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A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas’s Oct. 7 Plans

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 14h

Hamas is a terrorist group that has no place in a civilized world.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 14h

More than 23 million Americans are currently enrolled in Obamacare. Fifty-seven percent of people with this type of insurance live in Republican congressional districts. MAGA is screwing their own voters.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 17h

One more sellout. The capitulation and appeasement of an aspiring dictator is the most surprising part of our descent into an authoritarian state. Marc Benioff is a phony and moral slug. History will remember and we won’t forget.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Qatari Air Force Facility to Be Built in Idaho: Hegseth

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 1d

It turns out that “free” luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar for Donald Trump to use as Air Force One wasn’t free after all. Once a con artist always a grifter.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the facility will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots.

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 1d

The market tanked today because we have an undisciplined president with a schizophrenic economic policy. Donald Trump’s mood swings guide Wall Street. What a mess.

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 1d

The mass firing of federal workers will backfire. The plot is to replace these purged workers with surge of fanatics from Project 2025’s resume database. These are incompetent apparatchiks who will degrade services for the American people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

TWO Releases ‘Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America’ - Truth Wins Out

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 1d

“Behind the Mask” peels back the veneer of Project 2025 – exposing a coordinated movement of extremists, flush with dark money, working to remake the U.S. into an authoritarian theocracy.

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Report is a ‘Who’s Who Guide’ to Knowing Your Enemy

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier this week, Truth Wins Out released "Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America". Another great resource is "Meet the Shadow Network" from Americans United. AU does such great work fighting for freedom and democracy.

www.au.org/the-shadow-n...

Meet the Shadow Network

Learn how Christian Nationalist groups, billionaires and powerful politicians are working together to destroy our democracy

www.au.org

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 1d

If it weren’t for Peter Thiel’s wealth, he’d likely be in a butterfly net, with a straight jacket, residing in a padded room at the Funny Farm. Thiel has profoundly sick views that he wraps in the cloak of religion. He’s ideas are dangerous to democracy.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 2d

The Right claims it’s not violent. Not only are they targeting a Rutgers professor with death threats, but a fleeing Dr. Mark Bray had his flight to Spain mysteriously cancelled.

Why? He opposes fascism. That’s very telling of where we are today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 2d

America was never a Christian Nation, and never will be. Those who push this toxic narrative are fake Christians who revel in hypocrisy and bigotry. They must be defeated for the sake of civilization. They hide behind the cross to mask their cruelty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Meet the Enemy: Project 2025 is bad enough – but wait till you see what the shadow groups behind it want to do. Behind the Mask lays it all bare.

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to appearing today to discuss Behind the Mask, our new report on Project 2025.

truthwinsout.org/two-releases...

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 3d

Project 2025 itself is only the tip of the iceberg. Radical as its policies are, the groups who made up its advisory board are waiting in the wings to unfurl even more extreme policies. Learn More at Behind the Mask.

resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/meet-the-e...

Longtime LGBTQIA+ journalist and activist Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out releases a huge Who’s Who list of Christian right groups and leaders – to help progressives fight back.

resistingproject2025.substack.com

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 3d

Truth Wins Out today released “Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America,” — a hard-hitting report that peels back the veneer of Project 2025 and exposes the people and organizations working to remake the US into an authoritarian theocracy.

truthwinsout.org/two-releases...

TWO Releases ‘Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America’ - Truth Wins Out

Report is a ‘Who’s Who Guide’ to Knowing Your Enemy

truthwinsout.org

Meet the Enemy: Project 2025 is bad enough – but wait till you see what the shadow groups behind it want to do. Behind the Mask lays it all bare.

Reposted by Wayne Besen

Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social · 3d

Sally and AC interview Truth Wins Out's @waynebesen.bsky.social on their new report on the #ChristianNationalist forces behind the Trump administrative coup destroying our democracy.
resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/meet-the-e...

Longtime LGBTQIA+ journalist and activist Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out releases a huge Who’s Who list of Christian right groups and leaders – to help progressives fight back.

resistingproject2025.substack.com

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Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 3d

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA. Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019.

Trump only hires “The Best People”.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

The Insurrectionists Tasked With Teaching Civics

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 4d

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is partnering with 20 Project 2025 organizations to teach civics. How surreal is it that the insurrectionists who trashed the Capitol and tried to overturn a presidential election are now teaching children how to be good citizens?

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A U.S. Educational Plan Similar to Those in Hungary and Russia

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Opinion | Megyn Kelly Knows Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 4d

“Nazi Nick” Fuentes has become so influential that, as The New York Times reported, both current and former Trump officials are afraid to publicly criticize him. And they deny being fascists…

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Conversion therapy heads to the Supreme Court. Conversion ministries never left California

Wayne Besen @waynebesen.bsky.social · 5d

“Redding, California — that’s the center right now, said Wayne Besen, whose Truth Wins Out exposed widespread hypocrisy in conversion ministries. Bethel is actually running the international show right now. They’re the most powerful player in this, bar none.”

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

The state backed off its one and only attempt to prohibit ministries that purport to change LGBTQ youth through religious counseling.

www.sfchronicle.com