Solidarity is stronger than borders.

Eyewitness video from the scene of today's ICE shooting in California appears to (you guessed it) contradict officials' claims that the man "weaponized" his vehicle. The car is reversing and the agents appear to be well clear of it.

Anything you hear from any ICE mercenary, FBI agent, DHS agent, Department of Justice stooge, or representative of the federal government—it's a safe bet that it is a lie. That includes sworn statements delivered under oath. Remember that from here on. Whatever they say, it's probably a lie.

Has anyone asked Pope Leo what he thinks about Daredevil? He’s the first pope who might plausibly have Daredevil opinions

I'm excited to announce that that I will be part of the Toronto Public Library's On Civil Society series! I will be in conversation about Radical Antiquity, which will later air as part of CBC's Ideas radio show. May 5th, 7-8pm at the Toronto Reference Library. tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/69...

Happy anniversary to the only time the senate stopped a dictator.

The federal government is explicitly arguing that "wearing black clothes" at a noise demonstration is "enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support" for terrorism. The outcome of this trial cold be catastrophic.

🚩Feminism is Revolutionary 🚩 40% off books on feminism, now until March 15th www.plutobooks.com/feminism-is-...

what do you do when your desired outcome (banning gender-affirming care) goes against the medical consensus? easy: simply exclude 97% of the relevant medical studies from your review...

Part 2!

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

Join us next week as we continue our conversation on Program Restructuring... ua-edu.zoom.us/j/8635744371... #religiousstudies #highered #university #religion

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I had a great time chatting with @margaret.bsky.social about the book! I'm guessing Part Two of the interview will drop later this week!

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 📖 Margaret interviews ancient historian @cbzeichmann.bsky.social about all the wild stuff happening in the ancient world and confirms her guesses about Spartacus and the Third Servile War @margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod

This looks incredible - early career scholars and PhD students check this out!

Access Vincent L. Wimbush's Presidential Address, “Interpreters—Enslaving/Enslaved/Runagate” in JBL 130.1. buff.ly/Z66VcDy #BlackHistorySBL26

Do you like the idea of supporting my work, but hate the idea of touching a book? You're in luck! The audiobook for Radical Antiquity was released today. Use that extra Audible credit or ask your local library to add it on Hoopla or Overdrive! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798318511561/

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

It has to be two consecutive historical left-populist landslides, so lopsided that they’re both far beyond theft range, in order to barely oust the regime. That requires sudden vast appeal to some of the 90 million nonvoters (voteshaming simply doesn’t work, so chuck that brainfailed instinct).

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The Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

I feel nauseous. thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

My department is hiring a 2-year VAP in Religious Studies & Africana Studies (cross-appointed in both programs). Interdisciplinary teaching is a huge plus! rhodes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Rhodes...

Final reminder: closing date is the end of this week - Feb 15th! 👇🏻

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way

Casting UK based Scholars! For a new series (Smithsonia) on the history of ruins. We need experts on: 🔹 Ancient Rome/Greece 🔹 Medieval England 🔹 WWII & Nazi Remains 🔹 Native American Sites 🔹 US Civil War ​📅 Shoots mid-March. 📧 [email protected] ​#History #UKBased

Any takers for a Zoom guest lecture?

✨proofs day✨ for "Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in the Exegesis on the Soul," coming out with Harvard Theological Review soon

This survey might be of interest to our Canadian members.

In case you want a reminder of the last time we went through this conversation… For those with academic library access, I’ve also published Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. "Racist Reactions to Black Achilles." Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (2022): 79-96.

Check out the beautiful cover of the latest issue of QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, featuring the incredible work of Amber Norman, and brought to you by @dukepress.bsky.social !

The Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.

The Episcopal Church has put together a very impressive toolkit for protesting, including tips for clergy in particular. Truly inspiring. This is how Christians ought to be engaging the moment. www.episcopalchurch.org/protesting-f...

It's infuriating how stupid these people are. The agency is a federal armed paramilitary occupying a whole city! Police not wearing masks and having body cameras hasn't stopped them from being abusive to the point of killing, why would that be your benchmark? More people will die with these reforms.

Know the Redescribing Christian Origins program unit in SBL? We have partnered with them for years to co-sponsor a panel at the annual meeting. Look out for a CFP for this year's shared panel soon, which will focus on studying and teaching religion under authoritarian regimes.

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

CNN airs compilation of federal agents acting with extreme aggression towards peaceful observers.

And to add to the Classics in this week's @thetls.bsky.social , there's also Ollie Randall on Radical Antiquity! Go read

Sarah Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social wrote a fantastic book called "Strike" and my review of it for RBL was published today. Check it out! www.sblcentral.org/API/Reviews/...

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae project (125-year-long complete Latin language dictionary effort) is advertising to hire a full-stack developer in Munich (Django/React): job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...

Sat down to start the 1st chapter of my new book & someone flew in to lend a hand (a tarsus?) Oh, and if you want to learn about ancient anarchistic movements, you can’t beat @cbzeichmann.bsky.social‘s book

Its happening.

The federal government is now a southern sheriff in 1894 bsky.app/profile/pbum...

It's a damn good feeling to see a novelist put your book in a stack for research!

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

Look, everyone. This is the freedom we want to export to Venezuela.