Chelsea Ebin

🧵🧵 Texas Republicans have been increasingly open and aggressive about Christianizing America via schools - to, in the words of the state education board chair, center classrooms around "GOD, GOP & USA."

That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

graph breaking down the ways that the Trump admin is not following court orders

*The Trump administration has defied or frustrated the court in more than one third of the 165 cases where the courts have ruled against them.
*Since April, SCOTUS has granted relief to Trump in all 15 of the emergency applications, writing a decision to explain its reasoning only three times.

No one.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Internet extremists want to make all AI chatbots as hateful as Grok just was “Incredible things are happening.”

“‘AI is the new information arms race, just like social media before.’ Gab has since launched a series of chatbots on its platform, including one programmed to mimic…Hitler, as well as its default chabot, Arya, which Torba has boasted ‘is purpose-built to reflect a…pro-Christian worldview.’“ 1/

Yay! I’ll shoot you an email so we can find a time. (I’m not doing APSA this year.)

Would love to talk with you about this! Maybe we can have a Zoom catch up sometime soon?

Hand holding a copy of a book with a black cover and red titling that reads “Catholic Fundamentalism in America,” and author’s name, Mark S. Massa, S. J., written in gold.

Came home to find this had arrived, and I am SO excited to dig in. Massa’s work has been so formative for my understanding of Catholicism in the U.S., and I’m so happy to see he’s written this book.

Why Did the New York Times Collaborate With a Eugenicist? The paper of record is doing race science with Zohran Mamdani.

“(Did Mamdani check all the right boxes getting onto a streetcar in New Orleans?)”

Pro-Family Politics An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “tradit...

Read this piece on the "pro-family politics" of the New Christian Right excerpted from @chelseaebin.bsky.social's The Radical Mind, out now from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social. politicalresearch.org/2025/05/15/p...

The @nytimes.com is truly reaching new lows.First, with this article, and secondly, with this sorry attempt to justify race-baiting the Democratic candidate for NYC major that relies on a “tip” from a eugenicist.

US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists Details emerge about Natal conference in Austin later this month, set to feature figures linked to far-right politics

I wonder how a fact-based, non-sensationalist media source might report on the man who “tipped” off the NYT…oh, I see…like this: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists | US news | The Guardian

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.
 
This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

What the SCOTUS ruling amounts to is a blank check to an already lawless regime to do whatever it wants with the rest of us. We no longer have even the pretense of meaningful recourse.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

Today I learned they made an audiobook of my book The Radical Mind. You can get it on Audible and GooglePlay and maybe some other places. www.audible.com/pd/B0F3R2MZH...

The "Pro-Family" Movement: The Roots of the New Christian Right, ft. Chelsea Ebin This discussion covers the rise of the "pro-family movement" through the linking of "single issues" into an illiberal political movement with a long-range determination to restore a mythical past of ...

Had a lovely time talking about terrible things rightrising.fireside.fm/61

He is a stochastic terrorist assassin, nurtured in the bosom of the rural heartland we are commanded to revere as the One True America--the "Heartland."

Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.

“I’ve never seen anything that simultaneously really goes after poor people and then really helps rich people."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Picture of Brad Lander speaking to press outside court building in NYC

Good to see Comptroller Brad Lander walking the walk at the immigration courts in NYC accompanying folks out of the building.

Pro-Family Politics The Political Convergence of Conservative Catholics and Protestants in the 1980s American Right By Chelsea Ebin President Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Paul Laxalt, Bob Michel, Corrine Michel, and Carol Laxalt watch the Oak Ridge Boys on the south lawn of the White House on October 6, 1983 (Credit:Ronald Reagan Presidential Library/ Wikimedia Commons)

In an excerpt from her book, The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building, ‪@chelseaebin.bsky.social‬ breaks down how Reagan's Family Policy Advisory Board (FPAB) cultivated the New Christian Right in the 80s. Learn more: ow.ly/TEIm50VVYjg.

Pro-Family Politics An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “tradit...

Curious about The Radical Mind? Read an excerpt from the book here! Thanks to @praeyesright.bsky.social for publishing it!
politicalresearch.org/2025/05/15/p...

Thanks for the shout out, @jonsawyer.org!

Thanks so much, Kirby!!

The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building. Chelsea Ebin shows how conservative Protestants and Catholics overcame their suspicion of and hostility toward one another to form an enduring coal...

My talk at UC Berkeley has been rescheduled to honor the May Day strike happening tomorrow. New date is May 12th at 4 pm PT. Info here: bit.ly/Ebin2025.

Trump executive order raises alarm over women's financial independence A new executive order from the White House targets the Equal Credit Opportunity Act which was written to prevent sex-based credit discrimination.

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