Hank Willenbrink

Ecumenica 18.2 is here with a special Issue on Religion & the Right. Featuring an essay from Rebecca Jackson and contributions from Damon Berry, Ambre Dromgoole, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, @cgrobe.bsky.social, Joy Palacios, and Shannon Steen. We are published by @psupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky

What are the Latin American countries with the most US military bases? The first extraterritorial base of the United States is located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Feel like it's a good time to remind everyone of this map. cemeri.org/en/mapas/m-b...

Ross Douthat is a Dum Dum The Right is Defining Itself Against the Right.

It’s hard to believe that the only time we get to hear about Christian nationalism in the New York Times is a completely naive take on what’s keeping a global right wing populist movement together. #SubstackSky #RossDouthat open.substack.com/pub/performi...

#AcademicSky Job Announce:

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And the grift goes on...

Who Cares if There's a Script? A bit of cold comfort during the Trump era has been the idea that it’s all show and no substance.

Pam Bondi’s Senate Judiciary Committee appearance got criticized from the left when it became obvious that her remarks were largely scripted. Why do we care about the ruse of a script with so much else at stake? #AcademicSky #SubstackSky

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I think all the time about this interview I did a year ago, where @bartongellman.bsky.social from the Brennan Center told me that, in their authoritarian war games, it was faith leaders who prevented troops from firing on civilians

Helping Venezuelans > Blowing Up Venezuelan boats

Just, ya know, pointing out that US involvement in both places helped prop up military regimes and authoritarian Latin American dictators.

What’s Going On at Beijing’s “Fake Offices”? — The Dial Lavender Au reports on the rise of “pretend to work” offices.

Performance scholars get on this! It's so ripe. #AcademicSky
Amazing reporting from @thedialmag.bsky.social.

www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Performing the Presidency Grimacing Generals and Cringey Memes

The meeting with military leaders and inane, offensive sombrero memes are part and parcel of the same thing: a politics of attention. #SubstackSky #AcademicSky

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Carrot channeling @ringerfantasy.bsky.social

Sending out a call for verifiable images related to Charlie Kirk's funeral. I'm interested in reading the event and most of the sources that I'm coming across are prioritizing the speakers as opposed to what was going on in the crowd. I'd love to see what's happening in there. #AcademicSky

Fleeing Bukele — The Dial Journalists in El Salvador are under heightened scrutiny. Many have been forced to leave.

An important read from @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Texas AG Ken Paxton dismisses report alleging 'sex scandal' with aspiring Christian influencer Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dismissed a Daily Mail report Monday alleging he had an affair with an aspiring Christian influencer

Just gonna leave this hear and highlight the subtitle "Paxton spox. does not specifically dispute allegations"

www.christianpost.com/news/texas-a...

I was watching The Front Page (Billy Wilder, 1974) and reminded that people used to do on-call engravings for newspapers. Talk about work that's dried up!

Vance doing Trump lines is like everyone who tries to say a Mitch Hedberg joke that isn't Mitch Hedberg.

"You should see this signature I did on Epstein's birthday card. It looks like your hat."

Haha, you can raise that bar. It's at worse than ground level at this point.

On Charlie Kirk and Political Influence Was Kirk a One of One or What's yet to Come?

Was Charlie Kirk a one of one or what's yet to come? #substacksky

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Performative Boys II Men What Do Totes and D(oW)bags Have in Common?

Performative masculinity seems to be having more than one moment at the same time. #AcademicSky #SubstackSky

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Palantir CEO Peter Thiel to lead 4-part series on the Antichrist A California nonprofit is set to host an off-the-record lecture series featuring billionaire investor Peter Thiel on the biblical figure of the Antichrist

Oh good, we can't fund university research, but Peter Thiel can do academic cosplay. #AcademicSky

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Performance and January 6, 2021 Part 2 of Ongoing Research into J6 and its Aftermath

Part 2 of an ongoing series regarding J6 and its aftermath from the perspective of performance, narrative, and justice #AcademicSky #SubstackSky

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Thinking we need to galaxy brain a new slogan for Blue Book. "Education's last resort"?

As an English teacher, I suggest bookmarking "Know Your Meme."

I bet he directs the original, eugenics version of Enemy of the People. Real theater nerds know where I’m at.

“The owner of this property directs Ibsen.”

Fun fact about James Dobson: he’s the one who wrote 2 Corinthians when Trump mispronounced it. So he was advising the president all the way back in 2015. #themoreyouknow #jamesdobson

Love his cameo in What We Do in the Shadows

Joke’s on us. He only drinks Diet Coke!