Also exceedingly rare for a court to cite Schragger, Schwartzman, and Tebbe, but lo and behold.

Offered without comment, can you honestly say you don't want to leave one?

What is a Rapture anyway? Here is an explanation that I wrote at the time of the last big Rapture hysteria - back in 2011: remnantofgiants.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/t... #Rapture #Jesus #SecondComing #ThirdComing #FourthComing #Bible

A network of right wing “pink slime” faux news sites is targeting “anti-American” classes at colleges & universities nationwide. #DefendHigherEd

Colonialism was not just theft. It was the invention of a moral language to make theft look like salvation.

As it happens, I had occasion to hear many of these ultimately bad-faith AI booster arguments in a speech I attended this very day. Good to review this point by point take down.

Noted:

"Many Black pastors in the largest African American Christian denominations linked the veneration of Kirk...to the history of weaponizing faith to justify colonialism, enslavement and bigotry."

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“You also now must fear one another. Under the new normal, a single student can record a class discussion, fail to protect your identity, and post it online in violation of the safeguards provided by Student Rule 24 and FERPA, dragging you & your classmates into a national scandal without consent.”

“State Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters told the Tulsa Flyer Tuesday his office expects a chapter of Turning Point USA in every Oklahoma high school by the “end of the year.” theokeagle.com/2025/09/23/r...

Hindu Nationalism, Explained (6 things you need to know) by @audreytruschke.bsky.social

"Religious believers think the rapture is coming — and they’re asking if their dogs can come too" [tabloid] nypost.com/2025/09/21/l...

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

“In 23 years at Harvard and 15 as a tenured professor, I have seen a lot of tenure cases. While there have been other denials I was sorry to hear about, I have never been at such a total loss to explain Harvard’s decision,” said History professor Mary D. Lewis wrote in an emailed statement.

I think people not raised Catholic struggle to understand the church as an institution and are unaware that there's massive strife happening right now within the Catholic Church which in very broad strokes - Rome thinks American Catholicism has been tainted by too close association to evangelicalism

The two (specifically white evangelicalism) aligned because of abortion but it's led to a conservative shift within the US Catholic church such that in in some ways more conservative than the church itself tagging @clairewillett.bsky.social in here because she knows way more than I do

But this is how you get Cardinal Timothy Dolan praising charlie kirk at the same time you have Bishops waving mass requirements to people who are afraid of being taken up in an ICE Raid. The Catholic Church is messy, top down hierarchical weirdness.

And it's relationship to white supremacy in this country is also weird. The nation's largest ethnic groups - Eastern Europeans, Italians, Irish - were not considered white until the 1950s. The KKK's core demographics to attack were Black people, Jews, and Catholics. Remember,

white supremacy expands to suit its needs and after the civil rights movement it needed european catholics to be white. So they became white.

Also: one thing I think a lot of people don't know is Catholic churches are built based on some magical formula that I don't understand. What I do know is you can't just hang a shingle and call it a church. So when a neighborhood changes demographics they don't erect a new church for that new

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

This gets at one of the dynamics that has really changed teaching. Faculty never know when we are being recorded by students, and for what purpose. Hard to maintain conditions of trust in a classroom where political monitors are on hand to report wrongspeak. Literally what happens in China.

Also, a gentle reminder that using terms likes gay couples and straight couples in place of same-sex and different-sex couples or households contributes to bi-erasure. #SOGIData #BiAwarenessWeek #icu

them people dgaf about conflicts of interest or ethics

Police called it "nonviolent" and I know what they mean (it was a written threat), but this use of language has to stop. Written threats to a racial group are inherently violent. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/20/n...

"Governing boards need to be aware of the significant legal and financial implications of this executive action." ...I think most colleges are so busy putting out fires that they are sleepwalking into this catastrophe. agb.org/blog-post/in...

NCES released IPEDS data on institutional characteristics, 12-month enrollment, and completions for the 2023-24 academic year. It's 2-8 weeks later than the typical year. Also, it looks like revised data for these variables for the prior year are available, but not indicated like usual.

do clothes get left behind

Just following Rapture discourse, and all I have to say is that WE WARNED YOU that Protestantism is a straight up bad idea but you wanted to read the Bible alone, you freaks.

Canada celebrates The Rapture in October

Left Behind cosplayers really go to the next level huh.

It's really weird to be an interfaith spiritual counselor during rapture discourse

Wait, did I miss the rapture or is that tomorrow?

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Rapture Theory Explained: Why Some People Think The World Will End Today www.newsweek.com/rapture-theo...

🚨🚨🚨 NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI to Undermine Civil Rights Protections. #Academicfreedom #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Shame on #harvard Durba Mitra’s brilliance is just too much to handle for a place of so much darkness. Triggered and pissed all over again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Happening this week in the Department of Religious Studies! ------------------------------ Black Freedom and the Racialization of Religious Excitement RELS Colloquium Judith Weisenfeld @judithweisenfeld.com (Princeton) Sep 25, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204

I'm looking foward to talking about my work at Penn later this week.

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

So much evil circulating through academia these days!

NEW: A former Ball State University staff member is suing the university president after she was fired for a private Facebook post about the death of Charlie Kirk. She is being represented by ACLU of Indiana @acluindiana.bsky.social. READ THE COMPLAINT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian

20 programs.

Open access for a couple of weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...