Daniel Rober
@profdanrober.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University. Theology, Film, Music, Urbanism, Culture.
Makes it very hard to watch anything in a hotel.
Motion Smoothing is a circle of hell
November 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Makes it very hard to watch anything in a hotel.
There’s a straightforward way for a Republican VP to blame housing issues on blue-state over-regulation and red tape where places like Texas have allowed it to be built and prices have come down, but instead…
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
There’s a straightforward way for a Republican VP to blame housing issues on blue-state over-regulation and red tape where places like Texas have allowed it to be built and prices have come down, but instead…
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Who knew: American Pope has less avant-garde taste in movies than Argentine Pope.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Who knew: American Pope has less avant-garde taste in movies than Argentine Pope.
Who knew: American Pope has less avant-garde taste in movies than Argentine Pope.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Who knew: American Pope has less avant-garde taste in movies than Argentine Pope.
This result is unsurprising and uninspiring, but also indicative (particularly on VP) that era is passing.
The U.S. Catholic bishops on Nov. 11 elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the conference's annual fall plenary assembly.
Bishops elect new president, stress need to support immigrants in first day of meeting
The U.S. Catholic bishops on Nov. 11 elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the conference's annual fall plenary assembly.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This result is unsurprising and uninspiring, but also indicative (particularly on VP) that era is passing.
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the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way
Underrated aspect of killing the filibuster is making pundit hacks at Cook Political p-p-p-piss their pants
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way
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"Leo’s style might be noticeably different from that of Francis, but as the substance of his remarks over the last month has made clear, the direction of travel remains the same."
gorebuildmyhouse.substack.com/p/the-month-...
gorebuildmyhouse.substack.com/p/the-month-...
The Month Pope Leo Found His Voice
By Christopher White
gorebuildmyhouse.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Leo’s style might be noticeably different from that of Francis, but as the substance of his remarks over the last month has made clear, the direction of travel remains the same."
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It ties into nostalgia for parts of the U.S. that are themselves economic backwaters and not wanting them to be influenced by places where people actually want to live.
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It ties into nostalgia for parts of the U.S. that are themselves economic backwaters and not wanting them to be influenced by places where people actually want to live.
I still think the original Star Wars is the best of these movies, but quite ironic that IMO the worst part of Empire (the Darth/Luke plot twist) is George’s biggest contribution to the most critically regarded of them.
Also we all know that those movies are how George Lucas wishes he could have done the OG three. Like he watches Empire Strikes Back and sighs in disappointment
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I still think the original Star Wars is the best of these movies, but quite ironic that IMO the worst part of Empire (the Darth/Luke plot twist) is George’s biggest contribution to the most critically regarded of them.
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It’s hard to believe threatening to move the scuzziest grocery stores on the planet didn’t scare voters
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It’s hard to believe threatening to move the scuzziest grocery stores on the planet didn’t scare voters
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
Remember when Pope Leo invoked Matthew 25 about immigration? Rather clearly applies here too.
HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Remember when Pope Leo invoked Matthew 25 about immigration? Rather clearly applies here too.
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they can't let the priests in because then they will come back out and say what they saw
Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
they can't let the priests in because then they will come back out and say what they saw
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Proud to publish this piece which resonates with my own interpretation of Leo from the start and especially in the period covered.
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
The Month Pope Leo Found His Voice
By Christopher White
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Proud to publish this piece which resonates with my own interpretation of Leo from the start and especially in the period covered.
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
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Lotta good back and forth in the various strains of this thread about Jay Jacobs, but I really just want to focus on Brian's last line here. Nassau County Dems - Suozzi, Gillen, Jacobs - all spent more time melting down over Mamdani than boosting their own candidates. It's a huge failure.
Nassau Dem. I knew there was an election for County Executive. I knew I wanted Blakeman out.
I had no idea who was running against him until I searched it
Only AFTER that did I start to see any ads for Koslow.
My congressman Suozzi spent more time denouncing Mamdani than supporting Koslow.
I had no idea who was running against him until I searched it
Only AFTER that did I start to see any ads for Koslow.
My congressman Suozzi spent more time denouncing Mamdani than supporting Koslow.
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Lotta good back and forth in the various strains of this thread about Jay Jacobs, but I really just want to focus on Brian's last line here. Nassau County Dems - Suozzi, Gillen, Jacobs - all spent more time melting down over Mamdani than boosting their own candidates. It's a huge failure.
Proud to publish this piece which resonates with my own interpretation of Leo from the start and especially in the period covered.
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
The Month Pope Leo Found His Voice
By Christopher White
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Proud to publish this piece which resonates with my own interpretation of Leo from the start and especially in the period covered.
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil...
Jacobs needs to go clearly but I also think Nassau has re-reddened in part due to Covid-era migration from NYC. Will take a while to digest and revert to inner-suburb directionalities.
Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.
Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Jacobs needs to go clearly but I also think Nassau has re-reddened in part due to Covid-era migration from NYC. Will take a while to digest and revert to inner-suburb directionalities.
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Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
To be fair, it took a long time (I think until Francis) for the *papacy* to internalize the idea that you can’t treat right and left authoritarians by different standards because one is ostensibly friendlier to the Church.
In 1920s, Pius XI explained how he had approached negotiations with Mussolini: "When it comes to saving souls, we feel the courage to negotiate even with the devil." In later years, Pius XI understood the cost of those negotiations. Some US bishops seems to have learned nothing.
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
To be fair, it took a long time (I think until Francis) for the *papacy* to internalize the idea that you can’t treat right and left authoritarians by different standards because one is ostensibly friendlier to the Church.
I don’t usually comment on Crisis articles but this howler from Janet Smith deserves attention.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I don’t usually comment on Crisis articles but this howler from Janet Smith deserves attention.
Fascinating insight into Barron’s incentive structure here.
As you've probably already seen, Barron rejected any notion of having "criticized" the administration - perish the thought!
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Fascinating insight into Barron’s incentive structure here.
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we are changing the mario cuomo bridge back to the tappan zee
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
we are changing the mario cuomo bridge back to the tappan zee
The real issue for these people is their credibility as speaking for the Church as an institution is further collapsing. Their main saving grace is right dominance (so far) of the influencer sphere.
"Oh the pope doesn't know what's really happening in Chicago" is much harder to pull off when he sounds like this! But normie Catholics have been selectively ignoring what the pope says for many generations now, so they can keep it up, with maybe just a little bit more cognitive dissonance
I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The real issue for these people is their credibility as speaking for the Church as an institution is further collapsing. Their main saving grace is right dominance (so far) of the influencer sphere.
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Easy wins and fast to implement. The people who whine the loudest about open streets and bike lanes and bus lanes - and we all know who they - are very clearly not the majority. It would be wise of the mayor-elect to realize that.
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Good demonstration that it will pay dividends for Mamdani to close more streets and force cars out of the city.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Easy wins and fast to implement. The people who whine the loudest about open streets and bike lanes and bus lanes - and we all know who they - are very clearly not the majority. It would be wise of the mayor-elect to realize that.
bsky.app/profile/octo...
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