Chrissy Stroop

Right? It’s not like religion has ever been associated with atrocities before

Sarcasm aside, I recommend @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social for her discussion of how this kind of talk (see also “fake Christians”) is the product of the same system that elevates Christians in society and helped Christofascism fester till we got here

Lots of thought provoking commentary. Thanks for sharing this!

Mainly find this fascinating (and horrifying) as yet another disgusting, repeated technique Gaiman uses to attack which completely backs up the narrative that he’s a controlling abuser: if a story is deeply reported about his negative, destructive behavior? Well no, it’s just bad journalism.

Flytrap Roundtable Special: That Whole Awful Neil Gaiman Thing Can 'cool male feminists' have it all? They'd sure like to!

Flashback to the time @theflytrapmedia.com cofounders @andreagrimes.com @nicolefroio.bsky.social @tinavasquez.bsky.social @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social and I got so mad about Neil Gaiman in Slack that we put it on the internet for everyone to enjoy.

This guy is a pastor of a southern baptist conference church. He and the church claim Christianity with no push back from sbc. Saying they aren't Christian just because you don't think christains can be bad/ evil is refusing to accept the religion's responsibility for this evil.

Also cool if you just want to add me as a friend. I haven’t really ever done an MMORPG before and started this game thinking I could solo play it just fine, but now I’m realizing some group collaboration would make it much better

Newbie to Palia if anyone has a chill community you might wanna invite me to join?

It’s an isekai fantasy/farming sim

Thanks!

Also cool if you just want to add me as a friend. I haven’t really ever done an MMORPG before and started this game thinking I could solo play it just fine, but now I’m realizing some group collaboration would make it much better

Newbie to Palia if anyone has a chill community you might wanna invite me to join?

OMG, this somehow reminds me of how James Dobson once read the lyrics to Prince’s “Darling Nikki” aloud to an audience of scandalized evangelicals in a very non-charismatic, tut-tutting way as an example of how horribly sinful we had become lol… This was when he was on that porn-banning kick

My kingdom for democrats who don't think we need to save Republicans from themselves.

Brett Kavanaugh And The GOP’s Politics Of Abuse - Rantt Media As the Republican Party stands by alleged abusers, their policies inflict a form of abuse on vulnerable Americans.

“The bullying, the tears, the lies and contradictions. Claiming everyone (who counts) is on their side, and anyone who isn’t is part of a conspiracy. Above all, a sense of entitlement to something they aren’t owed.”

Chrissy Stroop (@thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social) Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum Pacific Northwest ...

“Fundamentalism is authoritarianism in microcosm, or on the margins. Fascism is essentially fundamentalism in power, and it continues to nurse a sense of being the moral majority, as well as a sense of being beleaguered and “treated very unfairly” at the same time.” - @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social

My hope is that perhaps out of this we get a better Democratic Party, or can replace it with a new, truly progressive alternative

I'd say we never left the 1980s (like the US leadership felt that period was Who We Are), and that a major reason 9/11 broke the brains of the country leadership so bad is because it -- and especially what would have been the appropriate response to it -- couldn't fit into that particular model.

Yeah, I can also see this argument

In some ways I think we’ve never left that post-9/11 era. What’s happening now is an escalation of what W. did with creating DHS and launching the “war on terror.”

However, while Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez may be many things, “smart” is not one of them

It reminds me so much of the Iraq war where the “smart” Dems like Hillary voted for the war.

In some ways I think we’ve never left that post-9/11 era. What’s happening now is an escalation of what W. did with creating DHS and launching the “war on terror.”

However, while Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez may be many things, “smart” is not one of them

*at risk of their lives

What doesn’t suck is how unflinching the people of Minneapolis have been in standing against the ICEholes even at risk of their own. I stand in solidarity with them and all who are targeted by DHS/CBP, as well as all who knew Alex Pretti.

May we soon see ICE and DHS itself abolished

What doesn’t suck is how unflinching the people of Minneapolis have been in standing against the ICEholes even at risk of their own. I stand in solidarity with them and all who are targeted by DHS/CBP, as well as all who knew Alex Pretti.

May we soon see ICE and DHS itself abolished

A screenshot of a Google search of “National Review Kristi Noem” on my phone, showing as a result the NR headline “Fire Kristi Noem into the Sun”

Sorry I’ve been so quiet lately. I’ve been feeling pretty overwhelmed and have come down with a cold too; I’m sniffling and coughing over here.

I have no brilliant thoughts on the news but will say it sucks to have a “Dem” rep who is now officially worse than National Review

I Saw My Own Search for Sunlight in “Heated Rivalry” 'Heated Rivalry' dares to ask: Why should queer athletes be forced to choose between their identity and their sport?

Also, I want this article to end up as the longest comment thread in the history of @theflytrapmedia.com. So go now and make history! www.theflytrapmedia.com/icy-hot-heat...

I Saw My Own Search for Sunlight in “Heated Rivalry” 'Heated Rivalry' dares to ask: Why should queer athletes be forced to choose between their identity and their sport?

Guess here which moment I named as the hottest (to me) before you go read it and then see if you were right with your guess. www.theflytrapmedia.com/icy-hot-heat...

This is a great piece, and it was a pleasure to edit it!

Happy Flytrap Tuesday! Today, we have @katelynburns.com on how she saw her own coming out journey on Heated Rivalry: