This is exactly right.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
Just posted a new article @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social which discusses efforts by anti-abortion activist Matt Trewhella against GOP platforming of openly LGBTQ political figures, plus some NAR leaders differ from Christian Right xenophobes on immigration. goodfaithmedia.org/rifts-on-the...
Just posted a new article @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social which discusses efforts by anti-abortion activist Matt Trewhella against GOP platforming of openly LGBTQ political figures, plus some NAR leaders differ from Christian Right xenophobes on immigration. goodfaithmedia.org/rifts-on-the...
thinking about this video for no reason in particular
The Tao Of Alfred E Neuman
“'If "invading hordes of immigrants" are the enemy, and falling white birthrates are key to the problem, then the right’s misogynist agenda and its xenophobic agenda are much more tightly linked than ever before.' The Great Replacement likewise unites these agendas with Christian nationalism,”
Who put the apostolic in the New Apostolic Reformation?
I discuss one academic who misses the story by not once mentioning that the leaders are apostles whose followers understand that God speaks to them and through them. That's why they are important. bit.ly/RDonNYTonNAR
This is the full breaking Epstein news from the Albuquerque Journal. More than worth your time www.abqjournal.com/news/feds-as...
The threats against judges who have ruled against Trump happen in a context: religiondispatches.org/2025/06/09/p...
After a Local Police Chief Put a High School ICE Protester in a Chokehold, Should MAGA's Be Allowed to Be Cops? | A Truth Social account Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree shares with his wife described the Democratic Party as “a deep state oligarchy” and “domestic terrorist organization.”
The threats against judges who have ruled against Trump happen in a context: religiondispatches.org/2025/06/09/p...
Middle of a great thread & the point I’d highlight as to why imposed “democracy” failed in Iraq & Afghanistan. We had them *start* with elections. That’s not where democracy starts. It starts with a Flushing Remonstrance & a Bill of Rights — by saying what elections CANNOT change.
Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.
Off the top of my head:
www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email
Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.
Barn Raiswer: Covering (mostly) small town and rural America barnraisingmedia.com
Religion Dispatches covers what the legacy media (and most of the indy media) does not. religiondispatches.org
Also found this pretty distasteful when I was watching. Feel a little less insane knowing I'm not the only one who picked up on that
BREAKING
Former ICE agent:
On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
Yesterday was two months since JEWISH SPACE LASERS was published. In that time, the already extant spike in antisemitism has exploded into open violence against American Jews. The book explains some of how we got here, and we're still dealing with this.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733925...
As I have watched measles cases in my home state of SC skyrocket to almost 1,000, I wondered why I hardly ever heard anything about the severity of complications. Here’s what I found.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views
George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."
Donald Trump in 2023⬇️
NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...
MAGA pundit Hal Lambert is full of crap. On CNN, he defended Hegseth having Doug Wilson preach at Pentagon by claiming they bring in leaders from different religions. I've tracked Hegseth's services & every preacher is a rightwing, patriarchal Christian: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/government...
the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought
A new Willie Nelson song, follows from songs by Amy Grant and Bruce Springstein highlighting our best aspirations as a nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bhc...
The freedom in our lungs
To sing a song that's never been sung
And there's room for everyone
The heart of America
A new Willie Nelson song, follows from songs by Amy Grant and Bruce Springstein highlighting our best aspirations as a nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bhc...
The freedom in our lungs
To sing a song that's never been sung
And there's room for everyone
The heart of America
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
How a Wisconsin Pastor Is Leading the Far-Right Crusade to Criminalize LGBTQ People and Destroy Western Christianity | Rev Matthew Trewhella has a revolutionary theocratic vision to restore a "Godly order" in this country—county by county, warns @fredclarkson.bsky.social in @barnraiser.bsky.social.
