Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Holy shit this is incredible.

Another great reason to read @rns.org: We wrote a very similar story to this back in March, when I talked to activists (including one also quoted in this NYTimes story) about plans to overturn Obergefell utilizing strategies used to overturn Roe. religionnews.com/2025/03/26/s...

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

Yesterday my hometown was hit with massive tornadoes. We weren't expecting them in places that have never been hit before and have no idea who will help us. FEMA is all but dead and our state is run by Republicans that hate the city. This is the canary in the coal mine. My latest.

If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.

Virtually every Cybertruck — those freaky Tesla vehicles made to look like aggression incarnate – has been recalled, because, literally, they come unglued. What a metaphor for this regime: a weak vehicle trying to look tough, a victim of its own cheapness, an ugly toy falling apart.

Opinion | My entire career is based on pretending to be from Appalachia. Here’s why we must end DEI.

American Historical Association (AHA) and Organization of American Historians (OAH) finally issued a formal statement on the censoring of history on govermentment websites and other resources: www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com for calling out the lack of diverse faces in the lineup changes at @msnbc.com , and the peope losing their jobs this week in the shakeup.

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com has strong words tonight about the painful changes recent at MSNBC—thank you for not staying silent and for this powerful message!

After being subjected to years of insults from Donald Trump and an official "DEI investigation" from Trump's new FCC commissioner, MSNBC fired the first Black woman to host a primetime Cable news show. Happy Black History Month!

Sounds about right.

From my new piece @rns.org. Our former republic — preserved by various facets of civil religion — seems poised to give way to a Second American Republic defined by Trump’s boundless ambition, avarice and conceit. religionnews.com/2025/01/23/i...

A wonderful (if all too brief) article about the extraordinary David Clohessy, who has devoted his life to helping other survivors of clergy sexual abuse across Catholic-Protestant lines. I write about him in much fuller detail in my book, but this is a good read. flatlandkc.org/news-issues/...

Religion scholars gone wild. (Sorry I didn’t capture everyone who stopped by the Americanist soirée last eve!) #AAR #sblaar24 #sblaar

AAR friends, come join our reception tonight! Great food, drinks, and conversation, as ever. All welcome!

I look forward to it too—see you Monday! #AAR #sblaar24 #sblaar

Looking forward to this panel in just a couple of hours, with a few of us thinking together about gender and the recent election. Zoom at 6pm CST. Register: bit.ly/3AFfKDW

Infuriating. No less infuriating for being utterly and sadly predictable.

People (especially pundits) assume universities have way more influence over politics and culture than they do and grant way too little credit for the essential, basic knowledge we produce (climate science, cancer research, AI, ethics, etc.)

Brief timeline cleanse, courtesy of Rowan and Winnie.

Finally dipping in my toes here and happy to see so many old and new peeps here—and very glad to begin moving off the other platform that is so toxic.