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American christianity is a heresy, nothing more than corrupt evangelicalism filtered through capitalism with a shot of prosperity gospel. People go to church for a dopamine hit from the theatrics of mega churches, mistake that as being saved but never do the real work that Christ called people to do
Christianity in much of America has lost its true meaning and teachings.
September 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
American christianity is a heresy, nothing more than corrupt evangelicalism filtered through capitalism with a shot of prosperity gospel. People go to church for a dopamine hit from the theatrics of mega churches, mistake that as being saved but never do the real work that Christ called people to do
Oh good, teaching kids to love an ideal that may or may not exist, like loving Narnia or the Shire. Love the fantasy, deny the reality.
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
September 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Oh good, teaching kids to love an ideal that may or may not exist, like loving Narnia or the Shire. Love the fantasy, deny the reality.
“… threat to comedy, music, art, though… they are hitting all of that now.
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“… threat to comedy, music, art, though… they are hitting all of that now.
It's still just a lot of bluster and non-specifics. I would like to see which ideas on the left qualify as 'radical', which groups or people whey consider radical left just so we can at least see how they are defining the standards for 'radical left.'
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump and his allies are intensifying their dangerous and anti-democratic threats to use Charlie Kirk’s murder to suppress progressive political activity. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
After Kirk Murder, Trump and Allies Vow to ‘Destroy’ Progressive Groups
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's still just a lot of bluster and non-specifics. I would like to see which ideas on the left qualify as 'radical', which groups or people whey consider radical left just so we can at least see how they are defining the standards for 'radical left.'
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Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
September 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Fascinating, and it makes me wonder how many people simply don’t know. It also makes me frustrated to think that maybe getting a balanced view of issues is just a pipe dream.
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Fascinating, and it makes me wonder how many people simply don’t know. It also makes me frustrated to think that maybe getting a balanced view of issues is just a pipe dream.
I guess I'm missing something, but Trump said that we couldn't unite as a country because of the 'radical left'. Could someone enlighten me as to what ideologies he (or other conservatives) believe the Left so wrongly espouse, and why these ideologies are so evil?
September 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I guess I'm missing something, but Trump said that we couldn't unite as a country because of the 'radical left'. Could someone enlighten me as to what ideologies he (or other conservatives) believe the Left so wrongly espouse, and why these ideologies are so evil?
This is bullshit. Charlie Kirk was America’s Brownshirt, he is Trump’s Goebel. He wanted people like me eliminated, and removed from the American dialogue. No empathy for fascists!
September 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is bullshit. Charlie Kirk was America’s Brownshirt, he is Trump’s Goebel. He wanted people like me eliminated, and removed from the American dialogue. No empathy for fascists!
I’d love to have the gov. of ak speak to this. Red state govs brag about how welcoming their state is, but in reality they only welcome people who conform to a narrow ideal, step outside that little box, don’t bother coming.
September 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’d love to have the gov. of ak speak to this. Red state govs brag about how welcoming their state is, but in reality they only welcome people who conform to a narrow ideal, step outside that little box, don’t bother coming.
Subdue the population with the threat of violence. This isn’t living free, it’s living in fear
Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
September 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Subdue the population with the threat of violence. This isn’t living free, it’s living in fear
Joanie Mitchell had a song about something similar. Better enjoy Yellowstone before it becomes a gilded parking lot!
August 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joanie Mitchell had a song about something similar. Better enjoy Yellowstone before it becomes a gilded parking lot!
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This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
We're at step 9.
The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
July 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
July 14, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 14, 2025
Trump appointees insist they have a “mandate” to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.
open.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
July 14, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Deeply unnerving point from immigration analyst Todd Schulte: MAGA is becoming addicted to the "memefication of the shackling of human beings."
On the pod, Todd and I tried to go big on MAGA's memefication of cruelty toward migrants and what it means. Transcript:
newrepublic.com/article/1978...
On the pod, Todd and I tried to go big on MAGA's memefication of cruelty toward migrants and what it means. Transcript:
newrepublic.com/article/1978...
July 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Deeply unnerving point from immigration analyst Todd Schulte: MAGA is becoming addicted to the "memefication of the shackling of human beings."
On the pod, Todd and I tried to go big on MAGA's memefication of cruelty toward migrants and what it means. Transcript:
newrepublic.com/article/1978...
On the pod, Todd and I tried to go big on MAGA's memefication of cruelty toward migrants and what it means. Transcript:
newrepublic.com/article/1978...
With the full funding of a militarized immigration police (making sure we all are the correct type of citizen), we are firmly in step 9
Please listen to Stacey Abrams on the 10 steps to autocracy. So straight forward and to the point 👌
@staceyabrams.com
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@staceyabrams.com
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July 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
With the full funding of a militarized immigration police (making sure we all are the correct type of citizen), we are firmly in step 9
Time to exercise our 1st amendment rights before they get taken away!
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June 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Time to exercise our 1st amendment rights before they get taken away!
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Are American's grateful for actually having 'rights', or the privilege of not having to use them for protection? Most are straight, so will never know what it's like...
apnews.com/article/sout...
Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage
apnews.com/article/sout...
Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage
Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage — including a call for a reversal of the Supreme Court’s precedent legalizing it nationwide.
apnews.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Are American's grateful for actually having 'rights', or the privilege of not having to use them for protection? Most are straight, so will never know what it's like...
apnews.com/article/sout...
Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage
apnews.com/article/sout...
Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage
Conservatives view regular people as props for their entertainment (as well as expendable cogs for their money making machines). This is nothing more than modern gladiator games.
The Democrats account has game. Hunger game, if you will.
May 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Conservatives view regular people as props for their entertainment (as well as expendable cogs for their money making machines). This is nothing more than modern gladiator games.
Our imperial fever dreams are advancing nicely. Side note: Trump holding a red light saber probably wasn’t a mistake. This is who this administration is; imperialists, no better than any other evil imperialists both in history and in the movies.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland spying report - BBC News
US spy agencies have been told to step up espionage around Greenland, according to The Wall Street Journal.
www.bbc.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Our imperial fever dreams are advancing nicely. Side note: Trump holding a red light saber probably wasn’t a mistake. This is who this administration is; imperialists, no better than any other evil imperialists both in history and in the movies.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Brilliant work, Randy! 🤣
Randy Rainbow Hilariously Skewers Trump's 'Incompetent' Cabinet In 'Cinderella'-Inspired Parody Video
Brilliant!!
www.comicsands.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Brilliant work, Randy! 🤣
The fact L. Graham is supportive of trump being pope, (despite him being Christian-in-name-only, not a catholic, not celibate bate, not a priest nor cardinal), demonstrates a profound ignorance of the world outside his own ego and a desire to elevate trump to something like a king or emperor.
May 1, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The fact L. Graham is supportive of trump being pope, (despite him being Christian-in-name-only, not a catholic, not celibate bate, not a priest nor cardinal), demonstrates a profound ignorance of the world outside his own ego and a desire to elevate trump to something like a king or emperor.
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This…this is a real post.
April 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This…this is a real post.
this seems pretty important:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
ANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC News
Possibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
www.cbc.ca
March 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
this seems pretty important:
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...