Don't miss this major article on the New Apostolic Reformation in The New Republic by bsky.app/profile/laur... may help jump start people in the political and journalism communities in need a jump to recognize this historic and powerful movement. newrepublic.com/article/2150...

We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...

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Don't miss this major article on the New Apostolic Reformation in The New Republic by bsky.app/profile/laur... may help jump start people in the political and journalism communities in need a jump to recognize this historic and powerful movement. newrepublic.com/article/2150...

We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...

newrepublic.com

Union and DSA members can get 10 free issues of In These Times delivered to their homes. DSA members: inthesetimes.com/dsa Union members: inthesetimes.com/union Graphic credit: Margaret Vail Palmquist

“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 6d ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

LifeWise Academy Brings Bible Study Program to Quakertown Elementary, Eyes Four Other Bucks County School Districts | “If we can get children to develop a Biblical worldview, this spiritual war that we’re talking about, the war is over,” the Christian organization states in a promotional video.

LifeWise Academy Brings Bible Study Program to Quakertown Elementary, Eyes Four Other Bucks County School Districts - Bucks County Beacon

While the Christian organization states they have no political agenda, there are concerns that the program, and its larger goals, will further blur the line between church and state in public educatio...

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This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

Read the full story for more details on the wedding and Kremlev — including his earlier years in a Russian government-backed bike gang called the Night Wolves:

BCCC Embarrasses Itself With Decision to Cancel Special Community Prescreening of PBS Docuseries ‘Bucks County, USA’ | To add insult to injury, the filmmakers were made aware of the cancellation just two days before the event – and without any explanation. #BucksCountyUSA

BCCC Embarrasses Itself With Decision to Cancel Special Community Prescreening of PBS Docuseries ‘Bucks County, USA’ - Bucks County Beacon

To add insult to injury, the filmmakers were made aware of the cancellation just two days before the event – and without any explanation.

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The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal.

Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.

The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...

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Ent Tree, Brocton, Staffordshire. This is a real tree with ‘legs’. It is thought that this ancient tree - an oak planted during the reign of Henry Vlll - inspired the legendary character Treebeard in Lord Of The Rings. Tolkien lived nearby at the time & would walk these woods. via Mother Earth

Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when the humanities were first on the block to be sacrificed to the machine devils?

News from the Pedophile Party: Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, tapped a convicted sex offender to open his campaign rally with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.”

9/11 ANOTHER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE We could have responded by putting the terrorists on trial—as the overwhelming majority of our NATO allies’ population (and the rest of the world) wanted. Instead, we responded with war—just what the terrorists wanted. It made them warriors, not criminals.

TRUMP'S TOP 10 9/11 LIES Trump has lied incessantly about 9/11 over the years, above all glorifying himself. We shouldn't let his lies obscure the truth, or desecrate the day. And so, on Sept 10, here's a list of his top 10 9/11 lies over the years. 1/12 www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...

Your location data, search history, and personal devices shouldn't be a warrantless fishing expedition. Essential insights here from @nacdl.org on protecting constitutional rights against unchecked digital surveillance. Must-read @wired.com piece by @dmehro.bsky.social ⚖️

NACDL@nacdl.org · 2w ago

1/ 🚨 New from @wired.com: Clearview AI is quietly testing "InquiryIQ" — an experimental AI tool that takes one face-match hit and fans out across the web to auto-build a dossier on you: employers, aliases, associates, addresses, arrest history. 🧵

Texans! Pennsylvanians! Lend me your ears! Today you can join me in hearing some heartening success stories from activitists in Bucks County PA and Tarrant County TX who challenged the Christian Right -- and won. Find out how! Sept 9th, 2:30–4:30pm. Eastern. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When the Christian Right and allied billionaires took over school boards in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX, local organizers fought back and won. Hear from people directly involved in these v...

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"Today, Russia seeks to accomplish with ballistic missiles what its predecessors failed to obtain with legal oppression and deportations. We must ensure that, by burning Ukrainian books, Moscow only reminds the world how valuable they are," writes Pauline Foret in this op-ed.

Russia's 160-year war on Ukrainian books

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history", said the historian Milan Hubl in Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. To ...

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Texans! Pennsylvanians! Lend me your ears! Today you can join me in hearing some heartening success stories from activitists in Bucks County PA and Tarrant County TX who challenged the Christian Right -- and won. Find out how! Sept 9th, 2:30–4:30pm. Eastern. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When the Christian Right and allied billionaires took over school boards in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX, local organizers fought back and won. Hear from people directly involved in these v...

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When the Christian Right & MAGA millionaires started capturing school boards, communities fought back—& won. Editor @cmychalejko.bsky.social & CBSD's Tracy Suits join activists from Tarrant County, TX on 9/10 for @praeyesright.bsky.social's Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. Register!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When the Christian Right and allied billionaires took over school boards in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX, local organizers fought back and won. Hear from people directly involved in these v...

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I'm looking forward to hearing about successful strategies for turning back Christian-right attacks on public education and democracy at this @praeyesright.bsky.social webinar tomorrow.

Frederick Clarkson@fredclarkson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Come hear some heartening success stories on Wednesday, September 9th, 2:30–4:30pm, from activitists in Bucks County PA and Tarrant County TX who challenged the Christian Right -- and won. Find out how! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Latest installment in a great series with deeply knowledgable experts!

Frederick Clarkson@fredclarkson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Come hear some heartening success stories on Wednesday, September 9th, 2:30–4:30pm, from activitists in Bucks County PA and Tarrant County TX who challenged the Christian Right -- and won. Find out how! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

For Labor Day this year I wrote about wage theft (LA is the wage theft capital of the nation---over $1.4 billion/yr) and the just-passed city legislation to fight it, the result of a 3-year legislative struggle... and decades of organizing before that. 1/7

Come hear some heartening success stories on Wednesday, September 9th, 2:30–4:30pm, from activitists in Bucks County PA and Tarrant County TX who challenged the Christian Right -- and won. Find out how! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When the Christian Right and allied billionaires took over school boards in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX, local organizers fought back and won. Hear from people directly involved in these v...

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Come hear some heartening success stories on Wednesday, September 9th, 2:30–4:30pm, from activitists in Bucks County PA and Tarrant County TX who challenged the Christian Right -- and won. Find out how! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When the Christian Right and allied billionaires took over school boards in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX, local organizers fought back and won. Hear from people directly involved in these v...

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humanities education is for all, for the common good. we’re in the trenches these days, i know. but we keep doing the work of teaching our students how to imagine and build better worlds.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3w ago

"Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche… This is true of how we view the Humanities in general—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than 'personal enrichment.'"

There it is: Trump is *literally* pushing “Unhumans,” a book that encourages right-wing readers to view liberals and Democrats as “unhuman.” I raised the alarm on this extremely dangerous strategy in 2024 (and again last month): www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-ke...

JD Vance on UFOs: “i don't have the file that says, "Oh, this wasn't a UFO. It was actually a demon." “And my attitude is, if they are real, isn't it as likely they're angels or demons as they are extraterrestrials?”

Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something

Please join PRA on Wednesday, September 9th, 2:30–4:30pm ET for a webinar "Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories". Find out how local organiers in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX fought back and won. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When the Christian Right and allied billionaires took over school boards in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX, local organizers fought back and won. Hear from people directly involved in these v...

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Please join PRA on Wednesday, September 9th, 2:30–4:30pm ET for a webinar "Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories". Find out how local organiers in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX fought back and won. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Challenging the Christian Right: Success Stories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

When the Christian Right and allied billionaires took over school boards in Bucks County, PA and Tarrant County, TX, local organizers fought back and won. Hear from people directly involved in these v...

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🇫🇷 FRANCE: “A photograph of Palestinian footballers playing on a makeshift pitch surrounded by the ruins of Gaza has been removed from a major sports photography exhibition in France following complaints from pro-Israel campaigners.” greatreporter.com/2026/08/25/e...