Bishop Theophilus stands atop the Serapeum—with an African deity in the aedicula below him. He ordered its destruction, but the people of Alexandria opposed the demolition in pitched street battles, for years. See my book excerpt: open.substack.com/.../p/destro...

New chapter excerpt, War on Pagans, in my book on church-state authoritarian repression, Magna Mater, Paulianity, and the Imperial Church. "Firmicus Maternus exhorted the emperor to suppress “the lethal infection of a vanquished idolatry.” oldwitch.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

Diabolism: Ideologies of Domination: Th 24 July 6pm & Sat 26 July noon, US PT. Check timezone converter for your local time! If you can't attend either session can request a link to recording of the second session. $20 Register at py.pl/4jvowPHRxi8 More info: oldwitch.substack.com/p/diabolism-...

Found while researching something else: "End [Female Genital] Excision

Goddess Seals and Priestesses of Iran, free excerpt from Ancient Iran video. youtu.be/suc1-S_2iuE Snake goddess, grain goddess, horned goddess, and women's ceremony in the cylinder seals of Kerman, S. Iran, ca 2400 bce. These important cylinder seals are rarely seen except by academic specialists.

Made up, but I love it anyway.

Kourt: fine for Trump to send immigrants to third party countries where they might be tortured or killed (and, in most cases, do not even speak the language). www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cambridge anthro prof Alison Murray discovered that prehistoric women were buff... their bone structure was 11-16% stronger than today’s elite rowers. The modern cultural obsession with thinness is very recent, born of fashion, patriarchy, postwar consumerism. time.com/7293999/body...

Devastating illustration of the rhetoric used first against Iraq, and now against Iran—and Los Angeles. No, really, watch the historic and current clips: youtu.be/l8c8q8vhEnM?...

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Americans are giving off a real “Aw, hell no!“ vibe right now. This weekend should be interesting.

Latest installment from The Imperial Church, chapter 7 in my unfolding online book: where the word "colonialism" came from. open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

Mother Law is an Indigenous name for matricultural societies, their cooperative ethos centered on life matrix, mother-kin, sister and brother-kin. Visual talk & discussion. Two showings, Sun June 22 noon (PT) and Wed 25 June 25th at 6pm (PT), the 2nd zoom is recorded. Subscribe here: py.pl/2AsUYx

Secret police in the USA

"what is happening now in America is absolutely, they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. We This is huge amounts of data on every single person in America that can and will be used in opaque and unaccountable ways. And it is terrifying. youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

Video on Judea under Roman rule; the Hasmonean queen Shlomtzion, aka Salome Alexandra; Yeshua of Nazareth and his followers (who were not “christian”). Pagan influences in synagogue mosaics and in the female figurines from a ceramic workshop at Beit Nattif in the 200s CE. youtu.be/eFCZ8QiS18Q?...

Rachel Maddow talking with Stacy Abrams on How to Fight Fascism in America; and how autocrats scam populism in order to rip off the Commons. Worth a listen! youtu.be/7nBKMEbOaVc?...

The government can now restrict the books that you and your family are allowed to read in public libraries just because it dislikes or disagrees with the content.

f you haven't seen them yet, check out my videos at www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/vi... There are almost 70 up there, and I'm about to add another one. And subscribe! I'm almost at 7000 now...

"the church doctors—John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine—agreed that Eve led Adam into sin, therefore all women should be put under obedience to their husbands and priestly authority. They saw women as temptresses, seducers into sin, with weak and evil natures." open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...

Shame! Shame! Shame!

WOMENSART blog: Extraordinary PainterBetty Acquah womensartblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/28/e...

Urgent Intervention Needed – Deportation of #FatouTamba Fatou is known to our team & we are asking if you can spare some time on this urgent call to action. Please send an email to your MP asking they act immediately. A letter template is included in the petition. www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...

'I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse... I was too busy rebelling" Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington #WomensArt

“I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine" #jkRowling #bemoreJkrowling ”https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jk-rowling-wont-fire-paapa-essiedu-harry-potter-trans-support-1236387224/

Rogue actors in top offices...

the dynamic on wall street is traders are terrified - not of a recession, but of repeating 2020 where those who correctly foresaw the disaster of covid got killed and those who blindly trusted trump that the problem would magically disappear made fortunes.

Oh fuck no.

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

Historical Processes of Patriarchalization: Thus May 22 at 6pm PT and Sat 24 at noon California Time). Open-ended discussion on how male domination got encoded into culture, family structure, state and religion—internally, by conquest, or both. And Divide and Conquer. $20. py.pl/yIuy7

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The President of the United States really does seem hellbent on intentionally destroying the U.S. economy. And even after everything we have seen, there are still some folks—in fact some very powerful, wealthy people—who have not really come to terms with this."

JUNE 14TH NEEDS TO BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL PROTESTS THUS🤔 FAR!! Alot is going on! We have to find our local meetup and a GO!! Bring 13 friends too! Before you go celebrate #BarackObamaDay Saluting 44 via SM & trash birthday boy and the nazi parade! A great day to be American! Let's do this! 🇺🇲👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿

When a party can’t defend its complicity with shameful actions, it hides behind silence.

Videos on patriarchy, starting with this trilogy: Patriarchies: systems of male domination Patriarchal Law Patriarchal Religion and Custom Silencing Women's Speech Tracking Systems of Domination The Distaff and Female Power Persecutory Cultures Linked at: open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...

'Bealtaine, Embodiment' - a film poem by Grace Wells youtu.be/QYZqV093WZE?... Blessed Bealtaine, a beautiful film, thanks to Mary Condren. Watch and listen for inspiration.

Beautiful song for Earth from South America. "How can it be that humans don't respect / the law of Life, that which sustains us? / Honor the Earth, pray to sky, love your brothers/sisters / Lift the weight.... Danit - Tierra (Lyrics / Letra) youtu.be/jkWUvbaRnUA?...

The emperor is mad, cruel and destructive. open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch... "The Christian Dominionists are enthralled with their Antichrist, a narcissistic sociopath who propagates hatred and domination, a bombastic Adderal addict in bronzer makeup. open.substack.com/pub/oldwitch...

Video about my 2025 course, with photo essays, articles, videos and audio commentaries on cultural treasures, archaeological finds, and historical analysis. Watch it here: youtu.be/5a4vEPdQ-ng

Ceramic Scriptures of Signs: 1st webcast of my new WOMANITY course, with treasures from the world archaeological record. Thurs 17 April, 6pm, Sun 20 April, noon (California time, so check a timeconverter for your local time). You can subscribe at: suppressed-histories.teachable.com/p/restoring-...

True, except I'd amend to "will to power and domination." Chump for example is a spoiled and self-indulgent blog.

Massive Crowds Everywhere! And Everywhere You Look, You Will See The True Leaders of This Next Revolution open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...

listening to Gail Dines speaking on radical feminism at FiLiA conference in 2014. youtu.be/D_Hyi5gpWOk?...

The Senate just PASSED a resolution to reverse Trump's disastrous tariffs on Canada. Now, it's on the House to listen to the desperate pleas of American businesses, farmers, and families who can't afford Trump's costly price hikes. Time to end this senseless trade war. 🇺🇸🇨🇦

It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Wisconsin is victorious over Musk election-buying attempt.

He's still going. Here's the live feed. Bravo, Sen Booker!