@ericthurman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Sewanee: The University of the South.
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
14.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 13913 🔁 4092 💬 461 📌 166
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
01.04.2025 02:25 — 👍 6223 🔁 2822 💬 341 📌 652Our Religious Studies department is looking for a sabbatical replacement VAP for academic year 2025-2026. Teaching load is 3/3. We'd we'd like someone to teach courses that complement our current offerings, listed here: e-catalog.sewanee.edu/arts-science... DM for more details!
01.04.2025 02:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stonewall protest
Stonewall protest
Stonewall protest
Stonewall protest
I'm here at a protest at Stonewall. A speaker let the huge crowd and press know that park service employees were not responsible for the erasure.
14.02.2025 17:16 — 👍 1088 🔁 231 💬 14 📌 7
We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
09.02.2025 23:36 — 👍 890 🔁 297 💬 30 📌 25
USAID.gov: On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST). For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming. Thank you for your service.
BREAKING: Nearly everyone at USAID was just placed on leave. (This is the only thing you see when you go to usaid.gov, which was taken down on Saturday.)
05.02.2025 03:19 — 👍 171 🔁 67 💬 5 📌 5they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
05.02.2025 03:06 — 👍 42905 🔁 14052 💬 1227 📌 500
Screenshot of WSJ headline: Trump Draws Bright Line Between Sexes. Headaches Are Ahead. Executive order requires changes to passports, prisons and other areas of American life
The Wall Street Journal described the EO on sex definition as creating “headaches” for trans people: “individuals could end up with conflicting government identification documents that use different gender markers, a headache when completing tasks such as opening a new bank account.” 1/
03.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 86 🔁 18 💬 15 📌 9
Although the Social Security Administration (SSA) took down the page on how to change your sex identification days into the Trump administration, there were anecdotal reports of changes still being allowed in the time since. On Friday, however, an “emergency message” was issued internally stating, in part, “Effective immediately, we can no longer process changes to the sex field on the NUMIDENT.” NUMIDENT, or Numerical Identification System, contains all of the information provided to obtain a Social Security number and includes a listing of a person’s sex.
EXCLUSIVE: The Social Security Administration has stopped allowing people to make changes to their sex identification with the federal agency, an “emergency” change that was issued on Friday and went into effect “immediately.”
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I might be wrong, but I think @jamellebouie.net is Episcopalian, or grew up attending an Episcopal church? Kinda curious to know what he thinks about Bishop Mariann Budde's sermon and the right-wing freak-out over it.
24.01.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Today, our family has learned that President Trump has ordered the declassification of the remaining records pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and our father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years. We hope to be provided the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.”
NEWS
The King family has released this statement in response to President Trump’s decision to declassify and disclose the files related to the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
21.01.2025 21:03 — 👍 46687 🔁 8006 💬 1149 📌 330We saw it coming but it's still terrifying: if I understood correctly, he just declared right to use military domestically against gangs. And then pivoted to "drill baby drill." War at home, war on the earth, the rapist dreams of domination.
20.01.2025 17:23 — 👍 383 🔁 70 💬 9 📌 1
Sly, taking it easy for all us sinners this Christmas.
09.12.2024 03:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I gathered up my reading notes on the deeply fascist new book by Trump's Defense Secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, on my substack, Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I think I may rev that thing up again, too. Please consider subscribing. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...
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