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Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

This is the full breaking Epstein news from the Albuquerque Journal. More than worth your time www.abqjournal.com/news/feds-as...

The threats against judges who have ruled against Trump happen in a context: religiondispatches.org/2025/06/09/p...

After a Local Police Chief Put a High School ICE Protester in a Chokehold, Should MAGA's Be Allowed to Be Cops? A Truth Social account Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree shares with his wife described the Democratic Party as “a deep state oligarchy” and “domestic terrorist organization.”

After a Local Police Chief Put a High School ICE Protester in a Chokehold, Should MAGA's Be Allowed to Be Cops? | A Truth Social account Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree shares with his wife described the Democratic Party as “a deep state oligarchy” and “domestic terrorist organization.”

The threats against judges who have ruled against Trump happen in a context: religiondispatches.org/2025/06/09/p...

Middle of a great thread & the point I’d highlight as to why imposed “democracy” failed in Iraq & Afghanistan. We had them *start* with elections. That’s not where democracy starts. It starts with a Flushing Remonstrance & a Bill of Rights — by saying what elections CANNOT change.

Measles reported in Massachusetts for first time in two years The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Friday confirmed that two cases of measles have been diagnosed in state residents.

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

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Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

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Religion Dispatches covers what the legacy media (and most of the indy media) does not. religiondispatches.org

Also found this pretty distasteful when I was watching. Feel a little less insane knowing I'm not the only one who picked up on that

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Jewish Space Lasers by Mike Rothschild: 9781685890643 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for the conspiracy theories of the last two ...

Yesterday was two months since JEWISH SPACE LASERS was published. In that time, the already extant spike in antisemitism has exploded into open violence against American Jews. The book explains some of how we got here, and we're still dealing with this.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733925...

As I have watched measles cases in my home state of SC skyrocket to almost 1,000, I wondered why I hardly ever heard anything about the severity of complications. Here’s what I found.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM • 6/10/23 • 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

House passes bill banning ‘leftist indoctrination’ and LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools • New Hampshire Bulletin New Hampshire House Republicans are moving forward with a new attempt to regulate teaching on race, history, and LGTBQ+ issues in public schools. On Thursday, the chamber passed a bill that would ban ...

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

MAGA pundit Hal Lambert is full of crap. On CNN, he defended Hegseth having Doug Wilson preach at Pentagon by claiming they bring in leaders from different religions. I've tracked Hegseth's services & every preacher is a rightwing, patriarchal Christian: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/government...

the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack)

A new Willie Nelson song, follows from songs by Amy Grant and Bruce Springstein highlighting our best aspirations as a nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bhc...

The freedom in our lungs
To sing a song that's never been sung
And there's room for everyone
The heart of America

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack)

A new Willie Nelson song, follows from songs by Amy Grant and Bruce Springstein highlighting our best aspirations as a nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bhc...

The freedom in our lungs
To sing a song that's never been sung
And there's room for everyone
The heart of America

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

How a Wisconsin Pastor Is Leading the Far-Right Crusade to Criminalize LGBTQ People and Destroy Western Christianity - Bucks County Beacon Rev. Matthew Trewhella has a revolutionary theocratic vision to restore a "Godly order" in this country — county by county.

How a Wisconsin Pastor Is Leading the Far-Right Crusade to Criminalize LGBTQ People and Destroy Western Christianity | Rev Matthew Trewhella has a revolutionary theocratic vision to restore a "Godly order" in this country—county by county, warns @fredclarkson.bsky.social in @barnraiser.bsky.social.

America, If You’re Listening: Denmark’s Example for Fixing Liberal Democracy Talking to Michael Bang Peterson on Denmark's recurring process of self-examination.

American democracy is facing its most serious crisis since the Civil War, but we have no coherent effort to even to try to figure out what's wrong, in order to start fixing things. But Denmark is doing just that with a model it's used before. 1/9
www.liberalcurrents.com/america-if-y...

County Before Country A Wisconsin pastor has won over conservatives by promulgating resistance to state and federal “tyranny.” Now, he’s intent on bringing “judgment” to the Republican Party and Western Christianity.

“In recent years, he has become the eminence grise of the abortion abolitionist movement, which not only seeks the outright criminalization of abortion, but sneers at incremental anti-abortion measures as ‘regulating murder.’”

— @fredclarkson.bsky.social

Iranian security use dragnet spanning the entire country to arrest protesters A month after Iran launched a crackdown on nationwide protests, widespread arrests are roiling the country.

Iran using its mass surveillance network to round up protesters. "[Shiva] Nazarahari said authorities have been reviewing municipal street cameras, store surveillance cameras & drone footage to track people who participated in the protests to their homes or... work..." apnews.com/article/iran...

The Times Blithely Dismisses Concerns Over New Apostolic Reformation Two days before Christmas, readers of the New York Times opinion page were treated to a spectacle of pooh-poohery over portrayals of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) as a significant and dangerous ...

Who put the apostolic in the New Apostolic Reformation?

I discuss one academic who misses the story by not once mentioning that the leaders are apostles whose followers understand that God speaks to them and through them. That's why they are important. bit.ly/RDonNYTonNAR

“In this atmosphere of warm brotherhood, how could they not have felt chosen to rule over the rest of us?”. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it's not an accident.

‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism | Article by @ktoussaint.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...

Blueberries can lower blood pressure
While blood pressure skyrockets when seeing the price of blueberries.

The Times Blithely Dismisses Concerns Over New Apostolic Reformation Two days before Christmas, readers of the New York Times opinion page were treated to a spectacle of pooh-poohery over portrayals of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) as a significant and dangerous ...

Someone recently offered up a lot of counterfactual hokum on the NYT opinion page, that concerns about the dangerously anti-democratic New Apostolic Reformation are overblown. I responded @religiondispatches.org
bit.ly/RDonNYTonNAR