The impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown on mothers is particularly pronounced, our analysis found: Moms of U.S. citizens have been deported at about four times the pace under the Biden administration.

Did you know that there is one group of Americans who are not entitled to birthright citizenship? People born American Samoa are classified instead simply as “U.S. nationals” — and as a result they cannot vote or run for office anywhere else in the country. Much more here, for anyone curious:

Again and again, guardrails are a scam

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Renee Good was also shot at point-blank range through her side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger Alex Pretti wasn’t in a car, but he too was shot at point-blank range by an ICE agent who was in no danger It seems every time ICE kills someone they lie to cover up shooting innocent people

Dr. Lily Vuong (McMaster PhD 2010 and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon) recently published a co-edited volume entitled *The World of the New Testament: Encountering Texts in Context* with Fortress Press. www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

Trump at SOTU: I had a wonderful father. In 1954 Woody Guthry wrote a song about his racist landlord, Fred Trump. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

The Scriptures Everywhere episode live from the #ISS26 annual meeting is up, and please join us next week on March 6 at 10am PT when we complement our conversations about #scriptures and #diaspora with a discussion of #citizenship. signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/

Can’t believe we are still doing this

So many Global North countries choosing self-inflicted decline as they obsess over racial purity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Honored to be speaking in this series tomorrow night. Not to give too much away, but I will make the case that borders aren’t biblical (even if I don’t want to save the Bible for justice either)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

We are looking for expressions of interest for guests for Season 5 of @peoplingthepast.bsky.social podcast! Please share widely with your networks if you think this may be of interest. Deadline is February 15th 2026!

My book published by T&T Clark is finally out. See the link below! amzn.to/46j7mGL

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

Impossible to describe what a raw nerve the rapid response channels are when you’re NOT on patrol. ICE sighted everywhere, all over the neighborhood. Silence and then swarming. This is not an immigration agency, it is not a law-enforcement agency. It is a state-sponsored terror agency.

“We have become a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force.” One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

We are with you, Twin Cities. Please, *please* take care of yourselves and your neighbors, everyone. I don't have much faith left in this country, but I believe along with you that "the people, united, will never be defeated."

Open BlueSky, & don’t know if I’m looking at footage of Iran or Minneapolis…

Run those air cleaners harder than ever. (I know some people turned them off or down so they could better hear horns or whistles but it might be time to crank them up.)

Just because we’re not calling it a civil war, doesn’t mean we are not a country under siege by its own government, with federal forces acting as a military occupying force in cities the regime has decided must be brought to heel

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

The green gas is bad news. It made a lot of people sick in Portland when we had to deal with it every night. Please stay safe

Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space. @lmesseri.bsky.social

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

that is what Bush said about Iraq - $7 trillion mistake

What Tr*mp is doing in Venezuela is similar to what happened under President Hayes after the Ten Years' War in Cuba. That conflict destroyed the Cuban economy, which incentivized the US to exploit Cuba by purchasing much of what was left of it's economy. This paved the way for Castro decades later.

We can’t pay for USAid, science research, daycare, school lunches, or healthcare, but there’s no problem launching an illegal war that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars and enrich all the grifters, goons, and ghouls in this administration.

Universities embracing generative AI be like:

ICE is out of control.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

The Fall 2025 season of #ScripturesEverywhere has come to a close. Thank you to all who joined us. We'll be back in February with a special session from Alabama; or, join me in person at the annual meeting. Visit signifyingscriptures.org for more information.

I wish people would call this out for what it is. the goal here is a less lethal form of ethnic cleansing. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

New issue of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament - Vol. 48, No. 2 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jnta/48/2 @sagepub.com @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @ntright.bsky.social @clarissabreu.bsky.social @lhuber.bsky.social The Future of Revelation and Gender Studies

The targeted termination of skilled, experienced immigration judges across the nation is lawless scandal. Their replacement with “deportation judges” is nothing short of an outrageous disregard for democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

On this World AIDS Day, I'm thinking back to 2011, when we in NEH-ODH gave Anne Balsamo and her team the first of several awards to develop the AIDS Quilt Touch, which allows the public to search and view the AIDS Quilt. apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/...

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

If you’re in San Diego on Friday you can watch Children of Men for free and then hang out for a conversation with me and Heather Ross from Point Loma Nazarene University: The Cinema of Resistance: #Apocalypse and #ApocalypticHope www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cinema...

I am so excited that this edited volume on the critical after lives of José Esteban Muñoz’s work for #biblicalStudies and #religiousstudies is out in the world at the Bible & Critical Theory. I am so honored to have worked with the contributors: bibleandcriticaltheory.com/volume-21-no...

New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

To my NYC friends, I thought you would appreciate that I saw a bunch of “I ❤️ NY” T-shirts on my morning run in Balboa Park. I will always love NYC but it was nice to see it was such a popular west coast view this morning.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."