Marie Griffith

The video in this post is…wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YaF...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Check this out for lots of info on that: a.co/d/11SUhvH

Holy shit this is incredible.

Another great reason to read @rns.org: We wrote a very similar story to this back in March, when I talked to activists (including one also quoted in this NYTimes story) about plans to overturn Obergefell utilizing strategies used to overturn Roe. religionnews.com/2025/03/26/s...

Start every day with this reality:

EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable

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A tornado tells a bigger story My town was struck by historic tornadoes yesterday and a storm is coming for you too.

Yesterday my hometown was hit with massive tornadoes. We weren't expecting them in places that have never been hit before and have no idea who will help us. FEMA is all but dead and our state is run by Republicans that hate the city. This is the canary in the coal mine. My latest.

If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.

Coming Unglued: Week Eight of the Stupid Coup (and the Stalwart Resistance) Spring is here and so is authoritarianism, and I recommend your serious attention to both. We may be at this resistance business for a while, so take care of yourself so you can keep taking care of hu...

Virtually every Cybertruck — those freaky Tesla vehicles made to look like aggression incarnate – has been recalled, because, literally, they come unglued. What a metaphor for this regime: a weak vehicle trying to look tough, a victim of its own cheapness, an ugly toy falling apart.

Opinion | My entire career is based on pretending to be from Appalachia. Here’s why we must end DEI.

AHA–OAH Joint Statement on Federal Censorship of American History The American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement condemning federal censorship of American history.

American Historical Association (AHA) and Organization of American Historians (OAH) finally issued a formal statement on the censoring of history on govermentment websites and other resources:
www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com for calling out the lack of diverse faces in the lineup changes at @msnbc.com , and the peope losing their jobs this week in the shakeup.

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com has strong words tonight about the painful changes recent at MSNBC—thank you for not staying silent and for this powerful message!

MSNBC Can't Cancel Our Joy MSNBC canceled Joy Reid's show because ... you know.

After being subjected to years of insults from Donald Trump and an official "DEI investigation" from Trump's new FCC commissioner, MSNBC fired the first Black woman to host a primetime Cable news show.

Happy Black History Month!

Sounds about right.

St. Louisians heartily agree!

In Trump, we have abandoned our civil religion — and we are no longer the same (RNS) — No one should underestimate how serious Trump is about his policies. But nor should we understand him to be morally serious.

From my new piece @rns.org.

Our former republic — preserved by various facets of civil religion — seems poised to give way to a Second American Republic defined by Trump’s boundless ambition, avarice and conceit.

religionnews.com/2025/01/23/i...

Reported! Thank you for letting us know. How else can we support her?

How wonderful—congratulations!!

Wonderful—congratulations to you and the whole cohort!

Nice to see you here!

Woohoo—very excited for this!

Clergy Sex Abuse Survivor Reflects on His Reform Work David G. Clohessy, of St. Louis, cites better victim support and resistant bishops among wins and losses in efforts to change the Catholic Church.

A wonderful (if all too brief) article about the extraordinary David Clohessy, who has devoted his life to helping other survivors of clergy sexual abuse across Catholic-Protestant lines. I write about him in much fuller detail in my book, but this is a good read. flatlandkc.org/news-issues/...

Yes, much too quick; and I’ve seen you from a distance a few other times too. Maybe later today or tomorrow!

Religion scholars gathering over drinks at the AAR ‘24.

Religion scholars gathering over drinks at the AAR ‘24.

Religion scholars gone wild. (Sorry I didn’t capture everyone who stopped by the Americanist soirée last eve!) #AAR #sblaar24 #sblaar

Invitation to a reception 11/23/24 from 6-8pm in the Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Terrace.

AAR friends, come join our reception tonight! Great food, drinks, and conversation, as ever. All welcome!

I look forward to it too—see you Monday! #AAR #sblaar24 #sblaar