Alexandra Stein
@alexandrastein.bsky.social
Social psychologist specialising in cults and totalitarian systems. My books: Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in cults and totalitarian systems & Inside Out: A memoir of entering into and breaking out of a political cult. www.alexandrastein.com
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TGC: Shincheonji: The Cult of Lee Man-hee Spreads in Africa
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Shincheonji: The Cult of Lee Man-hee Spreads in Africa
Founded by Lee Man-hee in the 80s, today the Shincheonji Church has almost half a million members. So what is it? Should we be worried?
africa.thegospelcoalition.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
TGC: Shincheonji: The Cult of Lee Man-hee Spreads in Africa
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‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
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By preemptively pardoning them, he tells the people who are now and in the future called upon to perform illegal acts for him that he has their back. This is not about Giuliani & Co, this is about the thousands of current and future ICE agents, the soldiers who execute people in the Caribbean, etc.
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
By preemptively pardoning them, he tells the people who are now and in the future called upon to perform illegal acts for him that he has their back. This is not about Giuliani & Co, this is about the thousands of current and future ICE agents, the soldiers who execute people in the Caribbean, etc.
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Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
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We need to protect our institutions
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Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended
Recent events at the BBC have wide-reaching implications for our democracy - and the sooner we realise it, the better
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November 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that.
We need to protect our institutions
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We need to protect our institutions
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From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
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The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.
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Why are Labour restricting vaccines? It’s overloading the NHS? Do they want it to collapse?
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Why are Labour restricting vaccines? It’s overloading the NHS? Do they want it to collapse?
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This is old chestnut: measures to prevent child abuse, slavery, sexual abuse, false advertising, coercive control, privacy invasion, and financial and labour exploitation, and hold perpetrators to account “will impede on religious freedom”
The Catholic Weekly: Fears Victorian inquiry into cult recruitment methods will impede on religious freedom
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Victorian inquiry into cult recruitment may affect religious freedom | The Catholic Weekly
A Victorian inquiry investigating the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and fringe groups is set to convene in just under a year’s time, in a move experts warn may affect religious freedom in A...
catholicweekly.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is old chestnut: measures to prevent child abuse, slavery, sexual abuse, false advertising, coercive control, privacy invasion, and financial and labour exploitation, and hold perpetrators to account “will impede on religious freedom”
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Another opportunity for Blue Sky liberals to feel smug about not being on X any more. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Another opportunity for Blue Sky liberals to feel smug about not being on X any more. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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More on Mamdami.
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The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty
For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
More on Mamdami.
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I hope Starmer as much as Farage is watching this.
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I hope Starmer as much as Farage is watching this.
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Congratulations NYC!
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Congratulations NYC!
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The main problem is not how Matthew Goodwin is introduced on Question Time, the main problem is that he is (still) invited to Question Time, despite having drifted into openly expressing classic racism.
'Blatant bias': BBC under fire over double standards for Question Time panel
BBC Question Time has come under fire after describing a Reform UK campaigner on its panel as an “academic” – while labelling a left-wing…
www.thenational.scot
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The main problem is not how Matthew Goodwin is introduced on Question Time, the main problem is that he is (still) invited to Question Time, despite having drifted into openly expressing classic racism.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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The British should be joining the call to release the Epstein files.
Not just quietly watching from the sidelines while Americans demand transparency.
Because let’s be honest: this isn’t just an American coverup.
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Not just quietly watching from the sidelines while Americans demand transparency.
Because let’s be honest: this isn’t just an American coverup.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The British should be joining the call to release the Epstein files.
Not just quietly watching from the sidelines while Americans demand transparency.
Because let’s be honest: this isn’t just an American coverup.
More ⬇️
Not just quietly watching from the sidelines while Americans demand transparency.
Because let’s be honest: this isn’t just an American coverup.
More ⬇️
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🔴Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
bylinetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🔴Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
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Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.
None of this is normal.
None of this is normal.
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.
None of this is normal.
None of this is normal.
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Post from Trumpland 💔
In my Chicago neighborhood this weekend: candy drive for kids who can't safely go out to trick or treat because of ICE; big visible letter-writing campaign at an outdoor block party; low-flying Blackhawk helicopter over a children's baseball game; whistle brigades everywhere. #chicagostrong
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Post from Trumpland 💔
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It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
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Then share. Thank you.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
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Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
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Of course the U.S. is not the first country to sleepwalk into authoritarianism, but the speed with which it does, and with which most of both the elites and masses collaborate or simply accept it, is truly stunning.
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Of course the U.S. is not the first country to sleepwalk into authoritarianism, but the speed with which it does, and with which most of both the elites and masses collaborate or simply accept it, is truly stunning.
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Clinically vulnerable families never wanted to take children out of school. We all wanted clean air and vaccine access but were denied. The government kept talking about school closures, no one wanted school closures. We wanted adjustments but they didn’t listen.
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Clinically vulnerable families never wanted to take children out of school. We all wanted clean air and vaccine access but were denied. The government kept talking about school closures, no one wanted school closures. We wanted adjustments but they didn’t listen.
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Spotify is running ICE advertisements and refuses to address it. Might be because their founder is basically another Elon Musk.
It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.
It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Spotify is running ICE advertisements and refuses to address it. Might be because their founder is basically another Elon Musk.
It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.
It’s time to cancel your subscription, and we made it easy for you—just go to BoycottSpotify.com.