Evangelical cheerleaders for a white masculine LGBTQ-immiserating theocracy like Joel Webbon and Dale Partridge got their starts as shitposters on Twitter. Now they're getting mainstream media interviews because too many legacy media reporters are still on X and mistake prominence there for reality.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Holy crap. "Paul Within Paganism," the book I co-edited w/ Paula Fredriksen & @alexichantz.bsky.social, got a long review essay in The New Yorker! Still sifting through the disparate threads Gopnik tries to tie together. Well earned shout-outs in it to @ryancollman.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social

St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?

New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.

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it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Erin In The Morning@erininthemorn.skystack.xyz · 4mo ago

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

Ok, I just laughed so hard that it woke up one of my children…

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People forget that Amazon Prime has broadcast some of the greatest moments in NBA history.

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

In honor of today’s discourse: consider reading God, Slavery, and Early Christianity! Ch. 3 is esp. meaningful for showing how Paul’s language of slavery and the Holy Spirit gets read as “God the enslaver dwells within you & surveils you” www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you worked hard on something and want people to know about, you've got to speak up. There's like a three-week window when a new book comes out where you get a lot of attention and there is no shame in basking in every bit of it. You earned it.

Looks like my book has a publication date - Misinformation and the Aging American coming from @academic.oup.com in October: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

CNN@cnn.com · 5mo ago

Target’s new CEO wants to re-establish the company’s “Tarzhay” reputation after a brutal few years.

I know the USA Men's hockey team won't hear me, but whatever... -Guys, your 🥇 win was epic & awesome, just like our women's team. Stop listening to US Hockey PR and say: "I'm sorry we laughed along with the President's misogyny. We need to be better. It's always wrong to belittle and mock women."

Here @thomaszimmer.bsky.social captures a consistent feature of actually existing conservative movements: in history, almost nothing in them hits the brakes on going Far Right, violent, authoritarian b/c "the left" is always their bigger boogeyman even if their guy is building concentration camps...

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How Conservatives Gave Themselves Permission to Go MAGA Ten years ago, leading conservatives came out “Against Trump” – but soon let their disdain for “the Left” override all else. It is the story of Modern Conservatism in a nutshell. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

Their allegiance was never to democratic principles, but to upholding (white, Christian) “civilization”. The question has always been: What if society moves away from that order? Do Conservatives accommodate – or seek to impose “civilization” against majority will?

Friends, I am hiring two scholar-advisors this year! Come join the best advising team in the country (for real). Please help me spread the news about this great opportunity! This is a permanent, non-time limited instructional staff position, and I will be happy to answer questions!

Advising Fellow, College of Arts & Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University of Virginia

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Question: if it can log into canvas & see other students’ work… isn’t that a FERPA violation? Students can do waivers for their own products. But they can’t waive FERPA protections for classmates? We’re told we have to use canvas because of data privacy requirements…

Ian Bogost@ibogost.com · 5mo ago

Is this bad

A recent NYT op-ed blamed the Trump's regime's lawless violence on 'paganism' while conjuring Christianity as the source of good values. I think this is a terrible way to think about history and gets in the way of cleaning up the messes Christians have made. My latest from @religiondispatches.org

Donald Trump's Violent Mentality is Quite Literally Biblical

One could be forgiven for coming away from Leighton Woodhouse’s “Donald Trump, Pagan King” op-ed in the New York Times with the nagging suspicion that he hasn’t actually read the biblical or ‘Pagan’ w...

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One more time for those in the back: To the extent AI does any of the 'research' things dude 'splains.. 1) No, AI doesn't do actual research 2) AI is unreliable at them, which is why scholars have to check it 3) AI can only do a crappy job at any of this BECAUSE BIG-TECH FUCKING STOLE OUR RESEARCH!

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nope.

My courses now (w/o accommodation letter) ban all devices in class, have only in-class handwritten or oral assessment, and require printed handouts of readings since university only provides e-versions of books. I often provide handouts, though it's been an enormous waste of my time to make them.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

I write boring academic prose, but it too is an art that strains the brain, body, and soul to do well. Even more ‘artistic’ when it’s done on a laptop at the kitchen table with kids running around…

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

People think someone's a writer because writing's easy but that's not the case. If you are drawn to execute an artistic vision in your mind it can never be easy to use limited tools to live up to that.

Whoa! Nerdiness about cycling training to explain how to be an effective academic. Yes. Dr. Muehlberger speaks to my cycling and scholarly soul here. Give it a read! We may have seen the apex of BlueSky here…

Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇

Editor: You’re late submitting your manuscript. Me: The Dow is over 50,000 🤷‍♂️

Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes your took in college Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Social Psychology Ancient Athens Modern Political Thought History of Education in America (This shaped me more as an educator down the road than the rest combined! May Prof Unks's memory be a blessing)

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 6mo ago

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college American Society Sociology of Childhood Education Policy Creative Nonfiction Logic*

Some MAGA-sympathetic folks from my past who have kept that under wraps for a decade on social media somehow all decided to open the floodgates after Renee Good's murder. And yes, all of their arguments boil down to this...

I went to Brown University for grad school and routinely studied in the welcoming work spaces at Barus and Holley. Brown is a place full of humans who are wonderfully curious and creative, and now a mass shooting has torn through its thriving life. For shame to everyone who stirs up this violence!

Maybe next year FIFA will rename it the "Peace and War Prize" and give it to Hegseth?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Stop appearing on far-right propaganda networks. Stop posting on their trash sites. Stop sitting on panels with them. Stop being friends with them. Don't shake their hands. Don't try to meet them halfway. Don't gotta hand it to them. Ever. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage. Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

My new Open Access article! For some reason it felt relevant to discuss the Bible and the LONG history of leaders telling stories about how things used to be great before moral, ethnic, urban, gender, and family corruption bigly happened. #EduSky #Election #Bible journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“Make Rome Great Again” Preceded “Make America Great Again”: The Ancient Romo-Nationalism of Biblical Writers - Stephen L. Young, 2024

The ideas about religious, sexual, gender, ethnic, urban, moral, and family decay that underlie “Make America Great Again’s” message have notable antecedents in...

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