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)
pitch me! https://tinyurl.com/mpgphd
🙄 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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New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
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“Israel exists. Palestine doesn’t. And so I always wonder why nobody asks me why Palestine doesn’t have a right to exist.” - Abdul el-Sayed, candidate for Senate in Michigan.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“Israel exists. Palestine doesn’t. And so I always wonder why nobody asks me why Palestine doesn’t have a right to exist.” - Abdul el-Sayed, candidate for Senate in Michigan.
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in the first Bond movie, we don't even see James until the very last shot; all that spycraft was done by his mother
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
in the first Bond movie, we don't even see James until the very last shot; all that spycraft was done by his mother
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
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Good for them.
One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Good for them.
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unlike the Senate Dems, Tonya Harding wanted to win at any cost
The party exists to fundraise off sustained mediocrity. Nothing else.
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
unlike the Senate Dems, Tonya Harding wanted to win at any cost
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NOT A SINGLE DROP OF FRESH WATER SHOULD BE USED ON GRASS LAWNS LET ALONE DATA CENTERS. CAN WE STOP HAVING LOSER MINDSETS
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
NOT A SINGLE DROP OF FRESH WATER SHOULD BE USED ON GRASS LAWNS LET ALONE DATA CENTERS. CAN WE STOP HAVING LOSER MINDSETS
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My friend @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social wrote a great piece about the Ukrainian drone industry that features the only accurate diagram of a FPV drone that I think I’ve ever seen in a major publication:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Ukrainian Drone Industry’s Next Target Is NATO Markets
Hungry for cash to keep pace with Russia, and with western allies seeking to build up their drone arsenals, Ukraine’s defense companies say exports are finally on the agenda.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My friend @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social wrote a great piece about the Ukrainian drone industry that features the only accurate diagram of a FPV drone that I think I’ve ever seen in a major publication:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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you know how people always say "oh haha I put off doing this admin task for ages and ages and turns out it was fine and took no time"
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
you know how people always say "oh haha I put off doing this admin task for ages and ages and turns out it was fine and took no time"
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
just started listening to *Gatsby* given, you know, everything
and
uh
"a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth"
and
uh
"a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth"
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
just started listening to *Gatsby* given, you know, everything
and
uh
"a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth"
and
uh
"a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth"
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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?