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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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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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

by Timothy Snyder — Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Vincent Tiberj, Michael H. Whitworth

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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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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Said that back in 2014 JSSR article. Most of the SBNRs are neither
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 4d
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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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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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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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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Nevertheless she persisted! I do love my Senator @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
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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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Juan Cole, Lisa Diedrich , and 1 more

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These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.
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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Cas Mudde, David M. Farrell , and 10 more

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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Rosemary A. Joyce, R. M. Wilson , and 2 more

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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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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Ruha Benjamin, Juan Cole , and 5 more

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@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.
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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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Amen sister

by Nancy T. Ammerman

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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 · 5d
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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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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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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 · 6d
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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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Rosemary A. Joyce, Arnaud Mercier , and 3 more

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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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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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 · 8d
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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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Timothy Snyder, Kori Schake , and 30 more

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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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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Marc Lynch, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 2 more

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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 · 9d
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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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Blessings dear Anthea, and may you see even more clearly as you rest.
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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 10d
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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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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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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This
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11d
@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 · 11d
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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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Alan Richardson

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@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 · 11d
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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by Robert B. Reich — Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Timothy Snyder, Richard E. Lenski , and 30 more

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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Is anyone assessing the impact of those huge #H1B visa fees on #universities?
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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Smith, Andrew L. Whitehead

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Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:

-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
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From public demands to go after his political enemies to reportedly closing $50,000 bribery investigations into Tom Homan, Trump is basically using the DOJ as his own personal law firm.
The Justice Department is basically Trump's personal law firm now
From public demands to go after his political enemies to reportedly closing $50,000 bribery investigations into Tom Homan.
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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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Where is the @bostonglobe.com coverage of the hundreds of marchers in yesterday’s #SunDay demonstration?? Maybe @npr.org will notice?
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Reposted by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Jan W. Mueller, Richard S.J. Tol , and 43 more

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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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That professor hit list was created just for such a time as this. None of these firings comes out of the blue. They've been pre-orchestrated by a well-organized right-wing network.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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by Nancy T. Ammerman

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Oh that we had this judge on hand every time 47 opens his mouth
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