Evan Berry

Peace.

Single-payer disaster insurance "seems radical insofar as it challenges an arguably more extreme consensus: that a handful of for-profit companies’ pricing decisions should decide how society plans for the climate crisis" Me on the CA Insurance Commissioner's race: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

For at least half a century, the plastics industry has been aware of and concerned about microplastics infiltrating the human body. Important reporting by @susrust.bsky.social, who obtained memos showing executives and scientists knew about the hazards decades ago www.latimes.com/environment/...

I saw a wolf in the wild in New Mexico last year and it was spectacular. The world is manifestly better with these creatures thriving, regardless of their impact on beef industry profit margins.

“iT’s illEgaL for foREigNers to have OpIniOns oThEr dIfFeReNt fRom miNe” “EnC0uRagiNg a foReigN MiLiTary couP is aNti-iMpErialiSm, aktually”

"Although there is no evidence that money is being stolen or siphoned off to pay for other Trump-administration projects, there is also no evidence that it is *not* being stolen or siphoned off."

I really appreciate this article, because it frames the connection between religion and climate change not as being about abstract “teachings,” but about material, lived realities.

Paw patrol is and always was a psyop

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

New from my colleagues Lance Gharavi and MJ Rubenstein: "Cosmic Missions reveals the deep yet unacknowledged relationships between religion and the exploration of outer space." cup.columbia.edu/book/cosmic-...

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Hire religion reporters. That way, when media outlets cover religion, they don't make rookie mistakes.

Don’t forget that *all* LLM platforms are trained on stolen work. They are by definition plagiarism and are purpose built to avoid accountability.

Worth remembering that Trump’s infamous “fine people on both sides” was part of comments he made when asked to disavow (“condemn”) the proud boys following their violence in Charlottesville, VA.

Hive mind question: if you were going to teach a class on religion and AI, what is one essential reading that you would definitely put on the syllabus?

really good thread

Hive mind question: if you were going to teach a class on religion and AI, what is one essential reading that you would definitely put on the syllabus?

If Christian leaders are in the public square shouting “crucify him! crucify him!,l” then you know we’ve made some pretty serious wrong turns www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Apparently, the more you want women and non-white people to be empty vessels, the more you want computer to be alive.

Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Species extinction so that a bunch of social media posts can be blended together into soft, digestible packets for easier (re)consumption.

Sexual violence being used as a form of politics is terrorism. Blaring red alert for our democracy. Would be happy to have someone with her courage represent AZ.

Russia has only itself to blame, but war is ecocide.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas

We call stage of capitalism in which shareholder companies pressured religious leaders to deny that enslaved persons had souls “colonialism.” What do we call the stage of capitalism where shareholder companies pressure religious leaders to affirm that manufactured goods have souls?

Gonna start telling everyone to give me only esoteric answers.

Bilingual packaging on these single use plastics got me thinking about @amitav.bsky.social

A few things to note about the NYT op-ed with the disingenuous title "what if writing isn't central to thinking?" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

This is how good reporting sounds: “Hegseth’s decision follows broader conservative attacks on tenured faculty appointments in higher education. Those efforts to rein in tenure are often presented as bids to rein in academics with liberal views.“ apnews.com/article/hegs...

Forced myself to read some synopses of the rape incident at Cornell. It's yet another example of violent criminal behavior by undergraduate men, who are then able to avoid the most serious consequences of their actions. We have to force the higher ups at every university to stop protecting rapists.