Per @wired.com, it appears ICE is setting up shop near multiple places of worship across the U.S.

Such an important question! "Is the President using partisan political support as a metric for determining declaration eligibility?" Really enjoyed this read by @andrewrumbach.bsky.social andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/a-new-poli...

Addressing climate change without the ‘rules-based order’

Disasters ✅️ Politics ✅️ Religion ✅️ Really great reporting here. If this is you're first time reading about extremism in factions of US Orthodoxy... buy/borrow Between Heaven and Russia. fordhampress.com/between-heav...

Now Open! APSA Spring 2026 Centennial Center Research Grant Program | Deadline: March 15, 2026

fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

Excellent Puerto Rico power grid callback.

“Kid Rock is less an odd booking than a recognizable character in a familiar story. If anything, TBN’s involvement underscores how thoroughly charismatic media has become a conduit for contemporary conservative activism.” Yours truly on America’s Halftime Show & TBN www.ms.now/opinion/kid-...

It's Olympics time!!! The Winter Games are a household favorite. No themed meal this year, but we did make Olympic Ring Donuts to go with our coffee and espresso

Folks: This is important. SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.

This scene will never not be funny.

New Main Street NC: A look at Helene recovery in the small town of Hot Springs more than a year out from the storm. Lots of reopenings, not much government help Article: www.wunc.org/politics/202... Podcast: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr... #ncpol

A little crowdsourcing - wondering if anyone went back to church or knows of folks who went back to church after seeing the He Gets Us ads

🚨 ATTN North Carolina: We know recovery from Hurricane Helene is far from over. With RenewNC, the state housing recovery program, closing applications on Jan. 31, ProPublica & @theassemblync.bsky.social want to know: Have you applied? What’s been your experience? And if not, tell us why 👇

So...um...are states still leading disasters or nah? "...replace preempted State or local permitting regimes, or other similar pre-approval requirements, with a requirement that builders self-certify to a Federal designee from each agency..."

Christian Neighborism vs Christian Nationalism "Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America."

More than $17 billion in public assistance funds from FEMA are languishing at DHS, awaiting additional layers of approval: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/c...

Political Scientists would call it a "tactical concession" (RRS' Spiral Model). Human rights and democracy campaigners need to make sure it leads to more gains (positive spiral) instead of stalling progress (negative spiral).

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Exactly! The list of scary specialized skills maps very closely to the organizing capacities of any average church for their Christmas pageant, Easter service, annual summer picnic, or any one of a dozen other events.

After a couple months and nine stories, this is the final installment for my TPM stories looking at the fight against mass deportation in NYC. This piece goes inside churches to show how they have become a central hub and a flashpoint in the growing resistance. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/churche...

Attire is notable too. Often mayors and governors jump into disaster chic and toss on the emergency management vest. There's a time and place for that, but he's in a DSNY jacket here and also at a pre-storm press conference. Seems to set a different tone.

They literally can't. That's the issue. So many people in our field refuse to believe that looting is not common during disasters but pro-social behavior is. Their minds just won't accept that people care about each other.

On one side is a nurse and a poet dying while saying “Are you okay?” and “I'm not even mad at you dude" And on the other side are armed officers of the state saying “Boo hoo” and “Fucking bitch.” And they want you to believe the first side are the domestic terrorists.

Absolutely! Anecdotal data -so many of the nearly hundred evangelical churches I've visited had a library, sharing shelf, or bookstore of somekind. All of them had reading groups.

In my last ice storm, I lost power for 10 days and ended up camping out in a church. That experience led to the question in this paper that went live this week. Does climate change influence disaster readiness by churches? Sadly, the answer is not really. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

Today we release our Gallagher Re 2025 Natural Catastrophe and Climate Report. Full Report: www.ajg.com/gallagherre/... Economic Loss: $296bn (-25% vs 10 Yr Avg; $394 bn) Insured Loss: $129bn (-5% vs 10 Yr Avg; $136 bn) (1/n)

each day we’re forced to confront the craziest shit you could possibly imagine and each day we’re forced to wash the same spoon for the millionth time

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. . . . Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963, Birmingham, AL

Also hate "this is not about politics." Sorry people, you have to GROW UP. EVERY DAMNED THING IS POLITICAL. Everything. The word people are searching for is PARTISAN.

Where was I radicalized for the #waroncars? This is the major crosswalk for campus. Dorms and commuter lots on one side, classrooms on the other. The light pattern sends drivers into pedestrians. A third person was hit this month. Response from officials? Ticket students for "jay walking."

I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries

@pewresearch.org, with support from the @templetonfdn.bsky.social, invites researchers at all career stages (including doctoral students) to submit proposals for new research publications using recent Global Religious Futures datasets. 🗓️ Apply by March 2, 2026 sssreligion.org/announcement...

The politicization of disaster aid continues. “No, we were definitely not going to help them conduct raids on the people who come into this church on a weekly basis,” she said. “The vote wasn’t unanimous, but most felt it would be limiting to our ministry if we took that money.”

About this: This practice of churches providing groceries/supplies to immigrant families who are afraid to leave their homes out of fear of ICE is widespread, and widely reported. What's different here is the *scale* of operations this one church is overseeing, and how public they are about it.

Was the 2022 use of 🇨🇦 Emergencies Act to manage the trucker convoy legal? The Federal Court of Appeal will give its ruling on the (very weird) lower court reasoning that it was not. Big day, emergency nerds! News at 11. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Four citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have been held by ICE since Thursday. The unhoused men were picked up during an ICE raid and despite advocacy from their tribe, three have not been released. The place where the men are being held (the ICE facility in Minneapolis) is

More of this please!!!! Please!!!!

Trying to fill out routine and arcane university paperwork while all this (gestures wildly) is happening

I don't know about all of you, but I am finding it difficult to process Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis, and the Fed all at once.

omg omg what is this I feel? could it be HOPE??

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

This beautifully written piece by my pal @adambonica.bsky.social is worth your time today. A bit of light amid the darkness. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Deadline extended to 1/19 for applications for the Center for Religion and Cities' Public Scholars Fellowship. #AcRel

"The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI)...invite[s] participants to reflect on sources of hope and struggle for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander religious communities" aparri.org/the-aparri-c...