This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:

humanities education is for all, for the common good. we’re in the trenches these days, i know. but we keep doing the work of teaching our students how to imagine and build better worlds.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2d ago

"Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche… This is true of how we view the Humanities in general—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than 'personal enrichment.'"

I fundamentally do not know what to do with an electorate where not only does this not cross their redline, but it doesn’t even lead to scandal

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3d ago

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

theguardian.com

Personally so excited by the upcoming FTN online event - so much so I need to tell you now! Rev Dr Kamilah Hall Sharp's book, Trauma and Survival in the Hebrew Bible is brilliant and she is going to be online with us in October!

Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 4d ago

Denmark aims to send rejected migrants to 'return hubs' by 2027

I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”

“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”

theintercept.com

we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer

Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.

Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 6d ago

The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

Looking @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social and realized my book is listed thrice! Under animal studies, queer studies (and gender studies), and religion (and Christianity). Wild Word is a triple threat! www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

The Wild Word

Placed in a manger as an infant, Jesus seems to have been born into a world teeming with animal life. Yet read the stories again. Does Mary ride a donkey? Does the centurion ride a horse? Animals are ...

mqup.ca

This regime is torturing and trafficking people. People who were guaranteed protection for their families' roles in the war that we launched. People at risk of summary execution upon return home. People. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...

Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE

Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.

nytimes.com

Need a home for your really cool (interdisciplinary) article? @avartnp.bsky.social is pretty great and I'm not even remotely biased.

AVAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in ANE@avartnp.bsky.social · last wk.

but also THIS COULD BE YOU, SO... avarjournal.com/avar/submiss...

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last wk.

Tur: It’s not just the media, and I reject that framing. 6 in 10 Americans don’t know who he is. I’m not saying he’s the most important person in the world, but...is it worth losing votes you need to win? AES: 10 in 10 Americans agree that they can’t afford the things that they need in their lives.

Really honored to have received a generous review for EKTS by psychotherapist Philippa Smethurst in @churchtimes.bsky.social. Doing interdisciplinary work means I worry about not only doing right by biblical scholars but also by specialists in those other disciplines - this was a relief.

Book review: Esther Keeps the Score: Trauma, body and politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry

Important questions of trauma raised here, Philippa Smethurst finds

churchtimes.co.uk

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2w ago

For the third year, I’m giving semiannual “state of AI in HigherEd” updates to my fellow faculty. This is a worthy, healthy task, but it feels a little like being the guy with a bucket of boiling oil & a ladle going around the room asking, “Would you like me to melt your face?”

The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger.

The EU has blocked the release of files which may outline plans to pressure countries into migration deals by withholding aid. Last summer, the Commission proposed new ways to divide funding for non-EU countries.

I've got the thesaurus open as I write this intro for the book of Judges because I need new words for "this is v violent."

wearing my Dolly Parton shirt today and being mildly despondent.

FT@fucktheory.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

This is your periodic reminder that the Supreme Court has had a Republican majority for longer than I have been alive (I am 51 years old) and only court expansion would immediately end the MAGA right's hold on the court and its use of the court to destroy democracy.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of midterms.

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w ago

not only that, they are demanding that they not be called racist when they are observed to be signing up to support the racist

It’s amazing how a white guy can say that he thinks Black people are inferior and allowing it is academic freedom But it’s totally unacceptable to say that the law isn’t value neutral (critical race theory).

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2w ago

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

Maybe we will finally wake up to the fact that “free speech“ and “viewpoint diversity” are actually bad in academia. What you want is peer-reviewed knowledge, not a debate-me-bro culture in which empirically discredited views get resources & funding & platforms just because.

professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)@inquiline.myatproto.social · 3w ago

"compared to the situation of critical disability theorists, eugenic philosophers enjoy far more publicity, institutional support, and financial security. Now we have a better understanding of *why* these hateful bigots have been so successful..." biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/08/20/h...

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w ago

The first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration ended humanitarian protections has landed. Deportees from the U.S. are vulnerable to kidnapping, extortion and murder, said Guerline Jozef from the Haitian Bridge Alliance.

saving this one for the department flyers (but also, he’s talking about U.Va. and that department specifically changed my life)

JK Rowling calls Nathan Cofnas a racist, and Cofnas responds by saying that he is just applying the same logic to race as she does to trans people. Quite.

What’s your favorite bible verse? Wrong answers only. As it has been said: “The work is mysterious and important.”

Helly R: The Work Is Mysterious And Important

Alt: Helly R: The Work Is Mysterious And Important

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Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 3w ago

What’s your favorite bible verse? Wrong answers only.

I have seen a *lot* of this kind of disclosure in the last two months, and I do not believe the assertion of authorship---if you did not do the work of writing, the ideation, the trial and error, the trying, then those are not your ideas in any meaningful way Just saying it does not make it true

Richard Van Noorden@richvn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dean of Science at Stellenbosch University writes that although AI generates almost all the words for his articles (including this one): "AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind the piece." www.nature.com/articles/d44...

My heart. So many responses. Like: It's a known-known. Armed men empowered to hunt people are often men who like to hurt women & seek/are encouraged to do so. Like: Regular-degular cops have long done the same. Like: Ofc a regime that hates women this much would attract such men. Like: Weeping.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.