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The ‘Unified Reich’ Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump’s Brand of American Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…d the test of time in another recent video posted on Trump’s account, accompanied by a pathos-laden monologue. The voice seems to be speaking to Donald Trump directly, over images of the former president from childhood to present wannabe-dictator. And the tone seems to fit the violent yet schmaltzy aesthetic of fascist Füher-worship: I’m going to look you in the eyes and I’m gonna tell you the future. It’s an American story, and that’s why America…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ews enough to know about the Bud Light freak-out—and he feels compelled to participate in both. Second, he’s an insurrection supporter who feels so untouchable that he’s happy to show it for all the world to see, to cast out all what was left of any pretense. He knows he’s safe. And he’s probably right. At this point, the question seems to be not so much “which insurrectionist flags has Alito flown?” but, as Jay Willis has pointed out on Twitter,…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…, and playing the game. Through this intellectual work, they get to become part of a movement. They become part of something larger than themselves. Cook, predictably, calls this process radicalization, replete with the expected rabbit hole metaphors. Social media Feeds Q… But Q also Feeds Social Media And, while adherents learn to believe that whatever the mainstream media says is false, Cook does importantly point out that not all of their griev…

Does the Science Show that Spirituality Will Benefit Your Child?

By Michael Schulson

…n spiritual and religious life that the spiritual life, that the spiritual path, is also the path of thriving and flourishing and healing. I don’t think it diminishes it. I don’t think it’s sacrosanct. I think it’s testimony. How can parents balance the desire to have critical, questioning kids with a wish to encourage thinking that may not be entirely rational, or that may involve perceptions of entities that can’t be materially explained? We hav…

Evangelicalism “Wasn’t Created for Someone Like Me”: Following a Queer Evangelical of Color in the Age of Trump

By Deborah Jian Lee

…our aversion to female leadership, we don’t have women in places to offer pastoral care. So I have been investing deeply in my friendships with people of color, in particularly other queer people of color who are all over the country because that’s the only way I can survive this desert. *** NOVEMBER 2017 What’s happened since we last spoke? I stopped attending services in March. I know you wrote about how I walked out of a service. Well, that ke…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e’s organizers had hoped the hashtag would encourage interaction among the participants ahead of the forum and promote Egypt as a safe tourist destination. Instead, the activists posted images of security forces assaulting and arresting youths at protest sites and shared portraits of jailed journalists, activists and others who have allegedly been tortured or forcibly disappeared. … Hours after it was launched, the hashtag became the top trending…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…’s wife, and it’s not for me to judge how she does or does not engage with particular parts of her heritage. But there’s something discomfiting about Schmitz’s appeal to exculpation-through-genetics. Accused of anti-Semitism, he’s appealing to exactly the principle that many modern Jews have worked so hard to flee: that regardless of belief and action, there is something essential, absolute, and defining in the bodies of Jews. But more simply: the…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…often easier to access than high-ranking administration officials. So yes, participate in the Women’s March on Washington if you feel called to, and phone-bank the hell out of every preposterous nominee Trump and the Republicans riding his coattails offer. But also participate in Lobby Days organized by your favorite local advocacy group, and make it a priority to meet your elected officials. If you feel comfortable doing so, introduce them to you…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…nse of reward) to troll even more. This is the genius of trolling: it is a particular strategy to paralyze moral response. And it seems ideally suited for a world in which attention is currency and anonymity is easy to come by. A version of this paradox exists in the realm of mass shootings, too. Acts of random violence often seem, in part, to function as dramatic plays for attention or celebrity status. The Orlando nightclub shooter reportedly ch…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…m a variety of religious, social and cultural backgrounds” are expected to participate in a series of community forums the group will be holding to document attitudes toward LGBT Iraqis. He said that he and people who visit his organization’s office are “terrified” by executions of gay men by ISIS in areas controlled by the militant group. “LGBT Iraqis look at themselves as less than others,” said Shalal. “They always feel if they appear to everyo…