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ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

keepingit101.com/smartgrrlsum... what is religious nationalism? Why should you care?

religious nationalism has always been a scourge I have big news about how the British cultivated, fomented and rewarded it some resources:

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Seems like a good time to repost this one:

Two things. I’ve heard this from many, many upper class white liberals. And I renew my conspiracy theory that science could (has??) absolutely engineer a skunk-free weed but the CIA or somebody won’t allow it because it’s such a useful pretense for locking up Black people and poor people.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

i hate this clickbait crap. the data tells you a lot about national norms, but very little about generational ones full data set www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/...

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs. Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraud—how nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat

Holy shit they keep finding new lows. This is...wow this is bleak man. This is a propaganda techno-fever dream. A killstreak counter from a jingoistic video game concerning actual, literal, murdered children.

Update: American Marines were among the security personnel who opened fire on protesters by the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, where 10 people were killed.

Too bad there's no opposition party that could relentlessly press the case against war.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Yes! I made a similar point a couple months back. The productive struggle is the point.

an important read

Great deep analysis of the current situation. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ira...

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

In this new report, @ksavin.bsky.social, and @calliefreitag.bsky.social and I explain how Trump 2.0 and DOGE built up new barriers to the already-difficult process of getting disability benefits. Let's talk about what we found, and what we recommend to address the issues. 🧵

Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going

omg lol no babe, no

"In a lot of ways Ive spent a lot of time being the one person willing to say we're all afraid to die and afraid to lose our loved ones..." Oh really, Justin? You're the only one willing to say death is scary? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQt...

This is a good example of the alternate civic sphere they have built. Their own institutions credentialing almost entirely for signal instead of skill. It’s not strange historically. Think being a member of a faith to become a professor at religious institutions.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

religion is still not done with you

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

8 million views. 16,000 RTs. It's a new age. The combination of Gaza, Musk's buyout of X, and the Epstein Files is creating a perfect storm of antisemitic hate. This is why I warned people to focus less on Musk's antisemitism and more on the systemic issues his buyout caused.

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome. www.neh.gov/grants/resea... #Sinology 🀄️📚

Minnesota would like a word.

Democrats would win a generational landslide victory running on this platform in ‘26 and ‘28 but Schumer and Jeffries will never support it, which is why they need to be ousted.

lol

Eugenics. Also this will force mostly women out of their jobs

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

could a dying empire do THIS

What if both Islamophobia and antisemitism were bad?

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

I was right Omani FM:

free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better

Read her and @profirmf.bsky.social’s book:

me teaching religion and politics for over a decade

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FWIW, this is sec. 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution: