Thanks to @commondreams.org for covering the Rutgers University Senate's resolution for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. It's touched a strong chord among academics and others because it charts a truly imaginable (if difficult!) way to stand up TOGETHER. www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...

I texted with Cory @booker.senate.gov as he headed for his marathon speech on the Senate floor. Here's what he told me. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

I don’t doubt that some of my co-religionists have experienced antisemitism. Sometimes aggressively so. But it’s use as a cudgel to destroy institutions essential to our country has absolutely nothing to do with that.

Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going… www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

When "due process" doesn't exist, and in its place there's just a half-assed, lazy, racist hunt for bodies: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

#KeepGoingCory The people expect to see news coverage of Senator Cory Booker standing up for the American people and a better America. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com @msnbc.com

Cory Booker is still speaking against Trump's damaging policies. It's coming up to 10 hours now!!! #KeepGoingCory WATCH NOW AND SUPPORT HIM!!! #CoryBooker Keep talkin', Cory! www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

Almost missed posting for #WomensHistoryMonth! I wrote (with Lynn Cohick) Christian Women in the Patristic World. The thesis: women contributed substantially to the development of theology and practice in early Christianity. Buy at your fave bookshop! www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/christ...

Proud to have worked on @nexusproject.bsky.social's Fighting Antisemitism, Protecting Democracy: A Strategy for the Trump Era, a look at what actually fighting antisemitism would entail... www.axios.com/2025/03/31/c...

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

Oh, per @nbcnews.com: Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship. Note: Quakers were some of the earliest supporters of Sanctuary, even putting out a booklet on the topic in 1984 (it's still available). www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Several concerning bills are moving through the Statehouse this week. Please take a minute to email or call the legislator listed on each graphic to express your concern. Follow along with all the bills we're tracking at MADVoters.org.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

As long as private & charter schools receive public funding, we will continue to demand accountability and transparency from them. Tell the Senate Education Ctte chair, Sen. Raatz, to bring SBs 320 and 403 to the Education committee for consideration: [email protected], 317-233-0930. Call by Feb. 11!

Highly recommend reading this book, and also following @supportccs.bsky.social as we keep up the good fight here in Carmel, Indiana.

Astra Taylor pinpoints what local organizers have been saying for ages. “Across the country, ordinary people are building the relationships, organizations, and power required to move this country forward. They are the ground game we need.” Please can we finally listen?

In honour of Gemma Carey - a fierce advocate for patients with disabilities & Covid Caution - I want to share one of my favourite articles she wrote. “I parent in a world where air is not just full of smoke, but a virus that my doctors agree I very likely would not survive” 🧵

Sad to be missing #sblaar this year—will be following from afar, and plotting ahead for Boston next year!

Not going to AAR [the American Academy of Religion conference] this year? Time for my annual thread on making the most of an academic event like this if you can’t attend in person/officially...🧵 #aar #aarsbl #sblaar #aar24

Here is an unofficial conference guide I wrote up in 2017 on how not to sexually harass at #SBLAAR24 #SBLAAR

My timeline cleanse, courtesy of my 2yo who nabbed my phone last night and took a thousand pictures of her own feet.

Ok, I give up: can someone please tell me what Starter Pack I am on? I looked on ClearSky and I’ve checked every SP I can guess, but based on who is following me I really have no clue!

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

hope those incoming undergrads paying $65K per year are ready for some high quality scan-trons in their big intro lecture classes and 75-person discussion sections

Need a helpful guide to navigate Bluesky? @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social has you covered! /4

I started #HoosierSky, but stopped signing in to 🦋 post-10/7 b/c the activism I needed (Jewish folks working for ceasefire) was elsewhere; I just didn’t have the bandwidth. This is all to say I haven’t tended this feed at all & I’m not sure what’s required. Should I be doing something?

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it

I’m reading more “takes” about how we got here. And they all begin and end with Trump and myopically refuse to see what’s right in front of us. Oh, America. We may be fully lost, but we need to face why. So, I’m reposting my take. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

My latest at TIME: "Many white Christians have not just selfishly supported a dangerous, narcissistic man who promised to restore their waning influence; they have now willingly blessed the advent of a new American fascism that threatens our democratic future." time.com/7174260/whit...

There are more Christian Zionists in America than there are Jews. Every Jew, American or not, that backs the Christian Zionist project, is supporting people who believe in an our ultimate annihilation.

“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“ Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea

“For each of us, Jewish identity is not a weapon to wield in a fight for statist power but a fount of generational wisdom that says justice, justice, you shall pursue. Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof. We object to the exploitation of our pain and the silencing of our allies.”

'We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand.'

If you value Amtrak, let your Representative know. The House will vote this week on a bill (H.R. 4820) that will significantly slash funding for passenger rail, including a 92 percent reduction in funds to the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the busiest rail corridor in the Western Hemisphere.

i get why as jews we feel uniquely pressured to respond right now (and it’s fucked!) but i also feel like i need to stand on the top of the tallest building and scream NOT IN MY NAME until i have no more voice

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

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YES!! A friend who works in social security law was telling me how, quietly and efficiently, the Biden administration has been working from day one to make it easier for her clients to get the benefits they are entitled to. Glad it’s getting coverage!

Gmar hatimah tovah!! May we all be sealed for goodness, for health, for justice, for safety, for hope, for inspiration, for creativity, for love, for connection, for solidarity, for expansiveness, for delight, for community, for mutual care, for dignity, for unlearning, for learning, and for joy.

@maryannruegger.bsky.social SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE!!!!!!! HoosierSky is small but growing:) :) :)

Faculty: we need more TT lines, better pay for grad students & support staff, research funds & money for the libraries Chancellors: what I’m hearing is you want us to pay a consulting firm to do a climate survey, launch a new LMS, redo the uni website, & make every class hybrid

HOOSIERS!! I made HoosierSky feed:) bsky.app/profile/did:... This will pick up any post that has “hoosiersky” in it. I think: I’m not super tech savvy. Let me know if there are any issues.

well turns out it's @candidamoss.bsky.social appreciation day around blooskie as I just got the cover art for GOSPEL THRILLERS with her endorsement on the front cover! thank you, Candida!