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Jason Eric Bystrom

@jasonbystrom.bsky.social

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Religious Studies, Photography, Ethnomusicology, Extreme Metal, Basic Human Decency

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Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · Nov 10

Howdy all,
I’ve been a
•janitor
•dishwasher
•sexton
•children’s caregiver
•paraeducator
•prep cook
•farm worker
and now I’m an instructor at a small high school in Berkeley. I teach government, photography, and digital literacy.

Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social · Nov 10

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:

-camp counselor
-lifeguard
-movie theater box office, concessions, cleaning
-projectionist
-clothing store cashier and stocker
-receptionist
-roofer

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Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 14h

To me the thing that is so infuriating about this is that I teach high school students who have vastly greater critical thinking skills and are far more politically astute than any of the three speakers from this clip 😡

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks, man. Made me chuckle 👋🐶

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 1d

I think that this is sage advice in quite a broad range of contexts really.

Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 1d

*makes Jack off gesture*

by which i mean turn off my computer and walk into the sea

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected, but point well taken.

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely no disrespect to Dorroll here, who is far more a scholar than I will ever be, but isn’t the very point of critical RS to problematize and redescribe? If we want to “simply better understand the experience of faith on its own terms,” can’t we simply consult an insider?

Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social · 6d

This gets at what I think is a genuine problem in our field: contemporary (ie, post-structuralist) Religious Studies theory is designed to translate the experience of faith into secular language, rather than trying to simply better understand the experience of faith on its own terms.

ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6d

religious studies mfs when you tell them rituals facilitate the transmission of dogma and aren't a free-for-all "embodied religion" divorced from institutions and doctrines

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Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 3d

Doesn’t live in Madison anymore, but here’s one of his albums from his Madison days:

dietrichgosser.bandcamp.com/album/oh-to-...

Oh to Begin!, by Dietrich Gosser

10 track album

dietrichgosser.bandcamp.com

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 3d

He was deep into film studies as an undergraduate and graduate student there (not sure what his degrees are in). Similar time frame, but maybe a couple of years later.

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 3d

Reality Winner is truly a national treasure.

Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 4d

There should be piercing parlors in airports cause that's where I make my best decisions

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 3d

A slight tangent- did you go to University of Wisconsin? I wonder if you know my friend Dietrich Gosser.

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 3d

😂👏👏

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 4d

you're looking at a foreign country. the government rounds up people on the basis of skin color or other characteristic, puts them in 'detention' facilities, separates families, deports them without process, confiscates their property, denies them access to counsel. what would you call it?

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Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 5d

Source: buddy magazine dot org

This argument is OVer.

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 5d

Uugh *Vought

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 5d

Augustine aside, Christians have for the most part solved this by realizing that every denomination or group other than the one I belong to are not actually true Christians.

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Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 5d

😂

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 5d

From August 2024:
Vaught suggests that mass deportations are “part of a plan to "end multiculturalism" in America” and “should protests break out in response [Trump] use the military to ‘maintain law and order.’”

www.mediamatters.org/russ-vought/...

In undercover interview, Project 2025 architect gets candid on the initiative’s radical goals and connections to Trump

In an undercover interview with reporters from the British non-profit organization Centre for Climate Reporting, Project 2025 architect and MAGA ally Russ Vought admitted to the project's strong ties ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t speak for Kluwe, but David Bier of Cato always writes with moral clarity and boldness on immigration policy and issues :
bsky.app/profile/davi...

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 8d

We are being ruled by every loser you ever met in high school

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Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 8d

Let us hope.

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 8d

lol

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 8d

As history teaches us, we will one day be subsumed into a void of cold, dark meaninglessness. That’s why self-aggrandized bloviating is so naive and dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 9d

As a non historian might I suggest that history does not teach us about anyone “deserving” anything in particular.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 9d

As wrongheaded as Trump v United States is, I’m next to certain that presidential immunity doesn’t extend to the White House deputy chief of staff (not yet anyway).

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stephen Miller takes leading role in strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats

Exclusive: Miller’s homeland security council has played a key part in coordinating operations, sources say

www.theguardian.com

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 9d

JFC

Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 10d

(Just being goofy, btw. Slow Sunday morning.)