The cat's out of the bag!! www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Not to be panglossian, lots of very bad things happening but I do think that the regime that can't keep Jimmy Fucking Kimmel down is not going to cast us into a thousand year reich of durable authoritarianism.

Y'all realize that if RFK thought he could actually force this change they wouldn't be doing this press conference, right? They'd just do it. This regime is incredibly weak and every time they demand people believe them over their lying eyes they get weaker.

Missiles launching [your kingdom come], soldiers marching [your will be done], enemy combatants getting vaporized [on earth], war crimes being committed [as it is in heaven]. Yeah, this is blasphemy.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Matthew Boedy, an English professor at the University of North Georgia, has been working on a book about Charlie Kirk and the Christian nationalist aims of Turning Point USA. Three weeks away from the book's publication, Kirk was assassinated in Utah.

Some ~personal news:~ My first chapbook with Pastitch Press is coming in November! “Coal of Fire” includes translations from the Hebrew Bible, as well as poems and two essays exploring translation, identity, and the sacred. I’m so excited and proud of this little book.

my copy came! also just fyi there's a *40% pre-order discount* with free shipping via the link below: bakerbookhouse.com/.../97815409...

I wrote something up about how the H-1B fee could harm US higher education and the communities that rely on it. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...

“Bexley Seabury Seminary names Mark C. Lee as new president”

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

oh that’s. That’s real recession stuff - “While most food companies are seeing declines in consumer demand for their products, sales of Hamburger Helper are up 14.5 percent in the year through August" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

Klein is easily explained as one of those guys whose brain is stewed because, by all appearances, he’s been marinating in the right wing noosphere and it’s started influencing his baseline beliefs and values, but he doesn’t realize (or can’t admit) this happened and still thinks of himself otherwise

sister monica claire, superior of an episcopal convent in new jersey, famous as the tiktok nun, has a book out!

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I’ll be running an online introduction to Josephus in November. Sign up if you have interest or pass on to students if you think they might

Christian hope requires us to ask: What may be? Focusing on the creation of New Worshiping Communities turns our eyes toward new life for the denomination. — David Bonnema #NWC

My long-awaited article, "What Has New Haven to Do with Hungary? On Theological and Political Postliberalism" is finally out in the new issue of the Journal of Religion. If you'd like a copy of the article, please DM or email me. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted. *DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY

As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.

Exactly. Politics in the US is no longer a debate about which policies to adopt within a liberal framework of accepted rules. It's now a blood sport and one side playing it like it's still cricket won't work

“Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) + friends gathered at the site to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the restoration of the name of the area to its original Cherokee name, Kuwohi”

“China's footprint in Latin America continues to expand as a Chinese state-owned construction company has secured the rights to develop Chile's largest railway project.”

Digging into this, and h/t @proptermalone.bsky.social -2x as many strongly disapprove than strongly approve -strong disapprove is nearly 50% -underwater with men. underwater with whites. -nearly 2x disapproval 18-29, latinos & moderates -17% disapproval among conservatives

this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism

“DESPAIR has descended on Liverpool Hope University, where a projected cull of 39 members of the academic staff — about one tenth of the total — has included four of the six who taught theology and religious studies (TRS)”

www.plough.com/en/topics/fa... - English

It's important to point out that this is openly fascist and authoritarian and thus extremely dangerous to the civil society of the country while also pointing out that the lack the manpower both at a law enforcement and legal level to carry this out at scale.

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

[email protected] welcomes professors Nina Balmaceda, Natalie Carnes, Jonathan Cat Tran, Matthew Philipp Whelan as new faculty, bringing creativity and expertise across disciplines to the school, in the 2025–2026 academic year. divinity.duke.edu/news/new-fac...

This is not something you say if you actually believe in God

20:1 odds we can't fulfill this

yep

the comments section in most korean news sites under reports of what these people went through is so inspiring there's so much anti US animus right now i've never loved my people more. they said babies we are sending a chartered jet to bring you home and then it is time to mcflipping lose it.

The blast radius of that Georgia raid has already reached Tennessee

If ICE is mocking legal South Korean detainees with slant-eyed gestures, you'd think (1) Congress should do something and (2) what is this org going to look like in a year?

I expect everyone to be extremely happy that I wrote about political violence without ever once mentioning Hobbes. othermeans.io/p/american-n...

“Lesslie Newbigin hive rise up” 💪

"The Professor Watchlist is a straightforward intimidation campaign, and you can draw a line directly from Kirk’s work attacking academics to the Trump administration's all-out war on American higher education, an assault on the right to speak freely and dissent." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

wow

wrote about Charlie Kirk's history of promoting political violence. if you want to oppose political violence, you need to repudiate the attack on Kirk, but you also need to be honest about what he advocated for, and not celebrate that. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/whitewashi...

it’s everywhere, unstoppable

genuinely shocked that the pritzker pushback was successful

we might actually make headway on this climate crisis thing

4/ New study from my @nzpolicylab.bsky.social lab: @davidfickling.bsky.social covers our report on Chinese overseas green manufacturing FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding every single chinese green factory across the world. The results are striking: bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

seminary professor

sorry to joypost in the midst of the maelstrom but—this means i could hold a copy in my hands in a week or however long shipping takes? 🤯

This seems like a relatively existential problem for higher education.