It was a pleasure to welcome representatives of The NC10 to the Center yesterday to discuss the challenges facing NC-based HBCUs and think about ways to amplify the humanities on their campuses. #humanities

Trump is so right on this one.

Immigration, Crime: Voters react to media narratives, not their own experience.

North Carolina already one of most gerrymandered states. Now GOP passing new gerrymander giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Dem Don Davis. This is preview of what post-Voting Rights Act America will look like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"As totalitarian rule increasingly triumphs over these United States, it grows from restorationist roots buried deeply in the soil of the American founding..." Here’s what Churches of Christ & MAGA have in common: baptistnews.com/article/here... #churchofchrist #churchesofchrist #restorationmovement

This is amazing.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech. Share WIDELY. #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC

Money seems to be the only language they can understand. So #Hulu cancelled. #Disney #ABC #ESPN #JimmyKimmel

"Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words lead to hateful actions."

Found this "old" (2019!) observation by @volts.wtf in the Wayback Machine: "The core tribalist assumption is that everyone is tribalist, everyone is just fighting for one team or the other, so the only thing you have to do to discredit a critic is tie them to the other team.”

Would you confirm source of this, @volts.wtf ? Think I originally saw it on Xitter. "The core tribalist assumption is that everyone is tribalist, everyone is just fighting for one team or the other, so the only thing you have to do to discredit a critic is tie them to the other team."

"Colleges are cutting all types of departments | Religious studies in particular keeps appearing on lists of fated units. Examining why helps explain a complicated mix of forces acting on higher education." @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social @chronicle.com #religiousstudies #religion

‘Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves’ - Richard Feynman

States have a lot of power to dictate health policy for their residents. The New Mexico Department of Health has issued a public health order to help ensure all New Mexicans can access the COVID-19 vaccine. I hope other states follow suit. www.nmhealth.org/news/vaccine...

Some poor soul already wrote to me trying to take up for James Dobson.🙄 Let me repost my article again. That man is responsible for so many of the bad policies that are happening to torture people today. . www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Note bene! #HBCU #HBCUs #Humanities

@americananthro.bsky.social The National Humanities Center welcomes applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is October 2, 2025. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.

Another year, another incredible Graduate Student Summer Residency Program (GSSR). Thank you to the 2025 GSSR cohort for joining us last week. Also, thank you to our invited speakers and facilitators for their expertise and time. We are already looking forward to next year’s GSSR! #humanities

"[Britt] uses legitimate concern about antisemitism in America to argue for policies that will enable more antisemitic violence here in the United States while violently cracking down on righteous opposition to Israel’s ongoing genocide, including opposition expressed by Jews like us." @al.com

"[Harvard] has quietly gutted a Harvard Divinity School program... critical of Israel." BUT "a group of 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies who say Harvard’s claims about campus antisemitism misrepresent Jewish diversity and views about Israel."

30 years ago. Nicole Sullivan on Mad TV.

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

"What’s happening right now... is a stain on this country... Here’s your chance — probably your last one — to make sure you’re on the right side." @joshmoonal.bsky.social

The Republicans new healthcare plan just dropped.

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

Republicans keep clinging to Joe Biden's health to ignore Donald Trump's decline. "Let me remind everyone that Joe Biden is out of politics, while Donald Trump – the guy babbling incoherently about Bruce Springsteen, Oprah and Bono – has the nuclear codes." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." -Hannah Arendt

Suppose the US has entered an equilibrium where reactionaries are likely to cancel 50% of federal rsch grants every 8 years. Is it plausible that a coalition of blue states could pool resources to create an alternate funding structure for research in those states?

Nearly 1,500 NEH grants were canceled earlier this month, including a grant that would have created first scholarly edition of one of the great classics of biblical literature, the Psalms. religionnews.com/2025/04/25/c...

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever used the Wayback Machine! ✋ The Internet Archive project (funded in part by NEH, #IMLS and #NSF) is an invaluable treasure trove of millions archived sites, texts, software, movies and more. All FREE. And a vast majority of federal funding has been cut. archive.org

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org

The American college experience—earning a degree to join the middle class while coming of age on a pastoral campus with sororities and sports—may be over. Trump's attacks on higher ed impact much more than just Columbia or scientific research. They put the whole idea of college at risk. My story:

" If the campus experience is able to survive, it may revert to a more elitist, century-old version of itself, where the sons and daughters of oligarchs are among the only students on its lawns." @ibogost.bsky.social #highereducation #academia

Hillary Clinton: “It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity…It’s just dumb…Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (of group chat fame) are apparently more focused on performative fights over wokeness than preparing for real fights with America’s adversaries.”

The Atlantic publishes the Signal chat details. “The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous officials that we are lying about the content…—have led us to believe that people should see the texts” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

How does a university fight an authoritarian regime? "I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can. Mobilize your alumni networks." #academia #highereducation

Lipscomb's great-grandfather (Alexander Campbell) spins it in the NCAAM tournament -- at least for a while! #churchachrist #churchesofchrist #churchofchrist #restorationmovement photos.app.goo.gl/6rDwPag8t8pq...

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"Washington has become the court of Nero, a fiery emperor, submissive courtiers and a ketamine-fueled jester in charge of purging the civil service." (Claude Malhuret)

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

Fantastic place to work! #humanities #digitalhumanities #librarians

"Donald Trump was right.... when he said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose supporters. | And Tommy Tuberville would then tweet that we should be thanking God for Trump, because without him we’d never know the American dream of being able to shoot people in streets."

Maybe, just maybe, Americans don’t need to be paid money to hold political leaders accountable for bad policy decisions.

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

Martin E. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity, died Feb. 25 at age 97. #AmericanChristianity #AmericanReligion #ReligiousStudies