Things today's White House autism announcement did not do: -Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families -Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear -Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

Ok thats funny

"I think the wifi might be messed up, back to you Mark." 😂

Interested in learning about cross-cultural Christian nationalism? PRRI Senior Democracy Fellow @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social, Ph.D., is hosting a panel discussion today, Sept. 18 from 3-4 PM ET, examining the similarities and differences between Christian nationalism in the U.S. and Brazil.

When anger moves from words to weapons, what comes next? @politico.com gathered political violence experts to weigh in on what’s next for American democracy.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Check out latest by @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social in our blog series. Christian nationalism does not just mean Christian or conservative. Five distinguishing elements make it a key threat to democracy.

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Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Religiosity & gender attitudes go hand-in-hand. But which influences which? New study by McElroy et al. shows earlier gender views tend to predict religious trajectories more than the reverse (except for young women). Once again: Cultural/political conflicts --> Religion doi.org/10.1177/2378...

While the goal of infusing “biblical principles” into American civic life may seem innocuous to many Christians, it raises questions: Which biblical principles? Why those biblical principles? andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/five-eleme...

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

The five cultural markers of the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism are essential to understanding the Christianity espoused by Charlie Kirk or those at TP USA events. Each has political and policy implications, particularly around who counts as a "true American" or a "true Christian."

The events of the last few days have shown how completely the so called Xnty of many on the rt has actually been swallowed up by Xn nati*nalism. The scholars and analysts who’ve been telling us about this are proven completely correct again.

Two professors using AI to create a report to sell the ‘ethical’ use of AI in education seems pretty dang unethical to me. It’s striking how much AI boosters can’t be bothered to do the work to try to prove their points. Gotta wonder if these folks have been getting by on fraud all along?

Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic." Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that. In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage. kettering.org/five-element... @kettering.org

From one of the nation's experts on white Christian nationalism

So, a week from today I'm hosting a panel discussion on cross-cultural Christian nationalism, comparing the US and Brazil in particular. This will come up. It's both in person or live on Zoom, 3-4 pm ET. Register here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...

Each threatens the promise of an inclusive democracy. Understanding them is the first step in resisting them. bit.ly/467FiFm

1. 👑 Desire for traditional social hierarchies 2. 🚧 Commitment to strong ethno-racial boundaries 3. 💰 Idealizing free-market capitalism 4. 🔒 Preference for authoritarian social control 5. 🌀 Embrace of populism, victimhood & conspiracies

Christian nationalism isn’t just about “loving Jesus.” New in #FromManyWe, KF Research Fellow Andrew L. Whitehead (@andrew-whitehead.bsky.social) lays out five key elements driving this ideology:

The five cultural markers of the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism are essential to understanding the Christianity espoused by Charlie Kirk or those at TP USA events. Each has political and policy implications, particularly around who counts as a "true American" or a "true Christian."

Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic." Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that. In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage. kettering.org/five-element... @kettering.org

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Love to work at Schrödinger’s Univeristy, which is simultaneously so woke it must be defunded and so generative of useful intellectual property that its revenue must be captured

Three students were shot at a high school in Colorado, and Charlie Kirk was just shot and killed at a university in Utah. Gun violence and political violence cannot continue to devastate our communities. We need gun reform now.

"Bystanders report seeing Kirk shot near his neck during a Q&A with students." www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...

Autism Has No Single Cause, Research Shows www.scientificamerican.com/article/auti...

Reupping this as I land in Chicago. If you know of any protests, direct action, etc. toward the Texas National Guard, please let me know. Or if you just spot them doing stuff that you think people back in Texas should read about, also let me know.

"Armas ranges fluidly between biblical analysis, philosophy, history, and her own experiences as a Latina woman to deliver complex ideas in accessible language." 🔥🔥🔥 Check out the @publisherswkly.bsky.social review of Liturgies for Resisting Empire! www.publishersweekly.com/9781587436499

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

You'll never guess who funds Hallow, the prayer app recommended by the White House. (It's Peter Thiel and JD Vance).

My publisher let me know and you know what? Hell yeah.

Still chuckling thinking about the folks who said Christian nationalism—the desire to see a specific expression of Christianity privileged with the gov’t promoting it—isn’t real. I’m not on Twitter, but this is an official gov’t account.

Then they sat in the shade of a large tree and ate their chocolate ice cream cones together.

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Meaningless unless he fires RFK and he won't. www.axios.com/2025/09/05/t...

“The polio vaccine, I happen to think, is amazing” Prez Trump states that vaccines work, many are amazing, and if people don’t take them they could get sick and get other people sick. He’s right. Really shows how dumb RFK is.

I don’t play fantasy football or cheer for the 49ers, but thoughts and prayers for those who drafted McCaffrey or follow the team and see this before the 49ers first game. 😂🙏😳 www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

She asks, how can we rebuild consensus to protect equality? bit.ly/45MKZtA

At such a critical time in our nation's history, follow the work of @prri.org's Senior Democracy Fellows--leading scholars and thought leaders whose critical work examines the threat that Christian nationalism poses to the health of our democracy.

Read one of @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social's recent articles for Kettering: kettering.org/how-christia...

Congratulations to @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social on being named a @kettering.org Fellow and a Senior Democracy Fellow for @prri.org! To learn more about the new fellows and their important work visit prri.org/scholars/sen... or kettering.org?fellowship=r...