Matthew Gruchow

Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

The Late Show isn’t dying because people stopped watching late-night TV. It’s being murdered because Stephen Colbert spent the last decade being one of Trump’s most persistent critics on network television.

https://trib.al/Mi7ISuK

Why some 'exvangelicals' are turning to tarot reading (RNS) — Three tarot practitioners who left conservative Christian upbringings said using tarot cards helped them reimagine their spirituality.

Three tarot practitioners who left conservative Christian upbringings said using tarot cards helped them reimagine their spirituality.
religionnews.com/2025/07/08/l...

Honest inquiry here: what affect, if any, would @Pontifex threatening excommunication have on JD Vance & MAGA Catholic Republicans? If he boots them from the Church, could that send a strong signal that #ChristianNationalism & its cruelty are NOT Christian?

#religion #Fascism

New (FREE) study from @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social & me @nationsnationalism.bsky.social. Even after accounting for relevant state-level factors, state-level Christian nationalism predicts Trump's vote share in 2024, primarily in states w/fewer college grads. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you're a Chinese student or if, like me, you teach Chinese students, this is a shot across your bow. Serious stuff. No word on what a "critical field" is, but those of us who teach have a pretty good idea, I think.

#fascism #phdlife #savestudents #academicchatter

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HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.

While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
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BREAKING: Major new @prripoll.bsky.social survey on #Trump100.
With favorability underwater, most Americans (52%), including 56% of independents, believe "Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy."
www.prri.org/research/dem...

I don't care what future employer or #fascist government bastard sees me post this, I'm still calling this what it is: genocide.

The White House posted this photo.

@tillichfarris.bsky.social Thank you for the like. I'm currently working on my PhD on Paul Tillich at the University of Denver and would love to chat with you further, if you're willing. Just drop me a message.

We created Jim Crow to reverse the freedom of formerly enslaved people.

Hitler adapted Jim Crow to enslave people, rescind democracy, and murder of millions of Jews.

Now America is borrowing Hitler's policy of statelessness to put people in foreign concentration camps?

Am I following the plot?

This government is monstrous.

Here’s the clip.

This is simply the digital equivalent of book burnings. And, much like in the 1930s, gender studies are the first to be singled out as a target.

Honestly, I used to be confused by how much my generation sucks then I thought about who I went to high school with and it tracks.

archive building for future scholars of empire

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

YouTube video by Dan McClellan Cannabis was used in ancient Israelite worship

Cannabis was used in ancient Israelite worship
#maklelan2634
youtu.be/63u6WH5rOUA

really recommend this piece, and @resnikoff.bsky.social’s substack generally. A succinct summation of why it is such a pathetic betrayal for big law, media, and academia to bend the knee to authoritarianism. Because it reveals the premise of these institutions to be flatly a lie.

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage

This is where we're headed. Deporting migrant workers and filling their jobs with teenagers who might as well work long hours and stop caring about school, because even if they want to go to college, they'll have no way of getting the aid they need to attend.
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Once again, another reason that the "You're wildly overreacting when you suggest that there's a high risk the 2026/28 elections won't be free & fair" view is so deeply unserious is that, by any serious & actually democratic standard, our current elections are already not even free & fair.

Christian Nationalism and Authoritarianism — The Revealer Comfort with violence and weakening democracy in the name of taking America back for God

If you were ever curious about the link between Christian nationalism & authoritarianism, check out this column I wrote f/ @therevealer.bsky.social.

As many have noted, CN undergirds much of Project 2025, the authoritarian roadmap f/ this administration.

therevealer.org/christian-na...

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

(Published March 2023 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

The death of my PhD work. Right as I get ready to write a dissertation proposal, which requires student loans to finish, loans moves to a dept whose head will shut it down or make student loans inaccessible except to the wealthy. My only hope now is to apply for universities overseas.
#phdlife #fml

Who would’a thought that stealing our labor was apparently part of their business model…? Oh, I guess that sort’a how it just works.

Hahahahahahahaha

I feel the same. Unfortunately, given I do academic work with psychedelics, most psychedelic researchers don't seem to have migrated over to BlueSky, which leaves me tethered to X so as not to miss new research, etc.

This is an excellent piece. It clearly lays out what's going on behind the "society is leaving men behind" discourse.

These claims of "men aren't allowed to be men anymore" are really just "men aren't granted immediate social status based on our gender anymore."

See the difference?

💜 I am currently collecting data on individuals' beliefs in the afterlife for a research paper I am writing. Would you please spare 10 mins of your time today to fill out this form & repost it?

Answers are anonymous unless you'd like me to contact you post-survey. 💜

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It's like those of us who warned of the dangers of putting disclosure hope in the hands of far right-wing politicians & a professional conartist and convicted felon knew what we were talking about! The UAP "community" slit its own jugular on this one. Disclosure is dead.