It's almost like feeding your political base unadulterated conspiracy slop — with a soupçon of end-times theology — for decades might eventually come back to bite you

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The Vice President, if not an outright Nazi himself, sees them as allies and fellow travelers.

Earlier this week, Decoherence Media reported on 8 fascist, antisemitic, or otherwise far-right accounts that JD Vance followed on X. HowlingMutant was one of them. He frequently posts about rape and refers to himself as a rapist, and makes antisemitic jokes.

oh wow you’re telling me that jd vance follows yet another nazi on twitter

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Taxing $5 million second homes? The scariest thing ever. The world's richest man engaging in Great Replacement and "white genocide" conspiracies? Important discourse you can find on X: The Everything App™!

What a week of rich data! Yesterday, PRRI released its religious census data, which showed, overall, a pretty stagnant picture of religious identification and disaffiliation. Except, among women under 30. @bmietana.bsky.social did a great job summarizing the survey. religionnews.com/2026/04/15/s...

When the White House is trying to do damage control on all the outrage about Trump’s post showing himself as Jesus, it’s not a good idea to call the the media the Pharisees.

This is a favorite strawman of the Religious Right, asserting that the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution. They ignore that there are only three references to religion in the entire Constitution, all three of which work to separate church and state.

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

clarence thomas is just reciting a circa 2010 glenn beck rant verbatim abcnews.com/Politics/sup...

Is Pope Leo XIV the right person to lead the Catholic Church? We asked four evangelicals at a megachurch outside of Nashville.

Thank goodness we got rid of all that silly DEI stuff and have returned to the meritocracy of, uh, [checks notes] ideological filtered 23-year-old dudes who joined the right club.

This is not the best way to sell me insurance, Ned. Bing!

Yeah but is he a Gundam flying over the Statue of Liberty?

it'll be back in three days

My read is that this gave them a plausible, low-cost opportunity to criticize him. Allows them to say "of course I'll call him out when he gets it wrong" without having to engage on anything substantive. A real life version of the "I can excuse racism but I draw the line at..." meme.

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW I IS WEAK ON ANTITRUST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

The Constitution forbids any “establishment of religion“ by our government. But Christian extremists are hijacking our political system and using our tax money to foist their beliefs on us. It’s an obnoxious assault on American values.

As a life-long atheist, I can only aspire to this level of blasphemy.

Remember when conservatives argued that a city government official telling Catholic Social Services that their anti-LGBTQ policies were out of step with the new Pope's teachings was definitely evidence of anti-Catholic animosity? Anyway, just thinking about that for no reason in particular.

Trying to imagine the absolute meltdown we'd be seeing on Fox (and the entire Right Wing media ecosystem) and among "religious freedom" Republicans in Congress if Obama had even gently criticized the Pope while president — nevermind this unhinged screed.

This is what Christian Nationalism looks like.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about going out of their way to defend this guy against charges of antisemitism.

In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.

Me, seeing Hungarian elections results

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🇭🇺 Hungarian elections: ‼️Viktor Orbán congratulated Péter Magyar

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds regular Pentagon prayer meetings, which infuse worship with the furor of Christian nationalism. "Hegseth is trying to evangelize the military leadership with his version of Christianity,” says @briankaylor.bsky.social of @wordandway.bsky.social.

For once, the Fifth Circuit trying to take us back to the 1850s worked out for the good.

chyron has me asking a lot of questions already answered by the chyron

'Gov. Spanberger signed a bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia. A portion of the sale of these plates has previously supported the neo-Confederate organization Sons of Confederate Veterans.' #CivilWarMemory www.wavy.com/news/virgini...

Most people think child marriage is a thing of the past. It isn't. Over 300,000 minors were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2021. American Atheists is working to end it - in all 50 states. Join the fight. atheists.org/marriage

"Bombing the Pope for criticizing an illegal war" feels like a dramatic over-enforcement of the Johnson Amendment

For Christian Nationalists, there is no tension here. Because the religious "freedom" they espouse is only for "real" Americans. In their view, their dominance over every institution is moral and necessary to reclaim their nation from those who have corrupted it (secularists, immigrants, Muslims).

Is it possible that MAGA types really don't see the difference between: "I want more religion in public schools" -and- "I want more of MY religion in public schools." [gift link]

no offense to the hungarian people but i’m sorry, the idea that hungary is some last bastion of “western civilization” is absurd. can’t overstate how much this post-liberal, national conservative nonsense makes you sound like a putz

Kind of thing that should be read aloud in front of a tribunal.

Just a normal push alert to wake up to

how convenient 😵‍💫 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Somebody's gotta do the hard work of confirming those 27-year-old Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers to lifetime judgeships.

Vought has in fact written about his belief that the president is an elected dictator.

OPINION: "Too many Americans have forgotten or never learned that separating religion and politics was crucial to the formation of the United States." — Harold Jackson

Who can forget that time Joe Biden cancelled Good Friday, replaced Easter with a drag show, and sent woke ICE agents with purple hair into conservative evangelical churches that didn't comply

In my observation, this is the modal Christian right defense of Trump's deranged statements. It's not "Hell yeah! Get 'em Trump!" More often it's an attempt to ease their consciences by framing it as a false choice: "It's either Trump or [imagined persecution of Christianity]. What else could I do?"