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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

Retaliation goes far beyond firing. Of 196 recorded incidents of employer retaliation against employees speaking out on Palestine, nearly 40% (76) resulted in termination. Retaliation that does not rise to the level of termination is an even larger phenomenon.
All categories of academic workers are at risk. Of the 162 individuals whose employment status was disclosed, 30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured.
People of color are disproportionately affected. Of the 134 cases recorded in the AFI database in which respondents’ identification is known, two-thirds were people of color: 30% SWANA; 10.5% Black; and 27% other POC. Additionally, 16.5% identify as Jewish. More than half of those targeted whose gender is known are women. Such retaliation compounds the abuse of already racist and sexist work environments.

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wonder if kids watching live-streamed shootings will psychologically merge with all those active shooter drills we traumatize them with from kindergarten on. Nothing to worry about probably

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hey kids, it’s time for Bluey but first do you wanna see something cool?

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It always felt weird how people would crowd to watch hangings or the guillotine but now I imagine like 30% of families tuning in for the livestream before their Netflix routine

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And fuck you. Trans rights are human rights. Yes that’s something socialists must demand

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These days nobody reads Critique of the Gotha Program

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is everyone flooded with GLP-1 ads? I’m getting into shape the old way and don’t know if it’s algorithms picking up on my attention or if everyone gets this but it’s constant ads

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

[Protestantly] I’m creating a new God-Slave to bless the rich and end the world but the peasants are revolting and the pope doesn’t like my theses on the soul

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If it hadn’t been millennium it could have been something else. But it’s wild how they latch onto one word, graft it into the racial imaginary, and, like a Lacanian quilting point, reorganize policy around it (especially in the British empire but also multiple US presidents and lots of policymakers)

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So much of Christian Zionism, restorationism, and end times pivots on speculation on the millennium—generating millions of words, tied to countless deaths over hundreds of years—yet that word millennium comes from a single chapter in Revelation 20. Would be nice if some guy didn’t write that bit

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Republicans stepping back from hostility

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It finishes with the British capture of Jerusalem in December 2017. Allenby immediately proclaims it an occupation of mutual respect for all religious groups. They then ban newspapers from printing the Balfour Declaration

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I finished this chapter today. So much theology. So much racecraft.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here is the trailer for Naza, the award winning documentary that details the system’s behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza 👇 Understand why the psychopathic Zionists are panicking

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As a professor, it’s striking that if all people remembered of me was “got people reading more books” that’s a life well lived

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The latest book from Imagination Library arrived for my 4 year old. From beyond the grave Dolly Parton is still giving kids books

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“You’ll get tariffs like you’ve never seen” (Confused clapping, what’s a tariff?) “The gas, it will go higher than the little sign at the pump has numbers for” (Cheering) “Groceries, it’s a beautiful word. You’ll never afford those” (Crowd goes wild!!!)

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ilan Pappé argues Oct 7th was an attempt to preempt a genocide Sinwar knew was planned. I’d assumed 1) prisoner exchange had been successful historically and 2) they couldn’t know Biden would encourage genocide, but this expands the picture www.palestinechronicle.com/why-al-aqsa-...

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Do the bees episode from Black Mirror. Trump can hit an “I’m angry” button dispatching a bee swarm from the arch, wiggling into our brains

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like the pre-Suez canal overland route between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean wasn’t ideal for commodities. It was largely for people and mail. Gotta get the mail delivered and it helps if you’re doing a lot of racecraft and theology in support of mail

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m nearing a finished chapter on 19th century British policy toward the Ottomans and Jewish settlement in Palestine. The obsession with getting mail through the region (communication with eastern colonies) leaves me wondering if they ever would have tried Israel if they had internet or phones

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I discovered a scholar in Iran translated my climate change book and is spreading it among colleagues

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

what it’s like to read Plato’s Euthyphro

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What else could we be looking into? I’m thinking talismans to stop witch hexes. Astrology to cure plague. Prayer as cancer treatment.

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On that note, does anyone know where I can download Peter Thiel’s Antichrist lectures? I see all kinds of transcript excerpts and summaries but I want to actually listen to whatever leaked

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I keep come to that idea in Anidjar or JZ Smith where, as non-biological constructs, race and religion are a lot closer the same phenomenon than most imagine. Specially in Smith’s “Religion religions religious” where invention of “world religions” only came after modern race

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After years of reading, I still haven’t found any cases or Restorationism or non-Jewish Zionism that doesn’t hinge on race-thinking. The difference seems to be the balance of positive and negative race attributes, and how much theology gets thrown into the mix

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reading old Restorationists/non-Jewish Zionists, you get lots of race-thinking. Some race-thinking that zionists today still like (Jews are same people as in the Bible), or controversial characteristics (Jews have more fortitude than Arabs), to the anti-Semitic (Jewish race is good with money)

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dante’s inferno II: if you don’t get into the gates of heaven you debate Charlie for eternity?

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don’t mean to do semantics. But the term is reactionaries. They want bad things, not only for others but for themselves. Shave off the recent MAGA stuff and everything else that lead to it is still there

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m aware white evangelicals are in a category of their own. I have after all written a book on this, and that’s where the open fascism is. But Christianity is broadly a reactionary consciousness, it will one day die out, and until it does it will keep doing what we now call Christian nationalism

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don’t really understand the explosion of “white Christian nationalism” as a term. It seems to cover what the left traditionally calls reactionaries, but in such a way as to not to offend *all* Christians, only the bad guys

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Post 9/11 thread for people to post the wildest shit they remember from 01 to 06 I'll start: People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.

A gi joe style hide out for al qaeda that is way too elaborate.

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My weird 9/11 ritual is reading bin Laden’s letter to America and it’s always striking that example 1 for “because you attacked us and continue to attack us” is Palestine. It’s the center of the world

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What is the life of a scholar if not the archival excavation of bold frontiers in types of weird guys?

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“I read all this silly bullshit so you don’t have to” Ok well what if I want to read the weird stuff?

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What’s the point of being a professor if I can’t sit around gaming all day

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Microsoft will limit Xbox playtime. How will our great gamers will take this enshittification?

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wow a “race is in the genes” level race realist

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Are you working on something similar? We might have to talk sometime

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not coincidentally, hundreds of years of Protestant race thinking on Jewish “restoration” converts seamlessly into segregationist and anti-communist agendas over the 20th century. Vance is part of a long, violent tradition in that respect

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This week I drafted a book proposal on End Times and Christian Zionist fantasies and I got JD doing some promo

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Some bunkers pitch the idea of zoom school for the kids inside, with teachers outside (no thought to how they survive or if they’d still do the job) would log in like normal to teach the scions. You see the basic view they have of workers

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

During research on doomsday bunkers for Future of Denial, I had a laugh at this rich guy asking “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” Someone suggested disciplinary collars for the guards. You know the guards would just kill the lords.

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not really acting by the maxim whereby you might will it be universal law, huh?

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A few bridges in Grand Rapids have Kant graffiti. I don’t know what the deal is. Why not Hegel?

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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ve seen arguments that Zionism is a type of anti-Semitism before. But I’ve never seen a quote quite like this from *Theodor Herzl* the father of political Zionism: “the anti-Semites will be our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies”

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