Evan Berry
@ecothought.bsky.social
Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights 🍉🌈🏜️
I am a Luddite by today’s standards, but I’ll be a prophet by tomorrow’s.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I am a Luddite by today’s standards, but I’ll be a prophet by tomorrow’s.
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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...
“How does this scenario make you feel?”
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“How does this scenario make you feel?”
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New interview in @techradar.com, after a fab chat with the lovely @beccacaddy.bsky.social:
"Why some people are treating ChatGPT like a God – and what that means for the future of faith"
www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...
"Why some people are treating ChatGPT like a God – and what that means for the future of faith"
www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...
People are using ChatGPT like a God, and religions are paying attention
AI isn’t just answering questions anymore. It’s becoming a source of comfort, meaning, and even spiritual guidance – and religions are already considering how to deal with it.
www.techradar.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
New interview in @techradar.com, after a fab chat with the lovely @beccacaddy.bsky.social:
"Why some people are treating ChatGPT like a God – and what that means for the future of faith"
www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...
"Why some people are treating ChatGPT like a God – and what that means for the future of faith"
www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...
This is literally why we have the 25th amendment
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is literally why we have the 25th amendment
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Pope Leo “urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take ‘concrete actions’ to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God's creation ‘is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.’”
Urging concrete actions, Pope Leo XIV calls out 'failing' political will on climate change
For the one-in-three people extremely vulnerable to impacts from rising global temperatures, "climate change is not a distant threat, and to ignore these people is to deny our shared humanity," Pope L...
www.ncronline.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Pope Leo “urged countries at United Nations climate talks to take ‘concrete actions’ to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God's creation ‘is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.’”
“Executive approval means the state now gets to insert itself between scholars and their own expertise and regulate education the way authoritarian regimes regulate dissent.” #academicfreedom
Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint for Silencing Race and Gender in Higher Ed
#AcademicSky
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/leaked-tex...
#AcademicSky
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Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint for Silencing Race and Gender in Higher Ed
This Substack is reader-supported.
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Executive approval means the state now gets to insert itself between scholars and their own expertise and regulate education the way authoritarian regimes regulate dissent.” #academicfreedom
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
These have been fields of particular strength for The New School in the recent past. The sword of Damocles hangs over us all these days.
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
These have been fields of particular strength for The New School in the recent past. The sword of Damocles hangs over us all these days.
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This is my go-to Q&A with the expert, @julieingersoll.bsky.social to explain to people Christian Reconstructionist influence in the religious right (pub. 2015)
religiondispatches.org/how-a-fringe...
religiondispatches.org/how-a-fringe...
How a Fringe Theocratic Movement Helped Shape the Religious Right As We Know It
A Q&A with Julie Ingersoll on the history of Christian Reconstructionism as told in her new book: Building God's Kingdom.
religiondispatches.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is my go-to Q&A with the expert, @julieingersoll.bsky.social to explain to people Christian Reconstructionist influence in the religious right (pub. 2015)
religiondispatches.org/how-a-fringe...
religiondispatches.org/how-a-fringe...
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
ASU’s “Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication decided not to renew its contract for the News Hour West.”
Rancilio [GM of News Hour Productions] said the decision was based on “Arizona State University’s revised priorities.”
Rancilio [GM of News Hour Productions] said the decision was based on “Arizona State University’s revised priorities.”
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
ASU’s “Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication decided not to renew its contract for the News Hour West.”
Rancilio [GM of News Hour Productions] said the decision was based on “Arizona State University’s revised priorities.”
Rancilio [GM of News Hour Productions] said the decision was based on “Arizona State University’s revised priorities.”
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While ASU continues to offer LGBTQ+ programming through academic degrees and community groups, it’s also sending mixed signals about its willingness to capitulate to the Trump administration’s demands.
www.lookoutnews.org/how-federal-...
www.lookoutnews.org/how-federal-...
How Federal Policy Is Quietly Rewriting Queer Life on Campus
From altered LGBTQ+ resources to pressure over grant funding, universities like ASU are navigating a new era of political coercion that scholars say threatens decades of progress.
www.lookoutnews.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
While ASU continues to offer LGBTQ+ programming through academic degrees and community groups, it’s also sending mixed signals about its willingness to capitulate to the Trump administration’s demands.
www.lookoutnews.org/how-federal-...
www.lookoutnews.org/how-federal-...
Government agency moves to restrict speech
“Texas A&M University System regents voted Thursday to limit how instructors may discuss matters like gender identity and race ideology in classrooms, tightening the rules in a conservative state where debates over academic freedom have flared for months.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Government agency moves to restrict speech
Weak US coverage of #COP30 is troubling:
-Scant criticism of the Trump administration’s decision to skip
-No acknowledgement of fossil fuel lobby corruption of the UNFCCC
-Little coverage of the Indigenous & Youth protests pushing their way into the negotiation hall
apnews.com/video/demons...
-Scant criticism of the Trump administration’s decision to skip
-No acknowledgement of fossil fuel lobby corruption of the UNFCCC
-Little coverage of the Indigenous & Youth protests pushing their way into the negotiation hall
apnews.com/video/demons...
Demonstration at COP30 highlights impact of industrial farming
Demonstrators gathered on a roundabout at the COP30 venue in Belem, Brazil, calling the UNFCCC to keep the lobbyists from big agribusiness out of the UNFCCC.
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Weak US coverage of #COP30 is troubling:
-Scant criticism of the Trump administration’s decision to skip
-No acknowledgement of fossil fuel lobby corruption of the UNFCCC
-Little coverage of the Indigenous & Youth protests pushing their way into the negotiation hall
apnews.com/video/demons...
-Scant criticism of the Trump administration’s decision to skip
-No acknowledgement of fossil fuel lobby corruption of the UNFCCC
-Little coverage of the Indigenous & Youth protests pushing their way into the negotiation hall
apnews.com/video/demons...
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It is getting increasingly interesting... Protesters break into #COP30 Conference venue in Belém. They demand an involvement of indigenous and youth groups in the negotiations. They are not at the negotiation desks and they don't have the lobby power that the fossil fuel industry has 🫤
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
It is getting increasingly interesting... Protesters break into #COP30 Conference venue in Belém. They demand an involvement of indigenous and youth groups in the negotiations. They are not at the negotiation desks and they don't have the lobby power that the fossil fuel industry has 🫤
Cancer rates (for many cancers) are higher on the Navajo Nation. We should be listening to people’s concerns and applying the precautionary principle.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Doubts persist about deal to allow uranium trucks on the Navajo Nation
People who live along the uranium transport route say they want assurances that they are not at risk.
www.azcentral.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Cancer rates (for many cancers) are higher on the Navajo Nation. We should be listening to people’s concerns and applying the precautionary principle.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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Imagine a parallel-universe US with a ~$20 trillion public wealth fund, built from the profits that O&G owners/executives/major shareholders took in our universe. Imagine how much better US health care, education, infrastructure, childcare, retirement support, etc. could be. Breaks the brain a bit.
(Norway's oil fund is about $2 trillion [about $350k per person], built from oil reserves and past production that are about 10x smaller than America's. Which puts the hypothetical US oil fund in a parallel universe at $20 trillion or so, very roughly.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Imagine a parallel-universe US with a ~$20 trillion public wealth fund, built from the profits that O&G owners/executives/major shareholders took in our universe. Imagine how much better US health care, education, infrastructure, childcare, retirement support, etc. could be. Breaks the brain a bit.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
Congratulations to Dr. Mario Orospe Hernandez, who yesterday successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Mattering Technologies. Secular/Religious Borders in Bolivian Lithium Mining” at Arizona State University
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Mario Orospe Hernandez, who yesterday successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Mattering Technologies. Secular/Religious Borders in Bolivian Lithium Mining” at Arizona State University
Kinda weird that after a solid year of daily front page coverage of President Biden’s infirmities, that the @nytimes.com is now barely giving any attention to Trump’s on camera sundowning, his obvious confusion and digressive mumbling.
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Kinda weird that after a solid year of daily front page coverage of President Biden’s infirmities, that the @nytimes.com is now barely giving any attention to Trump’s on camera sundowning, his obvious confusion and digressive mumbling.
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They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.