"The 'Charlie Kirk Act' is being sold to Tennesseans as a shield for open inquiry on public campuses. Read it closely, & you find the opposite: a statute that mandates speech on one side of the podium & punishes it on the other...Governor Lee should veto it."
Just leaving this here
1918-1920, influenza killed at least 50-100M people. Most of the folks who died in WWI died from the flu.
Kids invented a song (based on the black plague nursery rhyme "ring around the rosy"
"I had a little bird,
Its name was Enza,
I opened the window,
And in flew Enza."
Just leaving this here
1918-1920, influenza killed at least 50-100M people. Most of the folks who died in WWI died from the flu.
Kids invented a song (based on the black plague nursery rhyme "ring around the rosy"
"I had a little bird,
Its name was Enza,
I opened the window,
And in flew Enza."
I hate it here
Didn’t a bunch of US soldiers die of the flu in 1918 during WWI?
I’m not sure about the number, but it was a large one.
Just saying 🤷♂️
This is why you don’t get rid of PBS.
In 2000, PBS released a series of documentaries on impactful years from the 20th century. One of them focused on the so called “Spanish Flu” and WWI.
Estimates show 95% of the world was infected w/influenza.
More soldiers died from flu than other injuries.
Screenshot of flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE Socially Responsible Sweatshops: The Politics of "Ethical Capitalism" | Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m. Anderson Academic Commons 290 Over the past five decades, elites have absorbed left critiques into capitalism, framing racial equity initiatives, microloans, and fair-trade consumption as ways the system can address its own harms. These efforts sustain the belief that capitalism, aligned with humanitarian goals, can repair its violence. But what happens when even these modest reforms face backlash - not from the left, but from ethno-nationalists attacking "woke capitalism"? When gestures toward inclusion are cast as threats? Reflecting on her book,Capitalist Humanitarianism, Lucia Hulsether argues that today's right-wing movements are not a rupture from neoliberal globalism, but another expression of its underlying logic. RSVP Live Stream Also Available • College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Join us on Thurs, 4/23 @6pm (reception @5pm) In-person/livestream
@uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies welcomes the incomparable @lhulseth.bsky.social to deliver this year’s Kirk Lecture.
She discusses her award-winning book Capitalist Humanitarianism & the anathema of “ethical” #capitalism.
Flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE BOOK PANEL Capitalism and the Future of Democracy Wednesday, April 22,4:30 p.m. Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium (online and in person) This panel asks: Is capitalism compatible with democracy? And how can we better understand the moral frameworks that sustain or challenge these systems? Drawing on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, panelists will explore how ethical ideals like charity, freedom, and justice, shape political and economic life through a religious studies lens. The panelists reflections examine how capitalism absorbs moral critique, often reframing inequality as ethical opportunity. The session features brief reflections from Religious Studies and DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program students, a response from Dr. Hulsether, and a moderated Q&A, inviting the community to engage some defining questions of our time. Panelists: • Zane Johnson, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Devyn Whitaker, Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Student Kirsten Dalquist, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Andrew Robb-Scott, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student David Kemp, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Candidate College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Live Stream Also Available RSVP
Hi friends! Join us on 4/22, 4/23 for 2 events @uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies is hosting! Both are in person/online (link sent after registration)
Join us Wed, 4/22 @430pm
#Capitalism & the Future of #Democracy
Book panel & discussion w/@lhulseth.bsky.social & DU RLGS MA, PHD students.
Prof Hulsether will also be part of a teach-in on organizing in the neoliberal university, 4/23 12-2 in the Harper Humanities Garden.
Food and Drink provided 🍓
This.
19 cities across Utah could transition to 100% net renewable energy sources, if their councils pass an ordinance by June: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Friends, Students, and Colleagues at @cudenverclas.bsky.social! Check out these two events at DU this week!
Screenshot of flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE Socially Responsible Sweatshops: The Politics of "Ethical Capitalism" | Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m. Anderson Academic Commons 290 Over the past five decades, elites have absorbed left critiques into capitalism, framing racial equity initiatives, microloans, and fair-trade consumption as ways the system can address its own harms. These efforts sustain the belief that capitalism, aligned with humanitarian goals, can repair its violence. But what happens when even these modest reforms face backlash - not from the left, but from ethno-nationalists attacking "woke capitalism"? When gestures toward inclusion are cast as threats? Reflecting on her book,Capitalist Humanitarianism, Lucia Hulsether argues that today's right-wing movements are not a rupture from neoliberal globalism, but another expression of its underlying logic. RSVP Live Stream Also Available • College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Join us on Thurs, 4/23 @6pm (reception @5pm) In-person/livestream
@uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies welcomes the incomparable @lhulseth.bsky.social to deliver this year’s Kirk Lecture.
She discusses her award-winning book Capitalist Humanitarianism & the anathema of “ethical” #capitalism.
Flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE BOOK PANEL Capitalism and the Future of Democracy Wednesday, April 22,4:30 p.m. Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium (online and in person) This panel asks: Is capitalism compatible with democracy? And how can we better understand the moral frameworks that sustain or challenge these systems? Drawing on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, panelists will explore how ethical ideals like charity, freedom, and justice, shape political and economic life through a religious studies lens. The panelists reflections examine how capitalism absorbs moral critique, often reframing inequality as ethical opportunity. The session features brief reflections from Religious Studies and DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program students, a response from Dr. Hulsether, and a moderated Q&A, inviting the community to engage some defining questions of our time. Panelists: • Zane Johnson, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Devyn Whitaker, Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Student Kirsten Dalquist, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Andrew Robb-Scott, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student David Kemp, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Candidate College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Live Stream Also Available RSVP
Hi friends! Join us on 4/22, 4/23 for 2 events @uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies is hosting! Both are in person/online (link sent after registration)
Join us Wed, 4/22 @430pm
#Capitalism & the Future of #Democracy
Book panel & discussion w/@lhulseth.bsky.social & DU RLGS MA, PHD students.
To understand how we got to this point in the breakdown of separation of church and state — in which the Court requires funding of religious schools and then gives them special exemptions from rules that apply to all other schools — it helps to have some history:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A small brown and white cat with black markings sticking her head out of a blue fuzzy blanket in which she is snuggled.
When luxury snuggles are your brand…
#catsky #catsofbluesky
"A judge has granted the makers of the 'ICE Sightings - Chicagoland' Facebook group and the Eyes Up app a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from coercing platforms to take these projects down."
It is likely that Trump's Iran catastrophe will lead to some kind of compensation for all the countries the US has screwed (which is all of them). We would do well now to lay groundwork for seizing assets of the Palantirs and Musk fortune that enabled Trump's rise and invasion.
"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."
3, 2, 1… let’s jam! The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival here at @uidaho.bsky.social is right around the corner! Proud to help represent the variety, significance, and appeal of Asian media to local high school students with the Habib Institute for Asian Studies. 🎷🎺🎶 www.uidaho.edu/events/jazz-...
My eagle-eyed husband spotted that this is at SMU (which is designed after UVA). I truly attended the most quintessential college in these United States.
Amazing. We need to do this
I love this! Also pretty sure we can get grant funding.
@vox-magica.bsky.social @ichatterjea.bsky.social @shreenaniketa.bsky.social
I’ve got it!
We can call it the Empire of Curries
100%
dehydrated but white until death > alive with brown folks
my first desi cookbook was called curries without worries and it felt so comforting.
curries and cudgels: desi guide to empire and sabjis
100% and yes this is a needed public service.
Powerful essay on marriage, family, respectability politics, and domestic abuse.
