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Megan Goodwin

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✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America 🙄 also "cults" 💻 senior editor @religiondispatches.org 🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF 📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020) pitch me! https://tinyurl.com/mpgphd

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · Jun 26

if this post confuses you or makes you upset: I get it

but also I'm right

and if you want to learn more about religion and how it shapes our whole world (especially but not exclusively through empire): good news!

we wrote a book about that

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12m

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5m

“…the president of the U.S. wants to turn that heavily funded, extramilitary military into a force to be unleashed against the American people, to do war crimes against us. Who authorized and appropriated that funding? Was it Congress? (Spoiler alert: It was.)”

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 2m

I don't remember if it actually made the book, but at one point I was talking about "the long 1980s" and @profirmf.bsky.social had Had It, Officially 😂

Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 13m

Does anyone remember who it was that received the most hilarious proofreading feedback ever: "You keep writing 'The Long 18th Century,' but all centuries are the same length"?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14m

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 10h

I think my absolute favorite line in the entire series, which I have watched to completion several many times

is when Ludacris assures Tyrese while they're floating in space that "everything will be fine as long as we obey the laws of physics"

bc physics, as we all know, is an opt-in situation

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 10h

having Tyrese emerge as the Deadpool of the series was masterful

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 11h

Roman realizing that they all should've died years ago was not on my bingo card

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11h

suspending my generalized agnosticism to pray for Dolly Parton

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 11h

Radical idea, then & now.

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 17h

Oct. 7, 1925: Lord Willingdon, the former British governor of Bombay, warns a council of the Church of England that ideas of "color superiority" are damaging to the West. "The white races must realize the necessity of treating all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality."

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 12h

"There's only one immigrant taking American jobs away"
Sticker spotted in Charlotte, North Carolina

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us · 1d

It’s been 730 days and 78 years.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d

"If [Israel] is treating Greta Thunberg this way, imagine how they are treating [Palestinian] women and children."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, who also participated in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu that Israeli authorities 'dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag.'"
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #California #USA #Turkey #Sweden #Incarceration #Genocide

Israel Condemned as Sumud Flotilla Organizers Report 'Harsh Treatment' in Detention | Common Dreams

US Congressman Ro Khanna demands the release of US citizen David Adler, mistreated in Israeli detention. Will Israel ensure his safety? Greta Thunberg subjected to harsh treatment. Protests worldwide…

www.commondreams.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h

It's easy to say white supremacy is guys burning crosses or going to college campuses and saying that Black gang members are the primary problem with gun violence in the United States

It's harder to admit that it's in all the small ways folks allow people to devalue Black life on a daily basis

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 15h

YES WE DO

Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 15h

NOT DOLLY, YOU RED CHILI OIL POOP OF A YEAR

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 15h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · May 15

The number of students who have failed my class has roughly tripled since they started using ChatGPT

It’s really bad at what it does

Like, beyond the fact college is supposed to be about learning and learning how to think, not just doing work, ChatGPT is also really bad at doing the work

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

Hey guys. It's your boy J Edgar here. I have something new that I'm really excited to share with you—it's called COINTELPRO and I really think you're gonna love it

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 16h

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 15h

updog continues to terrorize the nation

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 15h

Mr. Paxton please contact me, I have crucial information regarding a deadly leftist terror group called BOFA

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 21h

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 15h

*skepticism intensifies*

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16h

On a purely historical level, revolutions have startes for significantly less.

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 16h

is it tho

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 17h

Why are we still paying Jared Leto to do things, I thought we learned our lesson about that

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