TIL: I have over 50,000 documents in Readwise.
I should pay more attention when Readwise announces a major upgrade. Its Ghostreader appears to centralize functionality I’ve been cobbling together from hither and yon. I don’t know when it was introduced, but today was my discovery day.
The End Is Near for the American Bar Association | Josh Blackman.
I cannot vouch that Team Trump’s law school accreditation plan will be the death of the ABA, but I can vouch for Josh Blackman’s claim that it became a left-wing advocacy group. I wasn’t a member and participated in few programs.
I haven’t professed the Republican Party’s ever-devolving versions of America since 2005, yet I remain on a jillion shrill Republican email lists.
The question du jour is how many of them must I unsubscribe from before they all get the picture: not one of them is getting one dime from me?
I saved to Instapaper Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Whimsy and Kitsch Built This Powerful Women’s Voting Bloc for later detailed reading, but right out of the gate, it irritated me by categorically claiming that “Christian women” gobble this stuff up. Not all flavors of Christian women did or do, m’am.
Freddie deBoer took my breath away today. Sorry to Bother You.
The coincidence of the deaths of Dolly Parton and Wendell Berry presents a fine opportunity to reflect on virtue, so different were they in how they presented to the world.
Ouch! I can imagine this nightmare: An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare
Michigan statute (MCL §168.931(1)(e)) is an extraordinary criminal law:
A priest, pastor, curate, or other officer of a religious society shall not for the purpose of influencing a voter at an election, impose or threaten to impose upon the voter a penalty of excommunication, dismissal, or expulsion, or command or advise the voter, under pain of religious disapproval.
Violation is a misdemeanor. Really. This is not the Onion.
With David Brooks and Ross Douthat gone, I’ve lost a lot of enthusiasm for the New York Times Opinion page.
Shedding my inner Eeyore for a moment, I, not a gee-whiz space exploration fan, am kinda excited by this: The Roman telescope is about to take planet-hunting to the next level | Nature
Why was I not told?
I didn’t really expect to get Social Security Retirement benefits. Reality has exceeded expectation.
But I don’t know how the nation is going to deal with this: The Social Security benefit cliff is here. Washington is struggling to wake up. - POLITICO
Washington giveth, Washington taketh away.
One of my wife’s besties, an 80-year-old Evangelical retired English teacher, has never read C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce. Tomorrow, when they meet for their weekly coffee, we lend her our only paper copy (though I read it often enough to have added a Kindle version).
Whew! Finished Carlos Eire, Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650. 📚 He’s certainly thorough.
POTUS DJT signs Executive Order purporting to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”
Since I’m not in the Executive branch, I can, and will, utterly ignore it, as I ignored the “Gulf of America” nonsense. I don’t ask “how high” when he says “jump!”
If all the Dolly Parton talk carries over to dominate a third day of the evening news, I’m gonna start getting miffed.
Really?! I assume my doctor will use AI for things that aren’t bog-standard ailments with clear standards of care.
Listening to Michael McDonald, Minute by Minute, on a closed-ear headset. I’ve said for decades that if I could trade my singing voice for a new one, it would be the Michael McDonald Model.
SUNY Broome said InterVarsity Christian Fellowship could have religious beliefs—but could not require the students leading its ministry to actually believe them.
I hope some jaws just dropped, but I’m not making this up.
SUNY Broome will lose ignominiously.
Wow! I had little idea how far this has come!
Scenes From the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games - The Atlantic