So grateful for the powerful way @adambonica.bsky.social is using his voice right now. You should read his latest piece.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? "We analyze 27 years of NIH extramural awards & their review scores to identify the bottom 40% of grants that would have been eliminated from 1980 to 2007... We then identify new molecular entity drugs, approved in the 21st century, that are linked to these grants"

Posting today @ 10:30am Eastern Let’s talk about that Peter Thiel article in the WSJ…

My argument: not everybody on the right is personally religious, but the right inspires religious thinking in its people. In contrast, plenty of people on the left ARE religious, but the Democratic party operates according to a secular logic that has difficulty inspiring devotion among anyone.

My latest op-ed, "The Market’s Judgment on OnlyFans Has Nothing to Do With Money," was just published in @barronsonline. I argue that the stigmatization of porn and other "sin stocks" has led investors to undervalue economically profitable assets. www.barrons.com/articles/onl...

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This is a great example of the need for us to collectively develop critical water media analysis: a) Why was this segment produced b) why now c) who came up with the idea d) who is the “bad guy” in this take e) who does that make the “good guy” (extra points if the answer is same as c)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Reconstructing Critical Social Theory University of California, Santa Cruz April 23-24, 2026 SUBMISSION: Please submit all papers and panels to: [email protected] DEADLINE: Oct 15, 2025 1/

Today is the official publication day of *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake*! Much gratitude to family, friends, students, and colleagues who engaged the project, and to librarians and foundations for support in the research process.

Just published with @jacquifrost.bsky.social and Mahala Miller

Pope Francis used to call Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic parish daily, but Israeli strikes have cut their communication. "There is no secure place," said Anton Asfar of the Catholic charity network Caritas Jerusalem. “Even their food is depleting over there.” religionnews.com/2025/06/20/h...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention. "The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.

NEW: Judge Farbiarz, now in writing, orders the release of Mahmoud Khalil on bail TODAY. AND—happy surprise—he reconsiders and adds a line forbidding electronic monitoring, as Judge Sessions did for Rümeysa Öztürk. He also forbids monetary bond due today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Three cheers for @jonmarthaler.com getting the phrase “absurdist Saudi Pro League” printed in a story about MLS growth. www.startribune.com/mls-world-ra...

New @pewresearch.org report takes a deep look at Catholic life in U.S. It finds 20% of U.S. adults are Catholic (religiously speaking) 9% are "cultural Catholics" 9% are former Catholics 9% are connected to Catholicism in other ways (through spouse, parent, etc.) Much more: pewrsr.ch/4eaMtk2

All the early reports I read said that the police arrived at the Hortman house as the killer was leaving, having already killed them. But this article makes it clear that they arrived before he killed them. And, of course, the New Hope officer’s heartbreaking failure. So close to stopping this.

If you haven't had a chance to read my first book yet, no better time than the present! It's available now in hardcover, digital and audio formats wherever books are sold: musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/we-have-ne...

This is well stated. Mike Lee will forever be associated in my mind with his unbelievably cruel and stupid tweets about the Hortman assassination. He is a disgrace to the Senate and Utah.

“Many more respondents said their religious faith and spirituality had strengthened since the pandemic,” states a new report from Hartford Institute for Religion Research. My @rns.org story: religionnews.com/2025/06/16/w...

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

2. *As I argue in the book, the Religious Left likely protests more than any other single faction on the left, for a variety of historical and structural reasons. So they’re a pretty helpful lens — and were well-repped at (and helped organize) yesterday’s No Kings demonstrations

New piece out with @lauragarbes.bsky.social on how stock footage use is influenced by the political economy of copyright, and how this affects representational diversity in documentary. Congrats to Josh Glick and Pat Aufderheide on editing the new Oxford Handbook of American Documentary.

NEW from me: At Philadelphia's ‘No Kings’ protest, faith leaders urge crowd to 'rebuke hate' religionnews.com/2025/06/14/a...

And for the love of god stop chanting you want due process when it looks like for profit prisons and slave labor and when that due process built the deportation system waiting outside of our children’s schools. Fuck your due process. Fuck it.

As we remember George Floyd, we must see police violence as part of the broader carceral state. 5 yrs ago in @thenation.com: “the M4BL has critiqued the broader system, which reinforces a regime of police brutality and punishes poor communities of color in other insidious ways” tinyurl.com/jhe4hd35

Pleased to share my new article in Social Problems (w/ two stellar graduate students Lingxiao Chen and Xueqia Zhang): "How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement" academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

I was listening to MPR the other day and they were doing a story with Jeanelle Austin, caretaker at GFS, and her siblings. One of the things she said that is so important is that "Black people... have different ideas of liberation and you have to be able to hold space for that.”

Fight for the NEH like you would for NIH and NSF. The attack on one is an attack on all. Solidarity is required and needs to include K-12 educators and staff. The Trump administration is waging war against learning on multiple fronts.

HD Cooke is an elementary school in northwest DC.

A terrific essay about educators in the AI era. "The ability to make another person feel seen is a superpower in the AI era. Claim it. Research has shown that connective labor has positive impacts on you, the laborer, as well as the person being seen. Pugh describes it as “an emotional handshake.”

NEW: There’s a massive Agent Orange site in Vietnam. USAID was funding a cleanup. Then Trump stopped work. Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Loyalty Trap will be out soon! If you are interested in teaching it in fall 2025, I'll send the first 10 people who contact me, a free copy. #ESS2025 @carolinewlee.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @apsa-europe-polsky.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/the-loy...

Check out @nicolefcarr.bsky.social’s newletter recapping our discussion of The Great Resegregation with @theemancipator.org’s @ibramxk.bsky.social and @amberpayne.bsky.social. This was part of the 24 hour “State of the People” livestream. open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

Have you ever wondered about the household division of gendered labor of the upper-middle-class, rich, v. super-rich? Check out our latest by @dacuetovilla.bsky.social on research by Jill Yavorsky, Lisa Keister, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, & Sarah Thébaud in @sfjournal.bsky.social. 🔗 bit.ly/4gYMUgT 🔗

"Democrats have lost recently not because of an excess of wokeness but because of a failure to get excessive enough — to fight like these efforts, like the fate of all Americans, are linked." This is great and in a just world it would bury the reactionary centrists once and for all.

Beginning of the end of the British East India company was the choice to continue to levy taxes in a famine. They made a tremendous profit, but next year people were dead, injured, land was overworked. They were revealed for their brutality. History is full of lessons for those who dare to look.

"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

“Our main focus is the unity of families and the many children who will be impacted or left behind without their parents,” said Agustin Quiles of the Florida Fellowship of Hispanic Councils and Evangelical Institutions.

It should surprise *no one* that his pastor pick is a proponent of the prosperity gospel. The man was *married* by Norman Vincent Peale.

Michael Burawoy was a wonderful sociologist and person. We rarely spoke, but we just happened to be emailing in January. He wrote about how much he was loving this phase of his life. The hit and run scourge is taking so many people who have so much more to live www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/04/o...

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

Back from break, Angela Conley asking where does repair from past harm come in here? Melissa Barnes saying that comes in AFTER they choose an alternative How dumb that is is not lost on Angela Conley, who presses the point that repair for past harms should be involved in CHOOSING the alternative

Really cool that Biden is gonna leave office having done absolutely nothing to preemptively protect abortion under a second Trump presidency, not even the bare minimum