Nancy Rourke (she/her)
@tumnusethic.bsky.social
Personal acct. Theology, ethics, teaching, reading, writing, justice, sci-fi/fantasy, justice, justice, academia, love, justice. Running, cello, food. Awe, humor, words & Word. I wrote Ecological Moral Character. Prof in religious studies & theology.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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Drug testing people for food assistance is just telling people who have addiction (which is a disease) that they should fuck off and starve to death.
I don't believe in starving people because of health conditions.
I don't believe in starving people because of health conditions.
November 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Drug testing people for food assistance is just telling people who have addiction (which is a disease) that they should fuck off and starve to death.
I don't believe in starving people because of health conditions.
I don't believe in starving people because of health conditions.
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“The desire to control is often the sign of inner insecurity, not of real power or love.”
— The Inner Voice of Love
— The Inner Voice of Love
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“The desire to control is often the sign of inner insecurity, not of real power or love.”
— The Inner Voice of Love
— The Inner Voice of Love
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Oh: Episcopal Diocese of TX says one of its priests, a “legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,” was detained by ICE this week while returning home from work and “calls on our representatives in power to assist.” www.epicenter.org/the-episcopa...
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas Calls for Justice After Detention of Clergy Member Employed by the State of Texas - EDOT
Houston, Texas -The Episcopal Diocese of Texas expresses deep concern and calls for action following the detention of one of its priests, a legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texa...
www.epicenter.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oh: Episcopal Diocese of TX says one of its priests, a “legally employed Kenyan clergy member who works for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,” was detained by ICE this week while returning home from work and “calls on our representatives in power to assist.” www.epicenter.org/the-episcopa...
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Paulo Freire critiques this as the 'banking model of education':
"Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat."
"Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat."
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Paulo Freire critiques this as the 'banking model of education':
"Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat."
"Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat."
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If possible,donate to your local soup kitchen
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If possible,donate to your local soup kitchen
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and please select all squares with traffic lights.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and don’t forget to like and subscribe.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and please exit through the gift shop.
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and please select all squares with traffic lights.
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Concept: guy who is the type of biblical literalist who believes the injunctions in the Pauline epistles only apply to people living in the literal towns they were addressed to
October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Concept: guy who is the type of biblical literalist who believes the injunctions in the Pauline epistles only apply to people living in the literal towns they were addressed to
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Honestly, I don't care what people seeking assistance at food banks do for a living, whether they work or not, what they drive, etc.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
October 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Honestly, I don't care what people seeking assistance at food banks do for a living, whether they work or not, what they drive, etc.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
People are hungry. Give them food to eat. Plain and simple.
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Religious left: still a thing.
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Religious left: still a thing.
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In the North American Forum, Mary Jo Iozzio summons readers to disrupt the “momentum of the Trump administration’s cruelty” in light of its latest developments. catholicethics.com/forum/cruelt...
Cruelty in the US is Unacceptable: How Might We Repair the Harms to the Vulnerable? | Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church
It is with regret that I write another missive about the sad state of our union here in the United States. It was only this past December when I wrote about the dangers that another Trump presidency…
catholicethics.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In the North American Forum, Mary Jo Iozzio summons readers to disrupt the “momentum of the Trump administration’s cruelty” in light of its latest developments. catholicethics.com/forum/cruelt...
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Listen, everyone is going to put their heads down on their desks and close their eyes, and whoever broke this timeline can fix it, no questions asked.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Listen, everyone is going to put their heads down on their desks and close their eyes, and whoever broke this timeline can fix it, no questions asked.
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You are going to achieve your PhD.
September 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
You are going to achieve your PhD.
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“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde
September 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest is to say that we do not have to live this way." — Audre Lorde
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Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.
September 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Updated map of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. Health departments who have officially confirmed that they are part of the collaborative include Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York City.
For me it was Sneakers.
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
For me it was Sneakers.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
I see that the great American experiment has reached the part where the phrase “anti-fascist ideology“ is being used as a reasonable reference to something
September 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I see that the great American experiment has reached the part where the phrase “anti-fascist ideology“ is being used as a reasonable reference to something
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While everyone is chattering about that guy, at least 5 (number keeps growing) HBCUs have received campus threats and had to go on lockdown today including one here in Louisiana. This is not ok.
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
While everyone is chattering about that guy, at least 5 (number keeps growing) HBCUs have received campus threats and had to go on lockdown today including one here in Louisiana. This is not ok.
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John Shin, a well known and respected violinist from South Korea, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Utah for violin performance, was detained by ICE.
John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah.
He is being detained in Colorado.
John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah.
He is being detained in Colorado.
August 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
John Shin, a well known and respected violinist from South Korea, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Utah for violin performance, was detained by ICE.
John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah.
He is being detained in Colorado.
John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah.
He is being detained in Colorado.
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Former Irish president Mary Robinson has travelled to the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza:
“What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
“What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
Mary Robinson travels to Rafah Crossing and says Israel deliberately blocking Gaza aid
Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has travelled to the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza, where she said Israel was deliberately blocking aid from entering the starving and war-ravaged Pal...
www.independent.ie
August 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Former Irish president Mary Robinson has travelled to the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza:
“What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
“What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide.”
www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
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Among the Palestinians killed are scores of aid seekers and eight who lost their lives due to hunger and malnutrition.
Israeli forces kill more than 80 people across Gaza as starvation worsens
Among the Palestinians killed are scores of aid seekers and eight who lost their lives due to hunger and malnutrition.
bit.ly
August 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Among the Palestinians killed are scores of aid seekers and eight who lost their lives due to hunger and malnutrition.
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We're gonna need a bigger Hague
May 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We're gonna need a bigger Hague
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I'm 100% behind protestors everywhere against ICE, and so should you be and so should your elected officials and you should tell them that.
June 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm 100% behind protestors everywhere against ICE, and so should you be and so should your elected officials and you should tell them that.