Megan Goodwin
@mpgphd.bsky.social
✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
💻 senior editor @religiondispatches.org
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
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🙄 also "cults"
💻 senior editor @religiondispatches.org
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
pitch me! https://tinyurl.com/mpgphd
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Megan Goodwin
@mpgphd.bsky.social
· Jun 26
if this post confuses you or makes you upset: I get it
but also I'm right
and if you want to learn more about religion and how it shapes our whole world (especially but not exclusively through empire): good news!
we wrote a book about that
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...
but also I'm right
and if you want to learn more about religion and how it shapes our whole world (especially but not exclusively through empire): good news!
we wrote a book about that
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...
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Didn't even last a week.
Dems in ARRAY
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Didn't even last a week.
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The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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New leadership or
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
New leadership or
WOW
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
WOW
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If at any point you are tempted to feel sorry for that miserable waste of skin please remind yourself that he has murdered a quarter of a million children and counting
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If at any point you are tempted to feel sorry for that miserable waste of skin please remind yourself that he has murdered a quarter of a million children and counting
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Considering doing a video series to radicalize the wine moms into abolishing the Senate
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Considering doing a video series to radicalize the wine moms into abolishing the Senate
QUEEN OF THE HARPIES
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
QUEEN OF THE HARPIES
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Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
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An incredible track-by-track oral history of Patti Smith’s “Horses,” which turns 50 tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
An incredible track-by-track oral history of Patti Smith’s “Horses,” which turns 50 tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
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Uh-huh. So he's just a big loser, then? A failure at the actual job he has?
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Uh-huh. So he's just a big loser, then? A failure at the actual job he has?
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No, HHS, menopause does not in fact cause divorce and death, but tell us more about how great you are at women's health. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and I wrote about how they somehow managed to mess up what should have been good news on HRT with weird claims. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
www.motherjones.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
No, HHS, menopause does not in fact cause divorce and death, but tell us more about how great you are at women's health. @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and I wrote about how they somehow managed to mess up what should have been good news on HRT with weird claims. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I don't know, but I believe we are living through the biggest money laundering operation in history.
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I don't know, but I believe we are living through the biggest money laundering operation in history.
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At the very least @schumer.senate.gov should have forced Johnson to do his Constitutional duty and swear in Grijalva. But she'd force him to release the Epstein Files. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...
Mike Johnson Gets Brutal Instant Fact Check Over The Rep He Still Refuses To Swear In
Adelita Grijalva still hasn't been sworn in more than three weeks after winning her election.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
At the very least @schumer.senate.gov should have forced Johnson to do his Constitutional duty and swear in Grijalva. But she'd force him to release the Epstein Files. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...
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The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.
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Keeper of ghost stories.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Keeper of ghost stories.
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the latest from RD: Brook Wilensky-Lanford on Trump's heavenly fixations
religiondispatches.org/heaven-on-hi...
religiondispatches.org/heaven-on-hi...
Heaven on His Mind: Trump’s Telling Fixation with the Afterlife
America’s 47th president and aspirational dictator seems particularly concerned lately with where he’s headed when he dies.
Trump mused about his chances at eternal salvation with the cast of “Fox a...
religiondispatches.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
the latest from RD: Brook Wilensky-Lanford on Trump's heavenly fixations
religiondispatches.org/heaven-on-hi...
religiondispatches.org/heaven-on-hi...
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Would be cool if people could read but that’s a big ask
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Would be cool if people could read but that’s a big ask
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If you don’t get it yet.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you don’t get it yet.