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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just in case anyone might find an incredibly detailed timeline of the 2009 Coup in Honduras to be helpful.

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Girard - notebook compilation Coup Timeline

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Amelia Frank-Vitale @ameliafv.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@laurenheidbrink.bsky.social and I curated this collection of short essays from a group of committed scholars and lawyers on what we learn from observing and accompanying in immigration court. The pieces are excellent, both accessible and powerful. @culanth.bsky.social bit.ly/4bm4LOW

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On and Off the Record: Ethnographic Witnessing and Accompaniment in Immigration Court

This collection brings together ethnographers engaged in court-watching, accompaniment in and beyond detained settings, expert witnessing, and co...

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Lloyd Barba @elprofebarba.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🚨 New Book 🚨 Friends, @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the publication of “Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement” coming this November from NYU Press.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

These good people are selling balcony solar units at cost--a few hundred bucks to join the solar revolution. thank you @brightsaver.bsky.social !

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If you haven’t read it yet, do yourself the favor of picking it up. Remains completely essential for understanding Evangelicals’ support for Trump.

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Jason Sims @jasonsims.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

That Trump rose to the top of our political system & that Musk rose to the top of our economic system are the only indicators you need as to the merits of both.

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Been working through IKE's 1948 statement like it's a mathematical proof. "I am the most intensely religious man I know. Nobody goes through six years of war without faith. That doesn't mean that I adhere to any sect. A democracy cannot exist without a religious base. I believe in democracy."

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/05/2026

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thrilled to be speaking at Amherst College tomorrow. Grateful to @elprofebarba.bsky.social and the Department of Religion for the invite!

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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

i love when i log into something and it tells me some shit like Notification Hub is now Alert Village

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It would be overstating the case—but not by all that much—to say that the oil shocks of the 1970s brought down the New Deal Order. And the situation today with the strait of Hormuz is worst then those oil shocks.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

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The Handbasket

100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

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Felix Stein @felixundstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1... Could you please share this call? @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @aaas.org @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social @histanthro.org @polar-journal.bsky.social

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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🔥🔥🔥 Hot hot hot off the press: an OEA entry on SECULARISM, written by William Girard. 🤓🤓🤓 "The anthropology of secularism explores how modern nation-states construct and manage religion." 🔎🔎🔎 Find it here: anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/secula... #openaccess #anthropology #secularism

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Secularism

The anthropology of secularism studies how nation-states actively shape ‘religion’ as a category, institutional structure, and lived experience. It does not cast secularism as an impersonal process…

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

looking for a good book or two on the Great Awakening(s), if anyone’s got recommendations

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In the midst of all the discussion about what a loathsome human being Larry Summers is, wanted to make sure this dimension of his loathsomeness didn't get lost. From James Ferguson, Global Shadows, 70.

Description of Larry Summer's claim that it would be "economically sound" to ship toxic waste to "Third World" countries.

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Jeff McMahon @jeffmcmahon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.

A screengrab from the NY Times, under the category "N.Y.C. Mayor's Race":
What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin
The Democratic candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/10/2025

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo. Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Democrats struggles to elect culturally conservative white working class voters has been an issue for at least 50 years. And yet so much of the current commentary treats it as a recent phenomenon, a matter of a few election cycles.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

another odd piece to all this is that many people are remembering a wave of "cancel culture" firings over insufficient wokeness that never happened.

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Good summary of how the "Big Beautiful Bill" undoes (and then some!) the huge strides the Biden Administration made on climate.

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The Republican budget is a climate horror

Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 04/07/2025

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠 www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The Biden Administration's failure (inability?) to convey what a massive leap forward the IRA was for combating climate change means that a lot of people: 1. Don't realize what was achieved. 2. Don't realize what's about to be taken away.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just use footnotes. No one likes checking references at a later page.

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Every time I think I've got a good sense of what Billy Graham was all about, I read something new that makes me feel like I don't get him at all.

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Excellent reflection on the state of critique in academia. About literary theory, but could easily apply to anthropology or much of the humanities, I imagine. One quote, "And beneath [the] impasse [in the debates about critique] lies a still deeper dilemma: what the fuck is all this even about?"

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Crise en Abyme | Colin Vanderburg

Anyone who has ever emerged from a multiday academic conference will recognize this truth: as the sun sets on the jetsam of crumpled programs and the custodians vacuum the carpet, you set out for the ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In old enough to remember the campaign to “find the liberal Rush Limbaugh.” This will work as well. The GOP didn’t build Rogan, and Democrats sure won’t be able to build a liberal one. They should focus on funding existing liberal outlets and local newspapers and Spanish language radio and TV.

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"What is it about the way we frame manhood that, even today, it still depends so on "feminine" dependence for its survival?" (Faludi, Backlash 79)

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Over the past 4 or 5 years, I must have read 150 or so books on US history. Here is one thing I can confidently report: nothing we're seeing today is new. From Susan Faludi's Backlash...

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I can remember as clear as day taking a course on the Holocaust in college and the professor said that when the government starts asking you to identify yourself as Jewish, it’s time to start thinking about getting out.

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U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish

A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

If you've never read it before, today would be a perfect time to take a look at Pope Francis's moving encyclical on the perils of climate change, Laudato Si'. (Definitely don't need to be Catholic or even religious to appreciate it)

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Laudato si' (24 May 2015) | Francis

Encyclical Letter Laudato si' of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015)

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

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Bill Girard @billgirard.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Out of a seeming endless parade of bizarro experiences over the past decade, few of them have been more disorientating for me then coming to the end of this article and having the thought, "David Brooks is right!"

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Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.

It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

For years they’ve been screaming about the victimization of “conservatives” by “woke” “cancel culture” on university campuses, even though that’s mostly fantasy; and they’ve been fantasizing about revenge — meaning instituting their own blanket cancel culture on all their perceived enemies.

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