Erin Grievances

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The idea that it is mortgage rates versus the money to afford and most importantly afford a down payment that stands in the way of owning is….a choice.

"John O’Sullivan says that he had often seen Hunchback but never the real Master Walter will now - indeed, Jane astonished everyone by her nice conception of the part." JMSI to LDM, 2/24/1844, SFP 28:8

321, 123, what the heck is bothering me

No, and this is happening to me too.

it’s not often that you read a headline and instantly sob, but it’s certainly something that happens more often now than it ever did before.

You only realize how much despair you’re holding back when something puts a crack in the wall.

I can't believe a guy who doesn't believe in school would use a metaphor that doesn't make any sense

Letter | No, Mellon Is Not Part of Some Woke Conspiracy Tyler Austin Harper mischaracterizes good grantmaking, writes Michael S. Roth.

THE PRESIDENT OF WESLEYAN ATE TYLER AUSTIN HARPER UP LOL

“Harper follows in the grand tradition of Senator Jesse Helms in mocking areas of research he expects will be unpopular with the general public.”

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Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time? Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.

". . . let’s consider one way the cliché is frequently used by white people in the United States: in conversations about the history of enslavement, especially ones about 'Founding Fathers' who enslaved people."

Good to know there's always a local angle

Dipping back in just to see what's happening with the speech and--

Well I spent the evening writing about William Miller so I guess it's time for another Great Disappointment. *sting*

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

In the Epstein story, the rape and trafficking of girls has been made into a metaphor for the economic exploitation by the elites of the American people. But there’s also actual rape involved, and it’s not a metaphor.

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

they should invent a falling asleep on the couch that happens in bed

“astrology for men” was too generous

When it's the #1 song the week of your birth and the song you listened to on the bus on the way to your first real adult job.

How Do Museums Resist Censorship? YouTube video by Zócalo Public Square

Livestream "How do Museums Resist Censorship? How Do Museums Resist Censorship?

How museums resist the erasure and revision of our history and culture, and what this means for how we document our shared past, present, and future.

Honestly, these guys have given me a greater appreciation for my own mind and what it can do, both the useful things and the useless things. Sort of like a reverse grad school.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Frog walks through the woods, looking for spring, which, his father told him, is right around the corner. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

“I walked down a patch in the woods until I came to a corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was on the other side.”

Oh thank you! It's one of my favorite things I've ever written but I'm not sure how many people ever read it, so I'm glad to know you're enjoying it.

Sometimes there's a moment in the archives where you really understand why you're doing it. This was mine. Jane was 12 at the time, the oldest of four, the one who bore greatest witness to her father's mental health struggles and his death a year earlier. This is how her mother talked about her.

In a really perverse way, the core of so many of these AI discussions is the question of what it means to live a fulfilling life, and yet it’s the question they seem most terrified of answering.

In parts of New England, they're running ahead of Blizzard of '78 accumulation.

Parenting for the “Rough Places” in Antebellum America - Commonplace Sedgwick’s evolving ideas about her children’s natures and her ability to shape them reflected an emerging American skepticism of the perfectibility of the individual and society at large, and an incr...

Also her mother was going through it too, no one was perfect. I gave her some attention here. commonplace.online/article/pare...

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