Susan Niemann on her discovery that she descends from a woman hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials:
"The Salem Witch Trials serve as another example of America’s heinous treatment of the poor, the power of religious superstition and extremism, the mass hysteria religion can gin up, and the dangers of intolerance."
#NewEngland #witches #women #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Christofascism
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https://adchick.substack.com/p/they-hung-grandma-margaret-in-salem
Because it isn’t already about who has the richest friends:
#SCOTUS will hear #Republicans appeal over #spending limits in #elections
SCOTUS will take up a Republican-led drive to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination w/candidates for Congress & president.
The justices said Mon they’ll review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal #election #law that’s >50 yrs old. #Democrats want the court to leave the law in place.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c11d-de08-a1f7-c7dfd2e50000
In the runup to a final #Senate vote on #Trump’s big bill of tax cuts & spending cuts, #Republicans have voted down #Democratic amendments to strike portions of the bill that would reduce funding for rural #hospitals, #FoodStamps & #Medicaid.
Sen #SusanCollins (R-ME)joined #Democrats on an amendment to strike language that would force rural hospitals to limit their services.
#law #policy #PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c1a1-d0e0-abbf-ffbf19690000
At the end of this historic week — a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich, healthcare and food support ripped from millions — I'm wondering what bible texts U.S. churches will read and preach about this Sunday?
So many churches, so many texts, so many Christians eager to hear the words of Jesus and other scriptures preached — addressing us in the world in which we live today, of course.
#Trump #Republicans #cruelty #EconomicElites #immigrants #bible #healthcare #food
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New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
Trump Threatens To Withold Billions From States That Try To Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People… Because only the well-off should have good things. What a douchebag. #Broadband #Internet #Access #Trump #RepublicansOwnThis #Republicans #PublicAirwaves #communication
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.
Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #ICE #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps
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Who predictably abuses minors? Not drag queens, not LGBTQ people, not the woke — but Republicans and right-wing Christians:
As Evan Hurst says, take the widely available and indisputable data, the facts, about who abuses minors, and you can only come to the conclusion Josh Marshall recently reached (see Hurst, linked below, for the link to Marshall):
"Sex with minors, child porn, overwhelmingly Republicans."
#SexualAbuse #minors #Republicans #Christians #LGBTQ
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https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/an-overwhelmingly-republican-conservative
