Meira Kensky
@meirazk.bsky.social
Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.
Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
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Job: 1-year Lecturer in Religion, Ethics, and Politics and/or Philosophy and Religion at Princeton (we hope for at TT search next year). Preference to candidates who can teach an undergraduate survey course such as "Religion and its Modern Critics."
Deadline: 4/1/26
apply.interfolio.com/181428
Deadline: 4/1/26
apply.interfolio.com/181428
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February 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Job: 1-year Lecturer in Religion, Ethics, and Politics and/or Philosophy and Religion at Princeton (we hope for at TT search next year). Preference to candidates who can teach an undergraduate survey course such as "Religion and its Modern Critics."
Deadline: 4/1/26
apply.interfolio.com/181428
Deadline: 4/1/26
apply.interfolio.com/181428
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Thank god it's whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil (TGIWFWTD)
February 14, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Thank god it's whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil (TGIWFWTD)
The special cameras they are using at the Olympics are giving me motion sickness
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 AM
The special cameras they are using at the Olympics are giving me motion sickness
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I’m doing my usual body weight squats while I wait for my luggage. Earphones in. Standing far off to the side, out of the way. A man went out of his way to snag my (wired) headphones so I can hear him say, “you gotta hold that for ten seconds.”
I hope all men like this burn in hell.
I hope all men like this burn in hell.
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 AM
I’m doing my usual body weight squats while I wait for my luggage. Earphones in. Standing far off to the side, out of the way. A man went out of his way to snag my (wired) headphones so I can hear him say, “you gotta hold that for ten seconds.”
I hope all men like this burn in hell.
I hope all men like this burn in hell.
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Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
Toni Preckwinkle, fighting the good fight instead of going after U Chicago students for raising awareness of the problem with parking tickets on street cleaning days
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, along with more than half of the county’s commissioners, have called on Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neil Burke to file charges against federal immigration agents involved in shootings that took place last year in the Chicago area.
Preckwinkle calls on top Cook County prosecutor to investigate ICE, feds involved in Chicago area shootings
chicago.suntimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Toni Preckwinkle, fighting the good fight instead of going after U Chicago students for raising awareness of the problem with parking tickets on street cleaning days
Regardless of whether or not the Mellon Foundation is “holding humanities hostage” to its “progressive agenda,” it is deeply problematic for one organization to hold so much control over the shape of humanities in this country regardless of any ideological leanings.
February 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Regardless of whether or not the Mellon Foundation is “holding humanities hostage” to its “progressive agenda,” it is deeply problematic for one organization to hold so much control over the shape of humanities in this country regardless of any ideological leanings.
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This Weeks Onion Magazine: ‘I Don’t Know How And It’s Not My Event’: Simone Biles On Her Decision Not To Snowboard At The Winter Olympics
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
This Weeks Onion Magazine: ‘I Don’t Know How And It’s Not My Event’: Simone Biles On Her Decision Not To Snowboard At The Winter Olympics
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Andrew Mark Henry wins the #AAR 2026 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Dr. Henry is the creator and host of the phenomenal YouTube channel "Religion for Breakfast," and founder of the new online learning community, "The Religion Department." aaarweb.org/news/andrew-...
February 13, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Andrew Mark Henry wins the #AAR 2026 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Dr. Henry is the creator and host of the phenomenal YouTube channel "Religion for Breakfast," and founder of the new online learning community, "The Religion Department." aaarweb.org/news/andrew-...
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
It’s possible I got unnecessarily passionate about course evaluations in my team meeting this afternoon
February 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
It’s possible I got unnecessarily passionate about course evaluations in my team meeting this afternoon
Sometimes I think to myself, “why do I buy all this dumb shit?” And then later: ohhhh, so I can put them in gift bags
February 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Sometimes I think to myself, “why do I buy all this dumb shit?” And then later: ohhhh, so I can put them in gift bags
Friends, I am hiring this year! My team is amazing. Watch this space for the ad as soon as it works its way through the HR labyrinth! If you want to know what my team is all about, ask @drewjakeprof.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, or @kkaelin.bsky.social!
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Friends, I am hiring this year! My team is amazing. Watch this space for the ad as soon as it works its way through the HR labyrinth! If you want to know what my team is all about, ask @drewjakeprof.bsky.social, @chancebonar.bsky.social, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social, or @kkaelin.bsky.social!
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BREAKING: The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser before the FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say.
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
BREAKING: The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser before the FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say.
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Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
Seriously, PUT IT ON THE FLYER. That is my PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
Put this on the department flyer
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
February 12, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Seriously, PUT IT ON THE FLYER. That is my PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
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Put this on the department flyer
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
February 11, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Put this on the department flyer
great time for my dad to be in the air
MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"
February 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
great time for my dad to be in the air
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Reuters: U.S. HOUSE BACKS RESOLUTION THAT WOULD END TRUMP'S CANADA TARIFFS BY 219 TO 211
February 11, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Reuters: U.S. HOUSE BACKS RESOLUTION THAT WOULD END TRUMP'S CANADA TARIFFS BY 219 TO 211
A very good article
My colleague at my institution wrote a good piece about Zionism and historical contingencies, and the possibility things could have gone differently. thehistoricizer.substack.com/p/beware-the...
Beware the Seductive Meta-Narrative! Lazy History and the Flattening of Zionism
By Matt
thehistoricizer.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:29 PM
A very good article
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No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor