Katherine Stewart
@katherinestewart.bsky.social
Money, Lies, and God & other books Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks For speaking engagements etc contact goodnewskatherine@gmail.com
“These kinds of attacks speak more about who my opponent is, than who I am,” she said.
RNS@rns.org · 18h ago(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious figures running as Democrats for congressional seats.
Flynn ran the “election integrity” gathering at the MAGA-friendly Gold Institute in Washington DC several months back. He’s a loyal soldier
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4h ago🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Reason and common sense hold corruption to account. The current administration understands intuitively that this kind of rationality is inimical to dictatorial power. My latest on Substack writekaths.substack.com/p/age-of-rea...
Age of Reason versus Agents of Anarchy
Reason and common sense hold corruption to account.
writekaths.substack.com
🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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"Activists in the region say politicians regard LGBTQ+ people as ‘the easiest scapegoats to maintain their power’" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Anti-LGBTQ+ laws are on the rise across west Africa, campaigners warn
Activists in the region say politicians regard LGBTQ+ people as ‘the easiest scapegoats to maintain their power’
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Trump’s media company today began selling early access to the president’s posts on Truth Social for up to $100k a month to financial institutions. I talked to former SEC lawyers, who see the service as a violation of insider trading laws. And a Wall Street executive, who told me:
The contractor "aims to give the Foreign Service an anti-woke makeover by attracting ideologically “aligned” candidates—hopefully Christians."
Katherine Stewart@katherinestewart.bsky.social · 4d agoICYMI: The State Department's new recruiting contractor wants more Christian diplomats www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICYMI: The State Department's new recruiting contractor wants more Christian diplomats www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The State Department's new recruiting contractor wants more Christian diplomats
"All of a sudden you're in a position where you can have a huge influence for the rest of your life on the US government.”
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Oh look, the Commerce Department quietly announced 7 new equity stakes in private companies. Brought to you by the people fighting "communism." https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/
Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies
The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…
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Uninsured Patients Rise Sharply, Hospitals Report, Citing Obamacare Cuts www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...
After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured Patients
More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.
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"CPAC GB featured...leader of Romania's far-right opposition, George Simion. Simion was joined by his adviser Mateea Petrescu, known for her former role as spokesperson for Andrew Tate. Now, curiously, she’s chair of “Atlantic Strategy Institute”, Liz Truss’s new venture."
Katherine Stewart@katherinestewart.bsky.social · 5d agoThe gen-Z consultants behind Touchpoint, which organized CPAC London, are backed by a far-right global network with extremist views that is using young, photogenic politicos to push the “war on woke.” www.thenerve.news/p/cpac-confe...
The gen-Z consultants behind Touchpoint, which organized CPAC London, are backed by a far-right global network with extremist views that is using young, photogenic politicos to push the “war on woke.” www.thenerve.news/p/cpac-confe...
Liz Truss, dark money and the gen-Z Catholics: who’s behind CPAC in the UK?
The British debut of Maga’s favourite conference last week was widely seen as a joke. But a Nerve investigation reveals its young organisers are part of a web of culture-war connections – from the US ...
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"His account, like hundreds of others on Bluesky, had been hijacked and used to post fake news articles, according to the company and researchers at Clemson University working with a collective of internet monitors who track Russian influence operations...." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda (Gift Article)
The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.
nytimes.com
The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it? ft.trib.al/EZ8JpLK
The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?
Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going
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ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
Or maybe just that one guy whose personal wealth could basically cover the deficit in full.
"Every merger of this kind narrows the funnel through which stories can reach audiences. That is precisely what makes the Paramount-WBD merger so dangerous." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong
The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumb...
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"They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands. That’s it. That’s the story." www.science.org/content/blog...
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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no reporter or producer or correspondent reallllly wants to be the source, the subject of an important but bad and sad story of urgent national importance but she did it, anyway. thank you cecilia vega - www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Fired ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Cecilia Vega says she was told to report events ‘that never happened’
Two months after she was fired from “60 Minutes,” Cecilia Vega is sharing details about the troubling editorial pressures she said she faced after Bari Weiss was placed in charge of CBS News.
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interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Important read from Katherine Stewart. Though I confess to wanting to throw and break things upon reading this sentence: “The economy of Rome at the time of Peter’s writing was one of slave and master. The principle however, of submitting to one’s boss carries over to today.” —Ralph Drollinger
Katherine Stewart@katherinestewart.bsky.social · 2w agoMy latest on big ag, economic policy, and the hard-right evangelists targeting politicians at the top writekaths.substack.com/p/lettuce-pray
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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My latest on big ag, economic policy, and the hard-right evangelists targeting politicians at the top writekaths.substack.com/p/lettuce-pray
Lettuce Pray
Christian nationalism is a big part of the cyclospora story.
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What's with the alliance between sectors of big ag and reactionary religion? My latest religiondispatches.org/2026/07/22/l...
Lettuce Pray
Recent news reports allege the explosive outbreak of cyclospora-induced diarrhea in 34 states can be traced to lettuce produced by Taylor Farms, the largest producer in the country. (In the past day t...
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