I so appreciate your writing, very helpful to my daughter and to me, thank you.

Hahahaha but are they breasts or eggplants 🍆 ?

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.

The “singularity,” if indeed it is anything at all, seems to be an integrated surveillance and propaganda apparatus.

War: Where Do You Draw the Line? Pacifists, just war theorists, and the rest of us

"Why do people passively let this madness overcome them?" @onsophiastreet.bsky.social sophiastreet.substack.com/p/war-where-...

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Dogs have such wonderful rituals of greeting!

A radical position these days

Whether or not he understands is irrelevant. He simply does not care

The magic of AI

1/5. Orbán pioneered a model whereby oligarchs trade the fascist memes and electoral tricks they use to stay in power. He made Budapest a node between Moscow and Washington of the international far right.

War: Where Do You Draw the Line? Pacifists, just war theorists, and the rest of us

I moved my blog to substack. open.substack.com/pub/sophiast...?

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

Probably so

The ideal amount of concern about imminent nuclear weapon use is zero.

We are not at zero. That’s all we know for sure.

A 6,000 to 7,000 year-old civilization.

NASA NASA @NASA X.com A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis Il are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth. This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles. NASA 1:33 1:01 PM • 4/6/26 • 1.1K Views

🚀 The crew of Artemis Il are now the farthest from Earth any human has ever travelled!

Good article. I would however like to point out that many non-human animals are far better than humans at transmitting generational knowledge. Also land-grant colleges and universities for vocational ed were funded by the feds 50 years before the first business school

All Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Defeated in Georgia as 2026 Session Ends "Scapegoating LGBTQ+ Georgians is not a winning political strategy," said Georgia Equality's executive director.

Great news out of Georgia!

ALL of the 15 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have died as the Georgia legislative session comes to a close.

This was only possible with intense efforts from local LGBTQ+ activists.

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BROWDER: Lifting sanctions on Russia and Iran makes no sense. I’m a financial specialist — I’ve never seen anything so senseless. Two evil regimes, Russia and Iran, are now getting more money for their oil. Something must be going on behind the scenes. Somebody’s benefiting.

If you are, in any way, watching growing fascism and the brutalizing of people and destruction of their rights and lives as “beneficial” for the next election, not only have you lost the plot, you need to get help.

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

JPII was the Husserl pope
Benedict XVI was the Habermas pope
Francis was the Levinas pope

Can't place Leo yet but I feel like there's a good chance he ends up being a certain kind of Heidegger pope re: the critique of technology.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

They may be big souls with little bodies…all the more reason to love them

I hate to brag, but purchasers of my books report that they arrive promptly and in excellent condition.

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

How shameful it is to stand there and tell people to prepare for more loss in a war no one asked for.

Hi.

The the people who rape children are not trying to distract you.

They don't give a shit about what you think because their power gives them impunity.

Signed

Survivor of CSA and American bombs

Many things It’s not a new war: it’s the same war.Friends run to their sheltersagain, in pajamas or carryingtheir children. I don’t have friendsin Tehran or Isfahan. Last weekI read the words…

(7/7) Find a bit of commentary on the poem, including a couple of links and a translation of the text from the Kli Yakar that sparked the last lines, here: velveteenrabbi.com/2026/02/28/m...