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Nancy Ammerman
@ntammerman.bsky.social
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Sociologist of Religion; retired (sort of); gardener

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Nancy Tatom Ammerman is an American professor of sociology of religion at Boston University School of Theology.

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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 14h
But maybe they have a 'concept of a plan'??
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h
Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 14h
Won't they be surprised if the grand jury refuses to indict!
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h
typically you don't receive play by plays of what a grand jury is doing
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h
Per Fox News, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is currently weighing whether to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 14h
Applications due Nov 3 for 2026 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant - up to $16,000 each to doctoral students conducting cutting-edge sociological research with the potential to advance knowledge & contribute to the public good @asareligion.bsky.social www.asanet.org/academic-pro...
ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) | American Sociological Association
The ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (ASA DDRIG) program supports theoretically grounded empirical investigations to advance
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h
typically you don't receive play by plays of what a grand jury is doing
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h
Per Fox News, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia is currently weighing whether to charge NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud.
Fox News & @FoxNews X.com BREAKING: A federal grand jury is meeting in the Eastern District of Virginia court, weighing charging NY AG Letitia James with mortgage fraud, two sources confirm to Fox News.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h
Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14h
I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 23h
Hey @wgbh.org where’s Dave Epstein?? I need his “growing wisdom.”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d
Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 4d
Could we get a good class action suit going for all the people wrongfully(and violently) detained along with everybody whose person and property have been searched without a warrant? @democracydocket.com
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d
Breaks the law and reeks of dictatorship
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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector
The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 6d
Said that back in 2014 JSSR article. Most of the SBNRs are neither
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 6d
Nonreligious Americans might not be as spiritual as we thought religionnews.com/2025/10/02/n...
Nonreligious Americans might not be as spiritual as we thought
(RNS) — Our research shows that nonreligious Americans report being significantly less spiritual than people who identify with established traditions such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 6d
Somehow "existential threat" just doesn't seem like the sort of rhetoric that is likely to resonate with people who aren't existentially nerds.

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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 6d
Nonreligious Americans might not be as spiritual as we thought religionnews.com/2025/10/02/n...
Nonreligious Americans might not be as spiritual as we thought
(RNS) — Our research shows that nonreligious Americans report being significantly less spiritual than people who identify with established traditions such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 6d
Nevertheless she persisted! I do love my Senator @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d
These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d
@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 7d
Amen sister

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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 7d
Congregations of all sorts provide these ‘civic skills’ but they benefit most the people who don’t have easy access to other places to learn those skills. #BlackChurch and more.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 7d
The Black church is flawed and many churches are not open to all, especially Black LGBTQ folks. Let me state that up front.

The Black church was also a vehicle for leadership development. It was there that I learned how to run a meeting, how to speak up, *how to give an impromptu talk,* etc.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 7d
The Black church is flawed and many churches are not open to all, especially Black LGBTQ folks. Let me state that up front.

The Black church was also a vehicle for leadership development. It was there that I learned how to run a meeting, how to speak up, *how to give an impromptu talk,* etc.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 8d
This snarky article from Salon doesn't help anyone. Its argument seems to be that MAGA will fail because its music is so mediocre. I'm no CCM fan, but this is exactly the sort of talk that demonstrates to the loyal base that they are right about snooty elitist lefties.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 8d
That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why
The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 8d
That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why
The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem
www.salon.com
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 9d
Just one more example of our country becoming the world’s worst moral exemplar. No light shining on a hill. Just violent bravado and destruction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d
Am I reading this correctly?

A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?

What the hell?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 11d
Blessings dear Anthea, and may you see even more clearly as you rest.
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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 11d
My ancestors paid a heavy price, and I owe it to them to live the life they paid for with their blood.
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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 11d
My ancestors paid a heavy price, and I owe it to them to live the life they paid for with their blood.
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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 13d
This
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13d
@gtconway.bsky.social was a schoolboy when Nixon was around. I was starting out at @washingtonmonthly.com then.

GC is absolutely right. Any random three hours of offenses by Trump equal the whole Saturday Night Massacre.

Difference: GOP in Senate/House were not all stooges/tools back then.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13d
Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13d
@gtconway.bsky.social was a schoolboy when Nixon was around. I was starting out at @washingtonmonthly.com then.

GC is absolutely right. Any random three hours of offenses by Trump equal the whole Saturday Night Massacre.

Difference: GOP in Senate/House were not all stooges/tools back then.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13d
Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.
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