The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.
Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
"The question isn’t whether we can preserve the world as it is and stop climate change, but whether we can plan for those changes to be as minimally destructive as possible." & doing this requires--for starters--letting go, at every level, of how you thought the future was going to go.
ITS @chancebonar.bsky.social’s JESUS YEAR
This type of investment in the future reinforces the core belief and mission of SBL, opening doors when many of them have been shut: we need biblical scholars more than ever before (4/4).
#TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutBiblicalStudies @acls1919.bsky.social
we are often struggling to even attend the conference because of the limited funding we have. As someone who is actively trying to stay in the field, we deserve support now more than ever (3/4).
The leadership at SBL has created a space of opportunity by providing resources, access, and even things like free meals at networking events. These things greatly benefit contingent faculty, junior scholars, and students, who constitute the majority of us and are the future (2/4);
As a biblical scholar who is facing employment precarity due to the changing landscape, like many of us in the humanities and social sciences, I’m grateful for organizations like @sblsite.bsky.social (1/4). 🧵
SBL member Alexiana Fry on why we need biblical scholars. #TalkAboutBiblicalStudies #TalkAboutHumanities
babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped
thanks for sharing this today - and thanks for writing it, @mpgphd.bsky.social.
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
gosh this shit is so tired. Yes, keep saying this while cutting our field into pieces too.
THANK YOU MUCHLY.
Hey Thomas! Any chance your work on this is in written form?
Thank you! I had an artist make me two little guys so it wasn't just random screenshots of my face. :)
The European Parliament, led by a conservative far-right alliance, endorses a drastic expansion of deportations. In effect, the far-right has used migration to break into the European political centre.
dear literally anybody with tenure:
please, for the love of Marx, do not lecture the rest of us about how "the guild" needs to undercompensate us for our time, labor, and expertise
the academy runs on a different economy! one whose currency isn't just cash, I get it!
but also: I'm out
For those based in the US, Esther Keeps the Score is now available to order Print On Demand from our distribution partners @wjkbooks.com here:
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@alexianafry.bsky.social
If you want to read a thing that left me breathless, READ THIS RIGHT NOW.
For yesterday's book launch of Esther Keeps the Score, by @alexianafry.bsky.social, I wrote a piece of fiction that embodied her book’s brilliant insights about Queen Esther as a character shaped by cPTSD and the “fawn” trauma response.
Check out the story here: archiveofourown.org/works/82743236
as we should
there’s a reason we say “there’s no such thing as a good Nazi”
and it’s because, actually, there’s a lot of reasons someone might’ve been one
and none of it—not one understandable rationale—*justifies* it
you did what you did
it means what it means
your consequences are yours
To those who attended and celebrated from your screen: I am so grateful you carved out space for me. I am so grateful; it is overwhelming still today. THANK YOU, all.
the background is a picture of the ruins at Persepolis. There are large columns, but obviously, broken and tattered a bit at the top and incomplete now. In the far back is the palace, which is basically just doorframes leftover. At the bottom is a part of the reliefs that have processions, animals fighting, etc. V decorative, we love it. On top of this relief are four legos, that were created to have all four of the speakers (in order, Esther in a dark green dress, Katherine in a grey dress, Alexiana in a purple dress, and Sarah in a red dress) look like queen figurines.
To my phenomenal guests, Sarah, @brownsmith.bsky.social, and Katherine: I am genuinely beside myself that you would take the time and energy to do what you did not just for my work, but for me as a person. I feel spoiled and lucky.
To @scmpress.bsky.social: I love you forever.
Yesterday was the official Esther Keeps the Score book launch party, and I am truly at a loss for words. For those of you who missed it, it is officially available to view on the YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvb...
If you missed this (or would like to watch/listen again), it is captured for posterity on YouTube here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvb...
@alexianafry.bsky.social
Ebook now available for Esther Keeps the Score by @alexianafry.bsky.social
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
Post by Donald J. Trump on Truth Social: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!"
So he's just openly announcing a genocide on social media.
