In 2022, Rick Scarborough, a former Southern Baptist pastor & self-described “Christocrat,” boasted to Truth & Liberty Coalition how he & likeminded pastors & churches orchestrated the takeover of 2 school board positions in Houston & 3 in the Cy-Fair school (TX) district. 1/
Discussing Southlake Texas in 2021, dominionist David Barton said “51 churches got together” & “recruited 5 people to run,” & “all 51 churches put up a slide on their projector” highlighting the 5 recruits, & they won the mayor, 2 city councilmen, & 2 school board members. 1/
In 2019, an investigation found 700 victims (many of them children) of alleged sex abuse by leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination. The Christian Right deflected by smearing public (secular) schools as “groomers.” 1/
Meet Paul Pressler. He’s a former president of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a Christian Right umbrella whose members deflect from church sex abuse by accusing others of grooming. 6 men have accused Pressler of sexual misconduct. 2 were minors at the time. Sound on. 1/
On June 4, NYT reported that dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested with Peter Thiel.
I'm just a guy who ran the opinion sections of two local newspapers but, golly gee folks, I think this topic would need to be addressed in a podcast interview with Thiel.
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
NEW TONIGHT: @IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to a decades-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt nonprofits.
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Trump: Are you still talking about Epstein?!? This guy has been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this creep? I can’t believe you’re asking a question about Epstein…
OPINION: A new report tracks the billion-dollar global investment in anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ movements in Europe.
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In 2023, Kash Patel said Epstein’s black book was under the “direct control of the Director of the FBI.”
He’s now the FBI Director. So why is he refusing to release it to the public?
Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.
Benny Johnson: "So President Trump has acknowledged that the Epstein files exist...and that there is something there. He says they were written, however, written by his enemies and therefore will not be released. What?"
The Epstein files are on Pam Bondi's desk right now but also they do not exist but also they do exist and were written by Obama and Hillary when Epstein died in 2019 when the president was Donald Trump.