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Derek Rainey
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Greater Idaho movement led by staunchly anti-democratic evangelicals. They’ve appropriated their rhetoric straight from Greater Israel and are deeply embedded in Christian Zionist and Christian Supremacist movements. Lots of Doug Wilson and Ammon Bundy support.
December 23, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Hawaiʻi’s only public R1 university relies heavily on graduate students to teach undergrad courses. Grad students make less than 25,000/yr, living in a city with one of the highest costs of living. Meanwhile, faculty and administrators make in the hundreds of thousands. Could you comment/look into?
December 21, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Magda Teter has a great book that came out earlier this year called Christian Supremacy. It traces the development of Christian antisemitism in Europe in parallel with Christian racism in the US, both in service of larger projects of Christian imperialism.
December 3, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Can’t help that Bates v Pakseresht out of Malheur county has the Alliance Defending Freedom arguing ODHS requirements are a violation of first amendment religious freedoms. The Bates complaint and injunction read very similar to this article. These people have a twisted view of love.
November 28, 2023 at 5:42 PM
And no standardization across fields or universities. Some are transparent and invite contact, others forbid it.
November 25, 2023 at 10:48 PM
I’m deep in the process now, as an applicant. It’s frustrating how often faculty repeat the claim that the most important way to boost your chances is by establishing personal contact. Even though everyone also acknowledges that doing so should technically not affect the process.
November 25, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Right, you’re the paragon of civil discourse with your hypothetical attack from militant Canadians. And the implication that any hypothetical response to such an attack would be relevant to what’s happening in Gaza. As if that’s not an insult to the actual situation playing out in front of us.
November 14, 2023 at 12:28 AM
Not sure he fully grasps the terms “colleagues” and “unanimously”
November 10, 2023 at 6:42 PM
And yet they don’t want gays to recruit? Honestly, we’re very good at preventing abortions.
November 9, 2023 at 3:01 AM
Bonus if people who paid nothing into the program do get something from it.
November 9, 2023 at 2:22 AM
After weeks of 20+ Republicans voting against their own while Democrats held the line and showed unity, THIS is where Dems decide to break that narrative??
November 8, 2023 at 9:19 PM
Seems like Hakeem Jeffries either let this happen or was overruled on it. Not a great look either way.
November 8, 2023 at 7:32 PM
That’s exactly my point. It seems like American officials created the talking point that “ceasefire would be a win for Hamas,” specifically so that they could rebuke calls for a ceasefire.
November 8, 2023 at 7:10 PM
So after weeks of American diplomats, military and intelligence officials, and politicians telling us a ceasefire would be a win for Hamas, and that being the reason for not calling for one, here’s Hamas saying actually that’s not what we want at all?
November 8, 2023 at 6:48 PM
Which also means their only option when called out is to double down and claim that questioning their methods is itself further victimization.
November 4, 2023 at 10:20 PM
Do you think there’s a comparison to be made between her and Hasan Minhaj? Comedy truth tellers” who claim greater trauma and victimhood than they’ve actually experienced as a way to authenticate their personas?
November 4, 2023 at 10:19 PM
Could the omission be more intentional? Seems like giving sexuality its own bullet point would dignify the existence of non-hetero people (incredibly vulgar). If this group revered William Blackstone like the ADF does now, they’d have known these are crimes against nature not fit to be named.
November 2, 2023 at 8:12 PM
Paired with a lower minimum wage, it’s exactly the kind of mutually assured contradiction they love to vote for.
October 30, 2023 at 11:46 PM
Speaks to the “innocence” that underwrites the movement for Greater Idaho. By name alone they’ve positioned anti-conservatism as analogous to antisemitism, casting their project of redrawing state boundaries as a response to oppression rather than what it really is: anti-democratic authoritarianism.
October 30, 2023 at 6:50 PM
Roderick Ferguson wrote a wonderful little book about this flattening of gay men into palatable “normals.” Provides a useful analytical framework for representation of rising gay figures like Pete Buttigieg. It’s called One-Dimensional Queer.
October 30, 2023 at 2:26 AM
Wild that such a pious individual is the last to recognize the devil he dealt with.
October 28, 2023 at 6:56 PM