Reading Hanna Reichel’s little book (For Such a Time as This—An Emergency Devotional). The line that pierced me: “But all of us must keep living despite what feels like the end of a world.” There IS continuity here—the US has had these “worse” angels 4ever. AND it feels like the world I knew ended

Good for a laugh

Agreed! Fantastic and fully rational work by the judge

Wow. Would that more would be able to say this!

A great list here

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For today, and to address the scared grievance behind authoritarian schemes

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A lovely view before sunset on the NorCal coast (US). Got to go for a hike in this beauty today. Tomorrow back to some work on things the parents need while my mom’s rehabbing from a recent hospitalization. Things get hard when they’re aging 🙁

This leaked portion of the cancelled 60 min segment confirms the human rights abuses planned for by Noem, Trump, and the rest of this regime of evildoing

There are heroes among us Even now. Thank you to this lawyer

Reviewing student exam monitoring today while I do a couple question regrades (on canvas). The ones who are chewing gum are really giving my misophonia a treat 🙃

Um, no. Lying again, Mikey? If only their pants would really combust spontaneously when they do this

I can’t really decide among all the very important issues that concern me right now. But this one is really worrying me. If half of us are disenfranchised, where does this country go? But we wouldn’t take this lying down

Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must. Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

Just imagine Mike Johnson’s face when we get this done. Tell Congress to force a vote on extending ACA tax credits!

My book is at SBL! Conference discount might help with affordability of you want your own copy, with my models for developing a “position description” for Phoebe & Prisca. Don’t miss the Mohr Siebeck table—there are two sections of the book stalls, and it took me a minute to find this area #SBLAAR

Ooh, fascinating

Oh for the love I mean, I’m not surprised exactly. Just continuously appalled, because I won’t let go of my humanity and expectation of decency

If you haven’t filled up your Monday schedule, I’ll be presenting about teaching womanist biblical interpretation (as a white woman) in the US south #SBLAAR

On my plane to Boston for #SBLAAR. Bringing my oldest son a day early to visit old friends and pop by a few *small* universities in the Boston area 😉

Really good reporting about faith leaders, the Chicago protests, and the arrest of Michael Woolf

I hope this is one of many to follow.

In “statements that should never have to be made” today’s edition:

Today I went to my son’s elementary school to drop off his iPad, which he left at home. He’s been in middle school for 3+ months! 🙃 Changing to standard time has me thrown

I’m so glad to read each part of this.

Good research here, and he’s right to emphasize the importance of peacemaking in Christian tradition. In the first few centuries, whether or not a Christian could even be a soldier was a moral quandary. How far we’ve strayed from that

This is so disturbing. But maybe the lies will be debunked

Talked with my oldest teen about this today. Protein drinks are apparently risky!

He just keeps giving

So far, it’s just murder

Wow!

As someone who has read earlier works of Rick Joyner and other figures mentioned here, I would also share this author’s conclusions about this eager movement label, which is trying to cast suppressive takeover of neighbors as “revival.” Also, calling people demons isn’t obeying commands to love

I really wonder how universities are going to respond to this list of external demands that have nothing to do with each institutions’ own priorities

I just bought two bargain bestsellers on bookshop and I am so happy about it. I think I’m going to want to check this category more often

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

Trans people aren't more skewed towards violence when compared to all shooter archetypes. The FBI is targeting one of the smallest demos in our society because it's easy. Easy to gin up hate. Easy to "other" them & easy to conquer the least violent group. This is a hate crime disguised as justice

I think we need to watch how this affects the presence of republicans in the sciences. Because in the future, when they are hugely underrepresented in those fields (I assume they already are somewhat) we can identify how it is self-inflicted

US adult citizens need to pay attention to the fact that our government is treading far beyond “the consent of the governed” in its use of ICE

There are real numbers about where violence is coming from on the political spectrum. And the Cato institute is… not left leaning

This is a helpful essay, and reminded me how I need to be sure to get offline