Marshall Cunningham

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

a man in a suit and tie is crying with tears running down his face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying with tears running down his face .

What if it’s this meme?

We academic types like to think of our jobs as our callings, but just remember: a university is your workplace and your employer. It is not your family or your saviour. We trade our labour for pay like anyone else. Love what you *do*, but remember: institutions can't love you back.

*join a union

Call for Papers: 2026 Midwest Regional Meeting for Biblical Studies, March 13-15, 2026 Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. Submissions due January 9, 2026 mailchi.mp/283c7c7cfe58...

Just so long as I get to peak over your shoulder while I’m writing on Jeremiah…

Banger. Gasped multiple times while listening. Laughed plenty, too.

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism.

I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

Once a week this happens to me. This is the dumbest feature/oversight. Why would anyone need/want to reply to themselves?!?!?!

Also, heaven forbid I need to reference and earlier email in the exchange with that student. It's lost to the netherworld forever.

I just love my bike so much.

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA

So the fact that the Achaeans left us a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a wooden horse, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the prophet Laocoön and his sons that they insist we don’t bring the horse inside the walls of Troy. Laocoön is an Aegean-class Loser!!! MIGA

Just popped into the comments to find the author. This is lovely!

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

"I hope this writing will startle you into understanding that a democracy for some — a democracy of convenience — is no democracy at all. I hope it will shake you into acting before it is too late" -Mahmoud Khalil, today in the @washingtonpost.com

Link: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

JACKIE ROBINSON DAY BACKGROUND Robinson played his first Major League game at Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball has celebrated Jackie Robinson’s legacy in an extensive and unified League-wide show of support over the years, including retiring his number throughout the Majors in 1997, dedicating April 15th as Jackie Robinson Day each year since 2004, and requesting that every player and all on-field personnel wear his Number 42 during games scheduled on Jackie Robinson Day since 2009. Major League Baseball aims to educate all fans about Jackie Robinson, his life’s accomplishments and legacy, while communicating his message at all levels of the sport. For more information, please visit MLBTogether.com.

The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.

Fair: I have a beard that I’m very proud of and I think this article is pretty good!

Never. That guy is useless. That’s what I always say. Good-for-nothing.

Hahahaha. Sound the klaxons!!

A Case for Hebrew at Yeb: The “Vidranga Passage” and Judean Diglossia in Fifth Century Elephantine | Journal of Near Eastern Studies: Vol 84, No 1

JNES has just published my article about the (potential) use of Hebrew among the Judeans of Yeb/Elephantine.
It has a little bit of everything: Contact/sociolinguistics, precative perfects, and lengthy footnotes on škn!
Here’s a link to access for free: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Third time I’m posting this article today. Because I believe it’s correct and essential for everyone’s wellbeing.

Total domination does not allow for free initiative in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totali- tarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.u

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

There Are Other People In The World | Defector Pay attention to the things around you! Be aware of the space you take up, and the space other people take up, and when those two things might come into conflict!

I am not sure that an article has ever better encapsulated a thing that causes me an almost insurmountable level of frustration.

There Are Other People In The World - defector.com/there-are-ot...

How I think I look when teaching/how I actually look

Look For The Helpers | Defector Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Everyone knows what ...

Look For The Helpers - defector.com/look-for-the...

Esther holds up a salmon-pink hardcover book titled “Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts,” edited by Esther Brownsmith, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and Marianne Bjelland Kartzow.

It’s all shiny and real now!

What the Hell Is Going on at NIH? Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH.

I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What did Gregory of Nyssa do?!??

this is the Audubon sketch for A Podcast