Rest in power Miss Major

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

It feels tragically appropriate that so many universities and colleges are cutting their religious studies departments and programs, just when we most need to understand religion to understand the people in power right now. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa uses ChatGPT at their universities to run and if ChatGPT was blocked on all university campuses the whole network would fall

if it’s a Friday early in the fall, then it’s a good time to get your jab!
Covid and flu shots for me today!

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Check out this amazing looking special issue of @therevealer.bsky.social, on religion, activism, and action — a stellar lineup of folks including @gillianfrank.bsky.social, @thislynne.bsky.social, and Rebecca Alpert!!

Our special issue on "Religion, Activism, & Community Action" is here!

Articles on religious leaders supporting immigrants, clergy paying for abortions, multifaith organizing, the Catholic Worker, queer religious activism, pro-Palestinian rabbis, a new TV series on religion & more! therevealer.org

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Fabulous news about a fabulous book I’ve been rereading for more than a year now!
Congratulations @susanstryker.bsky.social, @mckenziewark.bsky.social and @dukepress.bsky.social !

Congratulations to all the 2025 Lammy Award winners. LGBTQI+ writing is alive and well. The internet is bad, but books are good.

At an emergency all-school meeting of UVa’s College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the following statement (drafted by the school‘s Committee on Academic Freedom) was approved with 97% in favor:

Honestly one of my favorite ritual items of the Jewish year 🌴🍋

Grounded in nature, in joy, in liberation, may #Sukkot bring happiness and joyous liberation to all dwelling in temporary homes.
With true justice to those who have no permanent homes to return to.

Chag Sameach, ah Git Yom Tov ❤️

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

men will kidnap an FBI agent and take them to a lake playground in the woods, rather than go to therapy

timeline cleanse
(someone likes me enough to give me flowers)

Today is the day! The Elizabeth A. Clark Lecture will be given by @vox-magica.bsky.social Hope to see some bluesky folks there

don’t believe in sin, but do really think a lot more of us will need concerted efforts to turn this all around.
g’mar chatima tovah

Check out this exciting new handbook, especially the fabulous looking essay by the inestimable Kori Pacyniak! @kpacyniak.bsky.social

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

l’shanah tovah to all my beleaguereds and beloveds observing — my goodness are we in need of sweeter times soon!