It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

lol I got *one* draft that left in ChatGPT language and was so offended I immediately updated our submissions page 😂

we're wee but y'all know @religiondispatches.org absolutely does not fuck with AI

Lianna Constantino, Director of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, explains why using the NDAA to gain Lumbee recognition endangers all Native sovereignty religiondispatches.org/lumbee-recog...

FUCKING GROSS

the latest from RD: Lianna Constantino of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds explains why using the NDAA to gain Lumbee recognition endangers all Native sovereignty (this situation is *complicated*, y'all) religiondispatches.org/lumbee-recog...

Despite the writer's block and with an awful lot of help from my friends, @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and I have a piece up on @religiondispatches.org on the Jerusalem Cross patch Southcom posted. religiondispatches.org/that-jerusal...

also ICYMI: @santiholley.bsky.social wrote a really fun piece about AI theophanies for @religiondispatches.org this week religiondispatches.org/are-you-ther...

the latest from RD: @suscrockford.bsky.social reviews Muhammad H. Zaman's *Infected* religiondispatches.org/infected-wea...

RD + @saramoslener.bsky.social = BFF religiondispatches.org/i-will-alway...

"Research with Jewish college students suggests that changing minds...demands grappling with the fundamentally different moral frameworks through which people interpret this violence," writes @amyadamczyk.bsky.social in this @religiondispatches.org op-ed. Read the piece. ⤵️

For @religiondispatches.org I looked at US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s recent visit to a Messianic church in Jerusalem. Many prominent Christian Zionists are allying with efforts to bring Jews to faith in Jesus— breaking a longstanding movement taboo

New from me via @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/infected-wea...

I wrote a thing.

the latest from RD: @joelhs.bsky.social on how the American Jewish establishment is responding to shifting perspectives on Israel religiondispatches.org/mamdanis-pop...

the latest from RD: Brook Wilensky-Lanford on Trump's heavenly fixations religiondispatches.org/heaven-on-hi...

"The ADL’s spankings from the Right are intended to secure its partnership in the escalation of white nationalism, and they’re succeeding. Likewise, the little storms between Christian and Jewish right-wing groups aren’t breakups—they’re just negotiations...." -- crucial piece from Emmaia Gelman

so grateful for @religiondispatches.org and the long-term work of Emmaia Gelman

the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...

Ellis: "It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."

y'all my puppy visits tomorrow and then comes home w/ me on Sunday have already told @evanderkacz.bsky.social to expect a series of related posts, including "my puppy, who is perfect, has never shared a planet with Charlie Kirk" and "what my puppy thinks of Dick Cheney's war crimes" stay tuned

IS Wolverine King of the Vampires

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

if any Jewish woman wants to write me an extremely petty piece about Zionist meltdowns/crashouts over Mamdani's win for @religiondispatches.org, hmu we pay!! double bonus extra points if you're a transwoman please give me an excuse to put that Debra Messing weeping picture on our website, I beg

Just because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.

not to say we told you so but religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...

succinct

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

the latest from @religiondispatches.org -- thanks to @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social for this reality check!! religiondispatches.org/auntie-fa-me...

Time for the onion to start doing a politics teen onion section.

I wrote a piece for @religiondispatches.org about the use of AI videos to promote a moral panic about civil unrest on November 1 with the ending of food stamps. The videos are racist, and misogynistic and rw response is threatening. religiondispatches.org/unconcerned-...

I guess we're doing this again religiondispatches.org/this-is-no-o...

and check out @antheabutler.bsky.social's White Evangelical Racism while you're at it! uncpress.org/978146968151...

once you've read this, check out Dr. Truschke's excellent explainer on Hindu nationalism religiondispatches.org/what-in-the-...

So far, Hindu nationalist groups in America have had almost no response to Vance's outrageous denial of his wife's #Hindu identity. Here's some thoughts on explaining their muted (largely absent) response and why it matters -- timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/you...

not to say we told you so but religiondispatches.org/corrosive-co...

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Gene Nichol, a professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Newby had essentially turned the court into an arm of the Republican Party. “Newby... has become the chief justice who destroyed the North Carolina Supreme Court as an impartial institution.”

"I do think that something we as a country, we as communities really need to wrestle with [is]: How do we take Christianity seriously as both a colonizing force and a force for liberation ..." Listen to Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social full interview with @mpgphd.bsky.social HERE: bit.ly/4ohF2M6

senior editor @mpgphd.bsky.social talks to scholar-activist @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social about what it takes to go from big ideas to meaningful change -- and how the democratic process can (and should!!) inform public art and public memory religiondispatches.org/swords-into-...

what is the connection between nostalgia, ai slop, and fascism? find out for yourself in my new essay: synthetic ghosts of a past that never was neurosismancer.neocities.org/80snostalgia...

On The Signal this week, @religiondispatches.org Senior Editor @mpgphd.bsky.social joins editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social to discuss why religion–and specifically white Christian Nationalism–are topics each of you should care about, whether you are religious or not. FULL INTERVIEW: bit.ly/4ohF2M6

CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York

senior editor @mpgphd.bsky.social talks to scholar-activist @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social about what it takes to go from big ideas to meaningful change -- and how the democratic process can (and should!!) inform public art and public memory religiondispatches.org/swords-into-...

welp this is exactly why the work Swords into Plowshares is doing is so important interview with cofounder @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social out this afternoon with @religiondispatches.org

DHS is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" and by that I mean a factory for white supremacist messaging. I got mad about the neomedievalism from last week, for @religiondispatches.org : religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...

starving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

the latest from RD: @tlecaque.bsky.social on the Christofascist work being done by DHS's neomedievalist posts religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...