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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst

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tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her. (specifics @ profirmf.com)

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05.03.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 12175 πŸ” 7364 πŸ’¬ 288 πŸ“Œ 335
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smartgrrlsummer2 β€” Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's introduction to Religion Podcast

keepingit101.com/smartgrrlsum...

what is religious nationalism? Why should you care?

06.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Religion Is Not Done with You by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, Megan Goodwin: 9780807021491 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A smart, irreverent, and accessible guide to thinking more deeply about how religion permeates and shapes the world around us –and why you need to understand the work it's doing Religion lurks...

And of course

Ch 2, esp

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...

06.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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(PDF) Walking through Pious Nationalisms: Remembering the Great Rebellion while Touring the First War of Indian Independence PDF | The Indian Rebellion of 1857 seismically reconfigured the ways both religion and particular religions are defined, characterized, and classified... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

06.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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smartgrrlsummer2 β€” Keeping It 101: A Killjoy's introduction to Religion Podcast

keepingit101.com/smartgrrlsum...

what is religious nationalism? Why should you care?

06.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

religious nationalism has always been a scourge

I have big news about how the British cultivated, fomented and rewarded it

some resources:

06.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

VERMONT

Peter Welch's phone numbers:

DC: 202-224-4242

If you can't get through or leave a message on the DC number ⬇️

Burlington: 802-863-2525

06.03.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 550 πŸ” 247 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 7

Seems like a good time to repost this one:

05.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Two things. I’ve heard this from many, many upper class white liberals.

And I renew my conspiracy theory that science could (has??) absolutely engineer a skunk-free weed but the CIA or somebody won’t allow it because it’s such a useful pretense for locking up Black people and poor people.

05.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 613 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 5
Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

05.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 463 πŸ” 240 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 178

i hate this clickbait crap. the data tells you a lot about national norms, but very little about generational ones

full data set www.kcl.ac.uk/assets/news/...

05.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

05.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 1479 πŸ” 367 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 30

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

05.03.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 7321 πŸ” 2306 πŸ’¬ 183 πŸ“Œ 50

Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraudβ€”how nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat

05.03.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Holy shit they keep finding new lows. This is...wow this is bleak man. This is a propaganda techno-fever dream. A killstreak counter from a jingoistic video game concerning actual, literal, murdered children.

04.03.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 154 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Update: American Marines were among the security personnel who opened fire on protesters by the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday, where 10 people were killed.

04.03.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 610 πŸ” 291 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 20

Too bad there's no opposition party that could relentlessly press the case against war.

04.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 1640 πŸ” 340 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 0
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

04.03.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 2289 πŸ” 1466 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 205

Yes! I made a similar point a couple months back. The productive struggle is the point.

04.03.2026 11:51 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

an important read

04.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran After Khamenei An interview with sociologist Asef Bayat on the U.S.-Israeli war, democratic opposition to the Islamic Republic, and the country’s uncertain future.

Great deep analysis of the current situation. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ira...

04.03.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

04.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 4235 πŸ” 1050 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 46

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

03.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 1361 πŸ” 287 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 32

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

03.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 1889 πŸ” 676 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 25
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β€œIn the last year, it’s gotten a lot worse” A Qualitative Investigation of Barriers to Disability Benefits in 2025 - DREDF This report is based on interviews with 52 benefits professionals serving over 8,000 disability claimants nationwide. The independent research finds that recent Social Security Administration administ...

In this new report, @ksavin.bsky.social, and @calliefreitag.bsky.social and I explain how Trump 2.0 and DOGE built up new barriers to the already-difficult process of getting disability benefits.

Let's talk about what we found, and what we recommend to address the issues. 🧡

03.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going

03.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7

omg lol no

babe, no

03.03.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Can AI ’cure’ grief?  - BBC
Can AI ’cure’ grief? - BBC YouTube video by BBC

"In a lot of ways Ive spent a lot of time being the one person willing to say we're all afraid to die and afraid to lose our loved ones..."

Oh really, Justin? You're the only one willing to say death is scary?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQt...

03.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 212 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 60

This is a good example of the alternate civic sphere they have built. Their own institutions credentialing almost entirely for signal instead of skill. It’s not strange historically. Think being a member of a faith to become a professor at religious institutions.

03.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 237 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5