youngkin serving the commonwealth by conspiring with the white house to destroy one of its flagship educational institutions

I was not aware of this story, and I'm guessing that the University of Virginia wanted it that way augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

Similar to the US right, the Brazilian right is also telling young people that university degrees are worthless and that you should go to trade school instead. Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Hold up

Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels

[recalls studies documenting AI psychosis] [heavy sigh in religion scholar and experience designer] </scene>

remembering that “my friend richard pervo” stuff this AM. would be nice if our anger right now filters down to our guild. love to the women who have been fighting to make our spaces safer for years. 💜

Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

..... of interest to the caturday crew.... Religion and Cats

New episode today! Join @alana-m-vincent.net and @klaxoncomms.com as they discuss A Case of Conscience. Come for the discussion of Vatican II, stay for info about the ancient Stylite movement and Manicheans! (I am great at promo, no?) sites.libsyn.com/586395/a-cas...

..... of interest to the caturday crew.... Religion and Cats

I’m giving a public talk this week. Come on by.

Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule. (Published Oct. 2024)

I love that Indiana just forcibly appointed the most small-minded, vindictive Colonel Klink-type German Christian "Antisemitism Expert" to keep the Jews in Jewish Studies in line

Here is the statement on the initial TAMU system proposal. The adopted rule apparently prohibits "advocacy" of "race and gender ideology" without approval.

You didn't get a doctorate so you could 'get your syllabus approved' and then 'not depart from it' and just 'tell the students what they need in order to work in their profession'. You're the *expert*; your job is to convey your sense of reality, and also encourage them to think for themselves.

go go go! 90%! go! go some more! www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.

The Catholic bishop’s statement raised concerns about the “vilification of immigrants” and condemned “indiscriminate mass deportation of people.”

What many of you may not know about the University of California graduate student strike is that our bargaining team voted 10-9 against even asking the university bargaining team to have an easier process to work from home. These were our PEERS, not some boss, but they didn't care.

“Israeli settlers burned a mosque in the occupied West Bank on Thursday” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

It's Beneventan for me.

The Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference committee of the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia is issuing a call for papers for their conference on “Bodies and Embodiment.” www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/aigs... #AncientBlueSky

💬 𝐄𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐚 𝐥𝐚 𝐕𝐈 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐚́𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐬 📚 “𝐋𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐣𝐞𝐫 𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬. 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨” 🗓️ 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 💻 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 forms.gle/LvCUTnUx7R95...

Religion and Politics in the U.S. The people that will take up the space created by "structural preferentialism" (Jan 2025, UChicago Law Review)

Religion and Politics in the U.S. The people that will take up the space created by "structural preferentialism" (Jan 2025, UChicago Law Review)

GOOD NEWS.

Yes. The fact that the second in command of the so called largest democracy in the world orchestrated the killing of a Canadian citizen and attempted murder of a US national should be massive news.

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

Thrilled that Kelly Wisecup and Christopher Pexa will present at the next meeting of the Am Lit & Culture seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard, Nov 12, 6pm. This event is co-sponsored with the Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar. Join us if you are in town!

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)

Cornell agrees to "invest" $30 million in things like AI farming. Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.

Cornell agrees to turn over "anonymized" admissions data broken down to individual colleges and schools.

And, Cornell's president agrees to bow down to Trump each quarter.

It’s infuriating to watch university after university spend *millions* of dollars on this junk, while freezing staff and faculty pay and downsizing workforces or eliminating entire departments altogether.

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

Hello dearies, I've made available online my syllabus for the course titled, Bodies and Sexualities: Transnational/Queer Feminisms It's a reading-heavy course (3hours each week, 8 weeks in all) for MA Year 2 students with a guest lecture. You can consult it here: doi.org/10.13140/RG....

Just so folks know - Sara Ahmed, Oyeronke Oyewumi & Maria Lugones are covered by my colleagues in their courses; we reference them, esp. Ahmed. And we work with Rita Segato & Ochy Curiel linking them to Yuderkys Espinosa’s work. One feminist missing is Lelia Gonzalez but I don’t read Portuguese :-(

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

To prep for the higher ed policy class on censorship next week, I'm rereading Schrecker's No Ivory Tower. Buddy this intro has it all! SCOTUS jumping on the bandwagon, disregard of first amendment rights, why congressional hearings played such a key role, how private companies aided the government.

All the data nobody is allowed to gather has one aim:

Religion and Politics in the U.S. Part the first

Religion and Politics in the U.S. Part the second.

When Academic Twitter was reassembling here, and joining was dependent on invite codes (and sharing them) no single person did more to connect people (across and within specializations) than Prof Farhana Sultana, especially before lists became available.

Religion in the U.S. Immigration Establishment Clause Free Expression/Religious Liberty Leo IVX Roman Catholic Church ICE

Pope Leo XIV chastised President Trump and Vice President Vance for not respecting the dignity and religious liberty of migrants in the United States. Here are his full remarks.

The latter is me now that I have submitted the large grant application.

Religion and Politics in the U.S. Part the second.