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I teach religion & ethics at UVa I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about Sometimes also interested in your opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe
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Judge Boasberg's intro to the J.G.G. class cert. starts with Kafka. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A recent @nytimes.com analysis found that over the last three presidential elections "Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains in working-class counties. Democrats are improving almost exclusively in wealthier areas." Our research shows similar patterns among donors. 🧵 cup.org/4cfm0Az

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Oopsie

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After resigning from Michigan and bending over backwards to try and appease them, "The Florida Board of Governors voted Tuesday to reject Santa Ono as the next president of the University of Florida" www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

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Another excellent explainer by @brieannafrank.bsky.social on the Religion clause cases currently before the court. @micahschwartzman.bsky.social do you know BrieAnna? I will direct her your way if not--she'd very much appreciate it!

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The best people

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"I was surprised to discover that the locals spoke something disquietingly akin to English"

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The moral horror of this is extreme. Then my mind immediately thinks strategically that Trumpists will likely weaponize this brutality to go after other people who'd never do this. I wish I were just riveted by the sheer horror of burning people alive. Where I am, today; sad, really.

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Claudel and Kipling both were fundamentally writers. Scalia was a thuggish judge, who (in WHA's terms) made things happen. Bad things, btw. Auden would know the difference between their distinct roles in society. Predictable that you would not.

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this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .

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Her obituary will write itself, no matter how she goes.

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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

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Pope Leo XIV meeting with Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople earlier today

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“The slow, patient construction of a 6-3 Supreme Court, and its associated body of jurisprudence seems irrelevant to a party that sees no value in expertise, or need to defer to those who respect it.” www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-federa...

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the vibes are weird but they're not AGI, they're a cultural-lanugage-based joystick for steering numbers to control the world

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Huh, weird, this is inconsistent with the Trump admin's claimed interest in combating antisemitism, which has been their basis for detentions and removals without due process as well as illegal attacks on universities and their students.

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that’s right

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Just think about this. Whenever I worry about security for an event or assembly, I would think of it as enormously anomalous. What would it be like to think this way every day

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this is how he will be remembered

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Why I try not to take hyperbolic media seriously online

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Netanyahu is and has been for a long time a pretty bad guy, harming not just Palestinians and other non-Israelis but Israel itself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...?

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My two favorite orders: Jesuits (who partly educated me) & Augustinians (because DUH)

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Great piece by @brieannafrank.bsky.social and @chrisquintana.bsky.social

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UVA student-led groups urging General Assembly to reject BOV appointee

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Amaaaazing

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The level of ignorance of our executive is breathtaking

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This is from The Atlantic. This is exactly how Democrats should message Trump‘s bill. 👇🏻

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