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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 02/09/2026

How does religion shape American politics? Historian and author @jemartisby.bsky.social joins #TheContext to explore the deep connections between Christianity, race, and political life in America—and how the past continues to shape the present. bit.ly/GetTheContext

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

MLK called for a “minister’s march” after Bloody Sunday in Selma, 1965. At the same time, Jerry Falwell said pastors should stay out of politics. A bit more than a decade later he founded the Moral Majority with the slogan, “Get ‘em saved. Get ‘em baptized. Get ‘em registered.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The latest from @convocation.bsky.social. We unpack Steven Miller’s chilling speech, which trades in Nazi tropes about the deformed/abnormal physical characteristics of the “enemy within.” @kkdumez.bsky.social @jemartisby.bsky.social @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/convocat...

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Why Steven Miller’s Chilling Speech Matters

Plus the latest from the Convocation Unscripted team.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Copy edits submitted. 🙌🏾 Coming January 2027.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The way many right-wing Christians embraced the “Cyrus anointing” to explain why the president’s character didn’t matter reveals how they often use religion. It’s not to become more Christlike. They created a theological permission structure in service of their true goals…

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’ve been saying for years now, “This is not business as usual.” Last night’s speech was as clear a demonstration of that as any. Kristin, Robby, and I hopped on a live broadcast and recorded our reactions in real time. Let me know what you thought the speech signaled and how we should respond.

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Trump Plots Midterm Chaos

An Impromptu TCU Live Watch Party

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The new class of over 100 new attorneys and staff for the Civil Rights Division of the DoJ. A nearly all-white cohort is now charged with determining what counts as discrimination in critical cases nationwide. Share this so people know what we're up against.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Excited to share our new study. Upshot: The more rightward White adults place Jesus on the ideological spectrum, the more solidarity they feel with other Whites. BUT it's the opposite for Black adults: the more conservative the Jesus, the less racial solidarity they feel. 1/6 doi.org/10.1093/socr...

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Historians speak truth of the dead. Whether that truth is good or ill was up to them.

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Politico @politico.com · 10/07/2026

Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. But as the surprise wears off, a sense of isolation has begun to set in among some. 🔗 politi.co/4vSW46T

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Hundreds of words about a “second Reconstruction” and zero mention of Black Americans. Not even a nod to the ways race has and still creates dysfunction in the government. A massive underestimation of how race divides people and how that limits what is politically possible. Very disappointing.

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Joan Braune @joanbraune.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"So here is my suggestion: Never cover Douglas Wilson in isolation. If you fly a crew to Moscow, talk to the people in town who left his church because of abuse."

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In the latest splashy media treatment, Christian dominionist pastor, Doug Wilson said, “We’re getting a respectful hearing. Maybe not a friendly hearing, but we’re getting a respectful one. And that is progress.” But his views are shameful. And that’s why I have issues with the ways he’s covered.

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What Mainstream Media Keep Getting Wrong about Douglas Wilson

Why the issue isn't whether to cover him but how to cover him.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On the Fourth of July, a white nationalist group called Patriot Front took to the streets wearing white masks and sunglasses. On September 13, 1926, when thousands of Ku Klux Klan members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. A century apart. Same energy.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We know that one quote where Frederick Douglass says, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." Now you can listen to me read the whole speech!

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July 4th 2021: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

Podcast Episode · Pass The Mic · July 4, 2021 · 1h 12m

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

When we learn about Juneteenth, few people ever read the actual announcement. This is General Order No. 3 with annotations about the significance. What stands out to you most in the actual order? #Juneteenth

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth! Here are some basic facts and history to revisit. Feel free to share!

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The graphic below is a side-by-side comparison of what America 250 and Juneteenth each say about freedom, history, and what this anniversary truly represents. When you think about Juneteenth and the Fourth of July, do you celebrate one, both, or neither? What shapes that decision for you?

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I had never heard of Josh Hokit before tonight and I’d be glad never to hear of or from him again. At UFC 250, he invoked Jesus’s name, immediately followed by a crude joke about someone’s mother and then proceeded to hurl a disgusting insult at Michelle Obama. 1/

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“The cage fight along with the overall stance of administration officials conveys the most adolescent form of manhood. It’s an image taken from the testosterone fueled fever dreams of college frat boys posturing as Grade A prime beefcake men.”

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They Built a Cage at the White House

What UFC Freedom 250 tells us about power, masculinity, and how leading the nation is all just a "gimmick"

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PRRI @prri.org · 10/06/2026

To kick off PRRI’s Day of Giving, Senior Democracy Fellow @jemartisby.bsky.social shares how PRRI makes public opinion data accessible to scholars and thought leaders. Help us keep the data behind the headlines free, rigorous, and independent. Support our work: prri.org/data-democra...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/06/2026

Trump was shown for 10 seconds during national anthem, and was booed worse than the Spurs are being booed now during their intros.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“Life is a gimmick, if you think about it, right? But it’s a good gimmick.” This is Trump talking about the UFC fight he ordered held on the South Lawn of the White House grounds. But it’s actually more revealing, isn’t it? That one sentence gives away his entire outlook...it’s all a gimmick.

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They Built a Cage at the White House

What UFC Freedom 250 tells us about power, masculinity, and how leading the nation is all just a "gimmick"

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CAPTAIN✪AMERICA @realcapnamerica.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

So, to sum it up, the president made a claim, and the reporter he made the claim to simply asked what his evidence was for that claim, and he proceeded to meltdown into a tantrum and stomped away pouting.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

In the period immediately following the Civil War, Black men held office. Schools were built. Wealth was accumulated. It was called Reconstruction. White Americans dismantled it. They retaliated not because Reconstruction failed, but because it was working. That pattern is repeating today.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The U.S. church didn't just fail to oppose racism. In many cases, it organized to defend it. Pastors wrote the theology. Denominations drew the lines. And they called it faithful Christianity. We can see the pattern again today with white Christian nationalism.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/06/2026

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled this week that Alabama can use a congressional map in the 2026 midterms previously found to have intentionally discriminated against Black voters. Some Democrats say the decision shows that major reforms to the Court are needed. bit.ly/4o47669

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Voting rights are being actively dismantled and they're going after Black political power first. Yet it seems only the usual advocates and activists are talking about it. Now I see firsthand how so many people passively stood by for decades while Jim Crow ravaged the nation.

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 02/06/2026

"If we tell the truth about our past, we do more than honor history; we secure the future," writes @jemartisby.bsky.social sojo.net/magazine/jun...

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After 250 Years, Christians Owe America the Truth

The church has often amplified the worst American lies. How can we get to a better, more honest future?

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Six years ago today. George Floyd should still be alive. The details of that day and what came after should fuel the fight for justice.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The same people saying the Supreme Court didn’t really gut the Voting Rights Act would have looked at poll taxes and literacy tests and said, “What’s the problem? Everyone still has the right to vote.”

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This course is an investment, but not just in content, in community. You deserve a group of people who “get it” and can travel alongside you. Join my signature live online course— “The Justice Journey: A Biblical Giide to Making Wrong Things Right” Registration opens next week. Join the waitlist.

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This Bible study lays the biblical foundation for why Christians must care about justice. Across eight weeks, participants will journey through Scripture, history, and practical steps to understand h...

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’m watching “Suits” for the first time. I know it’s just a tv show, but the white privilege is white privileging. A young white dude crashes an interview and his suitcase full of pot spills into the floor. Somehow he walks out with a job at a top law firm instead of in handcuffs.

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Harvey Specter and Mike Ross Celebrate

ALT: Harvey Specter and Mike Ross Celebrate

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

These Supreme Court “justices” gutting the Voting Rights Act aren’t worthy of the robes. All I’ll say it to their faces. More on the latest episode of my podcast “The Justice Briefing.” #faith #history #justice #thejusticebriefing

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

So the Lt. Gov. of Mississippi, Delbert Hosemann, used the term “states’ rights” in his comments praising the Supreme Court ruling dismantling the Voting Rights Act. That’s the same argument Confederates used to justify seceding from the Union in defense of slavery.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Let me make it plain: The Voting Rights Act is dead. If not on paper, then in practice. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement was the Voting Rights Act. Now that progress has been erased in an effort to Make America (even more) R4cist Again. 👉🏾 open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...

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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

"The Voting Rights Act was born from a church that could see clearly...We cannot confront what we have been taught not to see." @jemartisby.bsky.social religionnews.com/2026/05/01/c...

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Colorblindness won't fix inequality

(RNS) — When faith communities teach colorblindness, they are teaching their congregants to be silent in the face of devastating decisions like this latest Supreme Court ruling.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wrote a piece for Religion News Service on how the false virtue of colorblindness paved the way for the Supreme Court's devastating ruling on the Voting Rights Act...and how the church buys into the same illogic. religionnews.com/2026/05/01/c...

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The devastating Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act demonstrates exactly why we need Critical Race Theory (CRT). Critical Race Theory argues that racial inequality is embedded in laws, systems and institutions. Racist intent is not required to create racial harm.

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Colorblindness won't fix inequality

(RNS) — When faith communities teach colorblindness, they are teaching their congregants to be silent in the face of devastating decisions like this latest Supreme Court ruling.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It's not the church's job to be partisan, but in times like these it must be prophetic.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Conservatives on the Supreme Court and their allies are re-creating the very conditions that made the Voting Rights Act necessary in the first place.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/04/2026

Let’s be clear: this does not warrant building a ballroom at the White House.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Nearly 500 public figures are reading the Bible this week in Washington, D.C. to mark America’s 250th. You can’t proclaim “love your neighbor” while supporting policies that harm the vulnerable. The Bible isn’t a prop for national identity. It’s a call to justice.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

On April 19, 1989 five innocent boys – four Black and one Latino – were charged with a crime they did not commit. At the time they were called the Central Park five. They are now the Exonerated Five.

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