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Andrew L. Seidel
@andrewlseidel.bsky.social
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Attorney. Fighting Christian Nationalism. Defending the 1st Amendment. Author. 📖The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is un-American 📖American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom Life is too good to waste on bad ideas.
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · Jan 20
Today is terrible.

I believe we can get through this together. So I've partnered up with @bradleyonishi.bsky.social over at Straight White American Jesus to bring you my new podcast, One Nation, Indivisible.

Subscribe for full content:https://axismundi.supercast.com/

Drops in Feb.
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 22h
María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician, won the Nobel Peace prize. Trump lost to a Venezuelan woman. How do you think he's taking it?
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 1d
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YourJelly @yourjelly.dev · 2d
It's gonna be much harder for them to justify such a large portion of our budget going to "war". Just rhetorically having it be called defense made it easier for Congress to apportion so much
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 2d
Reminder that Trump's EO tells executive agencies to use the rebrand, not news agencies. The EO even admits it's not a real change and tells Hegseth to propose legislation for Congress to make the change.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ex...
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 2d
Because nothing says "report fairly and fully" like adopting the regime's propaganda.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2d
CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d
The problem is we think the Nazis were competent so we don't recognize murderous half-mad conspiracy dumbfuck as the fundamental building block of fascist regimes.
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 2d
Very excited to dive into @thelisagraves.bsky.social new book on John Roberts.

Get yours today!
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 2d
One of the best interviews ever in my opinion. You got him to drop the facade and that's no small accomplishment.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 2d
Pretty sure my interview with Copeland revealed him for who he really is, but in case you haven’t seen it: youtu.be/9LtF34MrsfI
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Nate_O @disc-wizard-nate.bsky.social · 3d
@andrewlseidel.bsky.social on your last episode you mentioned the report you helped author on the Christian nationalist influences at the J6 insurrection and that Liz Chaney refused to allow any mention of Christianity on the record. Can you elaborate on that story?
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 2d
Good question, Nate.

The report I helped spearhead and author is here: bjconline.org/jan6report/

The congressional select committee's report is here: www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...

Here's some public reporting on your specific question:
religionnews.com/2022/12/23/c...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d
Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)
A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
thank you brett kavanaugh!
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d
I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d
Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025 Judge's house on fire
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 6d
Why do Republicans tell such obvious lies to #MAGA voters?

Fear.

Politicians think Republican voters are afraid. And they want to keep them scared.
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Trump Resistance Movement @trm.bsky.social · 6d
True! @andrewlseidel.bsky.social
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 7d
Kirk was unquestionably a Christian Nationalist. Some of his most viral videos are of him pushing CN propaganda that you can trace directly back to the granddaddy of Christian Nationalist disinformation, David Barton.

It's the most accurate description of his ideology.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d
For example the GOP lawmaker, a Christian nationalist, said it was "prejudicial" to label Kirk a Christian nationalist. But it is a factual statement. He was labeled Christian nationalist by mainstream media! Christian nationalists embrace him! He espoused their views!
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"From the opening paragraphs, reporter Chloe Pleznac branded Charlie Kirk with prejudicial labels such as 'far-right' and 'Christian-Nationalist icon,' while smearing his views as 'racist,' 'controversial,' and 'conspiracy theories," Vance wrote on a letter printed on official legislative stationery and posted to her official Facebook account. "These are not facts, they are editorial judgments and political talking points. If the intent was to write an opinion piece, it should have been clearly marked as such." While Vance takes issue with the label "Christian nationalist" as prejudicial, it's important to note that Vance is quite literally a charter member of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, a group whose focus is on injecting their brand of hard-right Christianity into government and American life. She also hired a fellow NACL charter member behind one of the strictest abortion bans in the country to work in her legislative office despite having no connection to Alaska. headline describing Kirk as a Christian nationalist Christian nationalist describing Kirk as a Christian nationalist
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d
For example the GOP lawmaker, a Christian nationalist, said it was "prejudicial" to label Kirk a Christian nationalist. But it is a factual statement. He was labeled Christian nationalist by mainstream media! Christian nationalists embrace him! He espoused their views!
www.akmemo.com/cancel-cultu...
"From the opening paragraphs, reporter Chloe Pleznac branded Charlie Kirk with prejudicial labels such as 'far-right' and 'Christian-Nationalist icon,' while smearing his views as 'racist,' 'controversial,' and 'conspiracy theories," Vance wrote on a letter printed on official legislative stationery and posted to her official Facebook account. "These are not facts, they are editorial judgments and political talking points. If the intent was to write an opinion piece, it should have been clearly marked as such." While Vance takes issue with the label "Christian nationalist" as prejudicial, it's important to note that Vance is quite literally a charter member of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, a group whose focus is on injecting their brand of hard-right Christianity into government and American life. She also hired a fellow NACL charter member behind one of the strictest abortion bans in the country to work in her legislative office despite having no connection to Alaska. headline describing Kirk as a Christian nationalist Christian nationalist describing Kirk as a Christian nationalist
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d
*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 8d
If we did a top 10 list of the stupidest things ever said by an American president, would any president besides Trump be on that list?

I'm not talking about mistakes or slips of the tongue, but genuinely stupid things.

This is a serious question.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 9d
It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...
In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 10d
One of, certainly.
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 10d
Certainly one of, yes.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10d
Trump opens with a threat to the generals:

"I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 10d
Also, plenty of dudes look great in dresses.
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · Aug 19
The Fifth Circuit struck down West Texas A&M's ban on drag shows as a violation of the First Amendment. The college president cited his Christianity to ban drag (as did James Ho, a crazy dissenting judge here).

This was my protest from Nov. 2023. I expected to get arrested, but didn't.
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