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Mary Beth Mathews

@marybethmathews.bsky.social
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Professor of religious studies, especially the history of religion in the U.S. Knitter of all the things. Look for me wherever there are cats

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 9h
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a lot of heavy stuff in the news right now, take care of yourselves. we weren't made for this much horror.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a Christian Nationalist revival meeting masquerading as a defense department speech...
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This 1000 times over! Stretching your brain and learning about the world around you (past or present) enriches you and connects you to the world around you.
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the best argument for the humanities I've seen in a long time.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 21/09/2026
The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system that has Americans’ lives in its hands. I’m calling on the FAA to immediately suspend use of this AI system at Washington area airports until its safety has been established. My full statement:
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Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Search: Assistant Professor of Modern African American History at William & Mary williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/WM/job/Posti...
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Assistant Professor of Modern African American History
Job Requisition: JR102091 Assistant Professor of Modern African American History (Open) Job Posting Title: Assistant Professor of Modern African American History Department: CC00094 WM001 | CAS | Hist...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026
i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump lied about his role on 9/11 again. During an event for first responders Trump invented a story that included firefighters lifting him up out of danger. This is a fabrication. He played no role in the cleanup or rescue of the site.
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A very thoughtful and thought provoking piece (gift link) Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Is Cracking. Here’s What Could Come Next. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Coalition Is Cracking. Here’s What Could Come Next. (Gift Article)
President Trump’s foreign adventurism will drive immigrants to the United States. And his anti-immigrant base knows it.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump’s DOJ asked courts to dismiss consent decrees negotiated with the Biden DOJ & signed by cities in cases where the DOJ found patterns & practices of discriminatory policing, including the Louisville Metro PD where DOJ found misconduct among ofcrs involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My pay was exactly the same gross. As a percentage of revenue I’ve generated, it’s less than half. Contingent faculty deserve and should be offered secure contracts and living wages.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The U.S. Constitution begs to differ.
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The rough draft of a book review is done, and that might be enough for the first Monday in August (or July 34th for those of us in denial that it’s August already).
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ogdenville! North Haverville! This too can be yours!
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think we should start a petition to ban Fox News from hospital surgery waiting rooms. It’s stressful enough to have a loved one in surgery; we don’t need right wing talking heads spouting vile ideas to add more tension.
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
That moment in the archives when you realize you might need a bigger boat…
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Jaws What The
Alt: A scene from the movie Jaws where the mayor realizes that the shark is way bigger than he thought
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A century ago, white nationalists were saying the exact same things about Rep. Rulli's Italian ancestors -- they weren't white, they were criminals, they could never assimilate to "our" country
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I double dog dare him to sit down with the families of the 18 Americans lost to this insane war. Show them these numbers and expect them to say “when you put it that way….”
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago.”
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/07/2026
This morning, I was notified of another death in ICE custody. This is the 53th death on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We must continue to fight for accountability for everyone who has lost a loved one. And it’s time to end the use of all for-profit detention centers.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Shame
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Fritz moved away this week, but he’ll always have a place in the neighborhood lore. #caturday
An orange cat with white chest and paws calmly surveys the area around him
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a quote from the Gospels, right?
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Anti-Catholic sentiment ran high against immigrants like his grandfather and brothers, accusing them of transplanting anti-democratic values.
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Good morning from the Mt. Zion Cemetery-Female Union Band Cemetery in DC where there’s a cleanup in progress for Juneteenth.
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Huh. As a professor of American religious history, I tell my students that my job is a result of all the fighting these groups have done with each other. If we had an “American church,” I’d be out of work.
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WOFAVA @wofava.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
WofA is OUT HERE TODAY!!! One Nation Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for ALL!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸☀️☀️☀️
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Gilded Age on steroids
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’m working with archival records of a Black seminary, and reading the student entries in the registrar’s ledger book is overwhelming. So many “born a slave” and several naming specific plantations as locations. I’m reminded of Gregory O’Malley’s cautionary note in Final Passages that 1/
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
religionnews.com/2026/06/04/d... @adellembanks.bsky.social
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Draft of King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ found at Virginia seminary archives
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (RNS) — The version housed at Virginia Theological Seminary is not for sale, and archive staffers plan to seek the best ways to make its contents available for the public to view.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy Pride Month!
Conservatives saying they are defending western civilization but are getting angry about a drag queen story hour, oblivious to the fact that the original Shakespeare plays were all drag queen story hours
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Same!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
America's Authoritarian PT Barnum would like your attention on his birthday. 🤡
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Every GOP member of Congress should be asked by the press whether they agree Trump can use $1.7b that we, the taxpayers, paid so gov’t could work for us, as reward money to his supporters.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 18/05/2026
Trump's slush fund would give nearly $2 BILLION in taxpayer dollars to his supporters, including violent criminals. He's just stealing your money. There's no transparency, we won't know who gets paid, or how much. It's illegal and corrupt as hell. We're fighting it in court.
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Check out this great project that maps Black digital and public humanities work.
sites.lib.jmu.edu
Explore Map | Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Always consult library and archives staff. My books would not have happened without them.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.
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Mary Beth Mathews @marybethmathews.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
One of the most galling aspects of the redistricting wars is the way the Republicans argued that the new (now trashed) Virginia map would have run afoul of the Voting Rights Act even as their colleagues in Louisiana were working to gut that same law.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I read these words and I hear Bull Connor and George Wallace saying them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/05/2026
brutal meme via the official Democratic Party X account
Trump: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation"
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Forgive me, but— Fuck this. Removing the rule that requires notification of people of polling place changes?? The majority is against them. They know it. They don’t want us to vote. So in addition to whatever you do—VOTE
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Struggles of local history
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/05/2026
Families can't afford to fill their tank and put food on the table because of Republican wars and tariffs. Health care is more expensive than ever thanks to Republican cuts and obstruction. Americans simply don't care about a stupid ballroom.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School.
The attempt to return Confederate monuments, the erasure of Black history, and today's Supreme Court ruling aren't coincidences. They're a coordinated campaign
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