📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas. Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind. Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Got to my email this morning to see news that the edited volume, which had been in the works for YEARS, has a page on the publisher's site! www.ugarit-verlag.com/products/unh...

If you didn't know already, pre-orders for my second book, Esther Keeps the Score, are live! @scmpress.bsky.social scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

"If you are uncomfortable with what the Border Patrol is doing in Minneapolis, you are uncomfortable with the Border Patrol, full stop."

when you say "this isn't christianity" what I and other non-christians, who are sharing this country with y'all what we hear is "this isn't my problem" the thing is: it is all of our problems but my team doesn't have the option to opt out of dealing with it

No new pictures. Where are you at, mentally?

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

WHICH SOVEREIGN BORDERS IN THE BIBLE???? WHICH SOVEREIGN? WHO’S BORDERS? AT WHAT PERIOD OF TIME????????????

📣 New Book Day! 📣 Delighted to share a sneak peek at Saints, my new picture book for grown ups. She’s a beauty, written with everyone who‘s ever wandered round the NG with me in mind Coming this June to the NG shop and online, but available for preorder now: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9781857...

Almost a literal golden calf.

I've been on TikTok since 2022, but today, I'm expanding to the YouTube world. I hope you enjoy! www.youtube.com/@alexianadfry

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

*another one* once again, it's @sblsite.bsky.social call-for-papers-is-open season! The Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma unit would love your abstracts for two themed sessions (one with @chancebonar.bsky.social and @mirey.bsky.social's unit!): members.sbl-site.org/cfp-detail?z...

Happy annual @sblsite.bsky.social call-for-papers-is-open season! The Exile (Forced Migrations) Unit is pleased to invite your abstracts for a good handful of themed sessions. Let me know if you have questions! members.sbl-site.org/cfp-detail?z...

Need distractions from the horrors? Read this amazing article by Kassie Miller on menstrual suppression in Imperial Rome www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Folks we don’t need to choose. Bovino is literally walking around dressing himself like a Nazi, of course we should look to *his* inspiration for what the fuck he is up to. Is it his only inspiration? No. It’s a both/and situation.

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

I want to say something else about Holocaust education today. One of the earliest terms used for it was "crime against humanity." Setting aside the legal specificities of how this is charged and prosecuted, the term originates in descriptions of the slave trade and Belgian atrocities in the Congo.

If looking for an educational resource on immigration enforcement, I created this @haymarketbooks.org online lecture "Punishing Immigrants: U.S. Immigration Enforcement and the PIC." It's designed for teaching and political ed. Breaks down terms, history, and data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArmH...

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:

Just a regular reminder that the ENTIRE premise behind the draconian and militaristic immigration enforcement we have been witnessing the past year is based on an empirically disproven lie. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

My latest in the @theguardian.com on how the Trump admins latest immigrant visa ban takes us back to the racial quotas abolished in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

The Virgin Ideologue: "It was always Israel!"/"It was always Palestine!" The Chad Neo-Assyrian Emperor: "I crushed Israel, Palestine, Judah, Tyre, Sidon, Moab, Que, and Damascus. I saw them driven before me and heard the lamentations of their women."

Good morning, I am once again reminding you all that we are going to keep pushing and we are going to win:

And the countdown is on... FTN expert panel on publishing is next week, so add Tuesday night to your diary.

1. jesus was jewish. i’m having to say that with increasing regularity. 2. the gospels contain a lot of judeophobia. 3. well-meaning christians: don’t tell jews that this arsonist isn’t a real christian. re-claim the tradition like a church father mad at marcion.

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Kicking off the year with a new article for the Special Issue on Forced Migration and the Bible: "Seeking Subjectivity in/with/through Esther's Mobility." In it, I attempt a feminist interdisciplinary methodology with emphasis on reflexivity. www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17...

I edited and typeset these babies.

why not tear down the entire building and construct a giant golden calf

Say Her Name is not for white women.

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — an important project that I had somehow missed but shines today: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

they really can just liquidate you in broad daylight with cameras rolling and then blame you for it, which is obvious, and always has been, and yet, and yet, and yet

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

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Take this as a sign to pre-order here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

PROOFS HAVE ARRIVED (@scmpress.bsky.social)!

Episode 108: Don't Feel It, Don't Heal It with @alexianafry.bsky.social

@alexianafry.bsky.social came back to discuss her @sblpress.bsky.social article “Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It.” Get access to audio and video now for $5 a month on Patreon. youtube.com/shorts/Io1AV...

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

I had the gift of being part of @refugeestudies.bsky.social's "Summer School," and I cannot overstate its impact, both personally and professionally.

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇