🐝🐍The Grand Scoobah🔮🧙‍♀️

Though I no longer believe in nor practice the faith of my youth, I still identify as a "victory for Satan."

When you get an opportunity to sit down with Bryan Buchanan for a discussion of the "Dream Mine", you take it. Had a lot of fun learning about this weird nugget of Mormon history from a Relief Mine stock holder.

So reading anti-prop1 prophet letter over the pulpit in Rexburg is going swimmingly

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

Learning that Brigham Young's wives are said to haunt their former homes just makes sense. After all, ghosts and hauntings are usually tied to some form of lifetime trauma. Being married to Brigham Young—polygamously—certainly fits the bill.

So excited and honored to be a part of this new podcast!

Sunstone is launching a new podcast about weird #Mormon history, folklore, literature, and conspiracy theories, hosted by @hendrixkomoto.bsky.social, @lhamiltonwriter.bsky.social, Grace Pool, and some goofy dude. I guess I'll listen.

By terminating research grants like Kelton's to censor views it doesn’t like, the NIH is blocking scientists from work that would advance public health for all of us. We're pushing back. Tell Congress to demand the NIH restore the grants and stop its censorship campaign at aclu.org/nih_censorship_

My website that I rarely update is set to renew. I'm tempted to let it lapse rather than pay the $750 for another three years of web hosting. But I poured a lot of work into that site for a few years. I'm fairly torn.

The LDS church is funding a campaign to keep in place a cruel law that demonstrably increases health risk to women.

Ammon Bundy and Trevor Lee arrested. Tim Ballard going scorched Earth on the Mormon church. Tough few days for guys who fly replica Title of Liberties in July

I learned yesterday that my church made a $1 million dollar donation to fight Idaho's Prop 1 (which would change the state's draconian abortion laws). The donation tells us a lot about how my church views morality. None of it laudatory toward church leader's constrained moral vision.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

The LDS church's prior support of Tim Ballard is giving this vibe rn

A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.

My yes on prop one sign from @idahoansunited.bsky.social came today. I added my own PS. Just something fun for my Rexburg neighbors to consider on their way to church.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it is certainty. Faith is the courage to ask difficult questions and be willing to be changed by the answers in ways that make your world a little bigger and yourself a bit less certain.

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This is a direct reflection of LDS doctrine. Telling members that they are supposed to "gather Israel" to the US leaves them more accepting of multiculturalism. Explicit anti-LGBT and pro-life teachings/policies being a core feature of Mormonism leaves them more conservative on these issues.

Let the record show: We’re launching a new podcast! On each episode, our hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Mr. Beat discover the people, places, and narratives behind major court cases from U.S. history.

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

“Though this series has been a huge part of My eternal life, I can no longer participate in good faith.” — the Lord God

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

Biomedical researchers are on edge after news broke over the weekend that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) director clashed with President Donald Trump over a White House plan to turn over the agency’s final grant decisions to a new board co-chaired by Trump’s budget chief, Russell

When the LDS church drops the guise of political neutrality it is always in one direction. Choose the Right, indeed.

I am seriously so pissed right now. The next 2 weeks in idaho the LDS church is reading a letter across the pulpit telling folks to vote no on Prop 1 in idaho. Which overturns our draconian abortion restrictions thatve led to 37% loss in idaho OBGYNs. The hubris of men.