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Thrift-Store Bibles and the Execution of Renee Good

The seeds of the misogyny are found in some of the most glittery places
Renee Nicole Good’s extraordinary award-winning poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” contains a line I keep coming back to: i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores (mashed them in plastic trash bags…
Karen E. Park
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Posters of Renee Good in Minneapolis read: American Mom Murdered by ICE
Religion Dispatches

Musk Endorsed White Nationalism

And the silence is deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while…
Ben Lorber
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Elon Musk stands solemnly with hand on heart
Religion Dispatches

JD Vance Refers to ICE Criticism as ‘Blood Libel’

Trivializes Jewish history, reveals what this administration thinks of Jews
Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As…
Joel Swanson
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JD Vance with mic in spotlight
Religion Dispatches

Latest ICE Recruitment Materials Include Overt Neo-Nazi Reference and Nazi-Nazi Script

It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda . And it…
Annika Brockschmidt
Thomas Lecaque
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Religion Dispatches

With its 'Homeland Heritage' Campaign Trump's DHS is Leaning Sharply into 'Blood and Soil' Ideology

Last week was a bad week of social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security. Videos claiming a militarized Border Patrol is God’s will; memes about ICE funding assisting in mass…
Annika Brockschmidt
Thomas Lecaque
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Religion Dispatches

Terminally Online Trump Administration Uses Social Media to Frame Its Anti-Immigrant Agenda as ‘Holy War'

Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images…
Annika Brockschmidt
Thomas Lecaque
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