NEW: The Texas State Board of Education just overhauled public school curricula to focus on Texas "exceptionalism," require Bible readings and whitewash racism. Its the culmination of a decadeslong push by Christian nationalists - an assertion of their grip on the highest echelons of education.

There is a growing culture and politics focused on demons at the center of many people's lives. When you finally see it, you might not stop seeing it. It explains alot. Don't miss this important story by @mccrummen.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

More and more Americans are seeing politics as a spiritual battle against actual demonic forces. In Tennessee, a bookstore owner found out exactly what that could mean: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

More and more Americans are seeing politics as a spiritual battle against actual demonic forces. In Tennessee, a bookstore owner found out exactly what that could mean: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

JUST POSTED: A large chunk of the $2 billion haul President Trump took in last year came as hundreds of thousands of his fans bet on a #$TRUMP memecoin. Trump won big. His followers, financially at least, were big losers as Trump profited at their expense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

This is incredible reporting from Jon Swaine at WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

At the “Don’t Sharia My Texas” luncheon at the Texas GOP convention, two Muslim lawmakers are being accused of implementing Sharia by…using the legislative process…. to propose non-binding resolutions… that recognize Ramadan or combat Islamophobia.

The great @declanwalsh.bsky.social captures the Ebola disaster unfolding in a Congolese mining town: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

The Washington Post, NYT and AP didn't get the story. But The Atlantic reports that the recent "Rededication" rally on the Mall was the work of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic movement that... is now the leading edge of the Christian right."

Spiritual warfare, territorial demons, supernatural forces… Sunday’s prayer rally showed where much of American Christianity is heading: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Paul Pressler is one of the most influential figures you may have never heard of. The onetime judge remade the Southern Baptist Convention, and helped forge the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. As he did so he also committed decades of alleged abuses. A long look at his legacy:

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

Revisiting this extremely evocative, deeply reported story on the measles outbreak, by Eli Saslow. ‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Today The Washington Post has been gutted. The Washington Post Guild has started a GoFundMe to help laid off reporters: gofund.me/2b198c9f6 (gofund.me/2b198c9f6)

Today The Washington Post has been gutted. The Washington Post Guild has started a GoFundMe to help laid off reporters: gofund.me/2b198c9f6 (gofund.me/2b198c9f6)

Such an important story on the “meticulous urban choreography” behind the Minneapolis protest movement, via Robert Worth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that "the public will correctly identify this" as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>

An upcoming NAR rally in Brazil is “a benchmark in a wider trend in which much of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity is being courted by the leaders of right-wing, populist authoritarianism…” writes @fredclarkson.bsky.social religiondispatches.org/the-nar-vows...

I have never heard of a reservation being "cancelled" (for no stated reason) after a person checks in a receives a boarding pass. Highly suspicious and disconcerting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

To get a sense of where things stand: Here's an exchange from earlier this year, in which a Baptist minister was told by a Texas Senator that she didn't understand the Gospel because she cited Baptists' historic support for church-state separations as one reason to oppose the Ten Commandments bill.

🧵🧵 Texas Republicans have been increasingly open and aggressive about Christianizing America via schools - to, in the words of the state education board chair, center classrooms around "GOD, GOP & USA." That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.

The first day of the 2025 legislative session also featured prominent pastors and lawmakers calling for spiritual warfare and, at one point, praying on the walls of the Capitol to ward off demonic spirits they believe control Austin.

Last month, two Republican State Board of Education members appointed David Barton, a Christian nationalist activist and widely debunked "amateur historian," as an expert advisor for the state's upcoming revision of curricula to focus on Texas and American history.

Will Berry opposed the execution of Geoffrey West, the man who took his mother's life. Alabama suffocated him anyway. Read the full story here.

Such a good story here from @rubycramer.bsky.social about an overwhelmed immigration lawyer working in Louisiana’s “Detention Alley.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Sudan is a portent of a certain kind of world…. via @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Incredible story about Volkswagen, and modern day slavery in the Amazon via @terrencemccoy.bsky.social wapo.st/46sX08n

Julio González Jr. thought he was being deported back to Venezuela. Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador. “The horror movie started there,” he said. What the Venezuelans freed from CECOT experienced at the world’s largest prison, w/ Samantha Schmidt, Helena Carpio & @arelisrhdz.bsky.social

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.

NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador: • Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided • More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.

Today we published our 2nd story in an investigation into the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to El Salvador. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

New: How an adorable yellow lab got caught up in Trump's campaign of "Deep State" revenge. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

More and more, Trump is detaining children. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump is detaining children. And $45 billion for new detention facilities includes room for more. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Such a good story via @gregjaffe.bsky.social -

The spiritual path of the Minnesota shooting suspect brought him in contact with the radical world of the New Apostolic Reformation, where leaders describe politicians as demon-infested, federal judges as opposing God, and the world as a spiritual battleground. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This movement in Brazil, a huge force in politics, has ties and parallels to the charismatic/NAR movement in the US: newrepublic.com/article/1530...

"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... vía @teoarmus.bsky.social

This is something: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/22/v...

Over the past several months, I’ve spent many hours in conversations with people who have experienced firsthand a flip from democracy to dictatorship.🧵

Must read via @adriennelaf.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

My former WaPo colleagues continue their incredible run of breaking vital stories —subscribe! — the latest via @hannahnatanson.bsky.social @jeremyrroebuck.bsky.social and Rachel Siegel. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...