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- Reposted by Religion Dispatchestfw you hook up bestie Reb @grace-oedel.bsky.social with @mpgphd.bsky.social for Dispatches and it’s this good
- the latest from RD: Rabbi Grace Oedel on joining a clergy delegation to oppose ICE in Minneapolis last week religiondispatches.org/2026/01/29/p...
- the latest from RD: Rabbi Grace Oedel on joining a clergy delegation to oppose ICE in Minneapolis last week religiondispatches.org/2026/01/29/p...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesIn 2020, I wrote @religiondispatches.org about a prominent MN Christian Right operative who foreshadowed recent events when he agreed with a commenter on Facebook that Rep. Ilhan Omar “needs to be Hung” adding that “I can think of other treasonous persons who can join that parade.” bit.ly/45ATG9Q
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesI'm so glad and honored to have worked with Rabbi Grace Oedel on this piece for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/2026/01/29/p...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatches“He wants the chaos, but he wants to be able to control it—keeping the threat of escalation as leverage.” PRA’s @vetanthropology.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s threats to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis in his piece for @religiondispatches.org : religiondispatches.org/2026/01/19/t....
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesseems low tbh while we're waiting for the academy to disappoint us once again: have y'all read @religiondispatches.org' interview with Ryan Coogler's Hoodoo consultant, Dr. Yvonne Chireau? religiondispatches.org/2025/04/24/i...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesSeeing how purity culture persists—even after purity—is the 1st step toward refusing the world it keeps trying to rebuild through our bodies and stories. Reading Sara Moslener’s AFTER PURITY is that first step. 😉 @religiondispatches.org
- the latest from RD: @sohinipillai.bsky.social on how Stranger Things' Kali resembles the Goddess -- and why that matters religiondispatches.org/2026/01/20/o...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesI learned some cool stuff about the Goddess Kali from this piece @sohinipillai.bsky.social wrote for @religiondispatches.org! religiondispatches.org/2026/01/20/o...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesIt’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
- Reposted by Religion Dispatcheslol I got *one* draft that left in ChatGPT language and was so offended I immediately updated our submissions page 😂
- we're wee but y'all know @religiondispatches.org absolutely does not fuck with AI
- Reposted by Religion Dispatcheswe're wee but y'all know @religiondispatches.org absolutely does not fuck with AI
- Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfTat://did:plc:mencpxk4spd3xn3qotwkyyqf/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ma7dtn6w7j2x
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesLianna Constantino, Director of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, explains why using the NDAA to gain Lumbee recognition endangers all Native sovereignty religiondispatches.org/lumbee-recog...
- FUCKING GROSS
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesDespite the writer's block and with an awful lot of help from my friends, @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and I have a piece up on @religiondispatches.org on the Jerusalem Cross patch Southcom posted. religiondispatches.org/that-jerusal...
- the latest from RD: Lianna Constantino of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds explains why using the NDAA to gain Lumbee recognition endangers all Native sovereignty (this situation is *complicated*, y'all) religiondispatches.org/lumbee-recog...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesalso ICYMI: @santiholley.bsky.social wrote a really fun piece about AI theophanies for @religiondispatches.org this week religiondispatches.org/are-you-ther...
- hey @santiholley.bsky.social, your piece is getting some love on Patheos! www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...
- the latest from RD: @suscrockford.bsky.social reviews Muhammad H. Zaman's *Infected* religiondispatches.org/infected-wea...
- Evangelical purity is not about sex but power. This is what we are seeing at play in Megyn Kelly’s comments about Epstein. This is a key point in Sara Moslener’s AFTER PURITY. @religiondispatches.org
- Reposted by Religion Dispatches"Research with Jewish college students suggests that changing minds...demands grappling with the fundamentally different moral frameworks through which people interpret this violence," writes @amyadamczyk.bsky.social in this @religiondispatches.org op-ed. Read the piece. ⤵️
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesFor @religiondispatches.org I looked at US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s recent visit to a Messianic church in Jerusalem. Many prominent Christian Zionists are allying with efforts to bring Jews to faith in Jesus— breaking a longstanding movement taboo
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesNew from me via @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/infected-wea...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesI wrote a thing.
- the latest from RD: @joelhs.bsky.social on how the American Jewish establishment is responding to shifting perspectives on Israel religiondispatches.org/mamdanis-pop...
- the latest from RD: @joelhs.bsky.social on how the American Jewish establishment is responding to shifting perspectives on Israel religiondispatches.org/mamdanis-pop...
- the latest from RD: Brook Wilensky-Lanford on Trump's heavenly fixations religiondispatches.org/heaven-on-hi...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatches"The ADL’s spankings from the Right are intended to secure its partnership in the escalation of white nationalism, and they’re succeeding. Likewise, the little storms between Christian and Jewish right-wing groups aren’t breakups—they’re just negotiations...." -- crucial piece from Emmaia Gelman
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesso grateful for @religiondispatches.org and the long-term work of Emmaia Gelman
- the latest from RD: @drdadabhoy.bsky.social on the Mamdani campaign's success in defeating electoral Islamophobia religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesEllis: "It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesy'all my puppy visits tomorrow and then comes home w/ me on Sunday have already told @evanderkacz.bsky.social to expect a series of related posts, including "my puppy, who is perfect, has never shared a planet with Charlie Kirk" and "what my puppy thinks of Dick Cheney's war crimes" stay tuned
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesIS Wolverine King of the Vampires
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesFriends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesif any Jewish woman wants to write me an extremely petty piece about Zionist meltdowns/crashouts over Mamdani's win for @religiondispatches.org, hmu we pay!! double bonus extra points if you're a transwoman please give me an excuse to put that Debra Messing weeping picture on our website, I beg
- Reposted by Religion Dispatches
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesJust because we beat them doesn’t mean we should continue to let billionaires spend whatever they want on elections.
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesnot to say we told you so but religiondispatches.org/bad-muslim-g...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchessuccinct
- a send-off: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesif not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesthe latest from @religiondispatches.org -- thanks to @sajidajalalzai.bsky.social for this reality check!! religiondispatches.org/auntie-fa-me...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesTime for the onion to start doing a politics teen onion section.
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesI wrote a piece for @religiondispatches.org about the use of AI videos to promote a moral panic about civil unrest on November 1 with the ending of food stamps. The videos are racist, and misogynistic and rw response is threatening. religiondispatches.org/unconcerned-...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesI guess we're doing this again religiondispatches.org/this-is-no-o...
- and check out @antheabutler.bsky.social's White Evangelical Racism while you're at it! uncpress.org/978146968151...
- once you've read this, check out Dr. Truschke's excellent explainer on Hindu nationalism religiondispatches.org/what-in-the-...
- So far, Hindu nationalist groups in America have had almost no response to Vance's outrageous denial of his wife's #Hindu identity. Here's some thoughts on explaining their muted (largely absent) response and why it matters -- timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/you...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesSo far, Hindu nationalist groups in America have had almost no response to Vance's outrageous denial of his wife's #Hindu identity. Here's some thoughts on explaining their muted (largely absent) response and why it matters -- timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/you...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesnot to say we told you so but religiondispatches.org/corrosive-co...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesNCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesGene Nichol, a professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Newby had essentially turned the court into an arm of the Republican Party. “Newby... has become the chief justice who destroyed the North Carolina Supreme Court as an impartial institution.”
- NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
- Reposted by Religion Dispatches"I do think that something we as a country, we as communities really need to wrestle with [is]: How do we take Christianity seriously as both a colonizing force and a force for liberation ..." Listen to Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social full interview with @mpgphd.bsky.social HERE: bit.ly/4ohF2M6
- Reposted by Religion Dispatcheswhat is the connection between nostalgia, ai slop, and fascism? find out for yourself in my new essay: synthetic ghosts of a past that never was neurosismancer.neocities.org/80snostalgia...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesOn The Signal this week, @religiondispatches.org Senior Editor @mpgphd.bsky.social joins editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social to discuss why religion–and specifically white Christian Nationalism–are topics each of you should care about, whether you are religious or not. FULL INTERVIEW: bit.ly/4ohF2M6
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesCNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York
- senior editor @mpgphd.bsky.social talks to scholar-activist @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social about what it takes to go from big ideas to meaningful change -- and how the democratic process can (and should!!) inform public art and public memory religiondispatches.org/swords-into-...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatcheswelp this is exactly why the work Swords into Plowshares is doing is so important interview with cofounder @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social out this afternoon with @religiondispatches.org
- Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesDHS is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" and by that I mean a factory for white supremacist messaging. I got mad about the neomedievalism from last week, for @religiondispatches.org : religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesstarving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesI am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.
- the latest from RD: @tlecaque.bsky.social on the Christofascist work being done by DHS's neomedievalist posts religiondispatches.org/neomedievali...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesI detest this framing. Most men aren’t running for Senate. Thats *literally* the prerequisites for the job. Doing politics and being a Senator are two very different things. I don’t love presuming that men need to be handled with children’s gloves. Men can handle being told when they fuck up
- Graham Platner to @daveweigel.bsky.social: "How do you expect to win back men when you go back through somebody’s Reddit history and just pull it all out and say: ‘Oh, my God, this person has no right to ever be in politics?’" DSCC Chair Gillibrand: “It’s up to the voters of Maine to decide.”
- Mariam Durrani *also* remember religiondispatches.org/times-cutesy...
- okay obviously this is dystopic but *I* am old enough to remember when the NYT did this birdwatching guide shit to Muslim women so something about this tickles me in a lolsob sort of way www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/w...
- Reposted by Religion DispatchesCriticism of Israel is not in itself antisemitic at all, and is in fact entirely necessary and important, but blaming Israel for the fact that people are criticizing a politician who had a Nazi tattoo until a few days ago is in fact antisemitic.
- Reposted by Religion Dispatchesand if you want a sneak peek www.buzzsprout.com/810974/episo...
- Reposted by Religion Dispatcheswhat you don't know about jihad is a lot, probably (except for the significant portion of my TL that are, in fact, experts in this 😂) anyway *I* am never done learning from @profirmf.bsky.social and neither should you be www.religiondepartment.com/offers/qeNpZ...
- I’m giving a talk next week that touches on my first book, latest article, and the weaponization & racialization of “jihad,” for the fabulous folks @ The Religion Department! Join us? www.google.com/url?q=https:...
