VT just closed its religious studies department.

"Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

This is Camp of Saints

Reading this while listening to the godliness of America. Appears there is a contradiction

EXCLUSIVE from @washingtonpost.com @ddiamond.bsky.social and Ariana Eunjung Cha www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Speaker after speaker at this memorial is explicitly likening him to Jesus Christ. (Slain in early 30s, etc.) Don't know how this goes over with people raised in other faiths. Having been raised as a church-going Protestant Christian, I say: What the hell! This is not how Christians talk.

A “blasphemy turducken” sums it up perfectly Thread ⬇️

Define sort of

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Smart glasses could become the next tool for live-streamed extremist violence, writes Jordyn Abrams. But do they present novel policy challenges, and have tech firms considered how to curb their misuse before extremists turn them into tools for radicalization machines?

State owned media Part 28747284

Define "may"

This says everything you need to know about the state of the Conservative Party of Canada. 😲

"And the outrage I see for Jimmy Kimmel, I wish I would have seen that for the death" of Kirk. The idea that there was not widescale outrage and concern after the death of Kirk is really something.

During the European campaign of WW2, American troops would leave this character to let the NAZIs know that they were everywhere. Kilroy is beginning to pop up in public spaces. He is the call for & promise of liberation. He is hope. He is everywhere. Kilroy was here.

After returning from our morning walk, I opened my manuscript to start editing. I'm prepared to start work. The puppy: are you tho? Really? My head ain't gonna pet itself. Alt: cute puppy beside a laptop

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

BREAKING: Kai Nix, an ex-soldier linked to Patriot Front, has pleaded guilty to selling a stolen firearm to an FBI informant. Government is dropping a charge for lying on a security clearance application that he had never been a member of an insurrectionary group. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Trump tells Starmer to use military to stop illegal migrants arriving in Britain on.ft.com/4nkzakD

The data itself is questionable, for example the recent Minneapolis school shooter, who wrote neo-Nazi slogans like "Hail Breivik" and "Brenton 4 Ever" on their weapons, is considered "Left".

A Texas man was charged in Queens on Thursday with threatening Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, a law enforcement official said. nyti.ms/4ptnLR3

This part.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Anything goes.

I rarely talk about my work or research amongst my non political non academic friends. This morning they are peppering me with questions and ask for full nerd version of me. It's has to be bad if we are here.

Of course, there's a tweet. #JimmyKimmel

#newnormal? "Trump Troop Deployment in U.S. Climbs to 35,000 Boots on the Ground A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues." theintercept.com/2025/09/17/t...

Texas just became the fifth state to make ivermectin — a drug used mostly to treat livestock for parasites in the U.S. — available to residents without a prescription www.texastribune.org/2025/08/27/t...

Excited to Take Part in this @vox-pol.bsky.social Report Launch For @antoniavaughan.bsky.social Researching the Far Right Safely in Academia: Current Practices and Constraints. Alongside @lizzypearson.bsky.social and @audreygagnon.bsky.social. #Ethics #ResearcherSafety 👇👇 voxpol.eu/events/new-v...

If the Supreme Court ultimately decides to permit a deceased person or their family to sue for defamation, then every historian who ever lived is screwed.

I'm interested in the ideas that Trump and the GOP can't do the potentially terrible things they are espousing towards the left. That there are too many people and not enough strength in the government to pull it off. While I agree that the numbers support this take, there are many other aspects

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

I for one think Kimmel, Colbert, Stewart, and the entertainers we actually want to watch should come to Canada. Start a company here, broadcast from here (vpns are a wonderful thing). We have the infrastructure, talent, and they have free speech....

So now the new validation has been posted

Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer. www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...

Here is the deleted report in it's entirety: web.archive.org/web/20250911...

If you work in theology and religion and are sad that Congress isn't happening next year, don't fear. St John's College has you covered.

The new TikTok US entity would be controlled by a consortium of Silver Lake, Andreessen-Horowitz, and Oracle. 80% US, 20% China ownership. One board member appointed by the US government. Existing users would be expected to shift to a new app (lol). Would not be surprised if this nukes usership.

New video on Eric Schmitt's White nationalist speech at NatCon. With what happened last week, it was largely overlooked, but it can't go unnoticed. youtu.be/HY4quehYBmc?...

Resolved: JD Vance’s “statistical fact” on political violence is neither statistical nor a fact. Indeed, if the White House wants to have this debate, it probably won’t like the emerging evidence. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well? Trump: Uh, I’m not familiar, who?

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

It wasn’t clear who or what exactly Trump would designate; Antifa is a loosely organized movement without a distinct leader, membership lists or structure.

So. When the reports came out that far right domestic terrorists were a threat to the nation, the GOP denied and discredited. Played victims to left who were concocting data to oppress them....now they are using fake data and outrage to fulfill their accusations on their perceived enemy.

(Trump imposes martial law on a conquered nation, speaking from the smoking ruins of a Planned Parenthood while drinking Diet Coke out of a liberal professor's skull) Schumer: We look forward to sending the president our ideas for a tax rebate on home security systems and debating them at length.