Evan Berry

Irony is dead and we know who killed it.

There are plenty of scholars and writers and public figures I like, but I don’t invest so much in any one voice that I wouldn’t lock the door behind any of them if I found out they were a rapist.

Diddling while Rome burns

Is there a name for the theory that every time a rightwing pundit draws on a cultural artifact to make a point, they demonstrate fundamental misunderstanding of the artifact?

Like not understanding that Vader is the bad guy, or thinking precrime seems like an important problem to solve.

This is who owns the property: www.grossmancompany.com

And they're building more concentration camps. They're doing ethnic cleansing.

A young woman was given paid passage on a ship because her employer got her pregnant. Also, stolen land is cheap.

Today, in weather is not climate…

I can’t believe we’re back to Reformation era conflicts like “local authorities desecrate church, seizing disfavored residents”

In the fifth and final year of the Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar, we invite proposals on futures of (and beyond) extractivism. We envision one session as a summative and reflective conversation about the Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar. In particular, we invite proposals concentrated on futures beyond extractivism. In so doing, we will take the risk of posing the utopian (or heterotopian) question: what would it mean to think and live beyond extractivism? What would this look like in the study of religion? As Lauren Berlant emphasizes, “to see like a heterotopian is to attend to and elaborate a loose assemblage of emergent lifeworlds” (2020, 14). Where are such emergent lifeworlds materializing? How might they be cultivated? What role might religious practices, cosmologies, lifeways, ceremonies, or theologies play in cultivating such futures? Our second session will also emphasize counter-extractivist futures, but with a focus on pedagogy, curricula, and higher education. We invite proposals describing the implications of a turn toward critical engagement with religion, energy and extraction in classrooms and university settings more broadly. How should the insights and theories from this seminar and this transdisciplinary array of fields be incorporated into religious studies and theology courses? How should a refusal of extractivism change our methods of teaching and mentoring? Reflecting beyond our role(s) as individual scholars, how does attention to the nexus of energy, extraction, and religion facilitate broader efforts to rethink and reimagine higher education?

CFP for the @aarweb.bsky.social "Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar" #AAR2026.

We invite proposals on:
1) futures of (and beyond) extractivism
2) critical engagement with religion, energy and extraction in
classrooms and campuses

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Foundations and Fluidity | Casa Artom, Venice, Italy | 10-14 October 2026

Deadline for Submission: 15 March 2026

See our conference website for the full CFP: www.issrnc.org/conferences/...

ICE has disrupted worship & violated sanctity of church property many times over past year. But anti-ICE protesters interrupt 1 service & administration calls it an attack on religious liberty.

Back of the proverbial napkin tells me that would have been enough to provide full tuition scholarships for more than 2000 students.

Susan Collins with 57% “not sure.”
John Fetterman with 44% not sure.

Maybe that’s a causal aspect of the insanity charted here?

Coming to you in 2028: the DJT National Mall entertainment complex and fun-zone brought to you by Dave and Busters.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

The 2028 LA Olympics: brought to you by Jeffrey Epstein

Incisive: "The right’s histrionic language about 'religious freedom' has cowed many centrists and even liberals into thinking the protesters who interrupted a single church service are in the wrong."

Democrats should not vote for any bill that includes ICE funding. Body cameras and visible faces aren’t sufficient. We have to derail this federal policy before it goes any further. #iceout #generalstrike

The kinds of AI boosterism happening on campuses nationwide are pretty despicable. Lots of money is available to those who will give universities the glossy PR fodder they want, but those who raise questions about how else that money might be spend are “luddites.”

We know someone who has been saying exactly this for 10+ years

Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll? Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

People everywhere cry for justice.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

In my class discussion this week, I was very impressed with the way my students wanted to emphasize human rights and make sure that the attention Good’s and Pretti’s murders did not crowd our attention to the other people ICE has killed this month.

Stay in school kids.

We will have made it as a society when we learn to integrate residential housing density and apex predator habitat.

Senate Dems are "united" around these 3 flacid reforms.

People outside Senate chambers are "united" around 3 real things:

1) ICE should be abolished
2) Government officials who kill innocent civilians should face justice
3) Government officials who protect killers from justice should go to jail

Here's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Today is a day to remember the millions of Jews, Queer people, dissidents, communists, and disabled people killed by Nazi atrocities.

The Holocaust was in many ways a singular tragedy, but remembering it affords many lessons for our struggles to make a world free from fascism and racism.

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it: