Mastodawn

Evan Berry Jan 8, 2023

So no protections for adjuncts freedom of speech?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A Hamline Adjunct Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.

After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic. But many scholars say the work is a masterpiece.

The New York Times

Evan Berry Jan 4, 2023

Friend of Satan: how Lucien Greaves and his Satanic Temple are fighting the religious right https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/04/friend-of-satan-how-lucien-greaves-and-his-satanic-temple-are-fighting-the-religious-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #satanicpanic #relgiousright

Friend of Satan: how Lucien Greaves and his Satanic Temple are fighting the religious right

They have protested against a homophobic church and opposed prayer in classrooms. Now this minority religion is defending the right to abortion

The Guardian

Evan Berry Jan 3, 2023

Wouldn’t mind if there was never another football game anywhere ever

Evan Berry Jan 2, 2023

Under Pompeo, “the State Department shifted its focus to promoting international religious freedom, thereby losing religion experts who knew intricate details of trans-regional networks and understood how complex internal divisions of religious thought have contributed to factionalism or sustained economic interests.” #religion #foreignpolicy #afghanistan

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-must-understand-taliban-change-it-206065?page=0%2C1

America Must Understand the Taliban to Change It

By increasing its knowledge of the Taliban’s internal dynamics, the United States will be better positioned to influence Taliban policy.

The National Interest

Evan Berry Jan 2, 2023

Remember those ads where Super Bowl and World Series winners would say “I’m going to Disney World”?

Yeah, well this is the opposite of that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/world/americas/bolsonaro-florida-brazil.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Lula Becomes Brazil’s President, With Bolsonaro in Florida

Brazil inaugurates its new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Sunday. Facing investigations, former President Jair Bolsonaro has taken refuge in Orlando.

Evan Berry Dec 26, 2022

Not a #sustainable way to grapple with #water scarcity
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/opinion/arizona-water-colorado-river-saudi-arabia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | A Saudi Arabian Dairy Giant in Siphoning Off Arizona’s Groundwater

Arizona lawmakers must reform the state’s groundwater laws before it’s too late.

The New York Times

Evan Berry Dec 25, 2022

#migrants bused from Texas arrive at VP’s house on frigid #Christmas Eve, in an ongoing, not very Christian immigration policy stunt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2022/12/25/migrants-dc-christmas-eve/

Migrants bused from Texas arrive at VP’s house on frigid Christmas Eve

Republican governors, such as Texas's Greg Abbott, have been sending migrants to East Coast cities in protest of national immigration policies.

The Washington Post

Evan Berry Dec 24, 2022

“extreme conversation about voter fraud, it attracts an extreme flavor of people,” so let’s call that flavor “nacho cheesier.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/24/us/politics/democracy-voters-elections-2022.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How the Worst Fears for Democracy Were Averted in 2022

A precariously narrow but consequential slice of the electorate broke with its own voting history to reject openly extremist Republican candidates — at least partly out of concern for the health of the political system.

Evan Berry Dec 23, 2022

Hey look: local religious, spiritual, and folkloric traditions are closely related to the way communities think about and respond to climate change. #climate #elves #iceland

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/12/23/iceland-elves-environment

'We smile about it, but we're serious,' say Icelanders who believe elves are among them | Here & Now

Not only does more than half the population believe in them, but in Iceland, elves are considered to be stewards of the environment.

WBUR

Evan Berry Dec 22, 2022

U.S. life expectancy continued to fall in 2021 as covid, drug deaths surged —yes, but what about the shareholders? https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/22/us-life-expectancy-decline-2021-covid-fentanyl/

U.S. life expectancy continued to fall in 2021 as covid, drug deaths surged

An American child born in 2021 could expect to live to 76.4 years, according to the latest government data.

The Washington Post