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@apnews.com suing White House over ban from events since AP calls the Gulf of Mexico, well, the Gulf of Mexico www.ap.org/wp-content/u...

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Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

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Trying to remind myself of why and how to continue to do the work. open.substack.com/pub/andrewwh...

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At least as interesting as the results of this poll—and they are definitely interesting—is the fact that pollsters are starting to ask the right questions about our new and perilous moment.

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Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

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The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the US ... shocking.

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Pre-print of our new longitudinal analysis of religious shifts and murder rates. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

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How we got here, Exhibit A.

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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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Please join us March 4th for this free webinar. I’ll be sharing new research from a larger project explaining how Christian nationalism contributes to our submission under plutocracy. Follow the QR code for the zoom link.

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NEW Research From @brooklynwalker.bsky.social & @pauldjupe.bsky.social, two leading researchers on Christian nationalism-- "Christian Nationalism is Unbounded by LGB Identity" Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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Holy cow. Serious national security implications of the Musk-Trump sledgehammer approach. National Nuclear Security Administration internal email: “The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel.”

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“A government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams

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IU Indianapolis is now an R1 University! To honor that the campus held an event and our Executive Director Philip Goff spoke as a distinguished faculty member. As a signature research center we are extremely excited about this distinction and what it has in store for the future of IUI.

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everyone in your life talking about narcissists these days too? my co-author and i wrote a little article about it, out now! academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

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WILD how there are still folks claiming @profsamperry.bsky.social & I and others are TOTALLY overreacting regarding our research on Christian nationalism.

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Stunning new research finds that, in counties across the United States, “increases in the evangelical adherent rate are directly associated with increases in homicide rates.” christabrown.substack.com/p/new-resear...

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Excited to be a part of the future at Indiana University Indianapolis! news.iu.edu/live/news/43...

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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

submitted 11 days ago • 672 comments

I'm also a parent of two kids with special needs and severe intellectual disabilities. Day to day life is hard enough and we are surviving, not thriving. Cuts like these and the blatant disregard for our children's humanity make it all even harder. Please call your representatives.

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Calling your congressperson is the most effective way to influence policy. Make your voice heard. 5calls.org

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📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!

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Every year, SSSR is a warm meeting with lovely people — we’re interested in your research, so join in

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A tale as old as time. Power-hungry Christianity has been around about as long as Christianity.

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I don't use a lot of old memes to draw attention to a leading sociologist of religion joining Bluesky, but when I do, it's to boost @profsamperry.bsky.social.

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Hey, I just heard @epopppp.bsky.social explaining the stakes of Trump’s attack on science on NPR!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Just called my Congress reps about the proposed hard caps for NIH and other government funding. I encourage you to take a couple minutes and do so. In the replies I'll list links that helped me with what to share. These hard caps are cuts to our economy and healthcare. Jobs & lives will be lost.

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New Research "Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities” examines link between adherence rates f/ religious traditions & homicide rates in US counties. Increases in Evangelicals = ⬆️ homicides Increases in Catholics = ⬇️ homicides doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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