Is it a good time to talk about Christian Zionism yet? Because I feel like I’m not seeing enough about Christian Zionism’s influence on every Middle East decision made by the the US. Luckily @swordsjew.bsky.social has done just that. Feels like an especially important read in this moment.

Trump bombing Iran was illegal and unjustified. I ran for Congress to make sure our leaders consider the true costs of war. And I will be in the Senate, standing on my titanium legs, demanding answers from Trump. My statement:

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

Portland, Oregon #NoKings

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled the federal government out of what Northwest tribes have hailed as a historic agreement to recover salmon in the Columbia River Basin.

The AAUP calls for the immediate release of David Huerta & the immediate cessation of these violent & reckless ICE raids that are terrorizing hard-working families from coast to coast. An injury to one is an injury to all. #FreeDavidEndRaids www.aaup.org/media-releas...

Happy Pentecost. What a great night with Homebrewed Christianity's @trippfuller.bsky.social and Will Rose at Holy Trinity Lutheran - Chapel Hill!! We discussed Spirit, Pentecost, and #WhenGodBecameWhite Hope to see many at Theology Beer Camp 2025! www.theologybeercamp2025.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Escola, 38, is the first openly nonbinary artist to win the award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.

Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.

Car time = work time Preparing my last text based lecture of the semester. We'll be analysing the 7 seals in revelation 6-8,1 and I'm so excited to use @lhuber.bsky.social revelation commentary as my basis. Especially the way she connects the text to today is immensely helpful to me!

Happy to report that EVERY student (who was actually in class) remembered & got correct on their exam this amazing coin of Maximinus Thrax that was modified to put his head on a pike with a worm eating his brain and bird pecking out his eye. The most memorable damnatio memoriae!

This might be the most foolish decision by a government since the acceptance of the Trojan horse. 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.

Here's a thing you can do today: @5calls.org has printable posters. Print & hang up in your neighborhood. More people need to be calling their reps and a lot of them don't know how. You can be the one to get them started. 5calls.org/printables

It’s not that they don’t know what the constitution says. They know what it says. Just like they knew what it said when they asked Pence to ignore it. They just don’t care. They believe it can be rewritten by bending it to their will, if enough of them decide to do it.

PRRI President and Founder @robertpjones.bsky.social, Ph.D., asserts, “as Trump is slowly but surely steering our country toward authoritarianism, the divides in the country can no longer be understood with the traditional labels of Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal.”

“Clayborn is more than a historic building. It is sacred ground. It is the beating heart of the civil rights movement, a symbol of struggle, hope, and triumph that belongs not just to Memphis but to the world," Memphis Mayor Paul Young wrote. religionnews.com/2025/04/28/t...

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

Had a great experience sharing my current research project at UCSB. It was really energizing and I’m excited to get back to writing. #acwriting #writing #amwriting #relwriting

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Read Maris's piece, then go show your local indie bookstore some love. They're so much more than places to get books--they are places to engage with ideas and others in your community. Staffed by actual humans to help you find the books you didn't know you needed!

✨ proofs day ✨ for God, Slavery, and Early Christianity! I’m thrilled that the dissertation-turned-book will be out in the world some time this fall, and hope that folks enjoy wading through hundreds of pages about the Shepherd, slavery, spirit possession, and the formation of Christian ethics.

Congratulations to JDP faculty Dr. Christy Cobb's for her newest book! 📖🎉 You can find more info and buy it here: www.eerdmans.com/978080288413...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

I’ve been thinking about Abu Graib since Kristi Noem posted her picture.

!!! The NC Board of Elections reveals that EVEN IF it throws out all the votes contested by Jefferson Griffin and the state Supreme Court, Justice Allison Riggs is STILL on track to narrowly win the race. HUGE news from @bryanranderson.bsky.social: andersonalerts.substack.com/p/riggs-supr...

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

Do this folks. Do. This. 202-224-3121.

Don't sleep on this -- open access! With a contribution by the inimitable @lhuber.bsky.social ! www.routledge.com/Revelation-a...

My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite: ‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’

Folks: Saturday was HUGE, POWERFUL, & HISTORIC! Now we have to keep the pressure on. Join us tomorrow, April 8, as workers across the country stand up & demand NO cuts to education & life-saving research. Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts w/ research. www.killthecuts.org

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

“This does not just affect North Carolina,” Riggs said. “This is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Today’s decision was deeply misinformed.”

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Portland, Oregon #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne 📷 @climatebrad.hillheat.com

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

We should not seek to justify a military campaign when it inflicts foreseeable, intolerable harms on innocent people, sweeps away the innocent along with the guilty, and fails to recognize the equal humanity of the other. Some musar reflections in Sources: www.sourcesjournal.org/articles/mus...

Booker and Warnock just talked about their faith, and specifically about Matthew 25, segued to need to protect healthcare coverage for working Americans ("I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in")

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ): "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble, I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able." Watch live here --> www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

Republicans are saying the quiet part out loud. Republicans are coming for Medicare.  They're making it crystal clear: “Reform” = cut This has been their playbook all along to spread misinformation while betraying working people.

My PhD is old enough to drink! Defended on this day in 2004.