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@jtlarsen
Apr 22 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
On Tuesday, Mike Johnson was praying over what to do about Ukraine.

On Wednesday, Johnson gave his news conference saying Ukraine was worth losing his speakership.

Here’s what happened in between.
thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/johnsons-com…
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You can read the full article, and support this and upcoming reporting, by subscribing at .

And a big hat tip to @NastyOldWomyn, who flagged the key piece of this one.

Here's what we know...thefuckingnews.substack.com
@NastyOldWomyn As I reported on April 10, the Ukrainian point man for The Family--the prayer breakfast people--had met with both Johnson (January) and Zelenskyy (April)...

...pushing a new rationale to support Ukraine: "Religious freedom."
thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/dying-for-us…
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@NastyOldWomyn As I wrote at the time...

"If you see evangelical House Republicans softening their opposition to military aid for Ukraine, don’t assume it’s divine intervention." Image
@NastyOldWomyn As I reported at the time, Unguryan was talking democracy when Democrats were around...

...but pitching evangelicals on the chance to shape Ukraine's future if they pitched in now. Image
@NastyOldWomyn Unguryan's vision of both "religious freedom" and a Christian Ukrainian future include laws against LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights.

@RightWingWatch and others have documented his track record, especially from when he was in parliament.
rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-cab…

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Mar 31
Speaker Mike Johnson is calling it "abhorrent" for Pres. Biden to name today "Transgender Day of Visibility Day."

Because it's Easter.

Johnson said Biden "betrayed the central tenet of Easter." Image
Trump's campaign said Christians -- but also Catholics! -- believe today is "for one celebration only"...

..."the resurrection of Jesus Christ."

But is it? Did Biden REALLY betray Easter's central tenet...? Image
"Easter" only appears in the Bible 22 times. Each time, with an 'n' at the end.

The actual WORD "Easter" appears in The Bible 0 times.

Which means that Biden is celebrating Easter today more literally and explicitly than The Bible does. And... Image
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Mar 5
The House impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is expected to go to the Senate this week.

I dug into the staffers who put together the House impeachment report. THREAD...
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(BTW, all of my stories on this can be found at . If you need a family-friendly URL, there's .

Either way, you can make sure not to miss future reporting by becoming a subscriber. Thanks!)

Back to the thread...thefuckingnews.substack.com
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The top staffers in the Mayorkas impeachment have had ties with, and training from…

…multiple right-wing and even theocratic groups.

Some leaders of those groups have used lies to dispatch political foes.
thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/mayorkas-imp…
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Feb 1
Gonna live-tweet this morning's National Prayer Breakfast.

...starting with a reminder you can support my reporting on this event and the people behind it by subscribing: .

Okay, NOW let's start with the story I broke last night...thefuckingnews.substack.com
Last night I reported that today's prayer breakfast will be held, for the first time, INSIDE the Capitol building.

Statuary Hall, just off the rotunda...

...in the HOUSE section overseen by Speaker Johnson. Meaning he had to approve this.
thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/prayer-break…
Some organizers WANT you to think the prayer breakfast is run by Congress, and fooled media into headlining it that way.

But it's not. It's run by a new, private group called the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation.

Which is very closely allied to the OLD organizers... Image
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Jan 30
BREAKING: @RepMarkPocan, as chair of the Equality Caucus, just launched the most aggressive official inquiry ever into The Family and the National Prayer breakfast.

The NPB is Thursday in DC -- but Pocan wants answers about the entire global operation.
thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/pocan-takes-…
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Here's the Congressional Equality Caucus press release... with a link to Pocan's letter...

...announcing that he wrote to the board chair of the Fellowship Foundation, aka The Family...

...which started the National Prayer Breakfast in 1953.
lgbtq.house.gov/media-center/p…
Pocan's letter cites my reporting on last year's prayer breakfast co-chair, Rep. Tim Walberg...

...going to Uganda's prayer breakfast on The Family's dime to urge defiance against global pressure to repeal the so-called "Kill the Gays" Law.
tyt.com/reports/inside…
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Dec 21, 2023
On Feb. 2, Reps. Tim Walberg and Lucy McBath co-chaired the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast (NPB).

On Oct. 8, Walberg told the Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast to “stand firm” against U.S. pressure to repeal its LGBTQ+ death penalty.

Here’s the story.
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Walberg then used his role as co-chair to justify the House Ethics Committee approving his trip to deliver Uganda's National Prayer Breakfast keynote speech…

…A trip paid for by the Fellowship Foundation, aka The Family.
tyt.com/reports/inside…
During his trip, at the Oct. 8 Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast, Walberg listened as MP Cecilia Ogwal called LGBTQ+ advocates not flesh-and-blood human beings…

…but “a force from the bottom of Hell.”
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Oct 25, 2023
@LisaDNews A lot of journalists are missing the root of Johnson’s ostensibly unusual tone and message.

It comes off as “intimate” because he’s talking, without admitting the extent of it, about his religious beliefs.

He’s done this shtick before…

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@LisaDNews @wthrockmorton In those same 2021 remarks, Johnson explained why he’s committed to (his version of) those governing principles.

Because he thinks he sees them in the Bible.

Which means he’s right and people who disagree are wrong. Image
@LisaDNews @wthrockmorton As author @wthrockmorton writes, in those same 2021 remarks, Johnson says Christian nationalist David Barton has been a “profound influence.”

Barton whose theocratic claims about Jefferson were so false they got yanked by a Christian publisher.
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