Watching clips of SOTU and thinking about how the poor Veep and Speaker can't zone out like the rest of us as Trump drones on. They have to listen to every single word so they know what facial expression to display

1. Trump administration is building prisons to house people they claim they want to deport 2. They have long fear-mongered claiming " the left" wants to put Christians in concentration camps (remember everything with them is projection) So... Who do you suppose those prison camps are really for?

Learn more about Hegseth's religion from @julieingersoll.bsky.social on Reign of Error www.axismundi.us/podcasts/rei...

Bethany is up its same old shit...

Did you see this? @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social #BethanyChristian losing kids again

Wow that #PalmBeach sheriff doesn't want to answer any #Epstein questions. #Mar-A-Lago #shooting

This is a very good conversation, and a disturbing one. I did not know anti-Semites had taken up "Christ is King" as a trollish rallying cry. Had to sit quietly with that for a bit. I do have a quibble with the discussion of intiation, as it relates to all these rightwing new Catholics. Because...

This is very true

And this also may be a paraphrase but it's a very very close paraphrase.

It is a paraphrase but he literally said: I will make you pay (in context, he did not mean pay tariffs. It was a threat) I will hurt you even more. I will destroy you I can do anything I want

In case you don't already know what an abuser sounds like: "You've resisted ( #tariffs) so now I will make you pay; now I will hurt you even more. I will destroy you. I can do anything I want until you submit"

More news outlets beyond @briankaylor.bsky.social are reporting on Doug Wilson preaching at the Pentagon. Here you can listen to the expert on Wilson's theology, @julieingersoll.bsky.social:

Isn't it though?

I'm very much looking forward to this!

"Chilling' is the best word for what the FDA did to Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine. Now, research on this promising technology is threatened by the ghouls at HHS. Repost! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

On episode 2 of Reign of Error, @julieingersoll.bsky.social dissected Wilson's theology and politics, give it a listen: redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

@msnowreports.bsky.social reporting on the Texas Senate race earlier today said "Democrats are hoping Talarico wins the primary." This is a very weird thing to say when the very purpose of the primary is to discern which candidate the Democrats prefer.

American democracy is facing its most serious crisis since the Civil War, but we have no coherent effort to even to try to figure out what's wrong, in order to start fixing things. But Denmark is doing just that with a model it's used before. 1/9 www.liberalcurrents.com/america-if-y...

We’ve been yelling this for a couple years. SAVE Act has been around for a while now.

A shot in the dark for #academicsky: I am looking for a recurring national survey tracking attitudes on gay adoption/marriage through self-completed/online surveys. Ideally, it would cover years both pre- and post-legalisation. Eternal gratitude to the person who can help me out!

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

There are far too many who will now say out loud that they want to repeal the 19th Ammendment

If you got married & changed your name, the #SAVE act makes your voter status more complicated because your current name & your birth certificate that prove #citizenship won't match. You're going to need extra documents other people won't and the simplest solution (a passport) is expensive

Massive anti-ICE demonstration in downtown Chicago Illinois! The resistance is Pretti Good.

What a tremendous loss for us. Though I am glad that he won't have to suffer the frustration of watching more of this nonsense unfold. He prepared the way for us. His book helped me understand so much after abandoning the Christian Right/Constitution Party. www.amazon.com/Right-Wing-P...

I just learned the sad news that Chip Berlet has passed away. If you're up on the study of the religious right in America you know who he is. If you don't please read this obituary. He was on this before all of the rest of us. It's a sad loss idavox.com/index.php/20...

I still don't understand why we're reporting these stories assuming those claiming to be ICE agents actually are.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

We run behind the Trumpers trying to clean up their messes instead of getting ahead of them. Imagine the worst thing they can do & plan for it. If you can't #vote by mail see if there's time to change that. Polling places in cities across the country are going to look like #Minneapolis this Fall

In no way suggesting she doesn't deserve it (and more) I still can't get over the fact that in this whole Epstein mess, the only person punished is the only woman involved as a high level perpetrator. In fact, the men involved likely benefited in money & power from their association with each other

What you didn't here from the the national prayer breakfast: a.co/d/0ggSYz0x

If you're thinking to yourself that prayer and praise for Pete Hegseth is some kind of cognitive dissonance, you need to listen to the Reign of Error episode with @julieingersoll.bsky.social, in which we discuss Hegseth's Christianity and his God of War: redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

It's this, combined with an arrogance common among a certain demographic of white men. It never occurs to them to question their "brilliance." I remember a tea party guy in his '50s who asked me, wide-eyed "have you ever heard of Ayn Rand?"

Donald Trump has been telling us that if he doesn't like the outcome of the elections he will seize ballots. He wants Republicans to take control of voting. He wants to take over elections in Democratic states. People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.

Wow #AliyaRahman is on on fire fire. What a powerful voice

It's mind-boggling to me that searching and removing references to "women" or "females" is somehow not recognized as #genderideology.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

It's awful

We are well into a war of Southern aggression — a neo-Confederate project to remake the entire country in its own image and win the war the South never conceded. At @contrariannews.org contrarian.substack.com/p/the-war-of...

I'm no "big name" but I do have my niche. I love to hear from junior scholars. I suppose it depends on the field but the job market having been what it has been for the last decades many of us are at small institutions without graduate students. I'm sure I'm not alone!

the logical conclusion to everything the republicans are saying and doing is violent ethnic cleansing. you cannot believe “the west” is under siege by immigrants and come to a “reasonable” or “peaceful” resolution with “people who disagree with you” in society from that starting point.

#Academicsky I teach an intro Uni course where (often freshman) students do site visits. It's not uncommon for them to write in their notes their mom went with them. It's usually dropped casually as though they don't know this is unusual. What would you say to them?

Watching them do this step-by-step is like watching a train wreck in slow motion

I wonder If the people supporting the arrest of Don lemon remember when they were fine with anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder storming Dr. George Tiller's church during a service and shot him dead right in the sanctuary

Great conversation between @sarahposner.bsky.social & @julieingersoll.bsky.social on Hegseth & religion. Would be helpful if all political reporters listened & took notes. Appreciate shout-out to my work documenting Hegseth's worship services at Pentagon: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-sh...

If this denomination is new to you, @julieingersoll.bsky.social has you covered. Listen to find out more about how this movement wants our country to be governed by biblical law, how they believe their religion should dictate every facet of life and society, their extreme patriarchy, and more.

Nothing's better in an interview than when the interviewer knows their stuff and asks good question. Thanks for the great chat, @sarahposner.bsky.social :

Seems funny seeing Marco Rubio sitting before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with a name plate that says "The Honorable Marco Rubio." Are they trying to convince us? Distinguish him from the other Marco Rubio who is anything but?

@mccutcheonsays.bsky.social Has something happened with the StudyReligion website? Any suggestion for Adam for an archive of the terrific resources there?

This five year old is still in jail