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Brandon Bayne
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Historian | Religious Studies | Indigenous Studies | UNC Chapel Hill
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CBP reported to be coming to Raleigh tomorrow. Here's the Siembra NC hotline. Please share widely.
siembranc.bsky.social Siembra NC @siembranc.bsky.social · 2d
Outside of Charlotte and elsewhere in the state, Siembra NC at (336) 543-0353. In the Asheville area, CIMA at (888) 839-2839.
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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jrobin.bsky.social
NC voters didn’t want the election denier as the state AG so Trump did what Trump does. www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
Ex-Rep. Dan Bishop, R-NC, confirms new role as a top US prosecutor in the state
Despite no official announcement, former Charlotte-area U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop said he has a new role as a top prosecutor in North Carolina.
www.newsobserver.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
Dale Partridge & @dalepartridge X.com We cannot sing "God bless America" while: Allowing Mosques, Hindu Temples, and Synagogues to be built in America. ¿ Readers added context: God Bless America was composed by Israel Isidore Beilin, a Jewish man who arrived in the United States aged 5 to escape the Russian pogroms.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
bbayne.bsky.social
Delighted to announce that the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill is searching for a new colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Religion and Science. You can find more information below. Please share widely and feel free to reach out directly with questions.
Assistant Professor
The Department of Religious Studies is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Religion and Science. Candidates should have broad training in their field of expertise, a commitment to int...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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eladiobobadilla.com
Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)
October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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chipcallahan.bsky.social
Something I wrote on the occasion of the retirement of Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America for the past 30 years.
From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country
The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.
theconversation.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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antheabutler.bsky.social
So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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chanheeheo.bsky.social
We’re living in a world that defies any single adjective as it has been beyond comprehension. Reflecting on what has been and what is going on, I wrote this piece.

Thank you @mpgphd.bsky.social @religiondispatches.org for this opportunity!

religiondispatches.org/charlie-kirk...
Charlie Kirk Memorial in Seoul Shows Power of Christian Nationalism for Young Korean Activists
On September 13, 2025, echoes of “We are Charlie Kirk” could be heard across Seoul. From Jamsil to Gangnam, thousands of young Koreans commemorated American political activist Charlie Kirk's death by ...
religiondispatches.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I'm thrilled that my book is coming out this month, and even more thrilled to be on this fall lineup from @dukepress.bsky.social - so many amazing authors and titles! Check out the whole fall lineup here: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/n...
October 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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maxperrymueller.bsky.social
Starred Review of Wakara’s America from @publisherswkly.bsky.social. www.publishersweekly.com/9781541602595
Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West by Max Perry Mueller
In this gripping history, classicist Mueller (Race and the Making of the Mormon People) uncovers the life and complicated legacy...
www.publishersweekly.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Disappointed 2 see this. In response 2 the tribe’s Supreme Court decision that Freedman descendants can enroll, Muscogee Nation will stop issuing citizenship cards 4 everyone. Like how @ the end of segregation rather than integrate public pools many communities just got rid of them.
Muscogee Nation will pause new citizenship cards following Freedmen descendant ruling
Muscogee Nation Principal Chief David Hill issued an executive order on Thursday, pausing the issuance of new citizenship cards to descendants of Freedmen in the wake of a tribal court’s ruling…
www.kosu.org
September 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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laikenjordahl.bsky.social
Survey stakes are in the ground at the San Rafael Valley, where DHS is preparing to wall off the last best corridor in Arizona for jaguars, ocelots & other species. Not a soul in sight.
September 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A great article came out last year about how crypto trading apps trick users into what is--in essence--gambling by telling them they're *really smart* for "investing"

AI is the same. Sells the fantasy of hyper-efficiency. Convinces users they're mastering cutting-edge tech by "prompt engineering"
September 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
bbayne.bsky.social
“I support immigrants who do it the right way and follow the legal process?” So, how do you feel about ICE mostly arresting people in courthouses when they come for scheduled appointments in…you know…the legal process?
July 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
The killer is consistently described in the press as “a devout Christian who opposed abortion” as if that’s an essential trait of devout Christians.

Many, if not most, “devout” Christians support abortion access.

Melissa Hortman was a Catholic who taught Sunday school.
June 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested. "How many bodies did you guys grab today?" he said one agent asked. "Oh, we grabbed 31," the other replied. "That was a good day today," the first agent responded. The two high-fived, as Job Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said. Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officias sav some trave ilegaly 11:04 C •ll 5G+ 824) latimes.com "You wanted it, you got it," the man yelled. An agent handcuffed him so hard "that there was no circulation running to my fingers," Garcia said. Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing. "That moment, I thought I could probably die here," he said. The agent put Garcia's phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running. As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: "I've got one back here." "You got one what?" Garcia shot back. "You got one what?" He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to "wait here,' though it could not be heard on the video. - 11:04 € • 5G+ 824) latimes.com "I f- speak English, you f- dumbass," he clearly shouts back. No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification. "They assumed that I was undocumented," he said later in an interview. The video ends after about four minutes, while he is waiting in the van. CALIFORNIA Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge June 20, 2025 Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed. They were so tight, his hands hegan to swell. Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed. They were so tight, his hands began to swell. The agents switched him to handcuffs that looked like shoelaces. They took off around a corner, stopped to shuffle him into another van and sped off down the 101 Freeway. "I smeared my blood in their seat," he said. And he thought, "They're going to remember me."
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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vox-magica.bsky.social
from a UNC Trustee: “It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one.”

so telling that he doesn’t see faculty as professionals entitled to the promotion structures outlined in our job contracts. we’re kids demanding treats.
After Delay, Chapel Hill Board Votes to Award Tenure
After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure.
www.insidehighered.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
bbayne.bsky.social
On the one hand, it seems bad that the leader of the free world spent the day tweeting about Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift. On the other hand, this is gonna make it easier to get my summer concerts reimbursed as research, so…
May 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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On this day in 1899, a white mob in Lee County, Georgia, lynched a Black man named Mitchell Daniel for “talking too much” about the brutal lynching of another Black man days earlier.
Apr. 27, 1899 | White GA Mob Lynches Man for 'Talking Too Much' About Another Lynching
Learn more about this history of racial injustice.
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April 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
April 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Hurting farmers *and* the needy in one fell swoop. And for what?
wunc.org WUNC News @wunc.org · Mar 14
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services earlier this month that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the programs NC food banks participate in.

www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
www.wunc.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM