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2026-02-06 22:22:55 UTC

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In /4 (above) in this thread, I quoted Aaron Parnas on a three-time Trump voter who has stated publicly that Trump's vile racist attack on the Obamas has — finally — opened his eyes. That voter spoke to C-SPAN, and his statement is also now available in recorded fomr — link below.
#Trump #Obamas #racism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHRC6r_3bvk

2026-02-06 22:16:51 UTC

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"The part of the paper that covers wars and investigates corruption and holds the government (and Amazon) accountable? That’s the part he decided he could live without.
The megaphone stays. The newsroom goes. And if you think that’s a coincidence, I’ve got a $500 million yacht to sell you."
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #fascism #techbros #EconomicElites
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2026-02-06 22:15:55 UTC

"Bezos didn’t let the Post die. He chose which part lives. He spent the last two years remaking the opinion section into his ideological megaphone while letting the newsroom bleed out. And this week he finished the job."
~ Parker Molloy
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #fascism #techbros #EconomicElites
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/jeff-bezos-gutted-the-newsroom-he

2026-02-06 21:59:51 UTC

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"That goal might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.
It distorts reality.
And in doing so, it enables the persecution of religion."
#Trump #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #media
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2026-02-06 21:59:22 UTC

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"The regime wants us to believe multiracial democracy threatens religious expression when, in fact, it’s the regime that’s using a phony defense of religion to threaten all faiths everywhere.
There is, quite literally, a rebellion bubbling up from below in the name of God. The regime knows its potential. It knows it can inspire even more resistance. And it’s taking steps to crush it."
#Trump #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #media
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2026-02-06 21:58:51 UTC

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John Stoehr says that Trump
is trying to crush a religious uprising against him." But:
"You might not know that thanks to the media."
"Pastors, ministers, rabbis, imams – there is a huge multifaith resistance taking shape, especially against Trump’s immigrant purge.
And you probably never heard of it."
#Trump #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #media
/25
https://www.editorialboard.com/donald-trump-is-trying-to-crush-a-religious-uprising-against-him/

2026-02-06 21:48:43 UTC

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"For years, the political establishment has sanitized the motivations of the 'forgotten voter' by labeling their fervor as 'economic anxiety.' However, the reality is often closer to a cultural addiction. Many voters were willing to overlook blatant corruption, misogyny, and even alleged involvement in sex trafficking rings as long as they were promised a return to a specific hierarchy of dominance."
#Trump #Obamas #racism
/12

2026-02-06 21:48:07 UTC

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"While some see these actions as a display of strength or 'doubling down,' they are more accurately interpreted as a sign of profound weakness. It is the act of a cornered figure attempting to incite chaos in the streets to justify the Insurrection Act or to distract from the 'blood in the water' found in legal files and economic failures."
#Trump #Obamas #racism
/11

2026-02-06 21:47:16 UTC

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"In the theater of modern power, racism is rarely an accidental outburst; it is a tactical retreat. Historically, when a leader’s back is against the wall—facing plummeting approval ratings, disastrous job numbers, or the looming shadow of criminal evidence—they return to the most reliable well in the American psyche: the politics of division."
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #Obamas #racism
/10
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/magas-addiction-to-hate-why-trumps

2026-02-06 21:34:58 UTC

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(continued from /8)
"instead of them saying this man could never be and should never be president of the United States, they said, Isn't it great for our ratings? Isn't it good for our bottom line? Doesn't he sell a lot of papers? …
The reality is, is that it was never economic anxiety. It was always racism."
#Trump #Obamas #racism
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2026-02-06 21:33:19 UTC

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"It has always been those who do not have the target on their back that wanted to tell us that we were making much ado about nothing. And the reality is that this is how we got here, because instead of mainstream corporatized media calling from jump when Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015 and said that Mexicans were rapists and and thugs and criminals," (continued in /9)
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #Obamas #racism
/8
https://katiephang.substack.com/p/racist-covfefe-from-racist-convicted-d62

2026-02-06 21:27:03 UTC

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"Three observations.
First, even Republican senators and representatives are now unafraid to publicly accuse Trump of being a bigot. That’s progress.
Secondly, when congressional Republicans make a ruckus, Trump backs down.
Third, this incident adds to the accumulating evidence that Trump is losing his mind."
#Trump #Obamas #racism
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2026-02-06 21:26:39 UTC

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"Sometimes his posts are so revolting that I can’t just let them pass. The loathsome sociopath in the Oval Office has to be held accountable. ...
The White House blamed an unnamed 'White House staffer' for it.
But you and I and anyone who has paid attention to Trump’s outbursts of bigoted offal over the past months knows it came from him.
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Obamas #racism
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-it-unkind-to-describe-our-president

2026-02-06 21:20:57 UTC

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@nprofile…pz8e It's been well-documented by multiple journalists that a considerable part of Trump's support among younger males came from Trump's more or less open endorsement of Bitcoin.

2026-02-06 21:19:47 UTC

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"Unlike the majority of the images in the released files, both the nudity and the faces of the people were not redacted, making them easy to identify. In some of the photos, the women or girls were either fully nude or partially undressed, posed for cameras, and exposed their genitals."
N.B. The linked article is paywalled. I was able to access it as a non-subscriber at the Archive Today site.
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
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2026-02-06 21:18:26 UTC

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"The Department of Justice left multiple unredacted photos of fully nude women or girls exposed as part of Friday’s dump of more than 3.5 million pages of files related to the investigations and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell."
~ Samantha Cole, Emanuel Maiberg
Thanks to Mastodonian Dusk to Don for sharing this link.
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
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https://www.404media.co/doj-released-unredacted-nude-images-in-epstein-files/

2026-02-06 21:13:04 UTC

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@nprofile…pz8e Paul Krugman is an eminent economist. You're responding to his statements in a thread that starts here: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116024605662457061

2026-02-06 21:12:01 UTC

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@nprofile…vslu I don't see a source in what you said beyond your own assertion. If you could point me to a source, I'd be grateful.

2026-02-06 21:09:34 UTC

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@nprofile…ylm9 A good summary.

2026-02-06 21:09:15 UTC

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@nprofile…r0y2 Thank you for these valuable links.

2026-02-06 21:07:48 UTC

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@nprofile…pz8e I think it has much to do with Trump's imploding approval ratings and with the AI bubble.

2026-02-06 21:07:23 UTC

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@nprofile…l5m6 I don't know enough about these mattrs to give you an informed response, but these are good questions.

2026-02-06 21:05:48 UTC

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@nprofile…pz8e You''re responding to statements made by Paul Krugman.

2026-02-06 21:04:59 UTC

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@nprofile…yjfs Thank you. I'm grateful and touched. I keep on keeping on!

2026-02-06 21:04:11 UTC

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@nprofile…c5jy 😀

2026-02-06 21:03:32 UTC

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@nprofile…c35c @nprofile…nssg @nprofile…0jjs Thank you. I look forward to reading.

2026-02-06 21:03:06 UTC

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@nprofile…9d7t Well-stated.

2026-02-06 21:02:24 UTC

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@nprofile…e0wg Thank you for letting me know this is useful. I'm grateful to you.

2026-02-06 21:02:05 UTC

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@nprofile…uyjv A good question to ask.

2026-02-06 21:01:03 UTC

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@nprofile…vzzc It's actually Andrew Egger who's making that distinction in this thread — and I agree: it's a very important distinction to make. People who share the Christian religious tradition (Egger is Catholic, I believe) have an obligation, it seems to me, to speak out about how MAGA is twisting, distorting, parodying what Christianity is all about, while claiming exclusive ownership of it.

2026-02-06 18:49:24 UTC

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"The newly released Epstein files include almost 3,000 documents with Bannon in them. … The newly released files included thousands of text messages between Bannon and Epstein that show a close and very friendly relationship between the two men. As Politico notes, “the new tranche of files suggests the relationship between the two men was deeper, chummier and more expansive than previously known.”
~ Sophie Lawton
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #pedophiles
/8
https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannons-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-weekend

2026-02-06 18:45:26 UTC

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(continued from /23)
"to the point where few white evangelical Trump supporters are even attempting to explain away his markedly unChristian behavior and rhetoric."
#Trump #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/24

2026-02-06 18:45:00 UTC

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"[Trump's] remarks [at the National Prayer Breakfast] were filled with lies about losing the 2020 election, cursing, threats to churches and nonprofits who disagreed with him, and the demonization of Democrats.
We’ve come a long, long way from the days when conservative Christians were proudly talking about themselves as values voters'—"
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/23
https://convocation.substack.com/p/tculive-trumps-shameful-national

2026-02-06 18:40:26 UTC

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"In an August 2015 email, the late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein wrote about a “wild” dinner he had with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel, and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman."
~ Caleb Ecarma
#Epstein #Trump #MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #ReidHoffman #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
/7
https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/epsteins-wild-party-with-zuckerberg

2026-02-06 18:35:33 UTC

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"We now live in a country where five-year-olds get arrested and pedophiles don’t."
~ Marcie Jones
#LiamRamos #Trump #StephenMiller #Epstein #children #cruelty #authoritarianism #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing
/7
https://www.wonkette.com/p/epstein-files-news-fbi-caught-lying

2026-02-06 18:31:56 UTC

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"'He takes bribes blatantly, and now he’s being a racist blatantly. He’s pathetic as a president, and I just want to apologize to everybody in the country for supporting this rotten, rotten man.'”
#Trump #Obamas #racism
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2026-02-06 18:31:34 UTC

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"One self-described three-time Trump voter delivered a blistering condemnation after seeing the image. 'I voted for Trump, but I really want to apologize,' the voter said. 'I’m looking at this awful picture of the Obamas. What an embarrassment to our country. All this man does is tell lies. He is not worthy of the presidency.'"
~ Aaron Parnas
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-deletes-racist-post
#Trump #Obamas #racism
/4

2026-02-06 18:29:15 UTC

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"Many of those people have now diverted their investments toward AI companies and their associated phenomenal capital expenditures. So there may simply be fewer buyers-of-last-resort available to keep things from spiraling out of control."
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market #AI
/10

2026-02-06 18:28:21 UTC

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"When we say $2 trillion was lost from the crypto ecosystem, we should also be clear about where it went. It went nowhere. That money was never real to begin with. …
My hunch is that the current crypto crash is tied to the AI bubble. The price of bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies has been backstopped by a lot of very rich tech and finance people, who keep the whole system afloat by providing liquidity when it falls below a predetermined threshold."
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/9

2026-02-06 18:26:38 UTC

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"Cryptocurrencies are crashing right now. You love to see it. A few months ago, the price of bitcoin was close to $125,000. Last night it hit a low of $60,000. It has bounced back to around $70,000 now. ...Paul Kedrosky flagged yesterday afternoon that the broader crypto ecosystem has shed $2 trillion."
~ Dave Karpf
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/8
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-crypto-crashes-and-fake-money

2026-02-06 18:21:07 UTC

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"And so they will put things in the files that then can be traced back to you and your computer, to ruin your reputation, to create legal problems, and to otherwise wipe you off the map."
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
/6

2026-02-06 18:20:54 UTC

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"We have a target on our backs. The men and power who we are outing in these files, and the agencies who knowingly ignored them for decades, do not want us to find anything, do not want us to report on anything, and do not want to see justice and accountability served. They want to discredit you, and they want to deny you your rights."
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
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2026-02-06 18:20:13 UTC

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"It’s no accident. The only place that had those files before they were sent out to the masses is the DOJ. The only people who ever had access to documents that included CSAM were the United States government. And now they’re in the hands of unknowing citizens who are trying to do the right thing. They only came from one place. And they only came for one reason."
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
/4

2026-02-06 18:19:26 UTC

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Ellie Leonard shares her experience of combing through the Epstein files dumped by DOJ. She and others are finding some files labeled with warnings that they contain child sexual abuse images or information —CSAM.
Leonard thinks the Trump regime is deliberately booby trapping files in this way, at the same time it makes searching the files cumbersome and difficult.
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
/3
https://www.blueamp.co/p/be-careful-these-files-are-no-accident

2026-02-06 18:13:30 UTC

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"Flooding the public with a mix of real facts, misinformation, and disinformation produces confusion by design. 'It creates chaos,' [Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou] said, and chaos helps people who want to discredit survivors. If everything is tangled together, bad-faith actors point to one questionable item and try to dismiss the entire body of truth."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/epstein-survivor-anouska-de-georgiou

2026-02-06 18:09:37 UTC

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The results of the latest Marist poll showing 65% of Americans think the Trump regime's use of ICE to attack immigrants and others has gone too far.
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing #racism #WhiteSupremacy #ApprovalRating
/4
https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-actions-of-ice-february-2026/
https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/116/025/004/240/819/477/original/14a8598342a5ee39.jpg

2026-02-06 17:50:28 UTC

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(continued from /9)
"which many somehow remain obsessed with, and through that ruse distract from the Epstein files where Trump’s name appears over 38,000 times.
Second, renewed claims of fraud in the 2020 election will fuel doubts about the security and fairness of the 2026 midterms."
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #MAGA
/10

2026-02-06 17:49:44 UTC

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"Trump’s bringing crazy back. I hate to be the bearer of such absurd news, but we need to pay attention and wrap our heads around it. Because shit’s about to get crazy. …
First, Trump hopes to cause his base to froth in anticipation of more “revelations” about the 2020 election," (continued in /10)
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #MAGA
/9
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/bringing-crazy-back

2026-02-06 17:41:12 UTC

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"The agency filed a motion Wednesday to end asylum claims and expedite deportation proceedings for Liam’s family, immigration lawyer Danielle Molliver told MPR News. She described the DHS’s latest motion as 'retaliatory.'”
#LiamRamos #Trump #StephenMiller #children #cruelty #authoritarianism #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing
/6

2026-02-06 17:40:54 UTC

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"After releasing 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from immigration detention, the Department of Homeland Security is now trying to deport his family as fast as possible."
~ Ediith Olmsted
#LiamRamos #Trump #StephenMiller #children #cruelty #authoritarianism #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing
/5
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-new-republic-1991457/4480354461492-ice-barbie-targets-family-of-5-year-old-boy-that-ice-abducted

2026-02-06 16:50:53 UTC

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"For anyone who had ever wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. ...
We are not the Nazis. That means we have an obligation to say watchful and keep protesting. We have to loudly reject the people who are trying to take us there."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/3
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not-nazis

2026-02-06 16:50:24 UTC

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"I don’t think MAGA will change course; I don’t think it can change course.
So Trump’s war on immigrants is turning into a war against the decency of the American people. And it would be stupid as well as immoral to refuse to choose sides."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/2

2026-02-06 16:49:55 UTC

"The public is not on the side of the thugs. ...
But hatred of and brutality toward people of color are fundamental to Trump’s identity. He & his minions have responded to revulsion against their ethnic cleansing efforts by denying the reality of that revulsion, claiming that all the protesters & resisters are paid activists, & by doubling down on the brutality."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing #racism #WhiteSupremacy
/1
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/american-decency-still-lives

2026-02-06 16:48:15 UTC

"What we have here with Epstein is not a 'conspiracy theory.' It is a legitimate conspiracy."
~ Greg Olear
#Epsteibn #Trump #pedophiles #coverup #Conspiracy Theories
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-there-is-no-santa-claus

2026-02-06 16:47:20 UTC

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"We worship Jesus Christ, an innocent man arrested, beaten, and then put to death by the Roman state on false charges just because it wanted to, because it could, because killing him was more convenient."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #immigrants
/22

2026-02-06 16:46:47 UTC

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"For those who will accuse me later of preaching a 'political' sermon, a 'partisan' sermon, this transcends politics. Our federal government, by sanctioning unwarranted lethal force, has made this a matter of faith, of basic morality and decency. This goes well beyond politics."
~ Michael Delk, St. Thomas à Becket Episcopal Church, Morgantown, West Virginia
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti
/21
https://newrepublic.com/article/206180/west-virginia-sermon-christianity-immigration

2026-02-06 16:45:31 UTC

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"Just last week, a coalition of 47 conservative anti-LGBTQ+ organizations banded together to launch the Greater Than Campaign. Its express goal is to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges."
~ Todd Beeton
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
/20
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/greater-than-obergefell-gay-marriage

2026-02-06 16:44:58 UTC

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(continued from /18)
"because they're already primed to see that when their leaders have scandal to touch not God's anointed, to believe in forgiveness, to not trust the media narrative, right? Don't trust the reporters. Trust what we're telling you from the stage."
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
/19

2026-02-06 16:44:30 UTC

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"There is a trail of leaders who have credible allegations or convictions of SA-ing children or protecting men who do, and they're still hailed. as faithful gospel preachers. ...So the reason why so many of these people just don't give a crap about what's happening in the Epstein files" (continued in /19)
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
/18

2026-02-06 16:43:27 UTC

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"Like, how do these Christians who claim to worship Jesus and follow Jesus, how do they not see this and get outraged?
And one of the key things you have to realize to folks who did not grow up like how me and April grew up in the white evangelical world, very conservative, is that this is how the white evangelical world operates."
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
/17

2026-02-06 16:42:38 UTC

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"The people who are launching a campaign to overturn Obergefell because it harms the children ... suddenly they had nothing to say they had nothing to say about actual children being harmed by one of the world's most prolific um um uh you know. ...
A lot of people might be saying, I don't get it."
~ Tim Whitaker
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
/16
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/maga-hypocrisy-outrage-over-bad-bunny

2026-02-06 16:40:47 UTC

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"The sin and stain of racism within white Christian nationalism is but another piece of rotten fruit from a long-diseased tree. It is in this history that we see how white supremacy is—and always has been—intimately intertwined with idolizing power, fear, and violence in the calls to make the United States a Christian nation."
~ Andrew Whitehead
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #WhiteSupremacy #racism
/15
https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/racial-equality-in-a-christian-nation

2026-02-06 16:39:56 UTC

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"And they will create these perfect cities in Greenland and other places, not making this up. And then, of course, what ties together other folks and ties together all these people is white supremacy. That's what ties together Russell Vought. That's what ties together Stephen Miller. That's what ties together Elon Musk. At the end of the day, power must be in the hands of the white man."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #techbros #CurtisYarvin #RusselVought #ElonMusk #StephenMiller
/14

2026-02-06 16:38:35 UTC

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"That's the white Christian nationalist aspect of it. With the Technobros and Curtis Yarvin, they believe democracy is incompatible with capitalism. As such, you need a type of techno-feudal system, a techno-fascism, where the council of these brilliant white men will choose their puppet leader."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #techbros #theobros
/13
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/epsteins-ideological-marriage-with

2026-02-06 16:37:54 UTC

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"Notice they always go to Christian and not Jesus. They're not believers in anything Jesus said. In fact, in many of their churches, you can't quote Jesus because he's too woke for them. But this sort of Christian nationalist, techno feudalist, small number of Uber CEO men that will run the country, it's a problem."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #techbros #theobros
/12

2026-02-06 16:36:45 UTC

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"White Christian nationalism ... is a mix, a blend of tech bro feudalism, techno feudalism, which is where these tech CEOs want to rule the country, and this theobro feudalism,feudalism, where these theo bros want to have a white Christian nationalist country. ...
MAGA is a religion. It's not a political ideology. It's a religious ideology."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/11
https://www.joyannreid.com/p/minneapolis-and-the-great-replacement

2026-02-06 16:35:53 UTC

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@nprofile…r7h7 That's the only word possible to use here.

2026-02-06 16:35:38 UTC

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"Instead of a prayer breakfast, it was a political branding exercise with hymnals.
The question hanging over the waffles and amens is unavoidable: What does it say about American Christianity that so many of its leaders are willing to call this 'faith'?"
N.B. My sharing of excerpts published on any given platform does not represent endorsement of that platform.
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/10

2026-02-06 16:34:41 UTC

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"What made the spectacle so grotesque wasn’t just Trump’s usual carnival of exaggeration and cruelty dressed up in religious vocabulary; it was the room’s willingness to treat it as normal. To applaud and pray over him as if he were a misunderstood prophet rather than a man using Christianity as stage lighting for authoritarian politics."
~ Rev. Bryan Berghoef
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/9
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EGjJcMaEV/

2026-02-06 16:33:12 UTC

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"Instead, it makes them perversely grateful that he’s doing it so their hands can be clean.
None of this, it should probably go without saying, is compatible in the slightest with the teachings of actual Christianity."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/8

2026-02-06 16:32:42 UTC

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"Trump’s political project is seen by the MAGA faithful as utterly righteous, the work of God on earth against the forces of Satan. But he has broad license to transgress all moral boundaries as he does that work. When he does so, it doesn’t cause MAGA Christians to reevaluate whether he’s actually on the side of the angels."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/7

2026-02-06 16:32:15 UTC

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“'I really think I probably should make it,' he said. 'I mean, I’m not a perfect candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people.' ...
It’d be hard to come up with a better formulation of Trump’s attitude toward American evangelicalism, its attitude toward him, and why their partnership has become so dangerous for the country."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/6

2026-02-06 16:31:20 UTC

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"Surrounded by spiritual leaders, political sycophants, and the spiritual leaders who are his biggest political sycophants, Trump offered the clearest formulation yet of his own bespoke soteriology. Don’t worry, he reassured the audience: He’d been mostly kidding when he said he wasn’t heaven-bound."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/5

2026-02-06 16:30:37 UTC

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"And there was Trump’s own ordinary barrage of tasteless, cruel obscenity, including in his mockery of the very idea that Democrats would attend the event: 'I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat, I really don’t,' he said.
But the most interesting moment of the breakfast came when Trump turned briefly to another topic: the contemplation of his own soul."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/4

2026-02-06 16:30:06 UTC

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"There was the full-service tongue-bath for Donald Trump from speaker after speaker: Televangelist Trump ally Paula White called him 'the greatest champion of faith that we have ever had,' a man who has 'brought religion back to this nation and beyond.'”
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/3

2026-02-06 16:29:14 UTC

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"For American Christians not all-in on MAGA, yesterday’s National Prayer Breakfast was one long parade of bleakness and despair. There was the outrageous presence of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who cast his authoritarianism and barbarity as a God-blessed spiritual struggle against his country’s Satanist gangs."
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/2
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-at-the-pearly-gates-national-prayer-breakfast-heaven-christians-evangelicals-epstein

2026-02-06 16:27:54 UTC

"Before Hegseth spoke, the National Prayer Breakfast this morning started by fêting two authoritarian leaders."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/1
https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-national-prayer-breakfast-hegseth

2026-02-06 16:26:49 UTC

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Philip Gourevitch responds to the New York Times headline which — predictably — frames the crypto crash as something happening "despite" Trump's support:
"Despite? Or because there is no surer indicator that something is a scam?"
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market #NewYorkTimes
/7
https://bsky.app/profile/pgourevitch.bsky.social/post/3me63ghqy3s2m

2026-02-06 16:24:25 UTC

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"Tim Miller and Catherine Rampell give their takes on the crypto crash, why Bitcoin and meme coins are plunging, and what the sell-off says about speculation, interest rates, and the broader economy. They break down why crypto hasn’t held up as an inflation hedge, how rising rates are squeezing risky assets, and why Trump-world’s deep exposure to crypto and speculative stocks suddenly looks a lot more precarious."
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/6
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-crypto-grift-is-imploding

2026-02-06 16:24:06 UTC

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"At least some young men supported Trump because they believed that he would enhance their crypto investments, and have remained favorable because he seemed to be delivering. I don’t know how many bitterly disillusioned bros there will be now, but there will be some."
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/5

2026-02-06 16:23:36 UTC

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"But it also means that everyone who bought Bitcoin in the belief that Trump would make Bitcoin greater than ever has lost money, in many cases a lot of money. So this is another case of ETTD: everything Trump touches dies.
Finally, this crash may have political consequences."
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/4

2026-02-06 16:23:03 UTC

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"The fact that BTC is now lower than it was before the 2024 election is significant in two ways. It shows the limits of political favor — all the boasts about making American a crypto superpower, all the deregulatory talk and pardons for cryptocriminals, in the end couldn’t defy gravity."
~ Paul Krugman
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/3
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypotocrash

2026-02-06 16:22:00 UTC

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(continued from /1)
"having signaled his intention to support crypto on the campaign trail. It was last down 12.6% at $63,525, on track for its largest one-day fall since November 2022.
Roughly $1 billion in bitcoin positions have been liquidated in the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinGlass."
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/2

2026-02-06 16:21:21 UTC

"Bitcoin plunged on Thursday, its decline accelerating amid weakening risk sentiment driven in part by volatility in precious metals and a broad selloff in tech shares.
The world's largest cryptocurrency fell to a low of $63,295.74, its weakest level since October 2024, a month before Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election," (continued in /2)
~ Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Rae Wee and Amanda Cooper
#crypto #bitcoin #Trump #economy #market
/1
https://www.reuters.com/business/bitcoin-slumps-with-key-70000-level-sight-2026-02-05/

2026-02-06 16:19:42 UTC

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"Fury erupted early on Friday after Donald Trump posted a racist video that depicts Barack & Michelle Obama as apes.
The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, & shows the laughing faces of the former president & first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
~ Richard Luscombe
#Trump #Obamas #racism
/3
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/trump-racist-video-barack-michelle-obama

2026-02-06 16:18:48 UTC

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"The video clip, which some commentators and politicians may want to wave off as a mere distraction, actually succinctly combines two of the top policy priorities of the Trump-Vance administration: codifying his election denialism and election-rigging efforts into government policy, and institutionalizing blatant racism."
~ Asawin Subsaeng
#Trump #Obamas #racism #election #lies
/2
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-obama-racist-video-apes

2026-02-06 16:18:06 UTC

"Trump is doing everything he can to pull attention away from the Epstein files. Posting racist content is a deliberate attempt to hijack the news cycle. He would rather be labeled racist than have people talking about Epstein. But we don’t have to choose—we can and should do both."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Epstein #Obamas #racism
/1
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-news-trump-posts-racist-image

2026-02-06 16:17:24 UTC

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"The Trump administration is retaliating against recently freed 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family for becoming a poster boy for the brutality of Operation Metro Surge by seeking to end their asylum claims and expedite the deportation proceedings against them, MPR reports."
~ David Kurtz
#LiamRamos #Trump #StephenMiller #children #cruelty #authoritarianism #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing
/4
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/report-joint-federal-and-state-probe

2026-02-06 16:16:43 UTC

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"The cruelty is the message. Every five-year-old is used as bait. Every mom is terrorized in front of her kids. These aren’t failures of execution. They’re the execution.
Immigration policy became a storytelling machine where the story is always the same: you’re under siege, demographics are destiny, and only maximum cruelty can save you."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #StephenMiller #children #cruelty #authoritarianism #ICE #immigrants #EthnicCleansing
/3
https://thecause.substack.com/p/why-stephen-miller-loves-to-give

2026-02-06 16:15:44 UTC

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"And perhaps most chilling, there is the slashing of USAID. ...
One overlooked aspect of this tyrannical regime is how little we hear any mention of children."
#Trump #children #cruelty #authoritarianism #healthcare #ICE #immigrants #Ukraine #Gaza #USAID
/2

2026-02-06 16:14:37 UTC

"Why is opposition to this regime’s cruelty so rarely framed in terms of its impact on children?
It’s not just the immigration raids. It’s the war on vaccines and other aspects of childhood health under the marauding madman heading Health and Human Services. It’s the children cowering in fear in Ukraine, Gaza, and other war zones as the regime placates tyrants."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#Trump #children #cruelty #authoritarianism
/1
https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/what-about-the-children

2026-02-06 16:13:27 UTC

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"She does not claim the slogan itself was fraudulent, nor that those who believed in it were naïve. She describes herself as a sincere believer. What she rejects is the translation of mobilizing myth into governing reality."
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #MAGA #MarjorieTaylorGreene
/8

2026-02-06 16:13:13 UTC

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"When such a figure concludes that the governing reality negates the founding promise, the problem is no longer messaging. It is legitimacy. ...
Crucially, Greene’s repudiation is not a rejection of MAGA’s motivating language or its voters."
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #MAGA #MarjorieTaylorGreene
/7

2026-02-06 16:12:53 UTC

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"What they rarely confront is repudiation from figures who once functioned as living proof of the movement’s sincerity.
Greene was not a marginal ally of MAGA; nor a late convert hedging her bets. She was, for a critical period, one of its clearest internal embodiments—an unfiltered carrier of its insurgent identity, affect, and moral claims."
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #MAGA #MarjorieTaylorGreene
/6

2026-02-06 16:12:13 UTC

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"On the January 28, 2026 edition of The Kim Iversen Show, Marjorie Taylor Greene declared that 'MAGA was all a lie.' The revelation landed with unusual force, not because it was shocking, but because of who said it. Political movements routinely attract defectors, dissenters, and apostates."
~ Brian Daitzman
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #MAGA #MarjorieTaylorGreene
/5
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/maga-was-all-a-lie-marjorie-taylor

2026-02-06 16:11:06 UTC

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"'I would’ve had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego, though. Beating these lunatics was incredible, right? What a great feeling, winning every swing state, winning the popular vote. The first time, you know, they said I didn’t win the popular vote. I did.'”
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #authoritarianism #NationalPrayerBreakfast
/4

2026-02-06 16:10:43 UTC

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"Trump’s determination to prove that he actually won the 2020 election continues to drive the administration. This morning, in a rambling and often crazed speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump told attendees: 'They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego.'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #authoritarianism #NationalPrayerBreakfast
/3
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5-2026

2026-02-06 16:09:40 UTC

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"This time, it’s not one election at stake: it’s all American elections, which, Trump tell us, should be 'nationalized' and managed by Republicans to fight the kinds of fraud and interference which deprived him of his 2020 win. ...
The more unpopular an autocrat becomes, the more he needs his lies to create the reality necessary to keep himself in power. That is where we are now in the United States."
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #authoritarianism
/2

2026-02-06 16:09:10 UTC

"The Big Lie is back, and its revival marks an escalation. The first time, it supported the mission of overturning one election that didn’t go the way the Lie’s creator, President Donald Trump, needed it to go."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #BigLie #lies #disinformation #propaganda #elections #authoritarianism
/1
https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-foreign-interference

2026-02-06 00:27:37 UTC

"No, we didn’t miss the irony of a man who is in the Epstein files over 38,000 times speaking at a prayer breakfast. Documents from the latest tranche continue to be exposed, further proving the close relationship between Donald and Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #NationalPrayerBreakfast
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/thursday-afternoon-news-updates-2526