Anupama Ranawana

A good number of the people who think it's doing an awesome job are in for a rough surprise

Rural Minnesotans of color skipping medical care out of fear of ICE Medical providers are increasingly concerned that some of their rural patients who need to drive long distances to see specialists are missing appointments because they fear being picked up by federal...

One leukemia patient at Children’s who lived an hour from Minneapolis stopped coming in for treatment due to ICE presence. When she finally did, she was in complete liver failure.
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Bannon scrisse a Epstein: “Faremo cadere papa Francesco”
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/02/14/news/bannon_epstein_papa_francesco-425158251/?rss

excited for a full day of amazing sessions on Buddhist studies, South Asia, temporality and archive, Muslim ritual and law, biblical interpretation and more, plus Lamya H’s evening keynote at the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference!

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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

USAID funds didn't just kill people, it has harmed people in myriad ways— including making sex hurt more and be more dangerous, due to a lack of lube and condoms theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

Oh my wee boy

Willie James Jennings, Delores Williams. I would say so much of the canon of black Theology. See also current work by Anthony Reddie

What's the best theological treatments of Christian Nationalism (that you would want me to expose the European Dominicans to)? @herenowandthere.bsky.social @jaredstacy.bsky.social

Front cover of Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England by Elly Robson Dezateux.

Blurb of Violent Waters: How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ventures which promised to transform unruly fenland fringes into orderly terrain at the heart of national power and productivity. In practice, these projects sparked constitutional controversy, new floods, and huge riots. The first state-led project in Hatfield Level brought local, national, and transnational interests into contact and conflict for almost a century. Elly Robson Dezateux traces the environmental politics that emerged as water and land were constructed and contested, both mentally and materially. These disputes pivoted on urgent questions about risk and justice, which became entangled in civil war conflict and exposed the limits of central authority and technology. Ultimately, improvement was destabilised by a lack of legitimacy and the dynamism of local custom as a method of environmental management and collective action. Wetland communities, as much as improvers and sovereigns, remade the terrain of politics and the future of the fens.

Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!

All we can do is to work in radical solidarity and resist their efforts to tear us down/apart.

Also snuggle cats.

Me too comrade

Don't even get me started on the hateful utter nonsense of who gets to use what toilet, or the fact that my own country's government can't stop using the CSAM app, or that we're turning a blind eye to the US military stopping here en route to flying people to their deaths. I fucking hate it here.

Everywhere is flooded, unless it's on fire. We're ending vaccinations and we've invented bombs that vaporise you, but please keep paying taxes - which we won't use for housing. We're investigating the sportsball music because we're too ignorant to learn a second language. Women belong in sex gulags

Just the weirdest news, every day. Pensioners aren't terrorists after all. Every famous man ever has been to the paedophile island and is writing an academic article on race science. The lady responsible for locking up children threw a tantrum over her blankie.

Potential and current authors you can now follow the Journal of Culture and Religion on socials. We'll be providing loads of information on publishing with us and flagging some of the great articles we've got online :)

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The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. What next? This is a big judgment. But not everything has changed

NEW

The High Court rules the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful.

What did the judgment say and not say, and what has changed and not changed. And what happens next.

Quick explainer by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

"women are recursively
being called upon to carve out and
carry out intellectually demanding roles, such as human computer and programmer only to be automated away, masculinised out, forgotten about"

Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

That is what Labour's whole policy and communications statement is though: "it will be worse under Reform". It's saying to marginalised communities that they have to accept being treated like crap for some "greater good". Labour are only "left wing" if you accept minorities as sacrificial lambs. 5/5

Labour isn't right wing enough for the likes of Reform to whom it is trying to appeal. For those whose "left wing" policies it does enact, and yes it does have some, it relies on them accepting throwing marginalised groups under the bus. That doesn't make it "too leftwing" 4/5

It is to say that you cannot claim that this Labour government, as it stands, is "to the left" when it enacts the most hostile policies against marginalised groups in decades and repeats hostile anti-marginalised rhetoric and imagery, repeatedly. At least be honest and say what the score is. 3/5

With attacks on marginalised groups Labour has built on foundations of previous government to go much much farther. They are now to the right of the last government on some fairly crucial human rights issues. Is that to say a Reform or Conservative government wouldn't be worse next election, no! 2/5

You have to have access to a special plane of consciousness to believe that Labour is unpopular because it is not leftwing enough. This is a government that removed a child benefit cap that a majority of voters wanted to remain in place (including most Labour voters). It increased taxes on "working people", having said that economic growth would obviate the need for such measures. It increased regulation on employers and those other class enemies - landlords. A large plurality of Brits now believe that taxation and spending are too high. Labour is disliked in large part because it has governed to the left of the prospectus on which it was elected. Anyone who believes the direct opposite is too eccentric of mind to hold the highest office.

Gotta disagree with this. This government has gone further in practice on anti-immigration, anti-trans/non-binary, anti-disabled policies than any in last three decades+. This isn't a bogof where you get a free bigotry with every vaguely humane policy you enact. 1/5
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IR US is for grad students and ECRs so that they can workshop a research project, practice presenting initial findings and more formally at conferences, integrate critical engagement and understand what it takes to revise and submit for publication. The best part: @drfstewart.bsky.social as a mentor

RGS 2026 CfP Family as site of environmental politics RGS Call for papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2026 – London, England (1st-4th  September 2026) Session title: The family as a site of environmental politics Co-organisers: Leah Edwards [Durham U...

CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely!

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Ratcliffe owes migrants more than a half-hearted apology but so does Starmer – his policies created this environment | LBC Blaming migrants for today’s economic problems is a convenient way to dodge responsibility for that failure, writes Minnie Rahman

📢"Powerful men are quick to inflame division, but slow to accept accountability for the consequences.

Migration is not an aberration in our history – like colonialism was; it is a constant thread woven through it."

@minnierahman.bsky.social for @lbc.co.uk

www.lbc.co.uk/article/ratc...

I have just completed this horrendous consultation survey after putting it off for months because I found it traumatising - and I'm a very privileged migrant to the UK subject to these proposed changes. Please fill it in if you are in the UK using Amnesty's guidance (linked)-closes 23:59 tonight.

Screenshot of a home office tweet

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨