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...

I detest this framing. Most men aren’t running for Senate. Thats *literally* the prerequisites for the job. Doing politics and being a Senator are two very different things. I don’t love presuming that men need to be handled with children’s gloves. Men can handle being told when they fuck up

Mariam Durrani *also* remember religiondispatches.org/times-cutesy...

Criticism of Israel is not in itself antisemitic at all, and is in fact entirely necessary and important, but blaming Israel for the fact that people are criticizing a politician who had a Nazi tattoo until a few days ago is in fact antisemitic.

and if you want a sneak peek www.buzzsprout.com/810974/episo...

what you don't know about jihad is a lot, probably (except for the significant portion of my TL that are, in fact, experts in this 😂) anyway *I* am never done learning from @profirmf.bsky.social and neither should you be www.religiondepartment.com/offers/qeNpZ...

inshallah

my money's on Griswold before Loving but that's really Thomas-contingent

so stoked to talk to @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social about Kara Walker's latest installation / truthbomb, "Unmanned Drone" keep an eye out @religiondispatches.org for the interview and in the meantime, maybe a consider a donation to this awesome project? www.sipcville.com

When the self-declared "antifa supersoldier" has a fascist tattoo

Wait you’re saying all the worst internet people are terrible? But more seriously anyone defending a Nazi tattoo should never be taken seriously again

@jeffsharlet.bsky.social: "How is this qualitatively different from the attempt to purge the Naval Academy's library of Black history, of Holocaust history, even as it left on the shelves books like "Mein Kampf"? This isn't qualitatively different. It's stylistically different."

are there any Black women historians/art historians/movement specialists who have seen the new Kara Walker installation and want to write about it for @religiondispatches.org? I can pay you!! (I'm obsessed with this piece but am obvs not the right author for this) viaartfund.org/grants/kara-...

publisher reached out to ask if I wanted to read/cover an as yet unpublished Daly manuscript for @religiondispatches.org my response: does the Pope shit in the woods

ICYMI

Anti-abortion harassment is spiritual violence.

Well to say I am surprised would be an understatement, but I am glad the Quaker found a spine.