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via NYT: America Is Falling Apart at the Seams

18 Jan at 4:38 pm

By David Brooks Read at New York Times In June a statistic floated across my desk that startled me. In 2020, the number of miles Americans drove fell 13 percent because of the pandemic, but the number of…

via The Guardian: Why our secret weapon against the climate crisis could be humour

18 Jan at 4:14 pm

By Adam McKay and Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Read at The Guardian As a scientist and a movie maker, we both once naively assumed that data and storytelling would converge to help prevent the imminent collapse…

via The Guardian: I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day

2 Jan at 2:34 pm

By Peter Kalmus Read at The Guardian The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the…

via Washington Post: Opinion: Most evangelical objections to vaccines have nothing to do with Christianity

1 Jan at 2:09 am

By Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post As the United States ends the year with the highest levels in new infections of the covid pandemic, the historical question naturally arises: Were a hefty portion of Americans entirely out of their…

via The Atlantic: The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.

28 Dec 2021

The former president’s son told a crowd that the teachings of Jesus have “gotten us nothing.” By Peter Wehner Read at The Atlantic Donald Trump Jr. is both intensely unappealing and uninteresting. He combines in…

Merry Evolution!

21 Dec 2021

Frank Schaeffer spent years as an evangelical activist pushing the right wing version of “family values.” These weren’t really family values at all but rather an anti-feminist agenda. In fact the far right opposes family…

Via Washington Post: Opinion: The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof.

5 Dec 2021

By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post A sampling of headlines atop the influential Politico Playbook newsletter over the past month: “Let the Democratic freakout begin.” “Dems start to face the hard questions.” “Does the…

Via Jill Filipovic: What’s next for abortion rights in America?

1 Dec 2021

By Jill Filipovic Right-wing misogynists are coming for contraception, same-sex marriage, and all legal abortions — even in blue states. Here’s the top line of what you need to know about today’s Supreme Court arguments…

via Washington Post: Opinion: Our constitutional crisis is already here

28 Sep 2021

Opinion by Robert Kagan Read at Washington Post “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.”— James Madison The United States is heading into its greatest political…

via The Guardian: There’s a straight line from US racial segregation to the anti-abortion movement

11 Sep 2021

By Randall Balmer Read At The Guardian The supreme court’s refusal to block Texas’s restrictive new abortion law suggests that the end to country-wide legal abortion might be at hand. For white evangelicals, the rank…

Allow theocracy to shrivel under the weight of its own flaws

3 Sep 2021

This Is How Theocracy Shrivels via New York Times by David Brooks Certain years leap out as turning points in world history: 1517, 1776 and 1917. These are years when powerful ideas strode onto the…

via John Pavlovitz: Conservative Christians “Trust God, Not Science”—Until They Can’t Breathe

13 Aug 2021

I’ll be In Conversation with John Pavlovitz on August 31 at 2 PM Eastern. Please join us! –Frank By John Pavlovitz Read at JohnPavlovitz.com Every single day I’m inundated with professed Christians who steadfastly and…

via AlterNet: Mental health expert lays out 10 thought patterns that trip up former Christians

6 Aug 2021

By Valerie Tarico Read at AlterNet Perhaps it’s been years or even decades since you left biblical Christianity behind. You may have noticed long ago that there are human handprints all over the Good Book.…

via RELIGION DISPATCHES: APOCALYPSE NOW AND THEN: HOW A BIBLICAL GENRE SHAPES AMERICAN POLITICS

30 Jul 2021

By Christopher Douglas Read at Religion Dispatches In state legislatures across the country, Republicans are systematically making it more difficult to vote, premised on the “Big Lie” that voter fraud was behind President Joe Biden’s…

via Samir Selmanović: Do You Want a Normal Human Life?

22 Jul 2021

This incredibly generous guest blog was written by my friend Samir Selmanović, Ph.D. PCC. Samir is, among other things, a Mindful Chef, Life Coach, and the Founder of Mystic Turn, a community of creative professionals…

via Washington Post: Opinion: Of course the SBC hasn’t fixed its sexual abuse problem. Look at its theology.

8 Jul 2021

Opinion by David Von Drehle Read at Washington Post Years ago, I lived in New York City and attended Grace Church, a historic Episcopal parish on Broadway at 10th Street. The beauty of the Gothic-style…

In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer

2 Jul 2021

In 2021, I’m starting a new Conversation with the Artists, Authors, Activists, and Change-Makers who are shaping our world today. I hope you’ll Join Me! View All Upcoming Conversations Upcoming Conversations in July Join Frank…

via Washington Post: Opinion: The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics. We should all be afraid.

27 May 2021

Opinion By Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post American politics is being conducted under the threat of violence. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has a talent for constructive bluntness, describes a political atmosphere within the…

via Letters From An American • May 21, 2021

24 May 2021

By Heather Cox Richardson I urge you to subscribe to Heather Cox Richardson’s essential daily newsletter! –Frank Tonight, in Fulton County, Georgia, a judge allowed 9 Georgia voters and their experts to inspect copies of…

via Letters From An American • May 14, 2021

19 May 2021

By Heather Cox Richardson I urge you to subscribe to Heather Cox Richardson’s essential daily newsletter! –Frank This morning, as expected, the House Republicans elected Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Trump’s choice for conference chair, to replace…

via New York Times: Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government

18 May 2021

Read at New York Times By Bernie Sanders “Israel has the right to defend itself.” These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military…

via New York Times: Why Did I Think We Could Get Rid of Billionaires?

13 May 2021

By Farhad Manjoo Read at New York Times I was reading about Jeff Bezos’ new boat last week when I began to understand one of my greatest failures as a pundit. This might seem an…

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation • Moby

12 May 2021

I’ve shared with you that in 2021, I want to start a New Conversation, and over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to speak to some amazing and inspiring friends of mine, including…

via The Guardian: Ruby Bridges: the six-year-old who defied a mob and desegregated her school

7 May 2021

In 1960, she walked past hateful protesters to become the first Black child at a Louisiana school – and was then taught alone for a year. She discusses fear, forbearance and her fight for a…

via Letters from an American • May 4, 2021

5 May 2021

By Heather Cox Richardson I urge you to subscribe to Heather Cox Richardson’s essential daily newsletter! –Frank In any normal era, the big story right now would be the country’s dramatic economic recovery from the…

via Daily Beast: America’s Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable

7 Apr 2021

By Matt Lewis Read at Daily Beast Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time. As Christians gather…

Bio-Denial Evangelicals are America’s Problem

6 Apr 2021

I grew up in the Evangelical right-wing, and my evangelist father was one of the architects of religious right, which went on to wage so many of the culture wars of the 1970s and 1980s,…

Frank Schaeffer’s Warning: Fundamentalist Christians Are Overtly Trying to Destroy Democracy

2 Apr 2021

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, I was an evangelical right-wing activist fighting against women’s rights and gay rights and the rise of what we called, “secular humanism.” My father, a famous evangelical leader, has been…

EVANGELICAL COMPANY PERSECUTES A PREGNANT WOMAN WHO WANTS TO KEEP HER BABY

31 Mar 2021

In the 70’s and 80’s, I was part of a movement that sold fake family values, which helped define the evangelical movement and which I’ve spent the last 30 years speaking up and speaking out…

via Washington Post: Opinion: The GOP is facing a sickness deeper than the coronavirus

30 Mar 2021

Opinion by Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post It is the sign of a sickness deeper than covid-19 that the defiance of public health guidance has become a political selling point in the Republican Party.…

via New York Times: He’s a Famous Evangelical Preacher, but His Kids Wish He’d Pipe Down

28 Mar 2021

The Rev. Rick Joyner has called on Christians to arm themselves for civil war. But his children would be on the other side. By Nicholas Kristof Read at New York Times Illustration by The New…

The media must tell migrants’ stories- not just quote idiots on FOX about “crisis”

27 Mar 2021

by Frank Schaeffer Karla was 14 when she was almost killed in Honduras for refusing to join a gang. Her story is the story, not if Biden got a bed ready for her in time…

Here’s what’s most impressive about President Biden so far:

26 Mar 2021

By Frank Schaeffer • President Biden has his eye on the most urgent short and long term issues of the moment—not just on what pundits, the Republicans or the most vocal Democrats want. • President Biden…

Guns-n’-God White Evangelicals Just Don’t Care

24 Mar 2021

By Frank Schaeffer The Boulder gunman, 21, who has history of ‘paranoia’ and mental illness HAD NO PROBLEM BUYING A MILITARY STYLE MASS MURDER WEAPON just days before using it. This was because a Republican…

via The Atlantic: America Without God

23 Mar 2021

By Shadi Hamid Read at The Atlantic The united states had long been a holdout among Western democracies, uniquely and perhaps even suspiciously devout. From 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about…

via New York Times: How to Collect $1.4 Trillion in Unpaid Taxes

22 Mar 2021

By The Editorial Board Read at New York Times When the federal government started withholding income taxes from workers’ paychecks during World War II, the innovation was presented as a matter of fairness, a way…

Atlanta: White Evangelical Theology of Sin, Sex, Race in Action

18 Mar 2021

By Frank Schaeffer As we have seen, time and time again, White Evangelicalism is Misogyny wrapped in the Velvet Glove of Jesus. The Bible’s lies about sex and evangelicals’ love of guns: bad mix. It’s…

Joe Biden’s Real Family Values Even Jesus Would Like

11 Mar 2021

It’s time for Democrats and Progressives to start advocating for REAL Family Values, the kind that Joe Biden exhibits in the bill he just signed to save American Families. Biden’s vision, embodied in his American…

Say it out loud: White evangelicals are anti-American, anti-democracy and dangerous

1 Mar 2021

by Frank Schaeffer When will the media stop completely overlooking the glaring fact that Christo-Fascists were very much involved on the January 6th invasion/attack on our Capitol? They have long been a dagger poised over…

via Washington Post: Opinion: Stephen Miller is running a shadow war against Biden. It’s based on deceptions.

27 Feb 2021

Opinion by Greg Sargent Read at Washington Post When the administration reopened a warehouse-like facility for migrant children in Texas this week, it caused a huge controversy on all sides. It inspired claims, mostly from the right, that President…

Mindshift with Dr. Clint Heacock – February 22, 2021

24 Feb 2021

Evangelicalism, an Industry of Hate, is itself based on a Big Lie, and so the core message has to be dressed up anew occasionally for any of it to work, because if you place it…

It’s Not Just Personal: The Collective Trauma of Religion

21 Feb 2021

A Guest Blog By Marlene Winell, Ph.D. On January 20, America’s religiosity was on full display. In fact, the religious parts of the U.S. Inauguration were excessive even by inauguration standards, which always includes an invocation…

via Letters from an American

18 Feb 2021

By Heather Cox Richardson The following is via Heather Cox Richardson’s *essential* newsletter, Letters from an American. If you don’t already receive this in your inbox everyday, I urge you to subscribe. –Frank The crisis…

via Down With Tyranny: Evangelicals Are The Rotten Toxic Core Of Trump’s Political-Fiscal Aspirations

13 Feb 2021

By Howie Klein Read at Down With Tyranny Trump never liked Pence and even tried to rescind his decision to invite him onto the ticket in 2016. But Pence was supposed to be Trump’s bridge…

For Once: Real Family Values!

10 Feb 2021

If you’ve followed anything I’ve done, especially over the last five years, you know that I was part of the early “Male-Chauvinist, Religious-White-Right, Family Values” movement in the 70s and 80s, which led us down…

via HuffPost: Out With Reagan, Buckley And Kemp; In With Trump, QAnon And Marjorie Taylor Greene

6 Feb 2021

By S.V. Date Read at HuffPost WASHINGTON ― They raised the scaffolding up the side of the Capitol, tore down the flag of the United States and, to cheers from their fellow rioters below, hoisted…

via Church and State: Pat Robertson Calls For Establishing Biblical Law As The Law Of The Land

5 Feb 2021

By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Pat Robertson is openly calling for replacing the Constitution with the Bible as the law of the land. In the Constitution, you will not find any reference to the Bible…

via Washington Post: Opinion: How can police pepper-spray a harmless child? The answer is distressingly clear.

5 Feb 2021

Opinion by Editorial Board Read at Washington Post ROCHESTER, N.Y., police became the object of national opprobrium last year after videos surfaced showing the brutal treatment of a Black man who had been suffering from a psychotic episode.…

“Survival of the Friendliest” with the Bible Buds

3 Feb 2021

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Dan and Andrew of the Bible Buds Podcast and I had such a great time! We talked about chopping enough wood for a New England Winter, growing…

Name All The Names.

31 Jan 2021

By Eric Tichenor There is one sentence from the ancient Hebrew Tanakh, within the Torah section (teachings, law), which perfectly illuminates the motivations of the seditionists who have created our current, modern-day political crisis. And…

via New York Times: ‘The Capitol Insurrection Was as Christian Nationalist as It Gets.’

28 Jan 2021

By Thomas B. Edsall Read at New York Times It’s impossible to understand the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol without addressing the movement that has come to be known as Christian nationalism. Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L.…

Without the evangelical base Trump’s terror-breeding lies would fade

25 Jan 2021

by Frank Schaeffer Biden addressed the terror threat directly: a “rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat” is what he called it. But the new president…

via Washington Post: ‘A place to fund hope’: How Proud Boys and other fringe groups found refuge on a Christian fundraising website

24 Jan 2021

By Amy Brittain and David Willman Read at Washington Post Henry “Enrique” Tarrio had already publicized his plans to participate in the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. The 36-year-old Miami resident and national chairman of the Proud…

via Foreign Policy: Far-Right Extremism Is a Global Problem

23 Jan 2021

By Heather Ashby From Brazil to the United States, Hungary to New Zealand, right-wing extremist ideas and groups are posing a grave threat to democratic societies. Within this context, the ongoing support U.S. President Donald…

Evangelicals will now return to their default and favorite posture: victims

22 Jan 2021

by Frank Schaeffer Trump slunk off to Florida and Biden took the oath of office under a clear blue sky. Now evangelicals are left to figure out how to move forward in a world that,…

via DailyMail: Pro-Trump evangelical preacher Franklin Graham says the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach the president were like Judas who received ‘thirty pieces of silver from Pelosi’

21 Jan 2021

By ARIEL ZILBER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and NIKKI SCHWAB, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTERand EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Read at DailyMail Franklin Graham, the evangelist preacher and son of Billy Graham, wrote…

No Healing Without Accountability

20 Jan 2021

by Frank Schaeffer “The Trump people have to know they lost,” Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an expert on totalitarianism, argues, and “there has to be a consequence to losing a coup.” Otherwise, they will stage…

via Friendly Atheist: Franklin Graham: The 10 Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump Are Like Judas

19 Jan 2021

By Hemant Mehta Read Friendly Atheist at Patheos In case you need a reminder that the evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump and his insurrection are hardly a fringe group of extremists, here’s evangelist Franklin Graham condemning the 10…

via Washington Post: For some Christians, the Capitol riot doesn’t change the prophecy: Trump will be president

19 Jan 2021

By Michelle Boorstein Read at Washington Post As lawmakers prepared to impeach President Trump and Washington readied for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, Cliff Dyrud wasn’t focused on man-made acts. He was listening for the words of…

Why did evangelicals go for Trump? — Because Trump was as cruel as the Bible

18 Jan 2021

by Frank Schaeffer The Trump years prove one thing: Evangelicals are everywhere and have turned against our democracy- en masse. The first casualty was decency. The second was our idea of manhood. Let that sink…

via NPR: ‘How Did We Get Here?’ A Call For An Evangelical Reckoning On Trump

17 Jan 2021

By Rachel Martin Read at NPR As fallout continues from the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol, Ed Stetzer, head of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, has a message for his…

via HuffPost: White Christian Radicalization Is A Violent Threat

16 Jan 2021

There was a distinctly Christian nationalist presence at the U.S. Capitol riot. Some leaders are trying to publicly reject it — but others are staying silent. By Carol Kuruvilla Read at HuffPost The pulpit of…

Via VICE: Anti-Abortion Activists Were All Over the Capitol Riots

14 Jan 2021

By Carter Sherman Read at VICE News “A young woman was just shot in the neck beside me in the Capitol Building,” tweeted one anti-abortion activist known for creating “Baby Lives Matter” murals. When a…

via The New York Times: How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism

12 Jan 2021

By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham WASHINGTON — Before self-proclaimed members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched toward the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they stopped to kneel in the street and prayed in the name of…

Via Washington Post: Trump’s evangelicals were complicit in the desecration of our democracy

11 Jan 2021

Opinion by Michael Gerson The practical effects of the fascist occupation of the U.S. Capitol building were quickly undone. The symbols it left behind are indelible. A Confederate flag waved in triumph in the halls of a building…

Call what happened what it is: A White Evangelical Insurrection

8 Jan 2021

By Frank Schaeffer Why isn’t the media telling the truth? The riot was led by Trump but made possible by thousands of demonstrators who came from White evangelical churches. Churches organized hundreds of groups in cars,…

The Capitol Invasion Was Not About Politics But Religion

7 Jan 2021

By Frank Schaeffer America’s problem is not political. It is religious fanaticism Until America addresses our White evangelical delusion problem we will not have a functioning democracy. Evangelical MAGA churches want theocracy and are now…

People of goodwill across the USA want a roadmap

4 Jan 2021

By Frank Schaeffer Trump is abusing his office. Show him a law and he will break it. If America’s election laws are to be reestablished and respected Trump will have to face the legal consequences…

Here’s the truth: 2021 is going to be worse than 2020

31 Dec 2020

By Frank Schaeffer Now, I don’t think that very many people who watch this video will like it, and I don’t like it myself, because sometimes when you tell the truth about the situation we…

Trump’s Warp Fail

31 Dec 2020

By Frank Schaeffer The U.S.A has the DEADLIEST day of the pandemic record; 3,903 die and over 125,000 are admitted to hospitals as CDC warns the post-New Year COVID surge will kill another 82,000 Americans…

via AlterNet: Attorney for Blackwater murder victim: Trump’s pardons ‘a slap in the face’ to US justice

30 Dec 2020

Written by Roger Sollenberger / Salon Read at AlterNet With less than a month left in his presidency, President Trumpon Tuesday pardoned four Blackwater security contractorswhose convictions for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007had in recent years become a right-wing rallying…

How To Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace

29 Dec 2020

When you were born and raised in the world that I was, there is a lot you can take for granted, including the certainty that everything you believe in is true. But breaking that appetite…

The Wild West and the Wild Left is no place reasonable people want to live.

29 Dec 2020

by Frank Schaeffer It seems to me that NRA/open-carry/gun lobby AND de-fund the police activists are BOTH mistaken. We think of these movements as opposites. They aren’t. They both express individualistic impulses from people who…

via Washington Post: Until Biden’s win is certified, the U.S. remains vulnerable

28 Dec 2020

Opinion by David Ignatius Read at Washington Post Not to be alarmist, but we should recognize that the United States will be in the danger zone until the formal certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on…

…It Was About Revenge

25 Dec 2020

For Trump’s evangelicals resistance to cultural “progressivism” – “the liberal agenda” – “abortion/gay rights” mattered more than experience, credentials, know-how, integrity, honesty, even Christianity itself. Now-since Trump’s election loss-they even have abandoned U.S. democracy as…

Just One of the Young Mothers

21 Dec 2020

Early in my life, because of the family I was born and raised in, I was fairly certain about the kind of life I intended to live, and how I was prepared to measure success.…

I was an evangelical insider: Here’s what they’re saying about Trump’s loss.

17 Dec 2020

I was an evangelical insider: Here’s what they’re saying about Trump’s loss. I come from an evangelical leadership family so I track what’s happening. NEW recurring theme: Angry evangelical chat room exchanges are increasing where…

via The Guardian: ‘It’s surreal’: the US officials facing violent threats as Trump claims voter fraud

15 Dec 2020

By Ed Pilkington and Sam Levine Read at The Guardian On 1 December Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election official in Georgia, stood on the steps of the state capitol in Atlanta and let rip on Donald Trump. “Mr…

From Hollywood to Hitchens

14 Dec 2020

I escaped the Evangelical World for some place far less crazy: Hollywood. There I made four low-budget movies that you might catch on late-night cable. Then I wrote a novel called Portofino which got some…

via The Washington Post: The danger is growing that Trump’s lies about the election will lead to violence

14 Dec 2020

By the Editorial Board Read at Washington Post PRESIDENT TRUMP’S lying about the election has become dangerous — and not just in the sense that it damages democratic norms. It also increasingly threatens to spur…

via Washington Post: What a conservative majority on the court really means

12 Dec 2020

By Steven V. Mazie Read at Washington Post Steven V. Mazie is the Supreme Court correspondent for the Economist and professor of political studies at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan. His most recent book…

Does ANYONE think this is okay?

10 Dec 2020

Thumbs up as Rudy exits the hospital after receiving rare treatments after weeks of running around trying to steal a free and fair election, wiping his snotty handkerchief all over his hands and face and…

The Appetite for Certainty

7 Dec 2020

When you were born and raised in the world that I was, there is a lot you can take for granted, including the certainty that everything you believe in is true. But breaking that appetite…

via Washington Post: Lies about the coronavirus vaccines are already spreading. How can they be stopped?

3 Dec 2020

By Editorial Board Read at Washington Post THE CORONAVIRUS vaccines are coming, which means the coronavirus vaccine disinformation is coming, too. In fact, it is already here. “Will New COVID Vaccine Make You Transhuman?” asks one conspiratorial…

Amy Coney Barrett to America: Churches Have the Right to Spread Disease

27 Nov 2020

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This Thanksgiving Be Thankful For Biden

25 Nov 2020

Am I the only person already tired of Democrats who say the Biden team is “boring”? The only word I’m looking for is GRATITUDE for competent non-criminal, non-con-artist, smart appointments. I suspect in the Trump…

via Truthout.org: Mitch McConnell Is Sacrificing the Entire Economy to Impede Biden Administration

19 Nov 2020

by William Rivers Pitt Read at Truthout.org Unless something truly extraordinary intervenes, we are on the cusp of what could become the bleakest winter in living memory. There are 166 days standing between us and…

via Washington Post: Trump’s racist appeals powered a White evangelical tsunami

14 Nov 2020

By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post As partisans and analysts puzzle over the higher-than-expected turnout for President Trump (nearly 6 million fewer votes than for President-elect Joe Biden, but still high), they are poring over groups…

via Washington Post: This is a massive failure of character among Republicans — with evangelicals out in front

14 Nov 2020

By Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post One of the better speeches I helped produce for George W. Bush was never given. On election night 2000 — standing outside in the rain, at an Austin victory…

via Washington Post: Trump’s election challenge looks like a scam to line his pockets

12 Nov 2020

By Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post President Trump isn’t really trying to overturn the election. He’s simply running one more scam before he leaves office that would enable him to enrich himself. That’s the…

Trump deserves to be stripped of citizenship and deported

12 Nov 2020

My family knew the Bush family. Looking back, I can think of nothing that comes close to what Donald Trump is doing to stop President-elect Biden from taking part in Intelligence Briefings to prepare to…

Joe, please bore us! Kamala, please heal us!

7 Nov 2020

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TO ADMIT WE NEED OUR ENEMIES IS THE ONLY WAY OUT OF OUR 2020 MESS

1 Nov 2020

via The Atlantic: The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Rig Elections

28 Oct 2020

Adding more justices to the bench might be the only way to stop them. By Adam Serwer For a judge with a brilliant legal mind, Amy Coney Barrett seemed oddly at a loss for words. Does…

Have confidence in American democracy—we’ll be okay

27 Oct 2020

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via The Washington Post: Seeking power in Jesus’ name: Trump sparks a rise of ‘Patriot Churches’

26 Oct 2020

KNOXVILLE, TENN. — The new congregation is gathered in a barn in Lenoir City, Tenn., with a roof that has a 60-foot American flag painted on it. And they are praying for a Trump landslide.…

via Washington Post: As local media outlets disappear, bad actors are stepping into the void

23 Oct 2020

Opinion by Editorial Board Read at Washington Post THE COLLAPSE of the local news industry offers manipulators a mother lode of opportunity: a populace full of questions and a gaping hole where they used to go…

#YesWeCare

21 Oct 2020

I feel so honored to have been asked by my friends at Art Not War to be a part of this amazing Biden Harris 2020 movement through MoveOn. Please share and amplify this message with…

No More Trump

20 Oct 2020

How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and Lies, a multi-touch book about art,…

via New York Times: End Our National Crisis

17 Oct 2020

The Case Against Donald Trump By The Editorial Board Read at The New York Times Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II. Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already…

Enough With “Religious Liberty” Handwringing

15 Oct 2020

via Washington Post: Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation would be an LGBTQ rights emergency

13 Oct 2020

Opinion by Jim Obergefell and Alphonso David Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, is director of individual giving at Family Equality. Alphonso David is the president of the Human Rights Campaign. Five years ago, every marriage in…

Amy Coney Barrett is a danger to democracy

12 Oct 2020

via the Guardian: ‘It instilled such problems’: ex-member of Amy Coney Barrett’s faith group speaks out

11 Oct 2020

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner Read at The Guardian Former insiders and religious scholars say scrutiny of Barrett’s connection to People of Praise is entirely legitimate Rebekah Powers was 11 when members of her faith group, the…

via Washington post: Gretchen Whitmer: I will hold the president accountable for endangering and dividing America

10 Oct 2020

Opinion by Gretchen Whitmer Read at Washington Post When I addressed the people of Michigan on Thursday to comment on the unprecedented terrorism, conspiracy and weapons charges against 13 men, some of whom were preparing to kidnap and…

Barrett sees her self as a secret agent for her “god”

8 Oct 2020

People of Praise, a charismatic religious group, was recently revealed to have scrubbed its website of mentions of Barrett. Why? They are hiding her decades of leadership involvement in this pro- “male leadership” anti-feminist cult…

via the Guardian: Revealed: Amy Coney Barrett lived in home of secretive Christian group’s co-founder

7 Oct 2020

Details of link to Kevin Ranaghan raise fresh questions about supreme court nominee’s involvement with People of Praise Amy Coney Barrett lived in the home of one of the founders of the People of Praise…

via Washington Post: Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise

7 Oct 2020

By Emma Brown, Jon Swaine and Michelle Boorstein Read at Washington Post While Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has faced questions about how her Catholic faith might influence her jurisprudence, she has not spoken publicly about her involvement…

Let Me Explain Joe Biden

5 Oct 2020

via Washington Post: Amy Coney Barrett, Supreme Court nominee, spoke at program founded to inspire a ‘distinctly Christian worldview in every area of law’

30 Sep 2020

By Emma Brown and Jon Swaine Read at Washington Post Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, publicly grappled decades ago with the tension Catholic judges can face between their…

via The Washington Post: This is not a drill. The Reichstag is burning.

28 Sep 2020

By Dana Milbank Read at The Washington Post America, this is not a drill. The Reichstag is burning. For five years, my colleagues and I have taken pains to avoid Nazi comparisons. It is usually…

via The Atlantic: The Election That Could Break America

25 Sep 2020

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? Story by Barton Gellman Read at The Atlantic There is a cohort of close…

Trump: I Win or America Dies!

25 Sep 2020

Trump won’t commit to abide by election result. Evangelical and conservative Roman Catholics still back him anyway. Evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics have just proved that conservative Christianity is incompatible with democracy. How do we…

I Was An Anti-Abortion Leader On The Religious Right: I’m Pro-Choice Now

22 Sep 2020

Download an Illustrated PDF of this Article Listen to my 2008 interview, “Pro-Life – And In Favor Of Keeping Abortion Legal,” from Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Abortion Trump was told by evangelical pro-life leaders…

William Barr: Trump’s Top Choice for Supreme Court?

19 Sep 2020

In the 70s and 80s, the Religious Right helped form a new political party in America: The Party of Theocracy. It became the Party of the rule of religion over civic life and the destruction…

The small QAnon freak-show is expanding into a 100-million strong evangelical cult

17 Sep 2020

Warning: QAnon’s silly lies: “deep state” is satanic, coronavirus is fake, Trump is truth/media is lies -have merged with evangelical ideology into a Trump-worshiping religion. The small QAnon freak-show risks expanding into a 100-million strong…

President of Law and Disorder

14 Sep 2020

via Down with Tyranny!: Will Religious Voters Finally Abandon Their Golden Calf– The Narcissistic Malevolent Cult Of Incompetence

14 Sep 2020

Read at Down With Tyranny Down With Tyranny picked up on something from my latest video about Trump’s Narcissistic, Malevolent, Incompetent Jesus in relation to the latest data that Donald Trump is poised to lose…

Trump’s Jesus: Narcissistic Malevolent Incompetence

10 Sep 2020

Trump’s lying about pandemic has had unthinkable consequences. Congratulations Franklin Graham and the entire White “conservative” evangelical pro-Trump leadership: You’ve done the impossible- made the word “Christian” come to symbolize Narcissistic Malevolent Incompetence. How do…

BREAKING: Trump voters are leaving Trump and going to Biden.

10 Sep 2020

Politico is doing an exclusive report today on new poll-study-11% of Evangelical and Catholic 2016 Trump voters are leaving Trump and going to Biden. Vote Common Good (a group I helped found run by my…

via The Guardian: Trump is trying to pin Kenosha on Biden – but he created the chaos and violence

8 Sep 2020

Make no mistake: this is Trump’s America, where protesters are shot by vigilantes as police look on By Richard Wolffe Read at The Guardian Donald Trump took a trip to a place called Biden’s America…

via Washington Post: Trump’s bad marriage with the military has finally exploded

7 Sep 2020

By David Ignatius Read at Washington Post Reconciling Donald Trump’s self-promoting “Art of the Deal” with the military’s reserved code of loyalty and service was always a stretch. In Trump’s early months in the White…

via The Atlantic: Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’

3 Sep 2020

The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. By JEFFREY GOLDBERG Read at The Atlantic When President Donald…

via Washington Post: Bannon’s indictment confirms that the American right is made up of con artists

2 Sep 2020

Opinion by Paul Waldman Read at Washington Post If you thought Stephen K. Bannon was going to end up in handcuffs, you might have predicted that it wouldn’t be for a small-time con. After all, Bannon…

Jerry Falwell Jr: It’s Not Too Late!

28 Aug 2020

via USA Today: I’m Billy Graham’s granddaughter. Evangelical support of Donald Trump spits on his legacy.

27 Aug 2020

By supporting Donald Trump, evangelical leaders are failing us and failing the Gospel. Christian women must step up where our church leaders won’t. By Jerushah Duford Read at USA Today As a proud granddaughter of the…

via New York Times: Why Biden Needs a Landslide Just to Win

26 Aug 2020

Only a lopsided show of force would overcome undelivered mail, closed polling sites and Trump’s schemes. By Frank Bruni Read at New York Times When many of us question Hillary Clinton’s performance and strategy in…

Falwell Jr., Steps Down Amid Reports of Group Sex (No wonder Trump and Falwell Get Along!)

25 Aug 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr steps down. Falwell Jr. agreed to resign from Liberty University according to the university’s general counsel, after a series of sordid scandals rocked the school he has led since 2007. Liberty University was…

Stephen K. Bannon Would Make a Great Evangelical

21 Aug 2020

How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation? Aside from voting for Joe Biden? Discover my book Letter to Lucy: A Manifesto of Creative Redemption—In the Age of Trump, Fascism and…

via Washington Post: Tracing Trump’s Postal Service obsession — from ‘loser’ to ‘scam’ to ‘rigged election’

17 Aug 2020

By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker Read at Washington Post Soon after taking office in 2017, President Trump seized on the U.S. Postal Service as an emblem of the bloated bureaucracy. “A loser,” he repeatedly labeled one…

Jesus Wouldn’t Vote For A Malignant Narcissist

14 Aug 2020

Prison for Kushner and Trump?

14 Aug 2020

Last year Senator Kamala Harris said that she believed the Justice Department would have no choice but to pursue criminal charges against Trump for the instances of apparent obstruction of justice outlined in the Mueller…

via The Washington Post: The health care scare

14 Aug 2020

I sold Americans a lie about Canadian medicine. Now we’re paying the price. By Wendell Potter Read at Washington Post In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about…

via Washington Post: The threat to U.S. elections is real, and frightening. The public has a right to know.

12 Aug 2020

Opinion by Richard Blumenthal Read at The Washington Post Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Connecticut. The warning lights are flashing red. America’s elections are under attack. This week, I reviewed classified materials…

via New York Times: Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century?

11 Aug 2020

“It’s a collaborative fiction built on wild speculation that hardens into reality.” By Charlie Warzel Read at New York Times In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist…

Evangelicals are now pro-COVID death

9 Aug 2020

According to latest Pew poll, 82% of white evangelicals STILL say they intend to vote for Trump. At least all other Americans now know who wants to trash America in order to hold onto access…

via Down With Tyranny: Now There’s A Book Out About The Jewish Nazi In The White House– The Ugly, Ugly Story Of Trump’s Uriah Heep: Stephen Miller

8 Aug 2020

Read at Down With Tyranny Yesterday, Carlos Lozada reviewed Jean Guerrero’s new book, Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda for the Washington Post, How Stephen Miller Went From Teen Troll To Trump Whisperer. He begins…

Biden “hurt God” (Trump)

8 Aug 2020

Trump got the emotions right. He won in 2016 because he understood that white evangelical and conservative Roman Catholic Republican voters were no longer motivated by any sense of hope; they were motivated by a…

via Washington Post: The Supreme Court invented qualified immunity. Now, a judge’s blistering opinion shows why it must go.

6 Aug 2020

Opinion by Ruth MarcusDeputy editorial page editor Read at Washington Post U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves couldn’t do justice for the plaintiff in his court, who had sued over police abuse. The Supreme Court won’t…

Trump’s New Policy: Scorched Earth!

5 Aug 2020

When confronted with the reality of over 160,000 Americans dead from his failure to contain the pandemic, the most this wretch can summon is, “It Is What It Is.” Donald Trump knows that he is…

via Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Postmaster general pick probed

5 Aug 2020

Schumer seeks documents on appointment of Trump ally by JACOB BOGAGE THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — The Senate’s top Democrat late Sunday asked the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board to turn over communication with the…

via The Guardian: ‘These are his people’: inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland

4 Aug 2020

Bortac, a quasi-militarised outfit some compare to the Navy Seals, has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan by Ed Pilkington In January 2011, James Tomsheck, then a top internal affairs investigator inside US Customs and Border…

Insiders tell me: Trump/Kushner conspiring to wreck USPS and claim un-ready vaccine “ready.”

4 Aug 2020

Please watch and share this video with everyone you know. We must get out in front of Donald Trump’s “October Surprise” if we’re going to survive whatever it is he’s willing to do to the…

via HuffPost: Watchdog Calls For Probe Amid Fears Of ‘Voter Suppression Tactics’ Through Postal Service

3 Aug 2020

As mail-in voting numbers are expected to surge, Trump’s new postmaster general is cranking back on overtime and deliveries. By Mary Papenfuss A watchdog organization is calling for an investigation and hearings amid concerns about…

via New York Times: Federal Agents Don’t Need Army Fatigues

1 Aug 2020

If you’re an officer of the law, dress like one. Leave the soldiering to soldiers. By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate…

I am ashamed of the part I played in getting Trump elected

31 Jul 2020

Hi, my name is Frank Schaeffer. I’m a writer who grew up as the son of an evangelical leader in the 1970s. I was his nepotistic sidekick. We toured the country essentially founding what became…

Obama delivers eulogy for John Lewis, makes impassioned call for voting rights

30 Jul 2020

via Washington Post: Politics at the point of a gun

30 Jul 2020

Conservative armed groups move into politics as backlash builds against protests, stay-at-home orders By Joshua Partlow Read at Washington Post Before his political awakening this spring, Peter Diaz lived a quiet life near this leafy liberal…

via New York Times: The Hijacking of Homeland Security

29 Jul 2020

A former leader of the department says Trump is politicizing the agency and putting the nation at risk. By Michael Chertoff Mr. Chertoff served as the secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush. Read…

A Last Plea To Trump’s Evangelicals: Vote For Joe Biden

28 Jul 2020

More than 4 years ago, I made a video called something like, “Let Me Tell You About The Donald.” That video got millions of views, because people wanted to know about this guy who was…

via Washington Post: The Great American Crackup is underway

25 Jul 2020

Opinion by Dana Milbank Read at Washington Post In 2018, Bob Woodward recounted then-White House chief of staff John Kelly’s view of President Trump. “He’s gone off the rails,” Kelly said. “We’re in Crazytown.” Two years…

via Washington Post: A Navy vet asked federal officers in Portland to remember their oaths. Then they broke his hand.

24 Jul 2020

By Marissa J. Lang Read at The Washington Post PORTLAND, Ore. — He came to the protest with a question. He left with two broken bones in a confrontation with federal officers that went viral. Christopher David…

via The New Yorker: What Could Happen If Donald Trump Rejects Electoral Defeat?

22 Jul 2020

By Masha Gessen Read at The New Yorker On Sunday, in an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, Donald Trump refused to commit to recognizing the outcome of the 2020 election. “I’m not going to just say yes,”…

via New York Times: Trump’s Occupation of American Cities Has Begun

22 Jul 2020

Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? By Michelle Goldberg Read at New York Times The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the…

Donald Trump Wants Civil War

19 Jul 2020

The Peaceful Transfer of Power is the Cornerstone of Our Democracy. Without it, there is no United States of America. On July 19, 2020, for the first time in our history, a United States President…

The Last Dirty Trick

19 Jul 2020

According to the Huffington Post, the CEO of one of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies issued a bleak warning about the prospect of a vaccine for the novel coronavirusby the end of the year, saying lawmakers touting…

Mao Zedong-Style / Trump-Style

15 Jul 2020

I grew up in an evangelical, fundamentalist right-wing family that played a direct part in preparing America for the presidency of Donald Trump. We didn’t know it at the time, but in the 1970’s and…

via Washington Post: Foes of science faced ridicule at the Scopes trial. We’re paying the price 95 years later.

12 Jul 2020

Opinion by Max Boot Read at Washington Post Why is the United States the only wealthy country where novel coronavirus cases are hitting new highs while elsewhere the virus is being contained? A lot of it has…

via Washington Post: Trump has taken up residence in an alternate political reality

12 Jul 2020

Opinion by Michael Gerson Read at Washington Post In a storm of national challenges, perhaps the most urgent one is this: The president inhabits a different country from the rest of us. It is a land…

via Washington Post: Twelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term

11 Jul 2020

By Jonathan Greenberg Read at Washington Post People have debated whether Donald Trump is fascist since he announced he was running for president. In 2015, Jamelle Bouie wrote in Slate that Trump, in his campaign speeches and Twitter…

via New York Times: How America Lost the War on Covid-19

8 Jul 2020

It wasn’t because of our culture, it was because of our leadership. By Paul Krugman Read at New York Times When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus? How did we find ourselves international…

via The Washington Post: Here are the governors who hurt so many, so needlessly

7 Jul 2020

Opinion by Jennifer Rubin The Post reports: “Local officials in states with surging coronavirus cases issued dire warnings Sunday about the spread of infections, blaming outbreaks in their communities on early reopenings and saying the virus…

via New York Times: I’m a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Take Down His Memorial.

6 Jul 2020

Monticello is shrine enough for a man who wrote that “all men are created equal” and yet never did much to make those words come true. By Lucian K. Truscott IV Read at New York Times…

via Newsweek: How Trump Could Lose the Election—And Still Remain President

5 Jul 2020

BY TIMOTHY E. WIRTH AND TOM ROGERS It is increasingly looking as if Joe Biden can beat President Donald Trump in November. The president seems more and more out of step with the national mood,…

Turned to truth, honor and hope on the 4th of July

4 Jul 2020

The grandchildren of Nazis don’t drive cars with swastika bumper stickers or fly it in their yards. Yet in the US all the Confederate symbols still abound. Why? Because America never honestly faced our past…

via The Guardian: Trump bruised as polls favour Biden – but experts warn of risk of dirty tricks

1 Jul 2020

By David Smith in Washington Read at The Guardian The president has had a difficult period and is trailing his rival by double digits. But he has time to fight back – and fight dirty The…

via The New York Times: Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says

1 Jul 2020

The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment. By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz Read at New York Times WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military…

Dear Mark Zuckerberg, you fool no one.

1 Jul 2020

Being a moral person who cares about America means removing hundreds of boogaloo accounts for ‘promoting violence’ in coordinated takedown, BEFORE you lose hundreds of millions in ad revenue. You fool no one. San Francisco supervisor…

Kayleigh McEnany’s Blasphemy Against The Holy Spirit Will Not Be Forgiven

28 Jun 2020

Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, is an evangelical. She is lying for Trump. Therefore McEnany is lying for Russia when she denies Trump’s betrayal of our troops by doing nothing about Putin putting a bounty…

Donald Trump’s Magical Thinking

26 Jun 2020

Please watch and share this video and learn how Donald Trump’s Magical Thinking is affecting you, your life, your family, and your country! How do we make our way back into love, beauty and creation?…

William Barr and his anti-American TRUMPED inquisition must be stopped

22 Jun 2020

I began my life in a right-wing evangelical fundamentalist cult, started by my famous evangelical father, Francis Schaeffer. When I say, ‘a cult,’ I mean something outside of the religious mainstream that became a personality…

via Huffpost: Inside The Dangerous Online Fever Swamps Of American Police

20 Jun 2020

By Jesselyn Cook and Nick Robins-Early Read at HuffPost Around the time news broke on Monday afternoon that the New York City Police Department would disband plainclothes anti-crime units that had been tied to several…

via New York Times: When Antifa Hysteria Sweeps America

18 Jun 2020

By Nicholas Kristof Read at New York Times What can we possibly make of the crisis that unfolded in the remote Oregon seaside town of Coquille? Coquille is a sleepy logging community of 3,800 people, almost…

via The Washington Post: A Virginia incident reflects the reality of being black in America

17 Jun 2020

By Editorial Board THE VENOM of American racism is as toxic in major cities as in rural areas, in the North as in the South. African Americans are murdered and brutalized for no good reason; more…

via Washington Post: African American Christianity demands we overturn the structures of injustice

16 Jun 2020

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Read at Washington Post George Floyd’s brutal killing brought home to a large majority of Americans the deadly endurance of institutionalized racism. May the memorial services in his honor bring home another…

via Washington Post: Republicans are engineering an electoral disaster this fall

14 Jun 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to evolve, several states have begun preparations for vote-by-mail options in the 2020 election. (Blair Guild/The Washington Post) By Editorial Board AFTER A shambolic election two years ago — and several examples of…