comrade chris 🍉

Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.

Dextromethorphan (also sold as robitussin, but included in some formulations of mucinex, really does work as a cough suppressant, and has significantly improved my life during a couple of bad colds over the years)

Why does the editorial board of Commonweal find Sohrab a trustworthy or interesting thinker? His contribution to the present moment has been founding a magazine for the anti-liberal far right. Even if he’s sort of repudiated it, he’s changed his mind too many times to for this one to hold interest

“Because an argument does not exclude what I believe by way of taboo to be forbidden, the argument must be rejected.”
Reasoning by fear of the conclusion is an admission of your own doubts. If every argument has to produce the conclusion you began with, you haven’t actually reasoned at all

YouTube video by CEERES Global Anti-Gender and Anti-LGBTQ+ Politics: Keynote Address by Camille Robcis

Camille Robcis, a Columbia historian whom I know from her excellent work on radical psychiatry, is working on a book about the global gender culture war, starting in the 90s with UN-style feminism, which provoked a Vatican backlash inflected with French theory

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YUCE...

It’s probably necessary to look at this not only from within the church. It’s no coincidence that Catholic genderism is just a particular flavor of right wing attitudes held well beyond the Church, even as Catholics insist on the distinctively Catholic Truth

Why even consider (some forms of) marriage a sacrament? The forming of couples and raising of children is all well and good, but it’s no more part of the divine life than any other human activity

Viewing an ecumenical and theological process in terms of whether it constitutes a rival power’s head of state “winning” is either identity politics or geopolitics. (But as jp pointed out elsewhere in the thread, the geopolitical dimension actually goes the other way: a Putin loss)

This sounds less like theology than identity politics

Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage

Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.

So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

I’m sick of the hagiographic treatment of these occupying soldiers. Her death was senseless (except insofar as it is inevitable that someone would eventually kill an occupation soldier), but I refuse to be more moved by this death than by any other

he never looks at JD that way

Taking bets on how many weeks till the Michael Tracey allegations drop. Price is Right rules

Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down

A tiny bit is predicted in nyc in early afternoon

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

Excellent obituary of James Watson, whose decades of outspoken Bell Curve-style racism and misogyny overshadowed his real contributions to science and drove him from institutions. I head him speak around 2013: a sad, disorganized, narcissistic and misogynistic ramble.

YouTube video by C-SPAN Todd Seavey and Helen Rittelmeyer on C-SPAN2 BookTV

since Helen Andrews is in the news again, how about everybody enjoy the best TV cspan ever did, where she gets relentlessly demolished as a truly awful person by her *libertarian* ex-boyfriend

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...

Sandwich guy acquitted!
American Gestapo get bent!

Unfortunately there are still other bullshit political trials going on in DC, but all of them have had at least some favorable developments

“Because our conscious demands it!” Reverend David Black #chicago #fdt #davidblack #realchristian #immigration

New York is a-changin'.

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

That is actually a fair point. I changed the word “fantasy”, which I wrote first, to “lie”, and that was incorrect. There’s much fantasy about it, which positions it as something worth centering one’s reasoning on, with effects visible above on clergy (among others).

Which, tbc, makes it a lie given out by the “catholic bioethicists” in order to undermine life saving medical treatment to women

A woman at the parish: "There are not many priests who are willing to speak about social justice and about the poor anymore. I often think of leaving the Church, but then there are a few priests who remain firm in 'the school of the poor' and give me a reason to stay."

Transplant to the uterus is science fiction. It’s never been attempted, much less accomplished. It probably won’t be for a long time

It’s also not a benign alternative. Removal of the tube is an abdomen pelvic surgery with risks of bleeding, infection, permanent infertility, abdominal adhesions requiring future surgery, increased risk of future ectopic pregnancy. Methotrexate isn’t totally benighted but the risks are orders less

Yeah it’s actually not a reasonable course of action. Give methotrexate—it’s an abortion. Either way you’re acting to kill the embryo. Only one involves an unnecessary abdominopelvic surgery with significant risks. The bioethicists saying that removing the tube kills only indirectly are full of shit

I think this is correct. Its converse is the experiment Trump is about to give us: gutting the material supports for wellbeing—or mere survival—will not only immiserate many, but drive desperation, aggression, chaos: “disorder”.