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Now maybe we're getting somewhere:
The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are taking steps that the nation's oldest civil rights group says are restricting Black voting rights.
Launched Tuesday, the "Out of Bounds" campaign urges prospective Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to "withhold athletic and financial support" from major public universities in states that "have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation."
If Black athletes participate in the boycott, it could deplete rosters for powerhouse football and basketball programs across the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference.
The NAACP is among groups responding to a wave of gerrymandering in the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling that winnowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Civil rights activists have mobilized across the South to protest redistricting plans by Republican state legislatures that eliminate majority-Black congressional districts after the high court's ruling. Activists have looked for pressure points to dissuade GOP-led states from redistricting maps, including calls for mass protests and economic boycotts.
"Across the South, Black athletes have helped build some of the most profitable college athletic programs in America," said NAACP president Derrick Johnson. Johnson noted that the programs "generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, national television value, alumni donations, merchandising sales, ticket sales and brand equity -- much of it powered by Black football and basketball talent."
The NAACP's campaign calls out Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina as states to boycott, arguing that the athletic programs of those states' flagship universities are especially reliant on Black athletic talent and should protect Black political interests.
"Black athletes should not be asked to generate wealth, prestige, and power for state institutions while those same states strip political power from Black communities," Johnson said.
Black lawmakers themselves are also pressuring athletic leagues to take action against Republican-led states that might redistrict longtime Black members of Congress.
The Congressional Black Caucus on Monday sent a letter to the commissioners of the SEC and ACC athletic conferences, as well as NCAA president Charlie Baker, stating that its members will oppose the SCORE Act, a bill to standardize athletes' contracting rights across the country, unless conference leaders oppose GOP-led redistricting efforts in states that include major conference members.
"The Congressional Black Caucus believes institutions that profit from Black talent and Black communities have a responsibility to stand with those communities when their fundamental rights are under attack," the CBC said. "Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality -- it is complicity."
If there's anything more sacred to the knobs that vote for MAGAt Republicans in the South, it's sports, especially football. Having the black athletes that bring glory and cash to the State universities in the States noted above (but why not Tennessee, the first and most egregious Jim Crow state??) not participate in their athletic programs would hit those States where it hurts. Likewise, donors to those schools must withhold their financial support. It would let them know there's a price to be paid for setting the clock back a hundred years on black voting and representational rights. But the black community (organizations like the NAACP and National Action Network, churches, politicians) needs to work with black athletes and their families to inform, energize, and organize them to look outside of the deep South to achieve their athletic and academic goals. We'd see how the smirking good ol' boys in those Jim Crow Republican legislatures like that.
The Epstein-Trump files --
Release the #Epsteinfiles
— Bart Aafjes (@bartaafjes68.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Sen. Jon Ossoff: “Did anyone really think the sexual predator president, who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein, was really going to release the Epstein files?” #EpsteinFiles #TrumpIsOnTheEpsteinList #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
— skypilotbadindian.bsky.social (@skypilotbadindian.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Trump's clueless cult carries out his will --
Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Republican House primary Tuesday in another test of President Donald Trump’s power over his party after he handpicked challenger and ultimate winner Ed Gallrein to oust the incumbent.
— kgnsnews.bsky.social (@kgnsnews.bsky.social) May 20, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Republican voters in Kentucky who presumably spent much of 2024 banging on about Epstein just ejected from Congress their own Republican congressman, who helped get the Epstein files out, in order to please the close friend of Epstein, Donald Trump.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Arguably the most slam-dunk, lights-out, game over case against Trump was his attempt to steal the 2020 election in Georgia. The Republican most responsible for standing up to Trump to stop the steal just got crushed in the GOP primary for governor.
— Anthony L. Fisher (@anthonylfisher.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Please stop calling it a cult, guys.
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Trump on soaring gas prices: "Peanuts" --
Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: ‘This is Peanuts!’
— Mediaite (@mediaite.com) May 20, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Most. Corrupt. Regime. Ever. --
An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.
— Rick Stengel (@rickstengel.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Trump's Personal Attorney Todd Blanche Attempts to Pardon His Boss emptywheel.net/2026/05/20/t...
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) May 20, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Feel for the insurrectionists! --
Apparently attempting to murder elected officials and smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol is just “participating in a protest.”
— The Volatile Mermaid (@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Lots of inappropriate sharing on both sides! --
Whether it’s Donald Trump stealing $1.7 billion from the treasury to share with his friends or Hillary Clinton using a private email server to share risotto recipes with her friends, there’s plenty of inappropriate sharing on both sides.
— NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Singer / songwriter Steve Earle moved to his adopted New York City some years ago from Nashville and wrote this song in 2007. According to a story in Variety, Earle was texting Bruce Springsteen around the time that he was performing in Minneapolis in support of the immigrant community, and thought, "Bruce showed up there, and I’m home in New York, like, ‘Get off your ass, Earle!’” The result is a new video featuring that song from almost 20 years ago and filmed documentary-style on the streets of NYC, directed by the great Steve Buscemi. Enjoy "City of Immigrants."
By a 50 - 47 vote, the Senate passed a resolution to force the unstable Malignant Fascist from pursuing his war on Iran without Congressional approval. In a delicious twist, the winning vote was supplied by Sen. Bill Cassidy, who the MF had campaigned against for reelection, and who will be in office for another 7 months. From NBC News:
"The Senate voted 50-47 on Tuesday to move forward with a resolution to force President Donald Trump to end the war in Iran, a breakthrough for the Democratic-led effort.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., who just lost his primary for renomination over the weekend after he faced opposition from Trump, voted 'yes' to advance the measure, the first time he has done so after having repeatedly voted 'no.' [snip]
Introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., the resolution says that 'Congress hereby directs the President to remove the United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Iran, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force.'”
Maybe Cassidy, now freed from his MAGAt cult cage if he wants to be free, will start to defy the MF on such votes. Interestingly, two Republican Senators who missed the vote are not on the best of terms with the MF, retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (NC) and Sen. John Cornyn (TX), who the vindictive MF just denied his endorsement for re-election.
Despite the MF's war being overwhelmingly unpopular, his cult in Congress won't budge on restraining his impulsive actions toward Iran, even as they threaten not only the U.S. economy, but that of the world.
We're going to miss this so much. Another gem from Stephen Colbert as he closes out his "Late Show" this week. The $1.8 billion taxpayer funded slush fund for January 6 insurrectionists and other MAGAt losers, the shambolic on-again off-again war on Iran, and the other would-be taxpayer-funded Golden Ballroom were some of the topics last night.
BONUS: Here's Jon Stewart from an extended interview with Colbert:
“I mean this from the bottom of my heart, not just for this show, but for the country. The day, the day, oh people, close your eyes and dream. The day that the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration. The day that that happens, my brother. My brother. There will be, and I mean this, the day that that happens, there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary’s repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath. And it’s going to come. We are tired. We are tired.”
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Malignant Fascist to reward his January 6 seditionists by stealing taxpayer money --
Even by Trump standards, reading his “settlement” with the IRS made me feel insane. Every lever of this thing is controlled by Trump, or some lackey he controls. A diabolicial little Rube Goldberg machine of corruption, to the tune of $1.8 billion in public resources. Vile stuff.
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) May 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Trump's $1.8 billion theft, made simple: Lawsuits are supposed to be real. His lawsuit against the IRS was fake. "It is illegal, because Congress has said you can use this money only to settle real cases," @harrylitman.bsky.social tells me. Much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2106...
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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JUST NOW: Trump defends stealing $1.7 BILLION from taxpayers for himself and his fellow allies/lawbreakers Also notice “1.776 Billion” — because he wants to seem patriotic as he robs taxpayers blind
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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At least 78 people pardoned for participating in the US Capitol riot have been arrested for unrelated charges, @wendling.bsky.social reports. That's more than twice as many as has been previously reported. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-jan-6t...
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Trump wants to give money to the people who beat up cops on Jan. 6 because he wants them to beat up any cops in the future who oppose his ongoing coup.
— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Couch molesting JD Vance blurts out the truth. Clumsiest stiff ever --
JD Vance: "If you want to rebuilt the American dream for the next generation, vote against the crazy leadership in Washington DC"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 18, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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The rot is spreading --
This crew is the picture of health
— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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The MF really wants Rep. Massie defeated for forcing him to release Epstein files --
Trump released a last minute video against Thomas Massie. He really wants to defeat the guy who forced him to begin releasing the Epstein files.
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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From the "no stupid wars" President, another stupid war --
A military invasion of Cuba is really on the table and the reason is to distract from the military fiasco that is the Iran War. "Now Iran has gone sideways, and the Cubans are proving much tougher than originally thought. So now military action is on the table in a way that it wasn’t before."
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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The MF suggests he, Putin and Xi undermine the International Criminal Court. Naturally. --
According to anonymous sources, President Trump himself suggested that China, the U.S., and Russia work together to fight the International Criminal Court. trib.al/83esZud Trump apparently thinks he is unbound by any international laws.
— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) May 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Answer: Yes of course --
Could the Administration be any more horrible? www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
— John Sipher (@johnsipher.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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"...At this point Trump and his MAGA minions have stolen so much, committed so many crimes — not just theft but taking America to war illegally, abusing ICE detainees, and much more — that if and when they lose power many of them will face personal ruin at best, years of jail time at worst. This would happen even if they stopped committing more crimes.
"So there’s no incentive for them to end their criminality, or to end the attempts to bribe others to go along. Either they succeed in destroying America as we know it, or they won’t. And until that’s resolved, they may as well engage in even more corruption and criminal acts.
"Think of it this way: The gravity of what the Trumpists have already done has created a sort of black hole at the center of American political life — and the Trumpists have already crossed the event horizon, the boundary beyond which there is no escape. So they will do ever more terrible things, because they have nothing more to lose." -- Paul Krugman, concluding his Substack essay on "The Looting of America" by the Malignant Fascist and his MAGA minions. It's been noted that the looting of America is all part of the "me first" MF / MAGA DNA. And as the post below discusses, the Orwellian "Anti-Weaponization Fund" created to reimburse the MF's worst, most violent and un-democratic shock troops is just the latest openly corrupt outrage. Krugman predicts (and we agree) the regime's criminality from top to bottom will continue and quite probably accelerate because there's no incentive for them to do otherwise.
Not long ago, the hugely corrupt and vicious Malignant Fascist filed a $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS for not stopping the leak of his income tax papers, with his own corrupt Justice Department "defending" the Government. The court was expected to toss the frivolous and self-dealing lawsuit, so the MF ordered his flunkies to settle out of court. The illegal settlement was for $1.776 billion, which would allegedly go to pay off the January 6 violent seditionists and others impacted by the MF's big lie. From PBS:
"The Trump administration on Monday announced the creation a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies of the Republican president who believe they were mistreated by the Biden administration Justice Department.
The 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' was announced by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in announcing the fund in a statement that it was 'a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.'
Democrats and government watchdogs immediately pledged to fight what they called a 'corrupt' and unprecedented resolution, warning that the arrangement would unjustly enrich people close to the president with taxpayer dollars and open the door to meritless claims of political persecution. [snip]
The fund would represent not only a highly unorthodox resolution but also a further demonstration of the administration's eagerness to reward allies who before Trump came to power were investigated and in some cases charged and convicted. Most notably, the president on his first day back in office pardoned or commuted the sentences of supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His Justice Department since then has approved payouts to supporters entangled in the Trump-Russia investigation and investigated and prosecuted some of his perceived adversaries." (our emphasis)
The depravity of rewarding the violent goons that stormed the Capitol, beat up police causing 140 to be treated for injuries and several to die, wrecking the building, stealing property, and smearing their feces on the floor of the Capitol, is breathtaking. There's no question that the MF will find a way to pay himself for being "mistreated" by the Biden Administration. Imagine how many Federal agencies the felonious MF could sue and then have his Justice Department settle before the case goes to trial. This action is also being seen as the MF buying his own militia for future thuggery on his behalf.
The settlement was so obviously corrupt that the Treasury Department's General Counsel Brian Morrissey, an appointee of the MF, resigned yesterday in apparent disgust. More should do so, but won't, just as the corporate media will shrug and treat this as a one-day story, if that. The theft continues.
BONUS: Senate Dems plan to make Republicans go on the record on the MF's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
(photo: These violent rioters may soon be a lot wealthier. AP Photo/John Minchillo)
As Stephen Colbert enters the last week of his glorious 11-year "Late Show" run, he decided to show all the worst bits that didn't make it onto air for whatever reason. Here's his introduction to the show; the full extended episode (an hour and 10 minutes) is here.
"... One can retain whatever sympathy one wants for the ordinary folks who were snookered by Trump or, for whatever reasons, believe something had to be done to arrest what they viewed as America’s decline.
"But
no such nuance or too-clever-by-half analysis of the motives and goals
of this president, his administration nor the current Trump-abetting,
MAGAfied GOP is necessary, nor helpful. Make America Great Again is best
understood as a punchline, a sick inside joke among Trumpworld elites,
who callously and often seemingly gleefully preside over worsening
conditions of life for ordinary Americans, while stuffing their own bank
accounts, nursing their preferred grievances and sabotaging the
institutions that might at least give us a fighting chance to have a
better future. It’s not America First. It’s a particularly deranged and
vicious version of me first, America and its people be damned." -- Jonathan Weiler concluding his essay, "The Ultimate Irony of MAGA." In the intervening ten-years-plus since the Malignant Fascist descended his "gold"-trimmed escalator, anyone who believes in the clownish demagogue deserves no sympathy at all, because they haven't been "snookered;" they're with him for the reasons that make him so odious and dangerous to the rest of us. That aside, it's of course deeply ironic that the MF's "brand" is "Make America Great Again," given the reality of his path of destruction though our Constitution, rule of law, basic norms, and world standing, all the while enriching himself, his corrupt family, and his Epstein class cronies.
“He’s saying it brings back 1964, 1963, 1892,” Abrams said, when “race neutral” laws made it harder for Black Americans to vote.
“The race neutral laws that were in place prior to the Voting Rights Act said that you could have poll taxes and literacy taxes that diminished participation, but were race neutral,” Abrams said.
She said Johnson is from the South and should understand as well as anyone that “this is bollocks, that this is hogwash. They are very clear that race and partisanship sit side-by-side.”
Abrams continued, saying the “remarkably racist behavior” that was thwarted by the Voting Rights Act has now returned. “And so what he is celebrating is the return of Jim Crow to the South. And that is a terrible thing for America.”
Racist MAGAt Republican mfs.
(h/t democraticunderground.com)
Operation Epic Epstein Fury's unpopularity --
“.. Nearly two-thirds of voters said that going to war had been the wrong decision, including almost three-quarters of politically crucial independents.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Trump's kowtowing misadventure in China --
A perfect encapsulation of Trump’s ridiculous trip to China by @davidlurie.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN:
— Susan McPherson (@susanmcp.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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Trump's all-encompassing corruption--
Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Trump's white Christian nationalists rally ... while he golfed --
Trump sent in a pre-recorded video for the Rededicate 250 blasphemy fest instead of speaking in person, and he still could barely read it cogently (also, note him covering up the disfigured back of his right hand)
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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The president spoke via video to a sea of empty seats.
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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He played golf today, though.
— Anthony Zurcher (@zurch.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
A Simple Prayer for MAGA's Gospel Grifters, Holy Hypocrites and Blaspheming Bubbas johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/a-simple-p...
— John Fugelsang (@johnfugelsang.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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More rube- grifting; Trump's $500 Chinese phones --
Trump’s finally sending the rubes their golden phones and it looks like they’re obsolete Chinese deals that retail at Walmart for $136.
— Joshua Holland (@joshuaholland.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Explaining the Republican gutting of the Voting Rights Act --
The VRA *has always* been there to stop racial vote dilution, not to give Black people some kind of bonus districts. The reason we have the VRA (especially the 1982 version) is because Southern white politicians reliably define the political parties in such a way as to make sure Black voters lose.
— Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) May 17, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Anybody want to take a wild guess who "the right people" are?
— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) May 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Overcoming the Republican racial redistricting blitz --
📌BREAKING: -Trump’s approvals are at an all-time low 37% in NYT polling. -Dems lead 50%-39% among registered voters. -This would easily overcome the Republicans’ redistricting advantage. -The Senate is in play. -Democrats hold a 14-point lead among voters “almost certain” or “very likely” to vote.
— D. Earl Stephens (@dearlstephens.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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"Fine" people in the rotted out Republican Party/ cult --
It truly is astonishing how many low character reprehensible creatures have been elected and appointed to the highest positions in America through the endorsement and backing of Trump throughout our federal and state governments.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Mount St. Helens, 5/18/1980 --
Loowit Awakens: March 20–May 17, 1980 Before May 18, there were 60 days of warning signs—earthquakes, ash bursts, and a growing bulge on the mountain’s north flank. Here’s the story of Mount St. Helens in 1980—up to today—condensed into two minutes.
— Mount St. Helens Archive (@mountsthelens1980.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Yesterday, a few thousand zealous right-wing Christian nationalists gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to proclaim that the U.S. was conceived as a Christian nation, contrary to the history of our founding. They heard from a number of political pastors like the far-right Franklin Graham and the MF's "spiritual advisor" and "prosperity gospel" heretic Paula White-Cain. From the Associated Press:
"Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage that made clear the event’s Christian focus. Arched stained-glass windows, set underneath grand columns resembling a federal building, depicted the nation’s founders alongside a white cross.
Most speakers celebrated Christianity’s ties to American history, a blending of ideas that critics flagged ahead of the prayer gathering as supporting Christian nationalism.
President Donald Trump read a passage of Scripture in a video shown at the rally. Filmed in the Oval Office, it was the same footage used during a marathon Bible-reading event last month. The verses from 2 Chronicles are often cited by those who believe America was founded as a Christian nation. [snip]
The event was organized by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership backed by the White House. Congressional Democrats have questioned the nonprofit’s structure and finances, which they see as a Trump-controlled end run around a separate commission charted by Congress a decade ago to prepare semiquincentennial events." (our emphasis)
It's worth noting that the MF was at his golf club in Sterling, VA, while his taped, edited message was being shown, a typical Sunday for the irreligious con man and a sign of his veiled contempt for his hypocritical religious cultists. He's not worried in the least about losing them. His cultists will always make excuses for his disrespectful and sinful behavior as they erect statues to him and create AI slop of him as Jesus. For them, it's not about religion. It's about temporal power.
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