Latest episode of American Unexceptionalism by @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social @sohayward.bsky.social is out- this time they talk to folks about the South Korean martial law attempt by then President Yoon. For the real ones- Che Ahn mentioned! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

St. Paul voters on Tuesday handed a historic election victory to state Rep. Kaohly Her, who will be the first woman and first Hmong person to serve as mayor. Her upset her former boss, two-term Mayor Melvin Carter, to win the election.

The US has a long history of military intervention in Latin America -- but the US campaign against Venezuela goes beyond all precedents, according to a scholar who recaps the history: buff.ly/95slpmI

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

Listen to @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social and the Rev. Susan Hayward interview two scholars of Brazilian religion on the parallels and divergences of our twin insurrections. How did Brazil defeat a Christian nationalist authoritarian? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0... www.youtube.com/shorts/Ztk_t...

New podcast out from @bradleyonishi.bsky.social Axis Mundi- American Unexceptionalism by @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social and @sohayward.bsky.social - the whole Axis Mundi back catalogue is worth your time- VERY excited about this! First episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...

NEW: Rev. Bautista spoke with @haydenroyster.bsky.social about his harrowing experience being shot in the face with a pepper round by IVE. “I immediately felt burning pain,” he said. “I was in shock, disoriented and terrified that I might stop breathing altogether.” religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...

While others debate who is most corrupt and/or the truest friend of the gays, allow me to introduce you to my friend the squeaky clean, down to earth, steady, experienced, normal guy pastor with a gay husband, DeWayne Davis.

Thrilled to announce my new project: my friend @sohayward.bsky.social & I have a new podcast series! AMERICAN UNEXCEPTIONALISM: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism We ask experts in democracy & religious nationalism around the globe to guide us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...

Yesterday, one of my congregants- a parent of two kids who survived the mass shooting at #Annunciation, shared his heart and story at a prayer vigil at the MN State Capitol. We will keep demanding a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines until God’s will be done. So our kids may live.

Hard to overstate as a Minnesotan how much this upsets me. Senator Hortman, her husband, & dog were not killed by antifa. They were killed by a far-right Christian nationalist who had a hit list targeting Dem legislators and others who support reproductive rights. He was a proud Trump supporter.

The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.

Once again, a so-called Christian leader throwing out a centuries’ old Christian tradition. This time, the just war tradition that began w Augustine, was built on by Aquinas, & reformed in important ways by Las Casas. A long Christian tradition of “rules of engagement” to limit violence in war.

On November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM ET, AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion will host a webinAAR on “The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding." Register now: aarweb.org/event/the-ro...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Think of the waste this involves

Just saw this in Whittier. Send out the catsignal, @wedge.live? A cat this dapper is clearly meant to be indoors. #bringcilantrohome

NEW: We joined a coalition of nonprofit orgs and charities urging the administration to stop its escalation of political division, and the unjustified targeting of orgs and people in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. Full statement via @publiccitizen.bsky.social 🔗 https://protdem.org/3I9KZLk

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

I can’t overstate how anti-Biblical this is. If there’s one issue the Bible is unequivocal about, it’s care for the immigrant/refugee/foreigner among you. Bc you were once strangers in Egypt, bc you could be entertaining an angel unawares, bc the ethic of hospitality requires it. Full stop.

This paragraph is haunting. How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimi’s Life in Tatters www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work. A 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout was installed as interim president of USIP

Anti-urbanism is a way of speaking anti-Blackness without naming it as one’s own. It’s a sociological euphemism for racism. I didn’t know that as a white kid among white kids who liked to vow they’d *never* live in NYC, they always wanted to be in a small town. 6/

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

"resolve dispute" is a bizarre way to describe extortion.

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people

BREAKING: Trump's effort to remove the U.S. Institute of Peace's board members is a "gross usurpation of power" and must be voided, a federal judge ruled. Trump's purported replacements and their actions also voided. Story soon @www.allrisenews.com storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: Judge Howell rules that the Trump/DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was illegal and should be treated as null and void. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

BREAKING: A federal judge just hit pause on the Oak Flat land exchange, blocking the Forest Service from advancing the project until the Supreme Court rules on the case. This protects a sacred site, rare desert ecosystems and public lands from being handed over to a foreign mining giant.

Israeli Jewish scholar Atalia Omer’s work on religion, violence, peace, and nationalism is some of the most rigorous and ethical being produced today … which is precisely why it’s threatening to the powers that be.

Naz Reid

The cover of our bulletin for today’s Good Friday service. #goodfriday

1. Buried in the Harvard story is the fact that the government wants a government-approved external audit of several Harvard schools — including its *divinity school.* HDS isn’t affiliated with any tradition, but trains academics and *clergy* in theology, etc. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

someone has likely pointed this put but auschwitz wasn't in germany either

The attack on Josh Shapiro and his family during the first night of Passover is chilling, tbh. Maybe it has nothing to do with them being Jewish. But we don’t know that right now. The historical echoes are bad, either way.

In court filings Thursday, 30-year-old Rümeysa Öztürk for the first time described the circumstances under which she was taken by federal immigration officials — and how she’s been treated during her imprisonment. (via @wgbh.org)

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. -Maya Angelou

Follow the money and see where it goes. Elon Musk was just awarded a $5.9 billion taxpayer-funded SpaceX contract by Trump—the largest in a new package of space deals. Trump ensured Musk got the money, fully aware he’s facing “steep personal cost.”

Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

I wrote this reflection about USIP’s dismantlement for my denomination, the @unitedchurch.bsky.social. The UCC was involved in the effort to establish the US Insitute of Peace and ordained me to the ministry of religious peacebuilding within it. www.ucc.org/its-time-to-...

I continue to be disappointed by my alma mater’s lack of moral courage and public voice. religionnews.com/2025/04/03/h...

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk's latest filings include a strong set of declarations from a number of experienced immigration lawyers in MA, NH, VT, and ME who say the way Öztürk was rapidly shuttled out of state and then from place to place was highly unusual, illogical, and (by all appearances) unnecessary.

What happened in Wisconsin is an example of what is most feared: That in a true democracy regular people have more power than a billionaire, that all the money in the world doesn’t change one person one vote.