear for the future.

You cannot make me care about Nuzzi.

banning words while studying 1984, someone clearly didn't do the reading

Wow thought police over here /sarcasm

This is literally my goal of a class, but i've been told it would get less enrollment since the kids wouldn't have 2 separate APs on their transcript...

My biggest takeaway from all the Epstein emails is that having that much wealth really does corrupt your soul.

Even Jaffa's pro-Lincoln account emphasizes Douglas's indifference much more than his straight up racism. And yes, yes, context, yes, yes Lincoln says racist things too, but still. Douglas is doing much more than just democracy requires disinterested proceduralism.

...the earth, and during all that time, in all latitudes and climates, wherever he has wandered or been taken, he has been inferior to the race which he has there met. He belongs to an inferior race, and must always occupy an inferior position" (Ottawa Debate)

People like to harp on the passages where Lincoln acknowledges the differences between races, but give Douglas a free pass on "I believe it [the US] was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity for ever" and "For thousands of years the negro has been a raec upon the...

So, I've been giving the Lincoln-Douglas debates an actual close read (not just the highlights that get excerpted in a course reader), and wow Douglas says some wild stuff in there.

I just meant that just as its important to expand the canon beyond the classics bro reading lists its equally important to defend the classics from classics bros

And I would argue that their canon doesn't have to be read through a right wing lens either.

Odysseus 's Taxi Service. We'll get you where you're going...eventually.

One’s identity as a consumer organizes one’s politics in part because the thicker social structures that once performed that role — unions, fraternal orgs, churches, etc. — have mostly faded away.

Truly impressive level of passive voice

so there's lots of garbage and racist stuff in this, but my follow up question:
This language implies that every citizen has a "right" to own a house. Would you support legislation that would make that right a reality?

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

truly monstrous

I mean based on the vibes of the performance and the album, I doubt it was their choice but yeah...

And as @ositanwanevu.com argued in his recent book - the size of districts was even intended to be anti-democratic in the only body that would be directly elected according to the framers.

abolish states

YouTube video by NPR Music clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert

One of the coolest things I've ever seen - @clppng.bsky.social used a bunch of tiny robots and everyday junk and trash to create the backing tracks live for a tiny desk concert. I'm seeing them in February, I wonder if the robots will be hitting the road?

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

As usual, @stevevladeck.bsky.social does a good job parsing out the moving parts to explain Jacksons administrative stay this evening.

Me trying to explain to my high school seniors that no it's not normal for a bunch of SCOTUS's docket to be President v. X.

got it. Just the generic - we should get to do whatever we want in foreign policy.

I'm actually curious what the "irreparable harm" that the government claims to suffer is? It's just cited in this order as "irreparable harm" and I'm too lazy to docket search the government's briefs, but I actually am genuinely curious how they are claiming they are being harmed by a delay.

Suspect Guilty GIF Alt: The gif with a guy in a hotdog suit saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"

...after granting cert to open up Humphrey's Executor? Get real. Look in the mirror Article III.