10/29/2021   The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Texas’ near-total abortion ban Monday. Here’s what you need to know, by Reese Oxner, Texas Tribune

In the abortion providers’ suit, known as Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the court will consider whether a state “can insulate from federal-court review a law that prohibits the exercise of a constitutional right” by offloading its enforcement to the general public.

10/27/2021   A Patriarchal Tradition That Just Won’t Budge, Straight, married couples in the U.S. still almost always give kids the father’s last name. Why?, By Michael Waters, The Atlantic

Mallinson knew that their choice was not a popular one for heterosexual American couples—she’s a professor of sociolinguistics and gender and women’s studies at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, and wrote a 2017 paper that, in part, analyzes patrilineal surname conventions. In 2002, researchers found that about 97 percent of married couples passed down only the father’s last name to their first kid.

10/20/2021   What Does Joe Manchin Do Now?  By Russell Berman, The Atlantic

The fate of the Democrats’ push for voting-rights legislation lies once again in the hands of one senator from West Virginia.

10/6/2021   The Gender Researcher’s Guide to an Equal Marriage, by Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic

In their personal lives, sociologists attempt to ward off the same inequalities that they study at work.

10/4/2021   Billie Eilish stops mid-performance at Texas music festival: 'My f**king choice!', CNN

Billie Eilish spoke out against Texas' abortion law during a performance at Austin City Limits music festival.Source: CNN

10/2/2021   The nihilism of Neil Gorsuch, by Ian Millhiser, V0X

Trump’s first Supreme Court appointee’s radical vision to remake America, explained.

If Gorsuch had gotten his way, 13 years of work and hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of transactions would have been unraveled, possibly delivering a shock to the mortgage-lending industry similar to that of the 2008 crisis — or even sending the world economy into a tailspin.

 

 

9/20/2021   'Worst nightmare': CNN legal analyst says Texas abortion law is already blowing up in GOP's faces, by Matthew Chapman, RawStory

"This law in many respects is the worst nightmare of the anti-abortion forces, the people who are behind this law," said Toobin. "It just underlines how ridiculous it is. I mean, you have this disbarred lawyer in Arkansas under house arrest filing one lawsuit. Some random person in Chicago filing the other lawsuit. I mean, how and why they should be able to sue a doctor in San Antonio for doing something that is, at least at this moment, protected under the United States Constitution is just crazy. But it is apparently what this law allows."

 

9/17/2021   Why Republicans Are Scared of Texas’ New Abortion Ban, by Sarah Isgur, Politico

What’s going on? When considering the political ramifications of the Texas abortion law, Ian Malcom’s famous line from Jurassic Park comes to mind, with a little social-wars twist: “Your [anti-abortion advocates] were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

 

For decades, Republican state lawmakers have been able to vote for and pass highly restrictive abortion laws without living through the political consequences, because the laws were typically enjoined by the courts before they ever took effect. The politicians got to check the pro-life box important to a segment of their voters without their constituents ever living under those strict laws. This kept the political backlash to their votes to a minimum.

9/13/2021   A roadrunner stopped at Trump’s border wall in the Ariz. desert. A photographer snapped an award-winning image, by Gina Harkins, The Washington Post

Alejandro Prieto was driving on the U.S. side of the border wall near Naco, Ariz., about two years ago when a roadrunner darted out of the vegetation. Prieto, a wildlife photographer from Guadalajara, Mexico, grabbed his camera as the speedy bird stopped in the middle of a gravel road.

The roadrunner appeared to gaze at the tall barbed-wire-covered wall that cut through the desert. It was there just long enough for Prieto to snap a few shots.

9/6/2021   Waive CRISPR patents to meet food needs in low-income countries, by John van der Oost & Louise O. Fresco, Nature Correspondence

9/1/2021   Texas valedictorian, who spoke out against state's impending abortion law, calls new ban 'heart-wrenching' by Lauren M. Johnson and Ariane de Vogue, CNN

8/27/2021   The Pandemic Is Making Dads Reevaluate Their Work-Life Balance, By Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic

The past year and a half has been exhausting and stressful for parents. It also, unexpectedly, gave many fathers more of the family time they want.

8/20/2021   The Remote Work–Fertility Connection, By Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic

It’s easier for parents whose jobs can be done remotely to juggle work and child care. This digital divide is starting to shape who chooses to have kids.

7/29/2021   Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future, by Ed Zitron, The Atlantic

Remote work lays bare many brutal inefficiencies and problems that executives don’t want to deal with because they reflect poorly on leaders and those they’ve hired. Remote work empowers those who produce and disempowers those who have succeeded by being excellent diplomats and poor workers, along with those who have succeeded by always finding someone to blame for their failures. It removes the ability to seem productive (by sitting at your desk looking stressed or always being on the phone), and also, crucially, may reveal how many bosses and managers simply don’t contribute to the bottom line.

7/15/2021   Klobuchar Says D.C. Has Enough Drug Lobbyists To Double-Team Lawmakers, KHN Fact Check

 

6/22/2021   The Democrats’ Dead End on Voting Rights, by Russell Berman, The Atlantic

They claim that democracy is under threat, but they lack the collective will to save it.

6/24/2021   What Quitters Understand About the Job Market, by Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

Quitting your job is hot this summer. More Americans quit in April than any other month on record going back to the beginning of the century, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For every 100 workers in hotels, restaurants, bars, and retailers, about five of them quit.*

6/14/2021   Winners and Losers of the Work-From-Home Revolution, by Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

High-income workers at highly profitable companies will benefit greatly. Downtown landlords won’t.

 

The second team surveyed more than 30,000 Americans over the past few months and found that workers were overwhelmingly satisfied with their work-from-home experience. Most people said it exceeded their expectations. “Employees will enjoy large benefits from greater remote work” after the pandemic, the paper’s authors predicted. They said that productivity would surge in the post-pandemic economy, “due to re-optimized working arrangements” at some of the economy’s most successful white-collar companies.

 

6/11/2021   Democracy Is Already Dying in the States, by Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic

Republicans around the country are proving Joe Manchin wrong.

6/9/2021   Joe Manchin Can’t Have It Both Ways, by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic

If the right to vote is fundamental, then it cannot be subject to veto by partisans who benefit from disenfranchisement.

5/10/2021   There’s a Perfect Number of Days to Work From Home, and It’s 2, by Amanda Mull, The Atlantic

The best job perk is self-determination.

5/3/2021   6 Questions for the Boss Who Wants You Back in Your Cubicle, by Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic

Here’s how to find out if your workplace’s return-to-office plans are actually safe.

4/27/2020   THE PANDEMIC WILL CHANGE AMERICAN RETAIL FOREVER, by By Derek Thompson, Photographs by Joshua Dudley Greer, The Atlantic

The big will get bigger as mom-and-pops perish and shopping goes virtual. In the short term, our cities will become more boring. In the long term, they might just become interesting again.

4/10/2020   THE PANDEMIC WILL CLEAVE AMERICA IN TWO, by Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic

 

Some will emerge from this crisis disrupted and shaken, but ultimately stable. Others will come out of it with much more lasting scars.

 

When someone dies, there are three ways to think about what caused it, according to Scott Frank, a professor at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine. The first is the straightforward, “medical” cause of death—diagnosable things like heart disease or cancer. The second is the “actual” cause of death—that is, the habits and behaviors that over time contributed to the medical cause of death, such as smoking cigarettes or being physically inactive. The third is what Frank refers to as the “actual actual” cause of death—the bigger, society-wide forces that shaped those habits and behaviors.

4/7/2020   This Is Trump’s Fault, by David Frum, The Atlantic

The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures.

 

“Idon’t take responsibility at all,” said President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden on March 13. Those words will probably end up as the epitaph of his presidency, the single sentence that sums it all up.

3/26/2020   The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal, by Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic

The coronavirus outbreak may last for a year or two, but some elements of pre-pandemic life will likely be won back in the meantime.

3/25/2020   HOW THE PANDEMIC WILL END, by Ed Yong, The Atlantic

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

 

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a collection of work by Ed Yong that earned the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

3/15/2020   The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff, by Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic

Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself.

 

Secure in their island homeland, the rulers of Japan had been convinced for decades of their cultural superiority. Japan was unique, special, the homeland of the gods. “Japan’s position, at the vertex of the earth, makes it the standard for the nations of the world,” the nationalist thinker Aizawa Seishisai wrote nearly three decades before Perry’s arrival. But the steamships and the guns changed all that. Suddenly, the Japanese realized that their culture, their political system, and their technology were out of date. Their samurai-warrior leaders and honor culture were not able to compete in a world dominated by science.

 

The coronavirus pandemic is in its early days. But the scale and force of the economic and medical crisis that is about to hit the United States may turn out to be as formidable as Perry’s famous voyage was. Two weeks ago—it already seems like an infinity—I was in Italy, writing about the first signs of the virus. Epidemics, I wrote, “have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.” This one has already done so, and with terrifying speed. What it reveals about the United States—not just this administration, but also our health-care system, our bureaucracy, our political system itself—should make Americans as fearful as the Japanese who heard the “distant thunder” of Perry’s guns.

The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared, By Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic

The shutdowns happened remarkably quickly, but the process of resuming our lives will be far more muddled.

 

About the author: Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary for homeland security under President Barack Obama, is the faculty chair of the homeland-security program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home.

2/11/2021   AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS ONLY 55 YEARS OLD—AND HANGING BY A THREAD, By Vann R. Newkirk II

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

 

 

10/28/2021   Revenge of the Donald, By David Frum, The Atlantic

Nostalgia and resentment could be enough to catapult Trump back into the presidency.

 

It’s an amazing spectacle, because Donald Trump was no ordinary political loser. He was a huge political loser. He lost the popular vote in two consecutive presidential elections, the second time by a margin of 8 million votes. He led his party to a brutal midterm defeat in 2018 amid the strongest economy since the late 1990s. He was the first president to have been impeached twice, the second time for inciting a mob to invade and attack Congress to overturn a national election result. He now faces more criminal and civil jeopardy than Richard Nixon did ahead of his presidential pardon in 1974.

 

In a 2011 speech, Donald Trump explained his single top rule in life: “Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe it.” He’s repeated the same idea over and over again in speeches, tweets, and books published under his byline. In 2024, the targets of Trump’s revenge are American law and American democracy. At a September 25 rally in Perry, Georgia, Trump excoriated state Republican officials who failed to subvert the state election for him. In Iowa two weeks later, Trump delivered more attacks on the 2020 election process, focusing this time on state Republicans who failed to steal Arizona for him. 

10/13/2021   America Is Not Ready for Trump’s Second Term, by David A. Graham, The Atlantic

And he could win, fair and square. 

11/4/2020   The Nightmare Is Here, by David A. Graham, The Atlantic

Even as the election remained unresolved, President Trump declared victory and denounced efforts to count the remaining votes as “a fraud.”

11/1/2020,  How to Tell If the Election Will Get Violent, by Olga Khazan, The Atlantic

Some experts are predicting violence after November 3. But there are ways to prevent it.

June, 2020   We Are Living in a Failed State, , by George Packer, The Atlantic

Trump came to power as the repudiation of the Republican establishment. But the conservative political class and the new leader soon reached an understanding. Whatever their differences on issues like trade and immigration, they shared a basic goal: to strip-mine public assets for the benefit of private interests. Republican politicians and donors who wanted government to do as little as possible for the common good could live happily with a regime that barely knew how to govern at all, and they made themselves Trump’s footmen.

 

Like a wanton boy throwing matches in a parched field, Trump began to immolate what was left of national civic life. He never even pretended to be president of the whole country, but pitted us against one another along lines of race, sex, religion, citizenship, education, region, and—every day of his presidency—political party. His main tool of governance was to lie. A third of the country locked itself in a hall of mirrors that it believed to be reality; a third drove itself mad with the effort to hold on to the idea of knowable truth; and a third gave up even trying.

7/10/2018   How Shelby County v. Holder Broke America, by By Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.

 

Shelby County has been discussed constantly in The Atlantic, and in my work especially. That’s for good reason. In that 2013 decision, the Supreme Court invalidated a decades-old “coverage formula” naming jurisdictions that had to pass federal scrutiny under the Voting Rights Act, referred to as “preclearance,” in order to pass any new elections or voting laws. Those jurisdictions were selected based on their having a history of discrimination in voting. The decision also left it to Congress to come up with new criteria for coverage, which hasn’t happened and probably won’t happen soon. In practice, the decision means that communities facing new discriminatory voting laws have had to file suits themselves or rely on Justice Department suits or challenges from outside advocates—sometimes after the discriminatory laws have already taken effect. Under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the department hasn’t been interested in filing such suits, meaning that citizens have been on their own.

6/27/2018   What Kennedy's Absence Means for Civil Rights, By Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic

6/18/2018   THE END OF CIVIL RIGHTS, by Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic

Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.

 

 

10/29/2021   Before going Meta, Mark Zuckerberg must fix Facebook, Steven Levy, WIRED

10/28/2021   Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company, by Jason Koebler, Vice

The future Zuckerberg went on to pitch was a delusional fever dream cribbed most obviously from dystopian science fiction and misleading or outright fabricated virtual reality product pitches from the last decade. 

The Facebook Papers: 17 News Organizations shared the leaked and damning secret company documents.

10/25/2021   The Facebook Papers and their fallout, By The New York Times

10/24/2021   Inside the Big Facebook Leak, by Ben Smith, The New York Times

In a time of mega-leaks, journalists’ sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook product manager who shared company documents, led a meticulous media rollout.

10/1/2021    Facebook Struggles to Quell Uproar Over Instagram’s Effect on Teens, by Mike Isaac, Sheera Frenkel and Ryan Mac, The New York Times

The social network has been all hands on deck as it grapples with revelations that it knew the harmful effects its Instagram photo-sharing app was having on teenagers.

Associated Press: 

10/28/2021   America 'on fire': Facebook watched as Trump ignited hate, by Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

10/26/2021   Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users, by DAVID KLEPPER and AMANDA SEITZ, AP

10/25/2021   People or profit? Facebook papers show deep conflict within, by BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP

10/25/2021   Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maid abuse, by JON GAMBRELL and JIM GOMEZ, AP

10/25/2021   Facebook’s language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism, by By Isabel Debre and Fares Akram, AP

10/25/2021   EXPLAINER: Just what are ‘The Facebook Papers,’ anyway? by The Associated Press

10/24/2021   Facebook dithered in curbing divisive user content in India, by Sheikh Saaliq and Krutika Pathi, AP

10/23/2021   Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection, by Alan Suderman and Joshua Goodman, AP

10/10/2021   How one Facebook worker unfriended the giant social network, by Adam Geller and Matt O'Brien, AP 

 

POLITICO: 

10/25/2021   Facebook looking for its voice at a ‘watershed moment’ By EMILY BIRNBAUM, Politico, 07:55 PM EDT

10/25/2021   Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war, By LEAH NYLEN, Politico, 10/25/2021 07:06 AM EDT Updated 10/25/2021 08:47 AM EDT

10/25/2021   Facebook did little to moderate posts in the world’s most violent countries, By MARK SCOTT, Politico, 10/25/2021 07:01 AM EDT

10/25/2021   How Facebook users wield multiple accounts to spread toxic politics, By JULIA ARCIGA and SUSANNAH LUTHI, Politico, 10/25/2021 07:01 AM EDT

10/25/2021   ‘This is NOT normal’: Facebook employees vent their anguish, By JOHN HENDEL, Politico, 10/25/2021 07:01 AM EDT

10/25/2021   Facebook staff complained for years about their lobbyists’ power, By EMILY BIRNBAUM, Politico, 10/25/2021 07:01 AM EDT Updated 10/25/2021 11:35 AM EDT

10/25/2021   Inside Facebook’s struggle to contain insurrectionists’ posts, By ALEXANDRA S. LEVINE, Politico, 10/25/2021 07:01 AM EDT

 

 

_01 Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt

By Jeff Horwitz

_02 Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Many Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
By Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman

_03 Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead.
By Keach Hagey and Jeff Horwitz

_04 Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show.
By Justin Scheck, Newley Purnell and Jeff Horwitz

_05 How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated
By Sam Schechner, Jeff Horwitz and Emily Glazer

_06 Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show
By Georgia Wells and Jeff Horwitz

_07 Facebook’s Documents About Instagram and Teens, Published
By Wall Street Journal Staff

_08 Is Sheryl Sandberg’s Power Shrinking? Ten Years of Facebook Data Offers Clues
By Stephanie Stamm, John West and Deepa Seetharaman

_09 The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It
By Jeff Horwitz

_10 Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform. Its Own Engineers Have Doubts.
By Deepa Seetharaman, Jeff Horwitz and Justin Scheck

_11 How Many Users Does Facebook Have? The Company Struggles to Figure It Out
By Sam Schechner and Jeff Horwitz

_12 Facebook Increasingly Suppresses Political Movements It Deems Dangerous
By Jeff Horwitz and Justin Scheck

_13 Facebook Services Are Used to Spread Religious Hatred in India, Internal Documents Show
By Newley Purnell and Jeff Horwitz

_14 Facebook’s Internal Chat Boards Show Politics Often at Center of Decision Making
By Keach Hagey and Jeff Horwitz

 

 

10/22/2021   People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much, By Ian Bogost, The Atlantic

Your social life has a biological limit: 150. That’s the number—Dunbar’s number, proposed by the British psychologist Robin Dunbar three decades ago—of people with whom you can have meaningful relationships.

 

What makes a relationship meaningful? Dunbar gave The New York Times a shorthand answer: “those people you know well enough to greet without feeling awkward if you ran into them in an airport lounge”—a take that may accidentally reveal the substantial spoils of having produced a predominant psychological theory.

7/30/2021   The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea, by Brian Merchant, Motherboard/Vice

Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception.

6/29/2021   The Metaverse Primer, Parts 1-9, by Matthew Ball

5/5/2021   The Trump Decision Shows Facebook Can’t Hide Behind Its Fake Court, by David Gilbert, Vice News

1/26/2021   Landlords Want to Make Virtual Reality Just as Hellish as Real Life, by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Motherboard/Vice

With property values declining due to the pandemic, some real estate moguls are investing in virtual spaces they can fully control.

 

12/15/2020   FACEBOOK IS A DOOMSDAY MACHINE, by Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

 

Anyone who is serious about mitigating the damage done to humankind by the social web should, of course, consider quitting Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and any other algorithmically distorted informational environments that manipulate people.

 

1/13/2020   The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite, by Matthew Ball

 

 

10/31/2021   911 transcripts filed in updated “Trump Train” lawsuit reveal San Marcos police refused to send escort to Biden bus, by Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune

The lawsuit alleges that by refusing the help, law enforcement officers violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 because they were aware of “acts of violent political intimidation” but did not take appropriate steps to prevent the Trump supporters from intimidating eligible voters.

 

According to the filing, plaintiffs argue a text message between some of the San Marcos police officers who refused to provide assistance “poked fun at the attack.”   The lawsuit refers to a group text message among San Marcos officers, including Winkenwerder, in which an unidentified person appears to refer to Democrats who drove through town as a derogatory slang term for someone who is mentally disabled.

 

The 911 dispatcher in San Marcos put the New Braunfels dispatcher and the Biden campaign staffer who was pleading for assistance on hold and called Daenzer, the police supervisor on duty.  “I am so annoyed at New Braunfels for doing this to us,” the dispatcher tells Daenzer, who answered the call and began laughing, according to the transcribed recording in the filing. “They have their officers escorting this Biden bus, essentially, and the Trump Train is cutting in between vehicles and driving — being aggressive and slowing them down to like 20 or 30 miles per hour. And they want you guys to respond to help.”

 

“Despite these multiple calls for help from Plaintiffs and others, for the roughly 30 minutes it took to drive through San Marcos on the main highway that runs through it, there were no officers from San Marcos or any other police cars in sight–not on the I-35 exit or entrance ramps, nor on either side of the highway,” the filing read.

 

In the days afterward, after news of the melee spread, officers started calling the event a “debacle” in internal emails and braced for a “political fire storm” after officers realized that what happened in San Marcos “might lead to political and legal consequences,” the complaint alleges.

10/17/2021   The G.O.P.’s Race to Out-Trump the Trumpists, by Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker

Anyone in need of a warning about what the 2022 midterm elections could bring might consider what took place last month at a candidates’ forum sponsored by the Republican Women of Coffee County, Alabama. Katie Britt, a contender for the Republican nomination to replace Senator Richard Shelby, who is retiring, was asked if she had supported Roy Moore in the 2017 special Senate election. Moore is the Constitution-defying judge who was accused of sexually pursuing teen-age girls; he denied the allegations, but lost to the Democratic candidate, Doug Jones. “I have never supported or voted for a Democrat in my life,” Britt said, but added, “I also think it’s important to stand with women.”

 

That hedged response appeared to provoke the next candidate to speak, Representative Mo Brooks, who accused her of lacking party loyalty. “We are a team,” he said. “We have a belief system.”

10/6/2021   Trump Derangement Syndrome with David Lat, All the Presidents' Lawyers

Ken White and special guest David Lat discuss Jeffrey Clark, who tried to oust fellow Jeffrey (Rosen) as acting attorney general and get Georgia to change its election results. John Eastman, a respected attorney and former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is now under fire for a memo he wrote outlining six steps for handing the presidency back to Donald Trump. Perhaps two of the most public examples of what David calls TDS are that of Rudy Giuliani, once the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and “America’s mayor,” and Sidney Powell, a top law school graduate and respected appellate attorney, who is now most known for representing Michael Flynn, legal challenges of the 2020 election, and being sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems.

10/5/2021   Melania texted Grisham on Jan. 6. Grisham says she resigned 15 minutes later, CNN Politics

Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham describes the events leading to her Jan. 6 resignation and the "culture of abuse" that took place under the former President.

 

10/2/2021    EXCLUSIVE: Married Trump donor tells police she feared for her safety when Corey Lewandowski told her 'he stabbed a man in the back of the head and killed him' as her husband slams the political operative's 'violent and harassing' behavior, By Hazel Jones for Dailymail.com and Shannon Thaler for Dailymail.com, The Daily Mail, UK edition

Odom, the wife of a construction company executive, claimed that on the night of the dinner - which she was personally invited to with South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem by American socialite Jackie Siegel - she was frightened when he allegedly told her: 'When I was 10, I stabbed someone over and over again, killing him. She added that the father-of-four told her that when he was older, he 'stabbed a man in the back of the head, also killing him'. 

 

'Lewandowski proceeded to come on to me aggressively by first stating that, he works out twice a day, that he runs 400miles a week, and that's why he can last for eight hours at a time in bed,' Odom claimed Lewandowski said to her, according to the police statement.

 

Three page statement of Trashelle Odom, by Matthew Taylor Esq on behalf of the Odom Family.

 

4/14/2016   The mess surrounding Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and reporter Michelle Fields, explained by Tara Golshan, V0X

 

"The easiest thing: 'Corey, you're fired!' I can't do that," Trump said at a campaign rally in Wisconsin Tuesday. "I can't destroy a man for that."   In fact, Trump supported Lewandowski since the accusations first surfaced. First he denied it ever happened. Then he denied the video footage existed. Then he said the video footage showed nothing. And then argued that Fields prompted the whole thing by first grabbing Trump while holding a pen (which Trump says Secret Service could have easily mistaken for a tiny bomb). 

 

How Trump responded to the whole thing was an example of a campaign tactic he has used all along: Even in the face of overwhelming evidence contradicting his statements, he does not back down and he definitely does not apologize. Photographic evidence and violence are not enough to change his tune.

 

 

 

 

 

 "All we need are guns, cheap slogans and suckers."

 

 

 7/8/2021, NYC

 

 

Trump's base

 

 

 Hate Daddy

Instagram image by Narapino

 

 

 

 

3/22/2021   Preachers and their $5,000 sneakers: Why one man started an Instagram account showing churches’ wealth, by Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Ben Kirby wondered the church’s pastor, Steven Furtick, one of the most popular preachers in the country, could afford a new designer outfit nearly every week?

 

With a friend’s encouragement, Kirby started a new Instagram account @PreachersNSneakers posting screenshots of pastors next to price tags and the street value of shoes they were wearing. Within a month, the account had attracted 100,000 followers.

 

On his feed, Kirby has showcased Seattle pastor Judah Smith’s $3,600 Gucci jacket, Dallas pastor T.D. Jakes’s $1,250 Louboutin fanny pack and Miami pastor Guillermo Maldonado’s $2,541 Ricci crocodile belt. And he considers Paula White, President Donald Trump’s most trusted pastoral adviser who is often photographed in designer items, a PreachersNSneakers “content goldmine,” posting a photo of her wearing $785 Stella McCartney sneakers.

 

Preachersnsneakers: Authenticity in an Age of For-Profit Faith and (Wannabe) Celebrities by Ben Kirby

11/2/2021   Christian radio host sentenced to 3 life terms for Ponzi scheme that took millions from senior citizens, by Sky Palma, DEADState

As CBS News points out, Gallagher and group advertised on Christian radio and promoted his group in books, such as “Jesus Christ, Money Master,” and on Christian radio broadcasts.

11/2/2021   Christian Radio Host William Neil “Doc” Gallagher gets three life sentences for plucking Christian Radio's well groomed suckers, by David Matthews, Daily News

According to prosecutors Gallagher reportedly stole more than $29 million over more than four years before authorities caught up to him in early 2019. 

 

“See you in church on Sunday” was The Money Doctor's slogan.

11/2/2021   U.S. missionaries have long tried to convert the ‘unreached’ in the Amazon. Now Indigenous groups are fighting back, by By Terrence McCoy, The Washington Post

Stout, wavy-haired and chain-smoking, Marubo is the first Indigenous lawyer to have come out of the Javari Valley. The only legal representative for its peoples, he last year filed on their behalf what is believed to be the first lawsuit by an Indigenous group aimed at expelling Christian missionaries from their territory. A victory could set a legal precedent, further restricting access to isolated groups and reducing the historic role American evangelists have played in the forest.

10/31/2021   Are Conservative Christians the Real ‘Secularists’ Now? By Ed Kilgore, Intelligencer / New York Magazine

There is growing evidence that America’s conservative believers need to look in the mirror to see the most pervasive “secularist” threat. In their passionate embrace of cultural and political counterrevolution, many conservative Christians are now more addicted to power, and to entirely secular goals that confuse traditional culture with holiness, than their allegedly infidel enemies are. This development is most evident in the religious cult of Donald Trump, the heathenish and hate-filled political warlord whose own values are about as antithetical to those of the Prince of Peace as one can imagine.

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9/30/2021   South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem won’t use Trump ally Corey Lewandowski as advisor after reports of affair, sexual harassment, by Dan Mangan, CNBC

Noem’s cold shoulder to Lewandowski came a day after she denied a report that she has been having an extramarital affair with the controversial political operative.

9/29/2021   South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem dismisses conservative website’s claims of extramarital affair with former Trump adviser, by Felicia Sonmez and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post

“There are members of Congress close to Mar-a-Lago who have called the affair ‘an open secret’ and worried that about Noem’s viability as a national candidate and within the movement,” a source familiar with the matter told American Greatness.

 

Noem has recently come under scrutiny for a meeting she organized for her daughter and the state employee charged with leading the agency that moved to deny her application to become a certified real estate appraiser. The meeting prompted allegations of abuse of power among some state lawmakers, and South Dakota’s attorney general, Jason Ravnsborg, is reviewing the matter.

 

9/30/2021   South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem severs ties with longtime Trump aide after harassment allegations, by Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey, WaPost

9/23/2021   Evangelical pastor to his followers: Jesus hasn’t come back because you haven’t given me enough money, by Sky Palma, DeadState

… If people would call this number and put this victory all over the world, every available voice, every available outlet, God the Father would say, ‘Jesus, go get ’em.’ Because, you see, he wants to see us as much as we want to see him. … And so what is hindering all these things is because people are not doing in the financial realm — because we’re living in an economic world — what God’s called them to do.”

9/20/2021   The For-Profit World of Religious Vaccine Exemptions, BY MARY HARRIS, Slate

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7/10/2021   Monroe-area family loses appeal in lawsuit over priest’s funeral remarks on suicide, Associated Press, Detroit News

Mourners were shocked when the Rev. Don LaCuesta gave a critical sermon. He said suicide was a “secular crime” and a “sin against God with dire eternal consequences.”

7/2/2021   Boy Scouts of America reaches $850M agreement with victims, by RANDALL CHASE, AP

The Boy Scouts of America have reached an $850 million agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a pivotal moment in the organization’s bankruptcy case.

5/25/2021   Jim Bakker: ‘Cancel culture’ is the reason I went to prison, by Sky Palma, DeadState

End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker claims that "cancel culture" was responsible for him being unjustly convicted of fraud and sent to prison in the 1980s.

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5/14/2021   Our Fellow Evangelicals Need to Get Vaccinated, by Curtis Chang and Kris Carter, The New York Times

The pathway to ending the Covid-19 pandemic runs through the evangelical church. Tens of millions of evangelical Christians live in the United States, and almost half of white evangelicals surveyed have said they are reluctant to get vaccinated against Covid. For many outside the evangelical world, this resistance seems incomprehensible. But as lifelong evangelicals, we understand why this is happening, and we worry that our community is obstructing recovery from the pandemic.

 

The decision to get vaccinated is essentially a decision to trust institutions. Many people do not understand the vaccines’ scientific complexities, regardless of religion. That means getting immunized is a decision to trust “them” — the constellation of scientific and government institutions offering assurances that the vaccines are safe and effective.

 

But American evangelicals are historically prone to ambivalence toward dominant secular institutions. In fact, a posture of critical evaluation is built into the fabric of our faith. Evangelicals interpret Jesus’ teaching that his followers are in the world but not “of the world” (John 17:16) to mean we should engage with secular institutions with a certain measure of wariness. Some amount of caution is healthy for all communities, not just for evangelicals. No institution is infallible, and critical thinking can be a civic virtue.

 

Unfortunately, in recent years, the evangelical approach to engaging with secular institutions has morphed from caution into outright fear and hostility. Three forces have exploited this inherent ambivalence toward secular institutions. First, conservative media has mastered the art of sowing evangelical suspicion of the establishment to increase ratings. Second, politicians — some Christian and some not — have used evangelicals’ distrust of so-called elite institutions to gain our votes. Third, conspiracy movements such as QAnon and antivaccine campaigns have targeted evangelicals, conjuring fictional enemies intent on destroying our values and, in the case of the vaccines, our actual bodies. All of these forces shape how large segments of the evangelical community perceive the Covid vaccines.

 

In our vaccination outreach, evangelicals have told us they’re suspicious of the shots for a variety of reasons. Many worry that the development process was rushed, that the vaccines contain a microchip or that they are the “the mark of the beast,” a reference from the Book of Revelation that some Christians associate with a future Antichrist figure. A sharpened distrust of institutions underlies these fears.

 

This reflex has taken root so rapidly that a gap has emerged between evangelical pastors and the people in their pews. A survey from the National Association of Evangelicals showed that 95 percent of church leaders would be vaccinated, a marked contrast to the mere 54 percent of evangelicals who planned to get a vaccination. This gap follows a documented trend of pastors feeling afraid to speak on public issues because they might alienate some portion of their members.

 

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5/5/2021   Spiritual Warfare: A Battle Is Raging in the ‘Prophetic Community’ Over the 2020 Election, by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, a variety of self-proclaimed “prophets” were nearly unanimous in their announcements that they had all heard from Heaven that Donald Trump would win the election and serve a second term as president.

 

Even though that did not happen, many of these “prophets” have vehemently refused to admit they were wrong and continue to insist that God will vindicate them by miraculously returning Trump to the White House.

 

Concerned about these false prophecies and the refusal of such “prophets” to acknowledge them, a collection of conservative Christian leaders recently signed on to a document laying out standards for the prophetic movement, declaring, among other things, that those who refuse to abide by such standards run the risk of being designated as “false prophets.”

4/30/2021   Detroit Church Militant founder may face legal reckoning for defamation, by Christopher White, National Catholic Reporter

Voris' targeting of de Laire centers around his handling of a canonical matter that involved a traditionalist organization in his diocese known as the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary* of St. Benedict Center.

 

The group was formed after its founder, former Jesuit priest Leonard Feeney, was excommunicated by the Vatican in 1953 for his belief that only those baptized in the Catholic Church could receive salvation. The group as it operates today has since been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for preaching "anti-Semitic hatred."

 

The diocese had forbidden the community of the St. Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire, to present themselves as an official Catholic institution, while at the same time allowing a priest to provide ministry to the group. According to the Diocese of Manchester's website, the group "manipulated" this "to imply support or recognition by the Church."

 

Church Militant has also been banned from presenting itself as a Catholic entity. Under its previous iteration, the organization, which operates in the Detroit suburbs, used to be known as Real Catholic TV. In December 2011, the Detroit Archdiocese said "it does not regard them as being authorized to use the word 'Catholic' to identify or promote their public activities." 

4/30/2021   Support of Trump within church has driven some Catholics to the exits, by Rebecca Bratten Weiss, National Catholic Reporter

 Boyle's departure from the Catholic Church is part of a broader trend, as church membership among Catholics has declined sharply in recent decades, especially over the past 10 years. Many who have left, like Boyle, cite their coreligionists' alliance with the MAGA "Make America Great Again" movement as a key factor in their decision.

 

H.L. Vogl came from a conservative background and converted enthusiastically to Catholicism as an adult. But in 2016, Vogl was dismayed to see their pastor becoming far more political — and it got worse after Donald Trump was elected president. According to Vogl, their pastor was "explicitly citing Fox News in homilies, preaching on the obligation to respect those in authority in the government, and stoking fear of 'political correctness.' "

 

Vogl began fact-checking the pastor's homilies, and in the process also discovered falsehoods and misrepresentations that had previously been accepted without question, such as the misrepresentation of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute.

 

Vogl was also appalled by the church's lack of accountability, and the harshness with which the authorities silence anyone working for gender equality.

 

Others have been dismayed by the spectacle of prominent Catholics they once respected embracing Donald Trump's far-right nationalist ideology and substituting it for the traditional teachings of the church. This has been especially distressing for converts to witness, as they watch those who once influenced their conversion veer sharply to the right.

 

 

Josh Duggar, whose family became the subject of a TLC reality show in 2008, was charged with receiving and possessing child pornography in Arkansas on Friday.  The material allegedly depicted the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12.

Duggar, 33, was featured in a reality show on the TLC network with his family called “19 Kids and Counting” that ran from 2008 and 2015. The show chronicled the lives of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and their 19 children, of which Duggar was the eldest, and often centered around the family’s religious beliefs as devout Baptists.

 

 

What evangelicals are hearing from some pastors about Covid-19, Brianna Keilar, CNN

 

4/17/2021   Why Anti-Abortion Catholics Should Get Vaccinated, by Leah Libresco Sargeant, The New York Times

Although the Vatican has stated clearly that the vaccines approved in the United States are “morally licit” to receive, some Catholics are reluctant because these vaccines have been developed or tested using lab-replicated cells cultured from aborted fetuses.

 

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, sent a letter to his diocese that read, “I urge you to reject any vaccine that uses the remains of aborted children in research, testing, development, or production.” On social media, the vaccine selfies I see are interspersed with friends sharing Bishop Strickland’s and other prelates’ exhortations and grieving over their friends’ willingness to compromise with what they see as evil. Vaccine-hesitant Catholics are reluctant to accept protection from viral contagion at the risk of moral taint.

 

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4/16/2021   Liberty Sues Jerry Falwell Jr. For Millions In Damages Over Granda Episode, by Josh Kovensky, MuckRaker

The evangelical institution claims in the suit, filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court in Virginia, that Falwell concealed his relationship with Giancarlo Granda from the university.  Liberty cites both a lawsuit that Falwell filed against Liberty in November 2020 and a statement that the evangelical scion issued to the Washington Examiner before Reuters broke the news in August 2020 that Granda had a relationship with Falwell’s wife as the son of the famous preacher allegedly looked on.

4/16/2021   The full text of Liberty University's lawsuit against Jerry Falwell, save71.org 

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4/14/2021   Falwell’s son out as VP at Liberty University, by Brandon Ambrosino and Michael Stratford, Politico

Liberty University spokesperson Scott Lamb on Wednesday confirmed to POLITICO that Trey Falwell was “no longer employed by the university.” That development, Lamb said, occurred “this week,” but he declined to provide any additional details about what happened. Lamb also declined to answer questions about whether Jerry Falwell Jr.’s other son, Wesley, or his daughters-in-law were currently employed by the university. Liberty “does not answer questions about personnel,” he said.

 

His departure follows closely on the heels of another university shake-up. Last week, David Nasser, longtime campus pastor, resigned. He was replaced with Jonathan Falwell, Jerry’s brother and pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church, founded by their father.

4/13/2021   Pastor’s son becomes viral star for debunking evangelical thinking on TikTok, by Gustaf Kilander, The Independent

Arguing that it’s weird for kids to read the Bible, Mr Piper said: “While other kids are learning to read with comics or whatever normal parents have around the house, here fundie [fundamentalist] kids are, 6, 7, 8 years old, devouring stories of Jezebel being defenestrated and then eaten by dogs.”

 

He added that the Bible is “basically Game of Thrones except if you don’t read it, you go to hell.”

 

 

Copeland:  Too bad about your crushed lives. Keep those Direct Deposits Coming.

 

3/30/2020:     Kenneth Copeland and his Assistant Parasite "Casting Out Coronavirus." 

 

In this clip, Inside Edition Reporter Lisa Guerrero confronted MegaChurcher Kenneth Copland's 3 private jets (and about his $700M+ fortune)

The threat in Copeland's huge hands and body language wasn't subtle. It's easy to imagine Copeland intimidating his congregants.

 

 

Why Do These Televangelists Need Expensive Jets?  Inside Edition 

 

 

GrifterMan Jim Bakker, Selling Silver Colloid Snake Oil, "Just Like Jesus"

  

3/24/2021   Jim Bakker Decries ‘Warfare’ That Has Forced Him to Stop Lying About His Silver Solution, by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

Earlier this month, End Times pastor Jim Bakker was ordered by various state and federal agencies to stop suggesting that a silver solution sold by his network could be used as a possible cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus after Right Wing Watch posted a clip in February from “The Jim Bakker Show” in which he and his guests made precisely that claim.

 

Bakker addressed the controversy on Tuesday’s episode of his program by insisting that the claims made on his program were not misleading and complaining that the attacks against him were demonic warfare, while petulantly announcing that he was suspending the sale of his silver solution because of them.

4/17/2020   How To Be a Prophet the Jim Bakker Way, by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

At the time, we noted that Bakker’s “prophecy” was so vague that if anything happened anywhere in the world, Bakker would immediately claim it to be the fulfillment of his prophecy. And that is exactly what Bakker is now doing, as he used his show yesterday to claim that the coronavirus was the judgment that he had foreseen and foretold.

 

Bakker said that he had to re-watch his own sermon because he didn’t even remember what he said since he was “under the anointing” of God when he delivered it, adding that he was shocked by how accurate it was.

4/14/2020   Desperate Times For Jim Bakker, by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

End Times pastor Jim Bakker closed out his television program today by begging viewers to financially support his ministry using checks, as his network has reportedly been unable to process credit card transactions ever since it came under fire for promoting the silver solution it sold could possibly kill the coronavirus and heal those who have been infected.

3/10/2020   Missouri AG Sues Jim Bakker Over Fake Coronavirus Cure, by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

3/5/2020   New York AG Orders Jim Bakker to ‘Cease and Desist’ Making Misleading Claims That His Silver Solution Kills the Coronavirus, by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

10/3/2019   Jim Bakker: The Left Is Under ‘Massive Demon Possession’, by Kyle Mantyla, RIght Wing Watch 

“I want to tell you people today, America has gone crazy,” Bakker said. “I believe much of politics today, especially those that have gone out on an extreme—I’ll say left, they are way left—I believe there is a massive demon possession in the political realm today.”

 

Bakker’s guest, pastor and author Rick Renner, readily agreed.

 

“I believe it,” Renner said. “It’s like Hell found a voice. Hell is speaking through the political system today and through the media. It is amazing what is happening to the media, it is just wicked what is taking place. It should not be permitted. I think about Jesus; Jesus told the demons to shut up and I think we need to take authority over all these voices and command them to be still, in Jesus’ name.”

3/7/2019   Jim Bakker Warns That ‘Civil War Is Coming to America’ by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

11/14/2017   Jim Bakker: Apache Helicopters Are Mentioned In The Bible, by Kyle Mantyla, Right Wing Watch

For instance, Bakker said, people who have studied the Bible will realize that Apache helicopters were mentioned in Revelation 9:

 

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

 

“Everything in the Bible is not a fairy tale,” Bakker said. “It’s all things that you can learn [if you study] … Do you know the Apache helicopter, I think, is in the Bible. John the Revelator saw it, he heard it, he saw it, it’s there. It said it had a face of a man; look in the helicopter, there’s the face of a man. It had a blue breastplate; it’s there. It’s so easy to understand the revelation if you read it.”

2/3/2017   Jim Bakker: Trump Protesters Are ‘Demon-Possessed’, by Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch

Bakker told evangelist Billye Brim that he encountered “four rotten little girls” demonstrating against Trump during the president’s inauguration, asserting: “It was a possession, it’s the demons.”

 

“What’s happening is we’ve had leaders who have opened our country to demon powers,” he said. “They have worked for the dark side, the other side. We have millions of demon-possessed people in this country now.”

 

Brim agreed that demons were behind such anti-Trump protests such as the Women’s March on Washington and urged viewers to pray for confusion in their ranks.

2/2/2017   Bakker: Trump Hotel Looked Like Heaven, by Brian Tashman, RIght Wing Watch

“If God builds ballrooms, it’s going to be nicer than Trump’s, I know, but I tell you what, it looks like heaven to me,” he said, adding that “the spirit of God came in” to the city for Trump’s inauguration.

1/31/2017   Jim Bakker Guest Says Women Marchers Were Possessed By Demons, By Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch

Bakker described Trump’s inauguration in glowing terms, saying that he felt “the presence of God” in Washington. But he and his guest, evangelist Billye Brim, railed against the subsequent Women’s March on Washington, which Brim said was “driven by demons.”

 

Upon seeing the Women’s March, Bakker said, he suddenly felt “the most evil spirit I’ve ever felt.”

 

Bakker was particularly offended that march participants used “dirty” and “filthy” words like “nasty” and “pussy”—words that the protesters pulled directly from the now-president, including from the infamous tape of him boasting about sexually assaulting women.

 

Brim said that the Women’s March was dominated by “the kingdom of darkness” and urged residents of Washington to “control those demons that were in those women.” 

1/24/2017   Jim Bakker: Trump’s Critics Look ‘Demon-Possessed’ By Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch

Today, televangelist Jim Bakker once again declared that Donald Trump’s election as president was a victory for God and the church, even going so far as to tell his guest, End Times radio host Rick Wiles, that the new president’s many critics appear to be possessed by demons.

 

“Have you ever looked into the eyes of some of these people?” he asked, criticizing Trump’s “mean” detractors from both sides of the aisle. “I’m telling you, there are some people that I’m concerned are demon-possessed. They’re just going crazy. Their eyes look like demons [are] coming out of them. I’m scared.”

 

Wiles said Trump victory blocked Satan’s attempt to drive the U.S. into another world war, while Bakker said that “there’s a warfare in the heavenlies” and “the great battle of the Antichrist” has already arrived.

12/29/2016   Bakker: Forces Of Hell Oppose Donald Trump Because He Stands For ‘Righteousness’ By Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch

All hell is against this presidency,” Bakker said, because Trump stands for “righteousness.”

 

Bakker went on to falsely claim that the United Kingdom has legalized “three-person marriage” and “so they’re going to take parts, stuff from three people; so three people now can get married, pretty soon you’ll be able to marry a baboon.”

11/30/2015   Jim Bakker Blames Witches For Televangelists’ Scandals, By Isabel Carter-Kahn, Right Wing Watch

This week on “The Jim Bakker Show,” Jim Bakker recounted a story that “a very well-known man of God” told him after he was released from prison about the threats facing televangelists. According to Bakker, this man sat next to a self-proclaimed witch on an airplane who told him that her coven was going to “take down” Jim Bakker.

 

“She said, ‘Right now, all the witches … They’re all agreeing they’re going to destroy the television ministries and we’re starting with Jim Bakker. And we are all praying, praying to destroy him,’” Bakker said.

 

Bakker’s guest, End Times radio host Rick Wiles, chimed in to mention a former Satanist named John Ramirez, who he says “targeted the pastors and the ministers that were really preaching the word of God.” Bakker added that these practices are why you see pastors “going through troubles,” because “all the demons in hell brought whatever, whether it be sex, drugs, or women” with them to attack godly preachers.

8/12/2015   Jim Bakker: America Is Descending Into Cannibalism, by Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch

While speaking with fellow End Times preacher Rick Wiles about the potential return of an Ice Age, Bakker urged viewers to stock up on food before it becomes scarce and America descends into violence.

 

“New York, Chicago, all of your big cities, will be Hell,” Bakker said. “The gangs will take what they want. They will kill to take what they want. Then then they will start eating bodies of the people they kill.”

1/5/2015   God Came To Jim Bakker In The Bath To Tell Him That He’s Punishing America For Abortion Rights, by Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch

On New Year’s Day, televangelist Jim Bakker informed viewers of his show about what God has in store for America in 2015, including increased tensions with North Korea and violence from Islamist extremists, something that no one else could have predicted.

 

He warned, however, that the U.S. military will fail to ever win a war because Americans are “mocking God, taking God out of schools, making it legal to murder the babies, [taking] the Ten Commandments down and literally denying the word of God.”

 

Bakker also told his audience that he received divine revelations while he was taking a bath.