🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months. The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open. 🎁 Gift link:

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

There are more of us than there are of them.

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

New at @thenation.com I trace Nick Fuentes' half-decade campaign to push the MAGA envelope, dragging the conservative movement kicking and streaming closer towards outright neo-fascism www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Christians and Muslims are killed in Nigeria’s security crises… victims are… determined by their locations and not… their religion… Hayab, a former chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, also dismissed claims of Christians persecution being carried out.” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

A bombing at Harvard Medical School, and major corporate media in the US decide it's not reportable news. A sign of the times. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Kristi Noem blasts “foreigners” for dangerous driving. According to the Rapid City Journal, that state’s court records show Noem had 20 speeding tickets dating back to 1989, alongside other violations, including failure to stop at an intersection and invalid license plates.

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The 2nd annual "A Million Women" event, staged by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is underway today Saturday, October 25th in Brazil. Watch this all day revolutionary theocratic event on You Tube www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWZT... religiondispatches.org/the-nar-vows...

The 2nd annual "A Million Women" event, organized by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), will be staged on Saturday, October 25th in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This revolutionary theocratic event may also have ripple effects in the U.S. & around the world. religiondispatches.org/the-nar-vows...

The 2nd annual "A Million Women" event, organized by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), will be staged on Saturday, October 25th in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This revolutionary theocratic event may also have ripple effects in the U.S. & around the world. religiondispatches.org/the-nar-vows...

The second annual "A Million Women" event, organized by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), will be staged on October 25th in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This revolutionary theocratic event will have ripple effects around the world. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The second annual "A Million Women" event, organized by leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), will be staged on October 25th in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This revolutionary theocratic event will have ripple effects around the world. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Washington DC may get all of the headlines and sizzle, but the biggest impact on your life comes from voting MUCH closer to home in local elections.

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be 'tossed into the seventh circle of hell' and said he has 'a Nazi streak' www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Emil Bove told him, 'those planes need to take off no matter what, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court 'fuck you.' Reuveni: It is the highest, most egregious violation of the lawyer's code of ethics.

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

I haven’t the froggiest idea why…

SCOOP: (gift) One of the top prosecutors who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal had dinners, meetings with the convicted sex offender after the prosecutor left DOJ. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Our local reporters are out and ready to cover the #NoKings protests today. Follow our live coverage all day at www.newsfromthestates.com. Are you at a protest? Drop your location and a photo in the comments. #FairFearlessFree #LocalJournalism #ReportLocal

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Bucks County is a tough place to do progressive politics I really appreciate what @buckscountybeacon.com is doing (and this relay of the piece @fredclarkson.bsky.social wrote for @religiondispatches.org)

The paperback edition of my book OPUS goes on sale TODAY With a new afterword bringing the story up to date, including details of Opus Dei’s links to Project 2025, the human trafficking case against it—and the challenge Pope Leo faces in holding this abusive cult to account

Check out this roundtable discussion w/ @chelseaebin.bsky.social, @julieingersoll.bsky.social, & myself. We talk about mutations on the Christian right, Catholic traditionalism, & New Apostolic Reformation. politicalresearch.org/2025/10/15/i... Thanks @praeyesright.bsky.social for convening!

The killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman highlights the dangerous convergence of radicalized religion and America’s escalating antiabortion violence.

The New Apostolic Reformation Vows to Stage the Largest-Ever Gathering of Christian Women | The NAR is going “global with this Esthers movement” with a Million Women event in São Paulo, Brazil, scheduled for Oct. 25, reports @fredclarkson.bsky.social at @religiondispatches.org.

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

The NAR's practice of "spiritual warfare" is a not-so-thinly-veiled call for physical violence, as political opponents are identified with demons, or even identified AS demons. Hence their special spin on the story of Esther.

You may not hear much about it -- but the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is staging a four day event on the national Mall in Washington, DC. I wrote a bit about it today in the context of wider NAR mobilizations in Brazil. @religiondispatches.org 🧵

Here in the US, NAR prophet Lou Engle and his allies are staging another event on the Washington Mall, October 9-12, called Communion America (featuring leading apostles Dutch Sheets of South Carolina and Bill Johnson of California).

Like many Engle-led and organized events, it’s aimed at generating cultural and political energy in advance of the 2026 mid-term elections. For four days there will be “nonstop worship” in tents for each of the 50 states—plus one tent for Israel and another for First Nations.

Saturday will feature what organizers claim will be “the longest communion table in history, spanning the National Mall” (although attendees are being asked to “bring [their] own food”). The purpose of this stunt, they say, is to bring together all “races, generations, denominations” ...

...to launch a campaign aimed at colleges and universities. This is consistent with the history of NAR which has long recruited college students and attacked leading universities as cursed or demonic, a posture that is certainly congruent with the Trump administration’s agenda thus far.

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.

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...

You may not hear much about it -- but the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is staging a four day event on the national Mall in Washington, DC. I wrote a bit about it today in the context of wider NAR mobilizations in Brazil. @religiondispatches.org 🧵

the latest from RD: @fredclarkson.bsky.social on the NAR's resolution to bring Christian women together en masse religiondispatches.org/the-nar-vows...

Just in time for #BannedBooksWeek there is a new documentary on rightwing attacks on libraries and schools: The Librarians. thelibrariansfilm.com

Moms for Liberty CEO & Co-Founder Tina Descovich verbally attacked the @buckscountybeacon.com at Harrisburg-area event last week while introducing Bucks Chapter Chair Jamie Tromba. Our crime? Journalism. Read more here: bit.ly/46XkOQh (And don't forget to support progressive, independent media!)

ACOG Continues Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A look into the church of Pete Hegseth's youth, and the rise of rural "viewing churches." by Betsy Froiland @barnraiser.bsky.social barnraisingmedia.com/megachurches...

A look into the church of Pete Hegseth's youth, and the rise of rural "viewing churches." by Betsy Froiland @barnraiser.bsky.social barnraisingmedia.com/megachurches...