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Robert Morris, former spiritual adviser to President Trump and founder of Gateway Church, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse, exposing how faith, power, and image merged into a system that commodifies devotion.

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Former Trump Spiritual Adviser and Megachurch Pastor Pleads Guilty to Sexually Abusing Children

A pastor who claimed to defend faith and children confesses to their betrayal—revealing how moral theater, political power, and fear conspire to turn devotion into dominion.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 12h

Robert Morris, former spiritual adviser to President Trump and founder of Gateway Church, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse, exposing how faith, power, and image merged into a system that commodifies devotion.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 13h

A Trump-appointed judge has halted President Trump’s plan to send the Guard to Portland, ruling the threat “untethered to the facts.”

The question now is whether facts still rule—or do the president’s delusions?
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 14h

A Trump-appointed judge has halted President Trump’s plan to send the Guard to Portland, ruling the threat “untethered to the facts.”

The question now is whether facts still rules—or do the president’s delusions?
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 Gun violence in America is no act of nature. It is the predictable result of law and inequality. Each school shooting asks the same question: how many children must die to preserve extraordinary access to firearms? open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 16h

🚨Weeks after UF unveiled a ‘universal’ mRNA cancer vaccine that eliminated tumors in some mouse models and entered early trials, HHS Sec. RFK Jr., in the Trump administration, cut $500M from respiratory mRNA projects, alarming experts. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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Brigadier General Douglas K. Wickard of the U.S. Air Force, speaking at Antelope Valley College in June 2025, warned that the United States faces the risk of a “Pearl Harbor–style” attack from China.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 18h

🚨Toppled by protesters, tied to war crimes and white supremacy, Albert Pike’s statue is set to return to D.C.—rekindling a national fight over history, power, and who deserves a pedestal in the American story.
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🚨On Black Sunday, Aug 31, 2025, the Trump administration tried to deport unaccompanied children to Guatemala, defying a judge—echoing March 15’s “Black Saturday” and a broader pattern of judicial defiance.
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As Americans face rising grocery bills, rent hikes, and job insecurity, the Trump WH has delayed a critical inflation report—critics call it a dangerous “politics of erasure,” where facts vanish, trust erodes, and democracy falls into decay.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Trump blasted the Smithsonian for showing “only how bad slavery was.” His administration’s review, timed to America 250, could turn museums into tools of political memory.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Tonight, Moldovan President Maia Sandu warned of “grave and immediate danger” after police smashed a Kremlin-backed plot. NATO, citing drone swarms and airspace violations, warns Europe faces mounting risk of conflict with Russia. (no paywall)
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

🚨The Trump White House blames the BLS for weak jobs numbers—attacking the messenger as tariffs slow growth. Economists warn: undermining official data risks destroying America’s crown jewel for investors—reliable economic data.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

As Russia’s economy falters and casualties top 1 million, Trump stood at the UN to call Moscow a “paper tiger” and praise Zelenskyy. Why now? History suggests his instinct is to abandon losers, even those he once embraced.
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Trump Signals a Shift in Loyalties: Ukraine Over Russia. But Why Now?

At the UN, Trump called Russia a “paper tiger” and praised Zelenskyy, a shift reflecting Moscow’s fragility and Trump’s instinct to side with winners while raising doubts about U.S. credibility.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Trump officials propose replacing deported immigrant farm workers with Medicaid recipients, raising alarms over feasibility, fairness, and food security.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care because she was unmarried, exposing how reproductive privacy has collapsed since Roe’s fall and how faith and policy now clash with bodily autonomy and the right to privacy.
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🚨 GOP Targets Obama as Epstein Trump Files Resurface: Senators demand special counsel amid explosive new intel, but critics call it a diversion from damning Epstein revelations.
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Gateway Church founder Robert Morris, ex-Trump adviser and backer of Abbott’s bathroom bill targeting transgender people, faces five felony child sex abuse counts in Oklahoma while fighting his church over millions.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

Arizona GOP Rep. John Gillette, responding to disinformation, demanded Rep. Pramila Jayapal be ‘tried, convicted & hanged’—a call left unpunished by his party, showing how violent rhetoric is reshaping U.S. politics.”
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🚨Trump’s D.C. police takeover, sparked by his discomfort at seeing homeless camps on his golf route, sets a precedent for sweeping federal power, risking civil rights, cutting aid, and reshaping urban policy nationwide.
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🚨Joseph Brent Walker, a former Deseret News journalist and syndicated family values columnist, faces felony charges after allegedly engaging online with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl.
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🚨 Supreme Court upholds Trump administration’s firings at Education Department despite warnings of harm to students and constitutional norms, igniting fierce legal battle over executive power.
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RJ May, MAGA lawmaker and Freedom Caucus founder, has pleaded guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material. His fall exposes how sanctimony parades as virtue while cruelty thrives behind it.
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South Carolina Freedom Caucus Founder, MAGA Lawmaker Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material

His downfall is grotesque, yet it exposes a deeper truth: when sanctimony is staged as political theater, cruelty thrives behind the mask of virtue.

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🚨Florida Rep. Cory Mills (R) faces explosive allegations of threatening to release intimate videos of his ex, alongside a House ethics probe into secret defense contracts.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 2d

Since the colonial era, the United States has oscillated between authoritarianism and democracy. Today, American democracy finds itself at a nadir—and it is far from certain whether the nation still has the will or the means to restore it.
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