Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

I have an idea and party Dems feel free to steal: stop sending constant texts begging for money for campaigns that are a year+ away, use those lists to organize people NOW w/ daily steps to save democracy so we can have those elections. Quit asking for a thimble of water when the house is on fire.

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” - Justice Robert Jackson

Why is Christian patriarchy gaining ground in America? @sarahstankorb.bsky.social unpacks Doug Wilson’s influence—from Moscow, Idaho to the national stage—and what it reveals about power, abuse, and faith. Watch: youtu.be/1bJeerWhY9U

"Those folks who already lived the microcosm version [of Christian patriarchy] can clue us into how that can be nationalized." - @sarahstankorb.bsky.social A conversation on how evangelicalism's theologies of hierarchy & submission are a harmful model for our nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJe...

I really, really hope we all start to appreciate the almost always combined dangers of Christian patriarchy and Christian nationallism, personified by Wilson.

My latest, for @thecut: if you are gobsmacked by the Doug Wilson sound bites, imagine living this, and hope you never have to. Heed the warning from those who have. www.thecut.com/article/pete...

www.thecut.com/article/pete... Always read @sarahstankorb.bsky.social

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

I will have more to share once I sleep, but some of you are just hearing about Doug Wilson (founder of Hegseth's denomination, who said on CNN that women are the kind of people who come out of, and another of his underlings argued for repeal of the 19th amendment). 1/

As someone who has covered Wilson and the impact of his teachings for years, I would have hoped @cnn.com would have questioned Wilson's assertion that sometimes the way to deal with abuse is going to the authorities, sometimes church elders, sometimes family...

Nothing is disqualifying? Former Jan. 6 defendant who called cops “Nazis” gets DOJ job www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Tickets are AVAILABLE for our LIVE recording and Q+A at the Kenworthy Theater in Downtown Moscow, Idaho from 4-6 PM! (We'll likely hit full capacity by the end of today - so if you live in the area, get your tickets soon) @sarahstankorb.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/live-recor...

Is the Democratic Party's entire plan for dealing with fascism to send endless texts requesting urgent $2 or $50 donations?

We are doing a LIVE recording and Q+A in Moscow, Idaho on August 8 from 4-6 PM with @sarahstankorb.bsky.social. Moscow is Christian Nationalist HQ, it's the "belly of the beast." We intend on disrupting it. EventBrite/ticket information for any interested: www.eventbrite.com/e/live-recor...

You know you are done for when the AC repair guy spends an hour on the phone, sitting on the floor of your basement, because he doesn't know what is wrong, then goes out to his van 'to make a few calls' ... but really because he is overheated and wants his van AC.

I have been running on the elliptical most days for over a decade. It used to be a way to push my weaker muscles and allow myself to rely on my stronger ones to keep going. I run half an hour exactly.

What a weird old man.

Hey @404media.co is the EndDEI website down??? I was going back to it for a story and now get an error that my browser detects a potential security threat and it won't load. I'd be curious if you can find out if someone took it down or what is going on. Might this be a clever hack or just accurate?

I just heard from my editor at Elle that my recent story has nearly a million engaged minutes (of reading and listening) on Apple News! If you haven't read it yet, here it is! www.elle.com/life-love/op...

I just received a note saying thanks for my interest in a position, but some publication (I never heard of) is pursuing other candidates. I never applied. I haven't applied for a non-freelance job in a long time. I guess, agreed, bad match??

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young: "This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."

"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. And I've never seen evidence of racial discrimination like this." "How can this be? I don't see anyone pushing back against it??" Calls out doctors and other senior administration officials as named defendants for not standing up to racial discrimination.

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

I'm reviewing old school board meeting videos from 2021, and heard one anti-masker draw a contrast between the freedoms we have in the U.S. vs. countries where 'women have to wear a mask and cannot drive a car.' I wonder how often did you hear anti-mask rhetoric wound up with Islamophobia?

I recently learned in 2017 there was a mass hexing of DJT. Wondering now, where are the witches and are they organizing?

(sidenote: is there a good thread of people from LA just posting photos showing how regular and calm things are in the vast majority of the city?)

Congress could regulate this but they won’t. It’s like watching a car accident happening in slow motionn

BALDWIN: What assessment did the DoD prior to implementing a trans ban to evaluate the impact that this policy would have on our national security? HEGSETH: Thankfully recruiting is not an issue BALDWIN: What analysis did you do? HEGSETH: We did extensive analysis B: Please provide it to me

Why is it so hard for people to see that corrupt actors are robbing them in real time?

Never have I ever wanted memories from this day emailed to me from... OneDrive. OneDrive?!?!?

I can't even with this. My daughter had us get her one of these Reborn babies during COVID lockdown and when I posted a picture my friends thought I had quietly gestated and had a baby. Her name is Creepy Baby. Now my kid moves her around the house for the jump scare. apnews.com/article/braz...

This is so wildly dumb. And lazy! I'm over here with actual papercuts on my hands from all the physical books/papers I have been combing over as part of my research.

NEW: Attorneys for MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell said in opening statements at his defamation trial in Denver that they won’t present evidence of his claim that the 2020 election was rigged. “It’s just words. All Mike Lindell did was talk,” said Lindell’s attorney. #copolitics

American health policy, pasted together by some lazies using AI hallucinations. It's like the most do-nothing kid in the group project just got put in charge of the country's healthcare. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I had a nightmare last night that my parents were alive again and my dad was in a wild, unreasonable fight with Stanley Tucci. I woke with my heart hammering, which is a measure of how hard and angry my dad's final years were. Like, who could get into a fight in their head with S. Tucci? My dad.

In researching for my book about women leaving the church, I'm finding *many* who are then becoming quite spiritual in new ways. I was curious to find a recent longitudinal study that shows this is happening across the board. My latest for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1945...

This is an amazing article.

One of the best articles I've ever read about tradwives.

In case you are more of an online reader than print, my feature for this month's ELLE pubbed online today too. If your feed is full of #tradwife content, this one is for you--about what it's really like and the women who feel compelled to help others escape. www.elle.com/life-love/op...

Reporters: stop talking about the budget as a "tax cut package" but rather as a "benefit cut package" because that's what it is for far more Americans.

Excellent analysis from @sarahjones.bsky.social for @nymag.com. A theology that rejects empathy is necessary for authoritarians, of the national and church-based varieties.

On newsstands now and evidently topping some friends' Apple podcast lists, my latest, for Elle Magazine. It's a love letter to those women who were sold a #tradwife life, from socials or their church. It's about women helping others get out.

Maybe, just maybe, instead of sending texts daily asking for money like we're still in normal election/rat race times, Dems should be organizing students on campus, teaching civic skills, filling gaps in education forming around anti-DEI policies and helping them mobilize to protect education.

"She also wrote that the loss of federal funding 'would cripple the operations of many educational institutions.'" ... which, to my mind is of course the threat and point of this. Nice to see a judgment prioritizing the survival of schools.

Pretty sure our mantra for the next few years is don't blink, wait for the fight in the courts. Judge: the administration didn't provide an adequate definition of DEI, the policy threatens free speech and oversteps the executive branch’s authority over local schools. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

This was @akelalacy.bsky.social’s scoop and NYT stole it. Read the original: theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

If you haven't visited harvard.edu recently, you should. Stories about the importance of research/how federal funds are used. Ready links to Harvard's response to the administration's demands. Every university should do this when its faculty's work is threatened and students' educations put at risk.

"Republicans want Americans to eat poop butter" is a pretty good attack line, imho