The National Humanities Center Announces 2026–27 Fellows | National Humanities Center The National Humanities Center (NHC) is pleased to announce the appointment of 29 Fellows for the 2026–27 academic year. These leading scholars will come to the Center from universities and colleges i...

Next year's Fellows at the NHC @natlhumanities.bsky.social have just been announced! #Humanities
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Good if distressing read. Great to see @julieingersoll.bsky.social get some attention for her relevant work! #ChristianNationalism #Reconstructionism #JustWar

H/t to @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social for that quote!

"Canada is America if its parents had loved it" -- Jess Salomon
#Canada #OhCanada

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Feel like this reality -- tremendous Trump support among contemporary churchachrist / #churchofchrist, is not more candidly acknowledged by some. @rns.org @yonat.bsky.social #AmericanReligion #ReligionNews #ChurchesOfChrist

Lots of questions on the research and data. But
Burge has a Substack with lots of material on American Xy & demographics:
www.graphsaboutreligion.com

From the excoc community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the excoc community

Reddit thread:
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Ryan Burge Here's Trump's vote share in 2024 among some of the largest majority white denominations. The only one that clearly favored Kamala Harris was The Episcopal Church.

FB link:
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Ryan Burge's FB post on the percentage of support for Trump by majority-white American Christian denominations. Churches of Christ weigh in at 73%.

Ryan Burge's FB post on the percentage of support for Trump by majority-white American Christian denominations. Churches of Christ weigh in at 73%. @ryanburge.bsky.social
#churchofchrist #churchachrist #restorationmovement

"Schrödinger’s War."
‪@sundaedivine.lol‬

#AI #Sycophancy

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight? [...]
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah

I should add he's in no danger. He loves the bags until he thinks they're attacking him and then he doesn't understand how to get out of them. And then there's all kinds of drama while he runs around the house trying to rid himself of the bag that's clinging to him.

Orange cat with the handle of a bag around his neck. Typically suggests he'll soon panic and frantically run around the house trying to rid himself of said bag.

This will not end well for Sunny:

@ibogost.com Ian -- what camera are you using now for your computer-based video?

Assisting with a video camera upgrade -- looking beyond consumer webcams. Hardware recommended: Sony ZV-E10 w/Sigma 16mm f/1.4. Somewhat pricey. Is this overkill? Seeking professional-quality, portrait-grade Bokeh/depth of field, etc. Thoughts? #webcam #streaming #videography #YouTube

Writing it thinking. Pass it on.
#writingisthinking #ai #writing #humanities

Religion Is Not Done with You by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Megan Goodwin: 9780807012758 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us –and why you need to understand the work it's doing Religion lurks...

our book is about systems of power—& especially religion

we say repeatedly that religion is what people do

the good & bad & everything

enough white Christian Americans are doing fascism that that is the whole game now

so study up

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...

Entire thread by @ronanfarrow.bsky.social is worth reading.

"AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions... In short, current AI systems are a death sentence for civic institutions, and we should treat them as such."

Hartzog, Woodrow, and Jessica Silbey. “How AI Destroys Institutions.” UC Law Journal 77 (January 2026). scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scho....

"[T]heir theory of power is that they have it all and no one else matters, which is a stupid theory of power. Political power is relational; it's in the ability to get and keep support, alliances, connections, to be at the heart of the kind of systems... they keep destroying." #RebeccaSolnit

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

"Epstein won favor and friendships by acting as a kind of superconcierge. | His transactional amorality actually seemed to add to his appeal to people who were convinced that the rules didn’t apply to them." #epstein #epsteinfiles @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Addendum: "If the masked agents keep their identities secret, they are secret police."

"Analogies are arguments." And “a hit dog will holler.” @lollardfish.bsky.social on comparing what's happening in Minnesota to the Holocaust and Nazi Germany.

Study history.

Every act of state brutality you tolerate when it’s used against “the others” will eventually be used against you.

Once violence is normalized, the circle of “others” keeps widening.

No matter what—you’ll find yourself inside it, in time.

Please share. 💔