While Vance’s statements about the Pope are jaw dropping, U.S. Catholic conservatives have a long history of playing fast and loose with their fidelity to the Pope. If you’re looking for context for what the hell is going on, I humbly recommend my article escholarship.org/uc/item/8r36...
This is cause for celebration. May the entire white supremacist international he helped create also fall.
To be clear: the end game is create the structural conditions to keep women from pursuing higher education, force them out of the workplace, and assign them to a permanent position of dependence, submission, and inferiority.
Today is a bad day on which it is good to read the brilliant @lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/conv...
A great thread explaining why the No Kings protests matter. Even though the liberal messaging doesn’t resonate on the left, these marches are important for building a movement and priming the path forward.
10/10 recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
These are amazing!
This is a man who kneels to pray, brags to his God about how many people he killed today, and thinks he gets a spiritual fist bump and a guttural “hell yeah, brother” from the divine.
Thank you!
I am so tired, and I am so angry, and I wish so much that knowing about this piss ant never took up a single second of this one precious life.
Yes to all of this, and also I think religion may play a role. My hunch is that the dominance of mainline Lutheranism acted as something of a bulwark against Christian Right politics in the 1980s and ‘90s, in turn helping to both dampen right-wing GOP attitudes + maintain emphasis on social welfare.
Screenshot of TruthSocial post by President Trump complaining that Mayor Frey won't enforce federal immigration law, and calling it a "very serious violation of the Law."
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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I have to listen to far-right podcasts all the time for work and I do not agree that the solution to any of our problems is for more people to listen to far-right podcasts
This kind of messaging is intended to drown moms in research, risk, and responsibility.
The goal is to keep them so anxious and so busy that they can't work for pay--especially not in high-powered "mens" jobs--or get involved in any kind of efforts to push for progressive change.
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
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New verse for our theme song just dropped:
🎵MAGA is a war of men against women
And the penalty for 'disrespect' is death🎵
Do pundits get it yet?
Misogyny is and always has been the glue binding together the multi-racial, cross-class coalition Trump created, across three elections.
Sen Chris Murphy wants to require warrants and ban masks as a requirement for more ICE funding. WHY ARE YOU GIVING THEM FUNDING HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING.
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
What a fabulous holiday gift to have the brilliant Carol Mason review my book! This is such a kind and generous way to close out an otherwise vicious and brutal year. jrws.berkeley.edu/carol-mason-...
What is the over/under that Nuzzi’s next act will be to reinvent herself as a right-wing mouthpiece ala Naomi Wolf?
It’s really so painful and tragic.
This seems incredible to read, as it could come straight out of an Orbán 2015-16 speech, but this has actually been a dominant position within the broader U.S. Right for decades. 🧵
Looks pretty consistent to me. #whitesupremacy
Heartbroken to see the NSSR is being culled—and especially that it is happening in this way (with utmost callousness) and at this time (when left/critical theory is so needed). Cannot imagine having a political science PhD from any other institution and hope this isn’t the end of the road for NSSR.
The National Enquirer tried to catch and kill the Katie Johnson story. Then they got ahead of it in an attempt to discredit her. And many of us bought it—hook, line, and sinker katemanne.substack.com/p/they-tried...
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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And we can probably cue the Christian nationalist pastors taking to the airwaves to justify sexual violation of children as biblical. I haven’t gone looking for it this morning, but I’d put money that the usual suspects are talking about child marriage being Godly right about now…
Which brings me to ask: how long until red states begin passing legislation to retroactively lower the statutory age of consent to 13 or 14 to absolve Epstein and his very important President of the United States associates of their criminal behavior? 3/