Jason Pudlo
@jasonpudlo.bsky.social
Religion, environment, and disaster researcher. Public administration professor. Mountains, then prairie, now pirate coast.
(My posts most certainly do not represent the views of my employer)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4123-8413
(My posts most certainly do not represent the views of my employer)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4123-8413
Grades are in! Fall graduation is done! Break begins!
December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Grades are in! Fall graduation is done! Break begins!
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I need emergency preparedness people to grapple w/ the reality of our Rx drug system, where “having extra on hand” is damn near impossible w/ most insurance plans.
I have ONE allergy pill left & am only able to pick up my Rx today, due to insurance (can’t reorder early!) and pharmacy supply chain.
I have ONE allergy pill left & am only able to pick up my Rx today, due to insurance (can’t reorder early!) and pharmacy supply chain.
The Center for Biological Diversity released a new report finding that most state emergency preparedness checklists fail to include basic sexual and reproductive health supplies.
Advocates and mutual aid groups are filling in the gaps.
19thnews.org/2025/12/wild...
Advocates and mutual aid groups are filling in the gaps.
19thnews.org/2025/12/wild...
Preparing for a wildfire or hurricane? Don’t forget water, documents — and your birth control.
Few states include sexual and reproductive health supplies in emergency checklist recommendations, a new report finds.
19thnews.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I need emergency preparedness people to grapple w/ the reality of our Rx drug system, where “having extra on hand” is damn near impossible w/ most insurance plans.
I have ONE allergy pill left & am only able to pick up my Rx today, due to insurance (can’t reorder early!) and pharmacy supply chain.
I have ONE allergy pill left & am only able to pick up my Rx today, due to insurance (can’t reorder early!) and pharmacy supply chain.
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Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Amplifying voices
New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish
cup.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr
Wake Up Dead Man was great! Really nailed the vibes of being an assistant pastor (you know, appart from solving a murder mystery). Benoit Blanc might also be Daniel Craig's best repeated role (yup, even better than his Bond)
December 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Wake Up Dead Man was great! Really nailed the vibes of being an assistant pastor (you know, appart from solving a murder mystery). Benoit Blanc might also be Daniel Craig's best repeated role (yup, even better than his Bond)
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Thrilled to share the news that I will be co-leading a 2026 NEH summer institute for higher education faculty focused on interdisciplinary connections between law and religion in modern American jurisprudence! www.neh.gov/news
News
www.neh.gov
August 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thrilled to share the news that I will be co-leading a 2026 NEH summer institute for higher education faculty focused on interdisciplinary connections between law and religion in modern American jurisprudence! www.neh.gov/news
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We have only done a few movies twice on Historians At The Movies, but I think Rob Reiner’s work should be on that list. Join us on Disney+ this Sunday, December 21 at 8pm eastern for THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We have only done a few movies twice on Historians At The Movies, but I think Rob Reiner’s work should be on that list. Join us on Disney+ this Sunday, December 21 at 8pm eastern for THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
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Just me trying to AI-proof my online winter class.
I’m finding myself asking obtuse questions like “why did I use the example of a spatula when discussing media economics?”
I’m finding myself asking obtuse questions like “why did I use the example of a spatula when discussing media economics?”
a man in a green tank top stands on the beach
ALT: a man in a green tank top stands on the beach
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just me trying to AI-proof my online winter class.
I’m finding myself asking obtuse questions like “why did I use the example of a spatula when discussing media economics?”
I’m finding myself asking obtuse questions like “why did I use the example of a spatula when discussing media economics?”
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⏰ DEADLINE ALERT: 10 January! ⏰
Want to use play, games, or creativity to tackle the climate crisis? YESI's "Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder!" is calling for your interdisciplinary ideas!
We're looking for academics, artists + creators to join the fun.
SUBMIT NOW: buff.ly/xL1Bxci
Want to use play, games, or creativity to tackle the climate crisis? YESI's "Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder!" is calling for your interdisciplinary ideas!
We're looking for academics, artists + creators to join the fun.
SUBMIT NOW: buff.ly/xL1Bxci
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
⏰ DEADLINE ALERT: 10 January! ⏰
Want to use play, games, or creativity to tackle the climate crisis? YESI's "Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder!" is calling for your interdisciplinary ideas!
We're looking for academics, artists + creators to join the fun.
SUBMIT NOW: buff.ly/xL1Bxci
Want to use play, games, or creativity to tackle the climate crisis? YESI's "Play for the Planet 3: Play Harder!" is calling for your interdisciplinary ideas!
We're looking for academics, artists + creators to join the fun.
SUBMIT NOW: buff.ly/xL1Bxci
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Volunteer fire departments make up 85% of the departments in the country and private equity firms are gouging them on software that helps them, uh, do firefighting.
Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Volunteer fire departments make up 85% of the departments in the country and private equity firms are gouging them on software that helps them, uh, do firefighting.
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In other countries when the state collects data in this way, we have decried it as authoritarian and repressive (and rightly so!). There is no justification for this other than xenophobia.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In other countries when the state collects data in this way, we have decried it as authoritarian and repressive (and rightly so!). There is no justification for this other than xenophobia.
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Conservatives being shocked at the logical endpoint of their ideological commitments would be funny if it wasn't so costly to everyone who cares about democracy, equal rights, common decency, etc.
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Conservatives being shocked at the logical endpoint of their ideological commitments would be funny if it wasn't so costly to everyone who cares about democracy, equal rights, common decency, etc.
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A bit lost in the FEMA news this week...the Road to Housing Act provisions were stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act by the House (it was included in the Senate version). That means that the permanent authorization of the CDBG-DR program is again on hold, at least until next year.
“ROAD to Housing Act” Provisions Not Included in Final National Defense Authorization Act Text
By Libby O’Neill, NLIHC Senior Policy Analyst
nlihc.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A bit lost in the FEMA news this week...the Road to Housing Act provisions were stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act by the House (it was included in the Senate version). That means that the permanent authorization of the CDBG-DR program is again on hold, at least until next year.
Yesh. FEMA has longstanding partnerships with faith groups, a dedicated office for communities of faith, and guides for faith leaders. For decades. "Christ centered" is code for a very specific kind of Evangelical.
Phillips has called himself a “vocal opponent of FEMA” and now leads arguably its most important division.
He once wrote on LinkedIn that FEMA has “failed to deliver a comprehensive and detailed plan for working with the faith community,” and touted responders “with a Christ centered approach.”
He once wrote on LinkedIn that FEMA has “failed to deliver a comprehensive and detailed plan for working with the faith community,” and touted responders “with a Christ centered approach.”
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Yesh. FEMA has longstanding partnerships with faith groups, a dedicated office for communities of faith, and guides for faith leaders. For decades. "Christ centered" is code for a very specific kind of Evangelical.
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If you or someone you know is a scholar of color who studies religion, here's a great opportunity:
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
First Book Grant for Scholars of Color - Louisville Institute
First Book Grant for Scholars of Color assists early career, non-tenured religion scholars of color to complete a major research project with grants up to $55,000..
louisville-institute.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you or someone you know is a scholar of color who studies religion, here's a great opportunity:
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
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Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Of all the challenges facing higher education, “too many kids getting extra time on tests” is at the bottom of the priorities list, right down there with “is there still be a budget code for fax machine related supplies?”
Maybe focus on affordable tuition, academic freedom, contingent labor rights?
Maybe focus on affordable tuition, academic freedom, contingent labor rights?
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Of all the challenges facing higher education, “too many kids getting extra time on tests” is at the bottom of the priorities list, right down there with “is there still be a budget code for fax machine related supplies?”
Maybe focus on affordable tuition, academic freedom, contingent labor rights?
Maybe focus on affordable tuition, academic freedom, contingent labor rights?
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Unfortunately, our reactive solutions dependent on mutual aid, religious orgs, charity & local efforts reinforces the GOP agenda to destroy federal govn't & national standards for education, healthcare, food assistance, housing, product safety etc. This loss of trust will not be easy to repair.
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call 'mutual aid'
Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.
bit.ly
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Unfortunately, our reactive solutions dependent on mutual aid, religious orgs, charity & local efforts reinforces the GOP agenda to destroy federal govn't & national standards for education, healthcare, food assistance, housing, product safety etc. This loss of trust will not be easy to repair.
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In 2007, we made California’s fire hazard severity zone maps online (google maps was still new!), searchable by address, and were told to take them down immediately for property value concerns. Seemed pretty clear there was not going to be any sanctioned versions available moving forward.
Real estate interests also shut down a wildfire property risk rating & disclosure system that was proposed by an independent panel in Colorado in 2014.
amateurearthling.org/2014/01/27/c...
amateurearthling.org/2014/01/27/c...
Colorado Wildfires: a Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Failure
Fanned by climate change wildfire risks are worsening in Colorado, and we are failing to either adapt or mitigate.
amateurearthling.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In 2007, we made California’s fire hazard severity zone maps online (google maps was still new!), searchable by address, and were told to take them down immediately for property value concerns. Seemed pretty clear there was not going to be any sanctioned versions available moving forward.
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No kidding!
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
No kidding!
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
"Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
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This is just sad! Some of these funds were used for buyouts, historically implemented by municipal govts but pulled up to the state under NCORR, and then contracted out which ended up creating more problems. Our article on buyouts in eastern NC touches on this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency So Poorly Managed That State Auditor Couldn’t Determine Full Extent of Waste - Inside Climate News
The story of the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency’s disaster response efforts was itself ”a disaster.” That’s what State Auditor Dave Boliek, a Republican, concluded in a scathing 506...
insideclimatenews.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is just sad! Some of these funds were used for buyouts, historically implemented by municipal govts but pulled up to the state under NCORR, and then contracted out which ended up creating more problems. Our article on buyouts in eastern NC touches on this: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher.
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
Mother Viola Fletcher passes away at 111 years old
TULSA, Okla. — Mayor Monroe Nichols announced the passing of one of the two last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Mother Viola Fletcher.
www.fox23.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher.
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
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NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...