Morning calm.

“The Supreme Court told plaintiffs suing the Trump administration to use class actions rather than universal injunctions. The court may not like what it is getting.”

A bright morning, pregnant with hope.

Wow! What a win for public health! Now we can eat as many skittles as we want without exposure to potentially harmful dyes!

💙15💛 Coach talked us through this exact play during the relaxation period the night before the game, “The mind controls the body.”

So we should make their erasure mandatory, is Claire’s answer. Now imagine a world run by this ethic does to those who become disabled, ill, old, or sick. We don’t have to imagine.

I’m still a skeptic about conspiracies, but Trump just surrenders to Putin every time. It’s striking. What’s the case for his fawning abandonment of threats he made like four days ago? Embarrassing for America.

How are the Ruthless Podcast guys claiming a victory for Trump in Anchorage? I like absurdism on a Saturday night.

I’ve worked with couples at the Brigham and Women’s, a Harvard hospital, pressured to abort healthy babies by their docs based on imperfect testing. Despicable.

“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” -Walker Percy Ross Douthat

This is maybe the single most visionary political tweet. I often re-up it to remind people of Ross Douthat's prescience. I'd say that in 2025, there is a wrinkle: In many denominations, there are disturbing trends toward blending Abrahamic faith with the post-religious Right.

"ABA Council on Legal Education ignores critics, offers no substantive responses, and says 'full speed ahead' with disrupting legal education at most of the nation's law schools" leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2025/08…

“When you are in prayer, do not ask to be entirely free of mental wandering, which is impossible, but seek to wander following something that is good.” —Isaac the Syrian plough.com/en/topics/fait…

Ironically, this is an issue on which modern far-leftists have embraced bogus arguments first promoted by defenders of slavery - and occasionally still advanced by neo-Confederates.

The lack of similar activism over Syria, Sudan, the Uighurs…makes the intense global focus on condemning Israel hard to put down to dispassionate commitment to principle. I’ve been critical from the start of Israel’s war plans, and a constant advocate of a two-state solution.

Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC I had reason to transcribe this from the 2013 Year Old Man record, thought you might enjoy it. "Did you live before man believed in the almighty?" youtube.com/watch?v=wl3BSR…

An update from my friend Richard Schlueter. Please keep him in your prayers.

If this is accurate, it’s quite persuasive.

If everyone, everywhere, truly accepted that seven million Palestinians and seven million Jews are not going anywhere, and that any possible future has to include and encompass both, the whole energy around this conflict would shift. There, and even more so around the world.

Scientists at the University of Florida have created a breakthrough mRNA cancer vaccine that erased deadly brain tumors in early human trials without chemo or radiation. Tested on four glioblastoma patients, the vaccine reprogrammed their immune systems within 48 hours to attack