We need to create a whole new "School House Rock" type series to explain what is happening in 2025.
How the Supreme Court is fast-tracking Trump’s cases on its ‘shadow docket’ | CNN Politics
As President Trump continues to test precedents, the Supreme Court is seeing a high number of “shadow docket” cases. Here’s why that’s so controversial.
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Here's an interview I did for Some Place Under Neith.
WTF LDS Interviews: Joe Laycock
Podcast Episode · Some Place Under Neith · 09/17/2025 · 1h 10m
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I think this is the same strategy used by Francis. A progressive pope can soothe conservative Catholics by making the exorcists feel included.
Pope Leo XIV sends message to exorcists gathered in Rome
Pope Leo XIV addressed a message to the approximately 300 exorcist priests who gathered in Rome from Sept. 15–20.
www.catholicnewsagency.com
Natasha and I have had a lot of students lately who are majoring in concrete. It seems a bit overspecialized to me, but Texas loves construction and it loves concrete, so maybe they're on to something.
"These are cases where people are in distress, and I don't think it helps to have a couple of people who have no training and no clinical background show up, tell you it's a demon, and walk away with book and movie contracts," Hendrix said.
The demons in 'The Conjuring' movies may not be real -- but the family tragedies are
The lucrative franchise is based on real stories — and the professional ghostbusters who saved the day. But critics say the real-life couple profited off of people's pain.
www.ideastream.org
My new book drops October 7: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771266...
The Penguin Book of Cults: 9780143138693 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
"I’m scared of a scenario where no one thinks for themselves—they just defer to AI for everything—and Elon Musk gets to tell it what to say," Laycock said.
God in the Machine: Inside the Growing AI Religious Movement - Decrypt
Scholars say tech worship isn’t new, but warn that AI faith may stem from loneliness and mental health struggles, not divine truth.
decrypt.co
"Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandals Push Chileans to Join Temple of Satan As Hundreds Apply for Membership"
(This is not TST headquartered in Salem)
(This is not TST headquartered in Salem)
MSN
www.msn.com
I'll be in San Antonio October 18 at the Texas Spirit Gathering to talk about a very spooky topic . . . Marian apparitions!
Texas Spirit Gathering
The Texas Spirit Gathering brings together leading experts on the occult and Spiritualist history.
texasspiritgathering.com
"🤘🏼😈🤘🏼Dive into the dark, often misunderstood world of Satan with Gary and Dr. Joseph Laycock on Splintered Spirits! This isn't your Sunday school lesson."
Podcast | Splintered Spirits
www.splinteredspirits.com
The headline sounds like Dead Alive: "I kick ass for the lord."
He's a black belt in BJJ? Someone with even a little BJJ training should be able to restrain a 62 year-old church lady without slapping her or pulling her hair. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
He's a black belt in BJJ? Someone with even a little BJJ training should be able to restrain a 62 year-old church lady without slapping her or pulling her hair. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Martial arts champion priest beat woman during exorcism, police say
A black belt priest allegedly performed an exorcism and beat a 62-year-old female parishioner during a mass in Brazil last Thursday.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Hey kids! If you study hard, earn a phd, and get tenure— one day you too can field multiple calls from journalists writing about labubu dolls.
by Alan Richardson — Reposted by: Joseph P. Laycock
Turns out decades of writing sentences like “we leverage our core values as pillars around which we nimbly pivot to excel synergistically in the innovation ecosystem” didn’t produce universities that could enunciate, defend, or deploy academic values appropriately when an actual crisis arose.
Read to the part where the cops show up nymag.com/intelligence...
"I am shocked that a Catholic priest is dishing out garbage and misguiding the Catholic families . . ."
Indian priest slammed for ‘defaming’ Virgin Mary- UCA News
Father Ashlyn Chand draws ire for warning about ‘satanic cult’ related to distorted portraits of Mary
www.ucanews.com
Penguin is making an audio version of "The Penguin Book of Cults." They're going to have five narrators and they just sent me mp3s of auditions from voice actors. This is probably the only situation in which a professor gets to feel like a big shot director.
Full headline: "Cocaine-fuelled stepdad flew into rage over 'ritual exorcism' on 'possessed' boy then kidnapped and stripped elderly imam."
Stepdad flew into rage over 'exorcism on possessed' boy then kidnapped imam
Manchester Crown Court heard Azizur Rahman and Shohad Miah carried out the bizarre plot in Oldham in September 2024
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
In 1974, Michael Taylor was subjected to all-night exorcism in a Church of England church and then went home and murdered his wife. In that case too, it was a charismatic lay "prayer leader" who diagnosed him as possessed and initiated the exorcism.
Gay man subjected to ‘exorcism’ at Sheffield church receives compensation
Matthew Drapper at C of E’s St Thomas Philadelphia was told that ‘sexual impurity’ had let demons enter his body
www.theguardian.com
Me, discussing haunted Labubu dolls. (And still getting over bronchitis.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFtY...
Why Christian TikTok Thinks Labubus are Demonic
YouTube video by The Antibot
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Reposted by: Joseph P. Laycock
Why are the Epstein files still hidden? Who are the rich & powerful being protected?
On Tuesday, I'm introducing an amendment to force a vote demanding the FULL Epstein files be released to the public. The Speaker must call a vote & put every Congress member on record.
On Tuesday, I'm introducing an amendment to force a vote demanding the FULL Epstein files be released to the public. The Speaker must call a vote & put every Congress member on record.
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
Please share this CFP for the second Gods and Monsters conference at Texas State.
Paintings of the Virgin Mary are evidence of a Satanic cult. This finally takes Satanic paranoia to its logical conclusion. It also shows why the paranoia can never be eliminated. You can be in a room full of Christian artifacts and *still* find secret Satanic symbols!
Catholic Priests Warn Of 'Satanic Cult' Circulating Distorted Portraits Of Mother Mary In Homes
www.freepressjournal.in
"He personally witnessed the defendant shoving her fingers in the victim's mouth, saying the demons needed to come out. He also saw blood on the victim's chest and bedding. He placed Robinson in custody and took her to Lehigh Valley Hospital for an involuntary emergency health evaluation."
Gracedale Agency Nurse Performing Exorcism Now in NorCo Jail
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