Loren Crow
lorencrow.bsky.social
Loren Crow
@lorencrow.bsky.social
Hebrew Bible Scholar (Vanderbilt, 1994), Psalms scholar, historian interested in the Ancient Near East in the 7th century BCE, postulant for Holy Orders, currently dealing with recovery from a stroke.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

A recent Department of Education letter regarding DEI policy is "a brazen attempt to bully schools into making policy changes that the law does not require," the law professor Sonja B. Starr writes.
Opinion | The Department of Education’s D.E.I. Letter Just Threatened the Existence of Many Colleges
The government offers an implausible interpretation of the law.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Billionaire owners saw the NFL’s cumulative franchise values rise 1,108 percent between 2020 and 2023 alone.
truthout.org/articles/on-...
On Super Bowl Sunday, Remember Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize the NFL
NFL owners opened up 20 new stadiums with the help of $4.7 billion in taxpayer funds between 1997 and 2015.
truthout.org
February 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Supposing Trump decided to invade Greenland: I wonder how many troops would carry it out?
February 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If you are interested in the natural history of the PNW, give this show a try; it's good.
Cascade PBS
Cascade PBS provides high-quality public television and independent regional news and investigations. Our mission is to inform and inspire our community to make the world a better place.
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January 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Trump on Greenland and Panama Canal: Wir brauchen Lebensraum!
January 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Honestly, since we're pardoning folks, I would pardon every single person convicted of possession of w33d. It's becoming legalized now & hippies are gentrifiying neighborhoods/ opening dispensaries, while countless people—disproportionately from marginalized communities—are still behind bars for it.
December 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Redirecting...
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December 2, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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Some 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca, a pre-Inca civilization in present-day Peru dating from 200 BC to 700 AD, were identified with the help of drones and A.I.
Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert
With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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The amount of positive attention to my book(s) on John the Baptist at #SBLAAR24 has been amazing. The newer bigger one makes a deep dive into some key questions while the smaller one is a biography that offers the big picture of John’s life, accessible to any reader but of interest to academics too.
November 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I feel like I need to stop worrying about politics, global warming, my health and career ... all that stuff; and begin seriously concern myself with my neighbor.... (continued in comments)
November 25, 2024 at 10:53 PM
ma bien-aimée
November 23, 2024 at 11:53 PM