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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…Makes Plans to Staff Next G.O.P. Administration,” The New York Times, April 20, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/republican-president-2024-heritage-foundation.html. [44] Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, “Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab,” Axios, November 13, 2023, https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election. [45] Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Magg…

Religious Right Historian: Net Neutrality is “Unbiblical Socialism”

By Julie Ingersoll

…we] cannot regulate the internet, it should be open and free. Democrats’ definition of Net Neutrality is we want to give FCC the authority to tell people who actually provide the internet [again, they don’t provide the internet, only access to it] what they can and can’t do with it. Now, what people like yourself and myself mean is no government interference; it’s pretty straightforward. Republicans and conservatives have always tried to keep the…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…edia, whose parent, BN Media, recently purchased the religion Web site Belief*]}*net from Rupert Murdoch. A 2005 Legal Times exposé—which documented, among other things, the Sekulow family’s use of non-profit funds to support their lavish lifestyle, and Sekulow’s use of an ACLJ jet to transport Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to a speaking engagement at Robertson’s Regent University—did little to derail the trajectory of his career and ambitions.…

When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…s personality isn’t to be domineering—he’d just leave. So it’s like, be careful what you wish for, right? And then this guy comes in. And she wanted that priesthood holder, the guy who would sit next to her at church, she wanted that so desperately. She quickly found herself powerless because he used his position as a weapon. And when that was so much her belief system—that as a priesthood holder he held that power over her—I think she felt she ha…

Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet

By Martyn Smith

…of a positive future for humanity it often begins to look like the interplanetary human existence proposed by Elon Musk. But does the story of the internet need to be told with all these religious resonances? A visit to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California (down the street from the Googleplex) uses thousands of objects to tell the story of computers and information technology. The museum presents the development of technology a…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…swing to Obama in 2008. The greatest shift in candidate preference between 2004 and 2008 has occurred among all voters who attend religious services once or twice a month, moving from 49% support for Kerry in 2004 to 60% support for Obama in 2008. More Americans think Obama is friendly to religion than McCain. 49% of Americans say Obama is friendly to religion, while 45% say McCain is friendly to religion. More than seven-in-ten (71%) say it is i…

“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

…uake in Japan, let’s acknowledge God’s signs. Turn to HIM and pray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGYqrANnAw http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/27876648/could-the-japan-earthquake-be-gods-punish-for-them-killing-whales?page=0 Tinasongbird73‎ Prayers up 4 the people in japan who’ve experience great loss & heartache frm the earthquakes & Tsunami. God is trying 2tell us something! smitefulsinner‎ RT @rachydivanerd: Re: Japan: the 1st person to s…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…churches had been doing as they had helped patch together a limited safety net in the early twentieth century. Many southern cities did not offer municipal relief. Instead, denominations and municipalities provided institutional care: poorhouses, hospitals, settlement houses, orphanages, and so forth—all of them segregated, with far more resources for whites than for blacks. Local churches sometimes helped people with food, clothing, and fuel. At…

Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

…and the feeling of hopelessness that can pervade all these things. https://www.instagram.com/p/BV5tHoUBKk2/?taken-by=prettygirlsliketrapmusic “We can’t forget there are real-life experiences that inform trap music, and it’s daily living for a lot people. Many of us consume trap music as entertainment, but don’t think about the systemic issues that keep people trapped within trap culture,” says Wortham to RD. “You can’t talk about trap without talk…

Colbert v. Stewart: It’s On! 10.30.10

By Julie Ingersoll

…” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c March to Keep Fear Alive www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News Plans for both rallies seem rather fluid at the moment: Stewart said, “there might be special guests.” But whatever they do it will be clever; and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the thing take on a life of its own and draw a big crowd. Since the tea party sweep in this week’s primaries, pundits have…