speaking of weird religion shit I cannot BELIEVE that nobody has pitched me anything about the San Antonio Spurs, their v tall monk-blessed Maoist wunderkind, and his bestie the nuns

Squirrel Unaware He Embroiled In Months-Long Feud With Homeowner

thread I understand “elite” can mean more than just money & the degrees are a thing but it never doesn’t mean money professors, save a handful at the fanciest places, are not getting rich from being professors

Grade School’s Gifted Program Admits Kids Who Can Emotionally Handle Time Away From iPad https://theonion.com/grade-schools-gifted-program-admits-kids-who-can-emotionally-handle-time-away-from-ipad/

Report: Nobody Fucking Cares https://theonion.com/report-nobody-fucking-cares-1819578909/

Hot Young Priests Soaked In Holy Water During Vatican’s Annual Wet Vestment Contest https://theonion.com/hot-young-priests-soaked-in-holy-water-during-vaticans-annual-wet-vestment-contest/

right. The point in ME posting is that I, too, have an essay in here “The Benefit of Illiteracy: Navigating Privilege, Fostering Religious Literacy and Creating Equity”

as we should there’s a reason we say “there’s no such thing as a good Nazi” and it’s because, actually, there’s a lot of reasons someone might’ve been one and none of it—not one understandable rationale—*justifies* it you did what you did it means what it means your consequences are yours

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

this Christian fascism and nationalism is exhausting

I’ve never been sadder to be done with the podcast I’ve never been gladder to be done with the podcast

Donald Trump did not descend a golden escalator and instantly remake America. His rise was shaped by longstanding traditions in US history — and those won’t disappear overnight.

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove-cons-1819575405/

“The United States contributes far more to worldwide suffering than any of our so-called ‘allies’ in NATO, and it’s high time these other countries started stepping up to the plate,” said the commander-in-chief

I was interviewed by a reporter from the French newspaper La Croix about the the legal dissolution of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (Unification Church). It's mostly behind a paywall, alas, but the coverage is clear and helpful. www.la-croix.com/internationa...

‘Deadwood—Now That’s A Great Show,’ Says Dad After 17-Minute Lapse In Conversation https://theonion.com/deadwood-now-thats-a-great-show-says-dad-after-17-minute-lapse-in-conversation/

#CultsInc @mpgphd.bsky.social ?

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

So we just live in a Black Mirror episode now huh

Trump Invites Caucasian Half Of Alysa Liu To Visit White House

how mortifying I got an incredible PhD education at UNC, which included teaching fellowships in Islamic studies my mentors, in 2007-2012, were already teaching us how to manage hate mail, students reporting you, etc I’d have left if this was the policy which I suspect is the goal

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Vermont’s pagans find comfort and creativity in new surge of interest in witchcraft vtdigger.org/2026/01/09/v.... #RELinVT

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Dad Carrying 2-Person Inner Tube Up Waterslide Steps Like Christ Bearing Cross

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website https://theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

Not to pick on the author of this piece, who did important journalistic work with a range of relevant parties, but the assumption that doctrine is anterior to political stances is so flawed. 1/? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

An ICE agent threw a mom to the ground. You know how she can file a complaint with DHS? SHE CAN'T. Trump closed that office. www.propublica.org/article/home...

American universities are not controlled by leftists. Campuses are just that rare place in American public life where leftist ideas are not unwelcome.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

As long as we’re all autism experts now, here’s an actual study showing links to air pollution and fossil fuel hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pol...

RELI nerds: I have a serious professional question that I am asking as Senior Editor at @religiondispatches.org it's extremely important and serious ...how many of y'all are watching the Mormon Bachelorette and would maybe wanna write something silly for us about it?

U.S. support for Israel isn’t just foreign policy, it’s a political religion. Rooted in Manifest Destiny and American exceptionalism, it blurs borders until America and Israel are imagined as one, argues Elizabeth Shakman Hurd for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

Looks good! And timely

The scope of this is unimaginable.

Those of us at profoundly smaller, poorer institutions look at rich Chicago doing the same things we’ve already experienced and are left puzzled. What’s the point of all that money if you don’t use it to save education in this declining society? Baffling.

Report: Majority Of Nation’s Civic Engagement Centered Around Oppressing Other People theonion.com/report-...

if your freedom relies on the unfreedom of others, you cannot be free if your freedom relies on an unfreedom of others you yourself enforce, good lord of course you cannot be free may we be liberate; may we liberate ourselves; that will be enough

hey UVM! Join us for 5min/5slides tours of our major grant winners’ projects — and then some nosh! 4/30 at 4:30pm in Billings.

please stop being surprised

New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming theonion.com/new-stu...

Do not grant them more power than they have. They are deeply stoppable.

Even if she's the worst person you'd ever met she wouldn't deserve to be abducted by the government over an op-ed.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff