Caera Thornton
@caerathornton.bsky.social
Carolina Texpat making good trouble.
I don’t evangelize; I shenanigize. Might be an author again someday. Still a musician, though. 😇
I don’t evangelize; I shenanigize. Might be an author again someday. Still a musician, though. 😇
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Caera Thornton
@caerathornton.bsky.social
· Nov 30
My Spiritual Abuse Story
Record of my experience with Adat Shalom, Dallas.
adatsurvivor.wordpress.com
My "memoir" is live; it documents my spiritual, emotional, and psychological abuse in high control religion, the Messianic cult Adat Shalom in Dallas. I'm still trying to get the alt text on the images so bear with me:
adatsurvivor.wordpress.com #Exvangelical #SpiritualAbuse #Survivor #MeToo
adatsurvivor.wordpress.com #Exvangelical #SpiritualAbuse #Survivor #MeToo
Actions you can take to fight the tiny dicktator:
5calls.org
www.fiftyfifty.one
redwine.blue/change-the-w...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
5calls.org
www.fiftyfifty.one
redwine.blue/change-the-w...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Actions you can take to fight the tiny dicktator:
5calls.org
www.fiftyfifty.one
redwine.blue/change-the-w...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
5calls.org
www.fiftyfifty.one
redwine.blue/change-the-w...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director (ICE) Todd Lyons said Tuesday the agency is conducting its largest immigration operation ever in Minneapolis.
www.newsweek.com/minnesota-fr...
www.newsweek.com/minnesota-fr...
www.newsweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director (ICE) Todd Lyons said Tuesday the agency is conducting its largest immigration operation ever in Minneapolis.
www.newsweek.com/minnesota-fr...
www.newsweek.com/minnesota-fr...
President Donald Trump said that his administration has cut off $10 billion in funding for child care and social services in five blue states, confirming earlier reports by the New York Post.
www.newsweek.com/map-states-t...
www.newsweek.com/map-states-t...
www.newsweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
President Donald Trump said that his administration has cut off $10 billion in funding for child care and social services in five blue states, confirming earlier reports by the New York Post.
www.newsweek.com/map-states-t...
www.newsweek.com/map-states-t...
Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington, said in an email: “The abrupt change to the entire US childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary, and will endanger the health of children in the United States.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
RFK Jr. overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark's in unprecedented move
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Dr. Helen Chu, an infectious disease professor at the University of Washington, said in an email: “The abrupt change to the entire US childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary, and will endanger the health of children in the United States.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Musk promised Memphis jobs with Silicon-Valley wages for historically underprivileged locals when the xAI Supercomputer was built there. Instead, outsiders were brought in for those jobs, and the locals, primary the black community, have gotten nothing but even more pollution in their neighborhoods.
Imported talent, local pollution: The grim reality of xAI's impact on Memphis
To power its sprawling Colossus supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee, xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has polluted the air of a number of historic Black neighborhoods, which ...
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Musk promised Memphis jobs with Silicon-Valley wages for historically underprivileged locals when the xAI Supercomputer was built there. Instead, outsiders were brought in for those jobs, and the locals, primary the black community, have gotten nothing but even more pollution in their neighborhoods.
If Trump and Miller get their way, if they tip the world back into the pre-democracy paradigm of raw power and conflict, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, will die. In fact, we are already seeing the carnage.
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
Is might right?
Venezuela, Jan. 6, and the moral struggle of our time
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:52 AM
If Trump and Miller get their way, if they tip the world back into the pre-democracy paradigm of raw power and conflict, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, will die. In fact, we are already seeing the carnage.
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.
apnews.com/article/publ...
apnews.com/article/publ...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's directors voted the organization out of business Monday. The private agency, which has distributed federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of local televisio...
apnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:52 AM
CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keeping it in existence as a shell.
apnews.com/article/publ...
apnews.com/article/publ...
These legacy news outlets, like CBS News, want you to believe that when they present the news, they only have their viewers’ or readers’ interests at heart. I doubt many people really thought this was true five years ago, but I can safely say that no one believes it today.
CBS makes the case for independent media
tinyurl.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:52 AM
These legacy news outlets, like CBS News, want you to believe that when they present the news, they only have their viewers’ or readers’ interests at heart. I doubt many people really thought this was true five years ago, but I can safely say that no one believes it today.
As early as 2019, Trump had “joked” about staying in power regardless of the 2020 election results, and on October 31, Trump’s ally Steve Bannon told a private audience that Trump was going to declare that he had won the 2020 election no matter what.
January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
open.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
As early as 2019, Trump had “joked” about staying in power regardless of the 2020 election results, and on October 31, Trump’s ally Steve Bannon told a private audience that Trump was going to declare that he had won the 2020 election no matter what.
The statement said that NATO and its allies had increased its activities and investment to make the Arctic a safe place and that Denmark and Greenland were part of that alliance.
www.newsweek.com/nato-greenla...
www.newsweek.com/nato-greenla...
NATO leaders issue defiant new Greenland message to Trump's US
The Trump White House has repeated its intention to take control of Greenland for national security reasons.
www.newsweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 AM
The statement said that NATO and its allies had increased its activities and investment to make the Arctic a safe place and that Denmark and Greenland were part of that alliance.
www.newsweek.com/nato-greenla...
www.newsweek.com/nato-greenla...
The Rafah crossing is a vital connection for the flow of aid into the enclave, where millions of displaced Gazans are living without proper shelter or sufficient food and medical supplies since the latest war began with Hamas' 10/7/23 attack on Israel. It also enables Gazans to leave via Egypt.
Netanyahu reveals Trump deal on Gaza crossing, new Hamas deadline
The Trump administration has pressured Israel to reopen the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
www.newsweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 AM
The Rafah crossing is a vital connection for the flow of aid into the enclave, where millions of displaced Gazans are living without proper shelter or sufficient food and medical supplies since the latest war began with Hamas' 10/7/23 attack on Israel. It also enables Gazans to leave via Egypt.
Trackers: Project 2025, Federal Harms, Trump’s Take
www.project2025.observer
ourpublicservice.org/federal-harm...
www.americanprogress.org/feature/trum...
www.project2025.observer
ourpublicservice.org/federal-harm...
www.americanprogress.org/feature/trum...
Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
www.project2025.observer
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Trackers: Project 2025, Federal Harms, Trump’s Take
www.project2025.observer
ourpublicservice.org/federal-harm...
www.americanprogress.org/feature/trum...
www.project2025.observer
ourpublicservice.org/federal-harm...
www.americanprogress.org/feature/trum...
Reposted by Caera Thornton
Over 1,500 insurrectionists have been pardoned by Trump since the Jan. 6 attack.
Congresswoman @kamlager-dove.house.gov joins April Ryan to discuss
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/five-years-after-january-6
Congresswoman @kamlager-dove.house.gov joins April Ryan to discuss
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/five-years-after-january-6
Five Years After January 6
Rep. Kamlager-Dove commemorates one of the darkest days in U.S. history
contrarian.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Over 1,500 insurrectionists have been pardoned by Trump since the Jan. 6 attack.
Congresswoman @kamlager-dove.house.gov joins April Ryan to discuss
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/five-years-after-january-6
Congresswoman @kamlager-dove.house.gov joins April Ryan to discuss
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/five-years-after-january-6
Reposted by Caera Thornton
@stevevladeck.bsky.social explores the possible paths ahead for both the U.S. government and Maduro’s defense team as the trial unfolds. Should we just expect another show?
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/maduros-show-trial
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/maduros-show-trial
Maduro's Show Trial
Steve Vladeck analyzes the possibilities for prosecuting President Maduro
contrarian.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:05 PM
@stevevladeck.bsky.social explores the possible paths ahead for both the U.S. government and Maduro’s defense team as the trial unfolds. Should we just expect another show?
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/maduros-show-trial
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/maduros-show-trial
Reposted by Caera Thornton
What does Maduro’s capture actually mean for Venezuelans on the ground? Carlos Espina explains.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuelas-liberty-purgatory
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuelas-liberty-purgatory
Venezuela's Liberty Purgatory
Carlos Espina dissects justice in Venezuela and an unknown injustice in the U.S.
contrarian.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:40 PM
What does Maduro’s capture actually mean for Venezuelans on the ground? Carlos Espina explains.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuelas-liberty-purgatory
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuelas-liberty-purgatory
Reposted by Caera Thornton
Let's check in on the insurrectionist in chief and his "great patriots"
Spoiler: at least six have been charged with child sex crimes
Spoiler: at least six have been charged with child sex crimes
J6ers: Where Are They Now?
Catching up with notorious insurrection offenders a year after Trump’s pardon spree
contrarian.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Let's check in on the insurrectionist in chief and his "great patriots"
Spoiler: at least six have been charged with child sex crimes
Spoiler: at least six have been charged with child sex crimes
Reposted by Caera Thornton
“Liberation” keeps being used to describe events in Venezuela — but on the ground, the reality looks very different.
Carlos Espina explains: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/rep-hakeem-jefferies-on-the-future
Carlos Espina explains: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/rep-hakeem-jefferies-on-the-future
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
“Liberation” keeps being used to describe events in Venezuela — but on the ground, the reality looks very different.
Carlos Espina explains: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/rep-hakeem-jefferies-on-the-future
Carlos Espina explains: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/rep-hakeem-jefferies-on-the-future
Reposted by Caera Thornton
"Under Trump’s regime, the Constitution has begun to resemble Swiss cheese, or perhaps the redacted Epstein files—displaying more blacked out sections than text."
If We had a Functional Constitution, We Wouldn’t have an Illegal War
MAGA stooges destroyed the rule of law
contrarian.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"Under Trump’s regime, the Constitution has begun to resemble Swiss cheese, or perhaps the redacted Epstein files—displaying more blacked out sections than text."
Reposted by Caera Thornton
"A country that is ruled by someone who can do anything is not a constitutional democracy under the rule of law.
That is why the invasion of Venezuela is so chilling: It is another big step away from being a nation governed under a Constitution based on checks and balances."
That is why the invasion of Venezuela is so chilling: It is another big step away from being a nation governed under a Constitution based on checks and balances."
Making a Mockery of Checks and Balances
Trump’s attack on Venezuela shows how far we have deviated from constitutional restraints.
contrarian.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
"A country that is ruled by someone who can do anything is not a constitutional democracy under the rule of law.
That is why the invasion of Venezuela is so chilling: It is another big step away from being a nation governed under a Constitution based on checks and balances."
That is why the invasion of Venezuela is so chilling: It is another big step away from being a nation governed under a Constitution based on checks and balances."
Reposted by Caera Thornton
"The president of the United States told the world, directly in a press conference Saturday, that oil was at the heart of his decision to topple Nicolás Maduro from power."
No spin fixes that.
No spin fixes that.
We Toppled Venezuela for Oil: Trump Just Told Us So
The president admitted the crude part of his attack.
contrarian.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"The president of the United States told the world, directly in a press conference Saturday, that oil was at the heart of his decision to topple Nicolás Maduro from power."
No spin fixes that.
No spin fixes that.
Reposted by Caera Thornton
If the GOP has their way, say hello to higher taxes — and goodbye to choosing or changing who you can vote for.
@maxflugrath.bsky.social
@maxflugrath.bsky.social
Republicans Want Taxation Without Representation
Republicans’ three-vector plan to lock in power without winning more votes hinges on a case now before the Supreme Court
contrarian.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
If the GOP has their way, say hello to higher taxes — and goodbye to choosing or changing who you can vote for.
@maxflugrath.bsky.social
@maxflugrath.bsky.social
Reposted by Caera Thornton
What another year under Trump will look like
Trump’s 2026 Government Agenda
The year ahead promises to be a continuation of his destabilizing and antidemocratic efforts.
contrarian.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM
What another year under Trump will look like