Christian Paz
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Politics reporter for Vox.
If you’re confused why any “Christian” would vote for an alleged adulterer over someone who said God was nonbinary, you need to understand the fundamentally different theologies of the two, and why it’s like two ships passing in the night
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The Texas Senate candidates have two radically different visions of Christianity
A religious fight is brewing in the Lone Star state.
https://www.vox.com/politics/490105/talarico-paxton-texas-christian-religious-senate-election-primary-nationalism-love-presbyterian-baptist?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjE0N3ZHVDR2UHYiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGl0aWNzLzQ5MDEwNS90YWxhcmljby1wYXh0b24tdGV4YXMtY2hyaXN0aWFuLXJlbGlnaW91cy1zZW5hdGUtZWxlY3Rpb24tcHJpbWFyeS1uYXRpb25hbGlzbS1sb3ZlLXByZXNieXRlcmlhbi1iYXB0aXN0IiwiZXhwIjoxNzgxMTkzMTQ3LCJpYXQiOjE3Nzk5ODM1NDd9.Me2uwhp2W5Ky4EqbSFVtCjyvRBWh2vPDhspiXXpLeHw&utm_medium=gift-link
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Max Kennerly
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As always, every conservative accusation is a confession. The renewed interest in claiming "weaponization" by Biden is because Trump is ramping up his weaponization of DOJ.
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Vox
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A religious fight is brewing in the Lone Star state.
www.vox.com/politics/490...
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The Texas Senate candidates have two radically different visions of Christianity
A religious fight is brewing in the Lone Star state.
https://www.vox.com/politics/490105/talarico-paxton-texas-christian-religious-senate-election-primary-nationalism-love-presbyterian-baptist
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On the pope’s historic broadside on the unregulated, unlimited AI development:
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On the spirit of antichrist which surrounds us
www.vox.com/politics/489...
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Somehow, the Antichrist returned
Prominent ex-Trump supporters are likening him to the Antichrist. It’s a throwback to earlier “end times” politics.
https://www.vox.com/politics/489337/antichrist-israel-fundamentalist-evangelical-trump-revelations-religious-right-end-times-rapture?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik41ZzVPNlB1ZnEiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGl0aWNzLzQ4OTMzNy9hbnRpY2hyaXN0LWlzcmFlbC1mdW5kYW1lbnRhbGlzdC1ldmFuZ2VsaWNhbC10cnVtcC1yZXZlbGF0aW9ucy1yZWxpZ2lvdXMtcmlnaHQtZW5kLXRpbWVzLXJhcHR1cmUiLCJleHAiOjE3ODEwMjgxNzQsImlhdCI6MTc3OTgxODU3NH0.oVY6pnj-yOy8c007HovBJ9xjyw1GkrC3e_u4QMqm4iE&utm_medium=gift-link
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On the pope’s historic broadside on the unregulated, unlimited AI development:
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Emma Sarappo
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JENNA TO LIZ: Okay, look, I know you've never done this before, but I had to learn the hard way: Don't use the props. They always try to get you to take one funny photo and that’s always the one they use and you look like an idiot. *i took this of my own accord
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Has a year of Trump done anything to make "Christian nationalism" more acceptable? No, not really. -Secularism remains popular. -Divine American exceptionalism isn't gaining steam -But more Americans are saying religion is gaining influence.
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Vox
17 days ago
Americans don’t really want “Christian nationalism."
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A year of Trump is backfiring on the religious right
Americans don’t really want “Christian nationalism.”
https://www.vox.com/politics/488587/trump-religious-right-christian-nationalism-biblical-christian-nation-religion-prayer-250
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Has a year of Trump done anything to make "Christian nationalism" more acceptable? No, not really. -Secularism remains popular. -Divine American exceptionalism isn't gaining steam -But more Americans are saying religion is gaining influence.
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If Democrats want to go total war in the future redistricting wars, they may be asking for a big sacrifice from Black, Hispanic, and Asian American voters, as well as representatives from these communities.
@vox.com
www.vox.com/politics/487...
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What does the post-Voting Rights Act world look like?
Democrats will have to balance racial representation with political reality.
https://www.vox.com/politics/487956/callais-gerrymander-redistricting-congress-illinois-california-new-york-alabama-louisana-black-latino
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I love the real housewives of New York City
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Cackling snorting shortling
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I’m barking like Paul revere in my group chats letting everyone know that Heated Rivalry won a Peabody
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Christian Paz
Vox
about 1 month ago
Trump's gerrymandering efforts are backfiring.
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Virginia voters just handed Democrats another win in the Great Redistricting Wars
Trump’s gerrymandering efforts are backfiring.
https://www.vox.com/politics/486357/virginia-redistricting-gerrymander-democrats-gop-middecade-referendum-fair-election-midterm-2026
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Virginia — you have stunned the nation!
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Virginia voters just handed Democrats another win in the Great Redistricting Wars
Trump’s gerrymandering efforts are backfiring.
https://www.vox.com/politics/486357/virginia-redistricting-gerrymander-democrats-gop-middecade-referendum-fair-election-midterm-2026?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImIzNldhUm1zWkUiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGl0aWNzLzQ4NjM1Ny92aXJnaW5pYS1yZWRpc3RyaWN0aW5nLWdlcnJ5bWFuZGVyLWRlbW9jcmF0cy1nb3AtbWlkZGVjYWRlLXJlZmVyZW5kdW0tZmFpci1lbGVjdGlvbi1taWR0ZXJtLTIwMjYiLCJleHAiOjE3NzgwMzE0OTUsImlhdCI6MTc3NjgyMTg5NX0.a236IDZzsDlLoeRsicG74uKCWyws9X9yTd9ANLKnySI&utm_medium=gift-link
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ending, the clone wars are
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Virginia voters just handed Democrats another win in the Great Redistricting Wars
Trump’s gerrymandering efforts are backfiring.
https://www.vox.com/politics/486357/virginia-redistricting-gerrymander-democrats-gop-middecade-referendum-fair-election-midterm-2026
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Vox
about 2 months ago
Trump fought with Pope Francis before. He’s finding Pope Leo XIV to be a tougher foil.
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Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope
Trump fought with Pope Francis before. He’s finding Pope Leo XIV to be a tougher foil.
https://www.vox.com/politics/485838/donald-trump-pope-leo-jd-vance-catholic-fight-feud-francis-traditionalist-liberal-iran-war-vatican
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"The Vatican is a 2,000-year-old global institution with a divine remit. The 250-year-old United States is still only a footnote, and this president’s term is barely a thought"
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A Blasphemous President
Bullying won’t work against a power that has little need to curry favor.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-pope-leo-iran-war/686800/
about 2 months ago
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Benjy Sarlin
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope. Pope Leo XIV is not Pope Francis. He starts with more buy-in from Catholic conservatives, and the war is a more divisive topic among them than other political fights. More from
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www.vox.com/politics/485...
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Donald Trump messed with the wrong pope
Trump fought with Pope Francis before. He’s finding Pope Leo XIV to be a tougher foil.
https://www.vox.com/politics/485838/donald-trump-pope-leo-jd-vance-catholic-fight-feud-francis-traditionalist-liberal-iran-war-vatican
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The White House versus the Vicar of Christ? I’m siding with the successor of Saint Peter on this one. (Gift link below)
about 2 months ago
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Benjy Sarlin
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump did something blasphemous? Wow, you're telling me this for the first time. More surprising is how hard the pushback on the right was this time — which may be symptomatic of deeper problems beneath the surface. Read
@christianpaz.bsky.social
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Donald Trump’s pivot to blasphemy
Attacking the pope and posing as Jesus — even religious conservatives are mad this time.
https://www.vox.com/politics/485563/trump-pope-ai-blasphemy-art-christ-evangelical-religious-right
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Blasphemy is cool now, I guess
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Donald Trump’s pivot to blasphemy
Attacking the pope and posing as Jesus — even religious conservatives are mad this time.
https://www.vox.com/politics/485563/trump-pope-ai-blasphemy-art-christ-evangelical-religious-right?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IklqaTM2NHpDcjgiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGl0aWNzLzQ4NTU2My90cnVtcC1wb3BlLWFpLWJsYXNwaGVteS1hcnQtY2hyaXN0LWV2YW5nZWxpY2FsLXJlbGlnaW91cy1yaWdodCIsImV4cCI6MTc3NzMxNzI1MywiaWF0IjoxNzc2MTA3NjUzfQ.jgkxh7OYqJybvHHhfDXAPkjklat6hdaYs7nlEa9i6vU&utm_medium=gift-link
about 2 months ago
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Vox
about 2 months ago
Avignon-gate, the scandal blowing up MAGA-Catholic relations, explained.
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Did the Trump administration threaten the pope?
Avignon-gate, the scandal blowing up MAGA-Catholic relations, explained.
https://www.vox.com/politics/485418/pentagon-iran-trump-vatican-threaten-pope-leo-avignon-maga
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Amanda Mull
about 2 months ago
Had such a lovely time recording this with
@parismarx.com
!! Also this is the podcast debut of the new bookshelves lmao
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sam delgado
about 2 months ago
D.C. established a program to make streateries permanent. So why are so many of them gone, just as the weather warms up? I get into it for
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New rules mean many DC restaurants are closing streateries
The District made streateries permanent. But restaurant owners say the rules are too costly and complicated to keep them up.
https://51st.news/dc-streateries-closing-new-rules/
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Very proud of this piece, would love if you might read it
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Vox
2 months ago
Immigrant or not, Trump’s mass deportation pledges have fundamentally changed how regular people live.
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How ICE has changed American life
Immigrant or not, Trump’s mass deportation pledges have fundamentally changed how regular people live.
https://www.vox.com/politics/483983/immigration-ice-changed-america-economy-tsa-chicago-charlotte-arizona-enforcement-immigrant-life
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Vox
2 months ago
The MAGA civil war over the Iran war is opening up new and old religious and political feuds.
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The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran
The MAGA civil war over the Iran war is opening up new and old religious and political feuds.
https://www.vox.com/politics/484125/israel-maga-iran-religious-catholic-evangelical-zionism-dispensationalism-vatican-anti-semitism-tucker-huckabee-ted-cruz
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I bring tidings:
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The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran
The MAGA civil war over the Iran war is opening up new and old religious and political feuds.
https://www.vox.com/politics/484125/israel-maga-iran-religious-catholic-evangelical-zionism-dispensationalism-vatican-anti-semitism-tucker-huckabee-ted-cruz
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“They’re going to release the hounds.”
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Things Are About to Get Ugly in Texas
A runoff, resentments, and the question of whether a Democrat can win statewide
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/crockett-talarico-paxton-cornyn-texas/686238/?gift=mAHqFR5bF9XcrdLEA70qUAkGAEOMYs8lWO4qvhvS9yg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Rachel Cohen Booth
3 months ago
What kind of “fighter” do Democratic voters want in 2026?
@christianpaz.bsky.social
on today's Senate primary in Texas and what the party might take from James Talarico's bid
www.vox.com/politics/480...
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3 months ago
How Trump might finally be breaking the manosphere.
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Trump’s Iran war is uniting a strange new anti-war alliance
How Trump might finally be breaking the manosphere.
https://www.vox.com/politics/481208/trump-iran-war-podcast-manosphere-influencer-maga-america-first-war-neocon
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Vox
3 months ago
Why Rep. Ro Khanna isn't done talking about the Epstein files.
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The “Epstein class,” explained
Why Rep. Ro Khanna isn’t done talking about the Epstein files.
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/480850/epstein-files-ro-khanna-accountability-congress-explained
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Vox
3 months ago
For our next Patreon Reporter Q&A, Vox's
@christianpaz.bsky.social
and
@jonquilynhill.bsky.social
will discuss the intersection of the manosphere and politics — specifically how these right-wing coalitions inform elections and public opinion of our leaders. What questions do you have for them? 👇
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"Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country."
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“The Thought of Holding Thousands of Families in Massive Warehouses Should Challenge the Conscience of Every American,” Says Bishop Cahill
Newly released details show how the Administration plans to double federal immigration detention capacity, spending an estimated $38.3 billion from last year...
https://www.usccb.org/news/2026/thought-holding-thousands-families-massive-warehouses-should-challenge-conscience-every?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=facebook&utm_term=
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Abdallah Fayyad
3 months ago
I’ll be cross posting some of my Boston Globe articles on Substack and will be launching a (free) newsletter soon. If you’d like to follow me there, you can subscribe at:
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Abdallah Fayyad | Substack
Ideas Staff Writer at The Boston Globe
https://substack.com/@abdallahfayyad
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Isn't this the problem with the modern age?
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Zack Beauchamp
3 months ago
One of the key virtues of Brazilian democracy that I witnessed: its multiparty system. The separation of interests between the president and Congressional majority led to a kind of legislative anti-authoritarian pushback from a center-right Congress Americans can only dream about.
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Erica Chenoweth
4 months ago
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
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Erica Chenoweth
4 months ago
Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018
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"But if this is indeed the nadir of our democracy, social repair will require not just policy adjustments, but a reconsideration of what makes for legitimate moral and political leadership."
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Mamdani’s Newest Ally: The Catholic Church?
Meet New York’s enigmatic new archbishop, Ronald Hicks.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mamdanis-newest-ally-the-catholic-church.html
4 months ago
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Vox
4 months ago
Progressive Catholics are ready to confront MAGA.
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Pope Leo is quietly reviving America’s Catholic left
Progressive Catholics are ready to confront MAGA.
https://www.vox.com/life/478653/pope-leo-immigration-resistance-trump-maga-catholic-christian-nationalism-authoritarianism
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New Q&A up on an under-the-radar transformation of the US Catholic Church under Pope Leo, and the revived sense of a Catholic Left in America, for
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www.vox.com/life/478653/...
4 months ago
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Welcome to the Woke Reconquista
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Zack Beauchamp
4 months ago
The bloodbath at the Post is the worst day in US media in quite some time. Hundreds of talented journalists laid off because a billionaire wants to curry favor with an authoritarian president.
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4 months ago
Tom Homan's prior controversies suggest that he is something other than the moderating “adult in the room” that he has been presented as by the Trump administration.
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The man Trump is hoping can fix ICE optics in Minneapolis
Tom Homan, explained.
https://www.vox.com/politics/477197/tom-homan-cbp-dhs-ice-bovino-noem-trump-minneapolis?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhbluesky&utm_content=<media_url>
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