Brendan

Levels the playing field

The media trying to handicap the Biden administration

Woke 2.0 is hungry

HR1 was going to raise public funding for campaigns

Bennie Thompson, Manchin, and Sinema would not support the first bill of Biden's presidency

Damon Runyon characters bussed from various lineups to the same cattle call

many very smart people have proposed the running out of goons theory

If I were 20 years younger and putting on a sketch with youth group and included a Tobias Smollett character it would be a shame not to

An Amazon-style warehouse network to make disappearing people faster and more efficient

Reading your excellent essay, it strikes me that the book clumsily plays in to public policy discourse

Based on how you describe the book it seems that it allows 20th century American leaders to defend themselves that urbanism only seems obvious today because of the peace the US has enjoyed

You'd be surprised how many assessments like this one are made in a snap

In my extremely limited experience, Rahner has a reputation for being a modernist because Boomer and Gen X theology teachers in the 90s/2000s who were theologically liberal tended to be fans of his

There's no real causality there, but twitter trads don't know that because they can't read

‘Home and hope’ as two churches in Mosul are reconsecrated Reconstruction completed following the occupation of the Iraqi city by the Islamic State

This was news to me:

St Thomas’s, also known as Mar Toma, is a Syrian Orthodox church which dates to the seventh century, according to a report in Vatican News. Also now reopen is the 18th-century Al-Tahira Chaldean Catholic Church.

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Oh No, I Betrayed America My journey to a Huawei watch

"The China challenge isn't what American policymakers think it is. It's not primarily about security threats or unfair trade practices—it's about Chinese companies making better products for less money, and winning hearts and minds in the process."
musgrave.substack.com/p/oh-no-i-be...

The joy procedes from the puppet and the puppeteer

Two natures without confusion

It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

I am calling for a new Zwingli to root out Josiolatry

Elon Musk • @elonmusk•4h Medicaid data has been open sourced, so the level of fraud is easy to identify. X @DOGE is not a department, it's a state of mind. DOGE HHS V ® @DOGE_HHS. 7h Today the HHS DOGE team open sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in department history. This dataset contains aggreg... Show more 2.6K {7 9.8K 58K ıhl 12M 企 Anna Bower @AnnaBower X.com Ok but who is the administrator of the DOGE state of mind? #WITAOTDSOM

Can’t stop, won’t stop

Pinker is a sniveling coward out of central casting

One of my niche policy things I think we don’t think about nearly enough is what are we going to do with a rapidly aging population that should not be allowed to drive. And unless you’ve been in it personally, you’re probably not aware how resistant some will be to giving up their keys

Rank-and-File Dems to Leaders: It’s Time to Take the Gloves Off In TNR’s exclusive new poll, loyal Democratic voters make it plain: They want a party that goes after the people making their lives harder.

"It’s impossible to come away from these results without concluding that economic populism is a winning message for loyal Democrats. This was true across those who identify as liberals, moderates, or progressives." newrepublic.com/article/2060...

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

"Remember COVID?"

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

You're looking at it all wrong

Cultural analysis begins with the question of how many of your mediocre peers don't have a voice and a platform and then you reason backwards from there

A cursory search of Twitter showed that "You have to say pwease and tank you, Mistow Zenky" came from a trad Catholic who sides with Vance but just thought it was funny

Which reveals Vance to be extremely vulnerable to mockery

Publicly funded Quake III LAN parties