Al

Al

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texasmonthly.comHow an Alleged Child Predator Remade the Nation’s Second-Largest Faith Group in His ImagePaul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the GOP, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up. Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

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Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.

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I don't think I've ever said this in public, because it's not our place, and it's thrown around too much anyway. So I hope it carries more weight. That is: he's lost his goddamn mind.

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This Administration is failing to comply with the law and fully release the Epstein files. The victims deserve justice, and those responsible deserve to be held accountable, but Trump is purposely standing in the way of all of it.

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Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation. They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."

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When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

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Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Bannon and Miller and so forth like to talk about all the history they read. The Nazis lasted so long because they spent money!

hoya81.bsky.social@hoya81.bsky.social

The strength of modern authoritarian regimes is almost completely centered around making sure nothing disrupts their core constituencies (pensioners, security services, veterans etc) from getting their benefits/checks.

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