'Theology of Control: Christian Nationalist Violence and Hostility'
"Christian Nationalists rely on hostile methods of rule to instill order in their version of the perfect society they are attempting to create in the United States."
www.hsaj.org/articles/22898
Pete Hegseth and Mike Johnson will headline at Trump's 'Rededicate 250' at the National Mall on May 17.
Presented by Trump's Freedom 250 hijack of America's birthday, the Christian nationalist event will "rededicate our country as One Nation under God."
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9/ So how do you fight this? Check provenance, not vibes. Who registered this "news site"? Does the reporter exist outside this page? Does the video have traceable origin? Treat unknown accounts like strangers at your door. youtu.be/C8DVM_qE2Tc
1/ Here's the scary shift in online propaganda. The most effective attacks don't pretend to be strangers anymore. They pretend to be you. Your neighbor, your local reporter, someone from your community. Trust is the attack surface now. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
If you're wondering why the Senate is in session at midnight tonight, it's because Republicans are trying to jam through at least $70 billion for ICE with no accountability.
$70 billion for ICE. $0 to help families. $0 to help lower costs.
What a disgrace. I'm voting NO.
Always a taxpayer funded bailout for corporations. Never a taxpayer funded benefit for citizens.
Trump administration nears $500 million Spirit rescue as Iran fuel shock hits airlines - www.reuters.com/business/tru...
Thank you, Julie! Hope you have a good evening.
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946
MILITARY PURGE: Navy Secretary John Phelan has been FIRED, effective immediately.
Hung Cao will take over as Acting Secretary. Prior reports raised questions about his claims of being “blown up” in combat, with his Navy record lacking a Purple Heart or Combat Action Ribbon.
In 2025, President Donald Trump imposed the largest U.S. tax increase since 1993. It came through tariffs — raising effective rates to their highest level since 1946 and costing households about $1,000 last year.
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Not surprising but very telling.
The owner of Coachella is a right-wing nationalist and gives lots of money to anti-LGBT organizations.
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Look at this chart.
Tax cuts for the rich are a policy choice. Cutting the social safety net in exchange for them is a policy choice.
States like New York have an opportunity to help undo this trickle down nonsense by raising taxes on the rich (who will still be rich).
I hope Gov. Hochul does.
U-N-B-E-F-U-C-K-I-N-G-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E-!
I'm thinking every journalist who attends the #WHCD have their bios screen capped and stamped with this:
There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.
— Bill Nye
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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"COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden."
"People vaccinated against COVID in Germany in 2023 experienced reduced hospitalization rates, fewer long-COVID diagnoses, and lower all-cause mortality than those who weren't vaccinated, according to a new study"
≈10 am MESZ today, the EU foreign ministers will meet to discuss the war with Iran and the situation in Ukraine. Spain has announced that it will again raise the issue of terminating the EU Association Agreement with Israel at the meeting, accusing Israel of violating international law. -ntv.de
Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.
A tale of two Americans: The Pope speaks out against Russian atrocities. The president says nothing (and even worse, relaxes sanctions on Russia while ending aid to Ukraine).
NOT THAT MYSTERIOUS 🤔
While carrying out public business for his father-in-law, Jared Kushner "has continued to pursue his private interests and declined to disclose any information about them," Andrea Bernstein writes: @theatlantic.com
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This and NASA cuts--Trump is killing forward movement & discoveries in Science and Medicine. He's taking the US back to the stone age, not the Golden Age.
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Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Exactly! What's up with that? Is Putin holding something over Trump?
