In an effort to prove his argument that the U.S. military has always been the Lord’s army, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today mentioned George Washington praying at Valley Forge. It’s a story he often likes to bring up at the Pentagon worship services. But it’s a fake story.

This morning, Hegseth baptized the military as God's crusaders: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-nationa... Then, he blew up another boat. What a profane "amen" to his heretical prayer.

and after a brief (apparently cosmetic) retreat, The Family is back this year:

I’d love for a journalist to look closer at this and bring us some real investigative journalism on Upward Broadband. Why? Christian biz + public money + rural areas in need of Broadband = possible bad news. 1/

FWIW: Both Cocalico and Lancaster Academy of the Performing Arts have board members that belong to the same dominionist network, Lancaster’s own HarvestNet International. 1/

I’m here in Chester County where a meeting on the 2025 poll book printing error is getting underway. Follow for updates.

Hello Bluesky! This is Carter Walker from Votebeat! Finally opened an account here so that we can share all we're working on with you. I'll be watching Governor Shapiro's budget address today for any election policy references, though I don't expect much. Later tonight, I'll be in Chester County for

Ken Cuccinelli’s involvement as legal counsel here is also pretty adorable. Birds of a feather, as it were

My latest on AI for the LNP… lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

Oh, Lloyd is so submissive he's follows Trump's playbook in trying to limit free speech with intimidating lawsuits. Total lack of originality that will totally backfire. He's so cute. 1/

Front page of LNP | LancasterOnline for Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026:

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11) sues his hometown paper (my employer, LNP | LancasterOnline) for defamation, arguing an editorial that described his + other GOPers' arguments last fall that Dems wanted to fund health care for illegal immigrants were a "lie." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Please, for the love of God and all things holy, if you are a reporter and you're looking at Christian Nationalism, Pete Hegseth, and/or Doug Wilson, START HERE. We have spent THOUSANDS of hours researching this movement, please use our research and reach out to us BEFORE publishing.

This article is based, in part, on my new book: To Catch A Fascist: The Fight To Expose The Radical Right, in stores TUESDAY FEBRUARY 3! But you should preorder it today and I'll sign the damn thing! It's really good, I promise. greenlightbookstore.com/book/9781668...

Hey @kieraevebutler.bsky.social: Look where the Lapp Bros are now! Good times for these ex-Amish NAR Folks. 1/

Related: 8/ bsky.app/profile/dani...

"[Eberly] explained that the Commonwealth Foundation...would function as the state-based equivalent of the Heritage Foundation, while the Pennsylvania Family Institute...would be the equivalent of the Family Research Council." 6/ @praeyesright.bsky.social: 1999 tinyurl.com/ykmruacy

Eberly founded the Commonwealth Foundation which he described as “the Heritage Foundation equivalent" during that same speech. 5/ @praeyesright.bsky.social: 1999 tinyurl.com/ykmruacy

Eberly helped found PAFamily/ILC. In a 1989 speech for the Heritage Foundation, Eberly said, “We have just brought on line the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which might be compared to the Family Research Council here in Washington.” 4/ @praeyesright.bsky.social: 1999 tinyurl.com/ykmruacy

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Huge news! The administration's anti-DEI guidance has been struck down — and they have withdrawn their appeal. The court ruled the policy illegal and unconstitutional. Washington Post coverage: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Back to the LNP article / Dayspring accusations... The headmaster's kid is identified only as LS - not hard to figure out but I'll refrain from naming. It's interesting to me that LS does not appear in any of the Dayspring graduation 2025 posts. I'd post pics but there's no point. 19/

Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social releasing a memoir & going on a book tour, while seeking reelection, is akin to Blake Lively launching and hawking her beauty products while promoting her movie “It Ends With Us.” Memoirs are for leaving office and def not when our democracy is dying. @padems.org

@buckscountybeacon.com @cmychalejko.bsky.social @jaxonwhite.bsky.social @iveythewriter.bsky.social @tommurse.bsky.social

Absolute propaganda!

🧵 re "Christian" brainwashing machine ➡️"Dayspring growing means that more young people will learn alternative history and creationism as STEM."

A follower shared the legal document earlier this week so I'm really glad that @lancasteronline.bsky.social covered this. They include everything EXCEPT a detail about perpetrator and, of course, the larger context of Dayspring. Let's have a look! 1/

I am looking for news stories about local level GOP being "hijacked" by Christian nationalist/dominionist doctrine/beliefs/practices. Got anything?

I am looking for news stories about local level GOP being "hijacked" by Christian nationalist/dominionist doctrine/beliefs/practices. Got anything?

Most important takeaway, IMO: “A lot of the service projects and outreach in the town are run by those (radical) churches,” she said. “Because they’re out there trying to evangelize all the time – they’re the ones doing the service projects. We’ve made a really big effort to get in those spaces.”

“They have called us demons, and vehicles of Satan, and lunatics,” she said. “Just all kinds of really nice stuff. You know they feel this certain way about you, and they have all these guns.”

McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn’t seem like he’s all there.

@lancasteronline.bsky.social: Veritas is a member of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools - founded by a self-avowed and noteworthy Christian nationalist, Doug Wilson. Readers will think Veritas is a benign religious school that’s doing really well. 1/

🚨👇👇👇🚨 Don’t miss @buckscountybeacon.com review of the first year of Trump’s second term.

Calls for people to film events in Minnesota reflect good intentions, but intention without process produces unusable evidence. Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.

If being called a pedo or pedo protector agitates you, you're probably a pedo or pedo protector. Just sayin' 🤷‍♀️

@buckscountybeacon.com @ashleystal.bsky.social @chrisottolnp.bsky.social @lancasteronline.bsky.social @cmychalejko.bsky.social @iveythewriter.bsky.social @jaxonwhite.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social

No surprise to anyone: PAFamily/ILC filed an Amicus Brief in Little v. Hecox. I’m eager to read it, but first, here are the current and former school board members who signed on. 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Back in the day, Ronald Reagan was praised for the same reason Mamdani is being questioned.

"But we're still in charge, right?"

@kathrynajoyce.bsky.social’s piece for @inthesetimes.com / @hechingerreport.org gets mentioned in RWW’s The Briefing. As it should!

‘Clever as serpents’: How a legal group’s anti-LGBTQ policies took root in school districts across a state hechingerreport.org/clever-as-se... per The Hetchington Report

At a 2005 conference, Wenger suggested Dover, PA could have avoided legal challenges if officials just hadn’t *mentioned* religious motivations during public school board meetings, invoking a biblical reference to add, “I think we need to do a better job at being clever as serpents.” And they have!

‘Clever as serpents’: How a legal group’s anti-LGBTQ policies took root in school districts across a state hechingerreport.org/clever-as-se...

‘Clever as serpents’: How a legal group’s anti-LGBTQ policies took root in school districts across a state hechingerreport.org/clever-as-se...

“Clever as serpents”: How a legal group’s anti-LGBTQ policies took root in school districts across a state inthesetimes.com/article/anti...

‘Clever as Serpents’: How a Legal Group’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies Took Root in School Districts Across Pennsylvania | Parents want to protect their kids from the Independence Law Center's right-wing Christian plans for schools, writes @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social at @hechingerreport.org @inthesetimes.com.

In one of the most appalling developments of past day, Elon Musk's AI chatbot desecrated Renee Nicole Good's body. That's in addition to harassing women and sexually exploiting minors. By @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“After…Musk purchased X…, he reversed the site’s censorship policies,” which ‘allowed those people who hold anti-Semitic views to come out of the shadows & start growing their platforms more openly,’ Dillon said.” (It did the same thing for white nationalists, some of whom are also antisemitic.) 1/