Scott D. Moringiello
@sdeltam.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Chair of Catholic Studies at DePaul University.
Fan of Dorothy Day, John Fluevog, Bryan Garner, and Mookie Wilson.
Fan of Dorothy Day, John Fluevog, Bryan Garner, and Mookie Wilson.
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~
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Your theory of money is your theory of social relations, and Monetarism is a conservative-libertarian moral framework.
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The 'Collection Plate' Narrative Of Taxation Is Poisoning Society
The most common progressive-liberal narrative about taxation actually exists wholly within a conservative-libertarian framework and is paralytically myopic, and the consequences are deadly.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Your theory of money is your theory of social relations, and Monetarism is a conservative-libertarian moral framework.
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
There is a section of Long Island called Miracle Mile. It has a lot of high end retailers. I'm certain that's what he's thinking of.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
There is a section of Long Island called Miracle Mile. It has a lot of high end retailers. I'm certain that's what he's thinking of.
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Conservative Catholics really can’t deal with the fact that Pope Benedict XVI said that democratic socialism is close to Catholic social teaching. They just lose their minds over it.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Conservative Catholics really can’t deal with the fact that Pope Benedict XVI said that democratic socialism is close to Catholic social teaching. They just lose their minds over it.
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The last time you could have reasonably said Nothing Ever Happens was probably 10,000 BCE, in the days right before the Neolithic revolution.
And once we added beer to the equation, forget it. Something Happened every few minutes after that.
And once we added beer to the equation, forget it. Something Happened every few minutes after that.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The last time you could have reasonably said Nothing Ever Happens was probably 10,000 BCE, in the days right before the Neolithic revolution.
And once we added beer to the equation, forget it. Something Happened every few minutes after that.
And once we added beer to the equation, forget it. Something Happened every few minutes after that.
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George Weigel. GEORGE WEIGEL is saying ultramontanism is a problem. That's the funniest thing I'll see all month
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
George Weigel. GEORGE WEIGEL is saying ultramontanism is a problem. That's the funniest thing I'll see all month
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In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.
@kydemocrats.org could do this in Fayette and Scott and Woodford counties pretty easily.
an idea that crossed me, that i have no concrete reason to believe would work in practice, is that groups like DSA (or just not-dead-on-arrival regional democratic party orgs) should pickup robust schedules of happy hour at X where X is a rotating list of bars/parks/libraries
November 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
@kydemocrats.org could do this in Fayette and Scott and Woodford counties pretty easily.
I take Mr Conway's point. (He and I have mutual friends!)
Michael Adams is an excellent Secretary of State, and a devoted public servant. We are lucky to have him in KY.
Michael Adams is an excellent Secretary of State, and a devoted public servant. We are lucky to have him in KY.
There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I take Mr Conway's point. (He and I have mutual friends!)
Michael Adams is an excellent Secretary of State, and a devoted public servant. We are lucky to have him in KY.
Michael Adams is an excellent Secretary of State, and a devoted public servant. We are lucky to have him in KY.
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Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Zohran quoting Dorothy Day? Straight into my veins.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Zohran quoting Dorothy Day? Straight into my veins.
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"My father was very deeply involved with the Social Christian movement... I was a member of the leftside of the Italian Socialist Party as a young man. From an early age I was involved in movements like 'Christians for Socialism' and the Boy Scouts." - Paolo Dall'Oglio, SJ, martyr.
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"My father was very deeply involved with the Social Christian movement... I was a member of the leftside of the Italian Socialist Party as a young man. From an early age I was involved in movements like 'Christians for Socialism' and the Boy Scouts." - Paolo Dall'Oglio, SJ, martyr.
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emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.
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An aunt is any woman who 1. Knows your parents 2. Sees you 1 or more times per year on average 3. Notices how tall you've gotten
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
An aunt is any woman who 1. Knows your parents 2. Sees you 1 or more times per year on average 3. Notices how tall you've gotten
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COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
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Or to put other ways: your market clearing living wage doesn't seem so livable if you also have 3 kids, one of which has special needs
Or: there are huge positive externalities to reducing poverty and investing in children so the welfare state subsidizes all of us.
Or: there are huge positive externalities to reducing poverty and investing in children so the welfare state subsidizes all of us.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Or to put other ways: your market clearing living wage doesn't seem so livable if you also have 3 kids, one of which has special needs
Or: there are huge positive externalities to reducing poverty and investing in children so the welfare state subsidizes all of us.
Or: there are huge positive externalities to reducing poverty and investing in children so the welfare state subsidizes all of us.
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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An oldie but still a Goldie:
"Actually, the U.S. government can afford anything achievable that's denominated in U.S. dollars.
'When we tell you Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid is unaffordable, we really mean that we just don't want YOU to have it.'"
"Actually, the U.S. government can afford anything achievable that's denominated in U.S. dollars.
'When we tell you Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid is unaffordable, we really mean that we just don't want YOU to have it.'"
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
An oldie but still a Goldie:
"Actually, the U.S. government can afford anything achievable that's denominated in U.S. dollars.
'When we tell you Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid is unaffordable, we really mean that we just don't want YOU to have it.'"
"Actually, the U.S. government can afford anything achievable that's denominated in U.S. dollars.
'When we tell you Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid is unaffordable, we really mean that we just don't want YOU to have it.'"
You go to graduate school to get a job that you couldn't get without that graduate degree. There are no (or very very few) jobs in academia, and there are unlikely to be more jobs in the future. Therefore, you shouldn't do a PhD in the humanities right now.
PhD programs aren't finishing school.
PhD programs aren't finishing school.
This is absurd. There’s never been a better time to start a PhD! The employment world is in chaos. When better to spend several stable years gaining expertise & research skills before entering the topsy-turvy job world, where the employment rates for programming vs art history just reversed last yr!
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
October 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
You go to graduate school to get a job that you couldn't get without that graduate degree. There are no (or very very few) jobs in academia, and there are unlikely to be more jobs in the future. Therefore, you shouldn't do a PhD in the humanities right now.
PhD programs aren't finishing school.
PhD programs aren't finishing school.
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If I have time to make signs for No Kings tomorrow, they're just going to be lines from the Declaration of Independence cataloguing George III's offenses that match things Trump has done.
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
If I have time to make signs for No Kings tomorrow, they're just going to be lines from the Declaration of Independence cataloguing George III's offenses that match things Trump has done.
You want a non-existent parade? I'll get you a non-existent parade. With nail polish.
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
October 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You want a non-existent parade? I'll get you a non-existent parade. With nail polish.
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in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa