Musk now randomly giving away $1m to petition signers every day til election "this news will really fly," he says
first check given away awkwardly to crowd member in harrisburg
Oct 18 • 30 tweets • 7 min read
1) Permit me if you will an extended thread 🧵with some digressions -- a "weave" if you will -- about the threat of the Christian nationalist, or Christian supremacist movement and its links to Donald Trump.
2) I've been covering this beat for a minute. It matters because these Christian supremacists dream of imposing an extreme, far-right version of Christian belief on American society by achieving political power
Jun 15, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I interviewed an expert in white Christian nationalism about the signs that America is already in a low-level civil war: "There are little fires all around us"
MTG does damage control over Kanye '24 website purchase.
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A subtext to this story is that Milo was apparently much more than a "summer intern" for MTG and graduated to working for her top consultant.
May 10, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Derrick Peterson is not responding to questions about whether he's reversed his decision to withdraw from the Portland school board race.
Willamette Week has reversed its endorsement.
Here's who else Peterson claimed had backed him until his links with Christian Nationalists briefly spurred him to withdraw.
May 4, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A photo thread for no reason
May 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING:
Derrick Peterson, the Portland School Board candidate whose ties to prominent Christian Nationalists Rolling Stone probed earlier this week, has withdrawn from the race.
Original story here:
Donald Trump appeared on a Christian Nationalist broadcast tonight, and vowed to empower political preachers:
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Trump is vowing to permanently end the tax penalty on churches that preach politics in the pulpit and push their congregations to vote for specific candidates.
May 1, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Something very weird is going on in the race for Portland school board