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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I had the chance to comment in this piece by @derosejason.bsky.social for NPR's All Things Considered.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib And now, Minab We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch

A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

CFP deadline Mar 31, & registration at link. I am a plenary speaker along with Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Mark Elliott, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Joshua Ralston, Hanna Reichel, Michelle Sanchez, J. Ross Wagner tinyurl.com/548h6u5x

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Paul's letter to the Romans Conference

Continuing the tradition of the St Andrews Scripture and Theology conferences, Princeton Theological Seminary, in partnership with St Andrews, announces a conference on Paul’s Letter to the Romans and...

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

With the SBL deadline for proposals extended, consider submitting!!

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Two calls for papers for SBL 2026 from the units I co-chair: Bible in America and Minoritized Criticism & Biblical Interpretation. Please consider submitting an abstract on either of these urgent topics!

Bible in America: "The Bible + American Expansion" Call for Papers on recent U.S. activities and statements regarding Central and South America, the Caribbean, Greenland, and Canada, vis a vis biblical themes of expansion, territory, empire, and related topics.

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Rob Rakove @robrakove.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I'm happy to announce the publication of my article about a curious early episode in the U.S.-Afghan relationship: the Inland oil concession. In 1936, the Afghan government offered the Inland Exploration Company – the local arm of a mid-sized domestic U.S. firm – an exclusive concession across 🇦🇫.

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Samuel Hartman @bqalisam.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I’m looking forward to the talk! Your book is excellent.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

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ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee

Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I will be giving the Harshbarger Lecture at Penn State on Feb. 25, on a topic that is increasingly terrible. Link below, also streaming. Register here: events.la.psu.edu/event/harshb...

Flyer for event: "Immigration and Apocalypse: Trapped with the Walls of the New Jerusalem," 5:30-7pm.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization

It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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NPR @npr.org · 15/01/2026

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States. n.pr/49BDR41

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U.S. to suspend immigrant visas from 75 countries over public assistance concerns

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH COMMON SENSE RESTRICTIONS BASED ON DATA: ....

The Proclamation continues the full restrictions and entry limitations of nationals from the original 12 high-risk countries established under Proclamation 10949: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
It adds full restrictions and entry limitations on 5 additional countries based on recent analysis: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria.
It also adds full restrictions and entry limitations on individuals holding Palestinian-Authority-issued travel documents.
It imposes full restrictions and entry limitations on 2 countries that were previously subject to partial restrictions: Laos and Sierra Leone.
The Proclamation continues partial restrictions of nationals from 4 of the 7 original high-risk countries: Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela.
Because Turkmenistan has engaged productively with the United States and demonstrated significant progress since the previous Proclamation, this new Proclamation lifts the ban on its nonimmigrant visas, while maintaining the suspension of entry for Turkmen nationals as immigrants.
It adds partial restrictions and entry limitations on 15 additional countries: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The Proclamation includes exceptions for lawful permanent residents, existing visa holders, certain visa categories like athletes and diplomats, and individuals whose entry serves U.S. national interests.
The Proclamation narrows broad family-based immigrant visa carve-outs that carry demonstrated fraud risks, while preserving case-by-case waivers.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

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The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

30% off at Yale Press, including my book, Immigration + Apocalypse

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Two important and timely panels at #AARSBL co-sponsored by Poverty in the Biblical World with Minoritized Criticism & Biblical Interpretation and Latino/a/e & Latin American Biblical Interpretation respectively: The Bible, Poverty, & Minoritized Peoples and Engaging the Legacies of Gustavo Gutiérrez

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Come to my book review panel at #AARSBL2025 ! A cross-organization, interdisciplinary joint session, Sat. Nov 22 @ 1-3:30 Hynes Convention Center 201 -- if not for me, then to hear one of these fabulous panelists! @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social @elprofebarba.bsky.social

Book flyer showing cover of Immigration + Apocalypse, with panelists Lloyd Barba, Amherst College, Melissa Borja, University of Michigan, Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School, Jennifer Kaalund, Independent Scholar, Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross, Roberto Mata, Santa Clara University, Moderated by Jacqueline Hidalgo, University of San Diego. Co-sponsored by AAR Politics & Migration, SBL Asian and Asian-American Hermeneutics, Bible in America, John's Apocalypse & Cultural Contexts Ancient and Modern, Latino/a/e and Latin American Biblical Interpretation.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Something I’ve written about: how cuteness, silliness, and humor strengthen protest. theconversation.com/pikachu-prot...

Post from X by Claude Taylor: “Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non-violently) beat Facism. Humor and ridicule are key.” Image is a still from video of protestors wearing inflatable costumes (a dinosaur, raccoon, and unicorn) dancing in front of National Guard.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

wizard frog is insane

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2025

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

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U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I have a few interpretations...

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

From The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guardian article, headline: Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in ICE detention. Photo of back of a man behind held from behind by ICE police, forced into a doorway.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/09/2025

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

“The specific date came from Joshua Mhlakela, a South African pastor who claims that he saw Jesus in a vision, returning to the world on Rosh Hashanah (New Year in Judaism).”

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

As US state censorship, disappeared peoples, & horrors increase, let’s *not* keep saying things like “America is becoming like those Asian/African/South American nations” because this is homegrown _right here_. Robust democracies actually do and have existed in the Global South, thank you very much.

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

New video on Eric Schmitt's White nationalist speech at NatCon. With what happened last week, it was largely overlooked, but it can't go unnoticed. youtu.be/HY4quehYBmc?...

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Senator Says USA is a White Homeland

YouTube video by Straight White American Jesus Podcast

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”

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State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Who could possibly have foreseen this? Shortly after Trump tells South Korean leader on camera, to his face, that ROK has to get over the WWII 'comfort women' issue.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

The concurrence relegates the interests of U. S. citizens
and individuals with legal status to a single sentence, positing that the Government will free these individuals as
soon as they show they are legally in the United States.
Ante, at 8 (opinion of KAVANAUGH, J.). That blinks reality.
Two plaintiffs in this very case tried to explain that they
are U. S. citizens; one was then pushed against a fence with
his arms twisted behind his back, and the other was taken away from his job to a warehouse for further questioning. More fundamentally, it is the Government’s burden to prove that it has reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The concurrence improperly shifts the burden onto an entire class of citizens to carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely. The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

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Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

But of course they start with Revelation.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.