Bex
@bexaheimbrock.bsky.social
freelance journalist. researcher. words in Parapraxis, Teen Vogue (rip) and others. MA UChicago. “a pleasure to have in class”
New: Vivek Ramaswamy campaigned with a pastor in Ohio who has preached that Muslims are growing a “caliphate” in the U.S., & that the global “rebellion of Islam” is led “by the Devil himself.” The Pastor has also called modern Judaism "fake." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ramaswa...
Ramaswamy Campaigned With Pastor Who Says ‘Satan’ Is Using Islam to Launch ‘War’ Against America
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio, campaigned earlier this...
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I wrote about the Cowboy Church. You should read it: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
The Happy Trail to Heaven — Parapraxis
Finding America in the Cowboy Church Bex Heimbrock
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A debate over Matthew 25 has been brewing in Congress over the last year. It’s pitting mainline pastors, Black protestants and the pope against evangelical politicians put on the defensive amid outspoken religious criticisms of President Donald Trump’s policies. religionnews.com/2026/07/01/i...
The Bible verses dividing Washington: How Matthew 25 became a political litmus test
(RNS) — 'He told me that Matthew 25 was about individuals, and not nations,' Sen. Raphael Warnock said, referring to Speaker Mike Johnson. 'The text actually says nations.' Warnock added: “It's a ver...
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It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.
The proper headline here is CHARGES DISMISSED DUE TO DOJ MISCONDUCT www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/u...
Charges dropped against activists in Chicago immigration crackdown amid grand jury misconduct claims | CNN
Chicago’s top federal prosecutor abandoned a closely watched case Thursday against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown in the city, after a...
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SO excited to share that my work will be featured in Issue 08 of Parapraxis Magazine. This issue, focusing on ‘groups,’ tackles fascism in its current and past iterations - including (you guessed it!) my work on Cowboy Churches! Pre-order link is live: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
Parapraxis Issue 08: Groups — Parapraxis
Parapraxis Issue 08: Groups
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opened the app and got an error msg that just said “forbidden” is that a good sign?
we are very much back. and maybe we never left. ekko astral 5ever
Ekko Astral Announce New Live Album Fuck This Band: Live at the Chapel
The record is out April 22—the day the Washington, D.C. punk band were originally set to release their sophomore album
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New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders
SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.
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The first three prints from this year's CSA are shipping out now! There's still time to subscribe: justseeds.org/project/csa/
I’m a connoisseur of grocery store knock-off girl scout cookies. My time is now.
The underlying dynamic is that for Jeff Bezos and the other media oligarchs, their news business is a tiny fraction of their overall business holdings and they are willing to sacrifice it to appease President Trump. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/year-med...
The year the media oligarchs bowed to Trump
We warned last year that Donald Trump’s second term as president would turbo-charge the political right’s burgeoning media-intimidation complex. Republican officials and right-wing billionaires were a...
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This is why need more religion reporters!!!
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 8mo agoNote: Biery graduated from Texas Lutheran College and Southern Methodist University. If he’s a mainliner (in keeping w/those schools), he’d likely use the NRSV translation, which reads “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs”
It’s stuff like this that makes it wildly unclear as to why most major outlets don’t have multiple religion reporters.
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 8mo agoJudge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Photos from today’s protest in DC - part of a national day of action calling for the abolition of ICE.
I’m at the chinatown metro where about 100 people are rallying to demand ‘ICE out now’ Speaker just called this “minnesota cold”
Fantastic reporting from @juliannemcshane.bsky.social here, and a warning shot about the future of abortion clinic protests: Trump's pardons have only emboldened the most aggressive fringe elements of street level activism. "We're going to disrupt this country as much as we can."
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 8mo agoNEW @ms.now: Anti-abortion activists pardoned by Trump for invading clinics are joining a new effort led by Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry to revive mass clinic protests. I spent some time with them in DC last week. “We’re going to disrupt this country as much as we can," one said. 🧵
"Headlines call it a 'crackdown' on immigration and a 'clash' between the government and 'protesters,' when in reality it’s murderous occupying forces being confronted by people who just want to live free of their violence."
Crackdown
Writing through history and heartbreak.
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New — I tried to write about…all of it:
Crackdown
Writing through history and heartbreak.
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Outside the Department of Veterans Affairs, where in about 20 minutes a vigil for Alex Pretti will begin.
I wrote about Minneapolis and the radical act of breathing in spite of suffocation: defunkd.beehiiv.com/p/on-breathing
On Breathing
In Minneapolis and beyond, each breath we take brings us closer to a just future.
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back outside ICE bldg & there are 8 DHS staging outside building. But march is ending …
crowd STILL growing. i am leaving to get warmer boots but will be back
