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Mike Pence's Doonbeg Detour to Cost Nearly $600k
Mike Pence’s controversial trip visit to President Trump’s resort in Doonbeg is slated to cost taxpayers $599,454.36 in limousine service alone.
Arkansas Lawmaker Wants to Suppress His Own Words in a Ten Commandments Case
Rapert must know his own words are his worst enemy.
Revealed: US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network
For years, people have speculated about who is behind a shadowy group of well-connected ‘free speech advocates’ spreading far-right ideologies and climate science denial.
Katherine Stewart
US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network | DeSmog UK
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NOAA staff warned in Sept. 1 directive against contradicting Trump - The Washington Post
They were also told not to “provide any opinion,” according to a copy of the email. NOAA’s backing of Trump has been met with a backlash from scientists and meteorologists.
Appeals Court: It’s Legal for PA House to Block Atheists from Giving Invocations
This is government-sanctioned discrimination.
Why Some Christians ‘Love the Meanest Parts’ of Trump
The writer Ben Howe grew up in the world of conservative evangelicalism. When he looks at the religious right now, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination.
Katherine Stewart
“When he looks at the religious right now, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination.” amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/59… theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Katherine Stewart
“When he looks at the religious right now, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination.” amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/59… theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Trump Administration Announces Rule Promoting Government-Funded Employment Discrimination
President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor issued a proposed rule that would vastly expand a religious exemption to allow government contractors to discriminate in hiring. The result: taxpayer-funded federal contractors, including for-profit...
Militant Neo-Nazi Group Actively Recruiting Ahead of Alleged Training Camp
The Base, a neo-Nazi group aiming to provide military and survivalist training to fellow white supremacists, has been ramping up its activities including a massive recruitment campaign and a planned "hate camp."
Trump nominates advocate of 'ethnonationalism' for judgeship
Rachel Maddow shares passages from a law journal article by Donald Trump federal court nominee Steven Menashi in which he argues democratic countries work better when everyone in the same ethnicity.
Evangelical Leaders supported by the White House export fundamentalist agenda to Latin America
A group of fundamentalist religious leaders with ties to the White House expanded their ministries in Latin America and made deals with presidents with checkered records in Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras. Columbia Journalism Investigations (CJI),...
Katherine Stewart
Evangelical Leaders supported by the White House export fundamentalist agenda to Latin America uni.vi/2XMp101IwJU via @Univision
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Revealed: Republican lawmaker aided group training young men for 'biblical warfare'
The group ‘Team Rugged’ offers ‘patriotic and biblical training’ that includes instruction on how to use knives and guns
Katherine Stewart
“Republican politician Matt Shea connected close allies with a group offering training to young men in “biblical warfare” ... based in part on the teachings of a Georgia-based neo-Confederate pastor”
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Inside the Government, Addressing Domestic Terrorism Has Been Fraught
For very different reasons, the Homeland Security Department under both the Obama and Trump administrations has struggled to elevate concerns about white nationalism and extremism.
Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago
The woman was allegedly recruited to give Epstein massages that often involved sexual activity.
Christian Nationalist Homeschool Curriculum: The “Globalist Left” Hates You and Your Children
Are you “tired of being told you and your children are the cause of all of America’s problems? Are you “tired of paying top dollar for homeschool curricula only to have to filter …
Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists
Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
Katherine Stewart
"Monsanto adopted a multi-pronged strategy to target Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated the company’s weedkiller and its links to cancer."
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Self-Styled Prophets Are Assembling Their Flocks at the Sacred Trump International Hotel
“God chose THIS LOCATION at THIS TIME for a reason!”
Christian group warns against rise of 'Christian nationalism'
A group formed by Christian leaders is warning against the rise of "Christian nationalism," saying the merging of Christian and American identities poses a threat to U.S.
South Dakota Public Schools Add 'In God We Trust' Signs To Walls
When students return to class next month in South Dakota, they'll be greeted by the national motto, prominently displayed on school walls.
Former Student Provides Inside Look At The Orwellian World Of Liberty University
At Liberty University, Christian speakers who are critical of Trump or other conservatives were warned not to set foot on campus. One of them, Jonathan Merritt, an alumnus of Liberty, had committed the cardinal sin of writing something negative...
Who is the Museum of the Bible really for? Scholarly book examines multiple problems
(RNS) — The academic community's critiques have been collected in a book cataloging a host of ills, from the museum's focus on the Protestant Bible to faked artifacts to an alleged evangelical agenda.