Sam Herrmann
@samherrmann.bsky.social
PhD student at UPenn studying religion. Mostly researching youth, families, and media in postwar America. Also spending lots of time organizing with GETUP-UAW.
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Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
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I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Probably time for us all to revisit Sara Ahmed's analysis of white supremacists again... The "we do this out of love for our own, not hate of others" is a bit too on the nose here.
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Probably time for us all to revisit Sara Ahmed's analysis of white supremacists again... The "we do this out of love for our own, not hate of others" is a bit too on the nose here.
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Corporate investors now own 30% of the single-family rental homes in the Atlanta area.
May 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Corporate investors now own 30% of the single-family rental homes in the Atlanta area.
My initial reaction is that while it certainly seems likely that electing Leo XIV sends a signal about American politics, it’s maybe a bit ethnocentric for Americans to think that this consideration was the guiding light of the conclave.
May 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
My initial reaction is that while it certainly seems likely that electing Leo XIV sends a signal about American politics, it’s maybe a bit ethnocentric for Americans to think that this consideration was the guiding light of the conclave.
scorsese’s makes a biopic about the new pope 100%
May 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
scorsese’s makes a biopic about the new pope 100%
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER
THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER
THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING
Catholics respecting the midwest... you love to see it.
May 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Catholics respecting the midwest... you love to see it.
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"Trump...has effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say...The return to full-fledged war would come after Israel already cut off all supplies of food, water and medicine"
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
www.axios.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Trump...has effectively given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say...The return to full-fledged war would come after Israel already cut off all supplies of food, water and medicine"
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
this era is so bleak
www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
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happy may day, get in formation to get the goods
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
happy may day, get in formation to get the goods
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
"decentralized, social media-based approaches were effective in harnessing attention+organizing street demonstrations. But they couldn't steer the response of the system because there was no organizational support."
time.com/collections/...
I've been thinking about this show a lot since I watched it. I've also read quite a few takes on it, and this is hands down my favorite. Worth a read!
Netflix's hit miniseries ADOLESCENCE wants you to think it's about kids in crisis. But it's actually just about their panicked parents.
For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about how uninteresting their fear is, MY fear is, in the face of a problem this big.
newrepublic.com/article/1907...
For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about how uninteresting their fear is, MY fear is, in the face of a problem this big.
newrepublic.com/article/1907...
Netflix’s Adolescence Speaks Directly to Parents’ Fears
If the hit miniseries about a 13-year-old murderer plays on adults’ anxiety about screens, it also evokes a deeper alarm about kids’ profound unknowability.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I've been thinking about this show a lot since I watched it. I've also read quite a few takes on it, and this is hands down my favorite. Worth a read!
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Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
April 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
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Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
April 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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nvm
We updated the chart.
Average US tariffs on China are now 104.3%.
Average China tariffs on the US are now 106.6%.
100% of goods flowing between the world's two largest economies are now subject to tariffs.
Details & data here: www.piie.com/research/pii...
Average US tariffs on China are now 104.3%.
Average China tariffs on the US are now 106.6%.
100% of goods flowing between the world's two largest economies are now subject to tariffs.
Details & data here: www.piie.com/research/pii...
April 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
nvm
between watching the show Adolescence and listening to Jonathan Haidt’s interview on Ezra Klein, i am losing hope that we have actually changed anything about our imaginations of how we help humans grow up since the 1940s.
April 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
between watching the show Adolescence and listening to Jonathan Haidt’s interview on Ezra Klein, i am losing hope that we have actually changed anything about our imaginations of how we help humans grow up since the 1940s.
more takes like this please!
I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵
April 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
more takes like this please!
being a grad student in 2025 is just texting your friends at other institutions comparing institutional budget cuts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
being a grad student in 2025 is just texting your friends at other institutions comparing institutional budget cuts.
a delightful day for a show of political will!
April 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
a delightful day for a show of political will!
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
didn’t get to make it to the home opener last night, but the skyline was fun to see on the walk home
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
didn’t get to make it to the home opener last night, but the skyline was fun to see on the walk home
how can you be at the helm of the world’s most powerful educational institution and render a letter so stupid and cowardly?
Here’s the email that Harvard University’s president, Alan Garber, sent to members of the Harvard community in response to this news.
April 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
how can you be at the helm of the world’s most powerful educational institution and render a letter so stupid and cowardly?
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cannot say i'm surprised that the natalists are now calling bullets "freedom seeds."
Just wasted four minutes thinking of how Rs would dunk on Ds if their social media referred to bullets as “freedom seeds.”
March 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
cannot say i'm surprised that the natalists are now calling bullets "freedom seeds."