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Katherine Stewart
@katherinestewart.bsky.social
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Money, Lies, and God; The Power Worshippers & other books
@nytopinion, @religionreport & Forkosch awards
Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · Feb 19
"Books like hers function not as weapons but as maps, navigating a way around the edges of the abyss." Grateful for @nytimes.com review of Money, Lies and God. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...
Book Review: ‘Money, Lies, and God,’ by Katherine Stewart
A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs.
www.nytimes.com
katherinestewart.bsky.social
Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
sivav.bsky.social
Just so it’s clear, Cook would be in prison if he lived in Saudi Arabia
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.

Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
schooley.bsky.social
Larry Summers deserves everything coming at him right now, but it's telling that expectations are so low for Steve Bannon, his appearances in the emails have barely registered in the discourse.
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
mikesacks.bsky.social
This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating
April 7 Brian McEntire, Civil Rights Division: My goal was always to become an attorney in the Civil Rights Division. That was my dream. I ended up working a lot on fire department cases. In Cobb County, Ga., we got information that even though African Americans and whites were applying for positions at about an equal rate over the previous decade, 90 percent of the hires had been white and 10 percent had been African American. And we didn't quite understand why that was. So we did an investigation and found out that there was a credit check that was disproportionately knocking out African Americans, particularly for student loan debt. And when we asked them why they were doing that, their response was essentially, Well, if a firefighter is deeply in debt and he's fighting a fire, he might steal grandma's pearls. So we brought suit. In February, we got a note saying that the attorney general wanted us to withdraw the case. The next day, division leadership insisted that we put additional language in the notice of dismissal that implied it was all about reverse discrimination. I didn't know, quite frankly, if I could sign it. If I have to say what I argued before was illegal, then I could have been accused of misleading the court, which could have ended up with me being disciplined, sanctioned and my bar license revoked. So I did not sign it. My colleagues didn't sign it. They pulled us all into a room, and we were all prepared to get fired because none of us were going to sign. My boss signed a modified version of the notice of withdrawal on our behalf. We also had a racial-discrimination case involving the sole African American attorney working for the Mississippi State Senate, who, during the years she worked there, was paid less than half of what her similarly situated white colleagues were making. It was as clear-cut a case of disparate racial treatment you could find. The Senate stalled the case until Trump's appointees could come in and order our section to drop it. When you talk about the rule of law and treating people fairly and equally, that's obviously a slap in the face.
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
katherinestewart.bsky.social
Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
anatosaurus.bsky.social
Marie Kondo was missing a category: "Sparks incandescent rage."
naomiaklein.bsky.social Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2d
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
reportbywilson.bsky.social
"Jon Minadeo is a neo-Nazi on a mission—a mission to meet America’s children in online video chats and convince them to hate."
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
www.newschannel5.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
This is not my first rodeo with retaliatory false accusations. An "activist group" claimed I have a history of domestic abuse in the Dallas Express. I later found that Crowds on Demand had been hired by the publisher of the Dallas Express to create the group.

www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government
Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push contro...
www.texasobserver.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
talkingpointsmemo.com
News of the White House's intervention on behalf of accused sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate comes as Trump is under fire over his ties to notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
This story first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
leahsottile.bsky.social
As a refresher, last month @highcountrynews.org published my story about how city councils around the west are removing fluoride despite widespread support to keep it

www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Want fluoride in the water? Too bad. - High Country News
Across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride.
www.hcn.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
katherinestewart.bsky.social
Lance Wallnau Wants A Deportation 'Carve Out' For Conservative Republican Hispanics www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Lance Wallnau Wants A Deportation 'Carve Out' For Conservative Republican Hispanics
Christian nationalist MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau says that ICE should be focused on deporting Muslims while creating a "carve out" for Hispanics who are conservative Republicans
www.peoplefor.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
katherinestewart.bsky.social
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
donmoyn.bsky.social
An incredibly Trump-era headline theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
katherinestewart.bsky.social
"Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing the deal to be approved." readsludge.com/2025/11/17/t...
Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls
Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing the deal to be approved.
readsludge.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
katherinestewart.bsky.social
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
katherinestewart.bsky.social
The schism deepens
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Heritage board member resigns over organization's defense of Tucker Carlson
Robert P. George said he and the foundation’s president were at an “impasse.”
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
ianbassin.bsky.social
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them!

The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.

This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
ianbassin.bsky.social Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 3d
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
schotthappens.com
Truth Social is absolutely amazing today.
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
haleaziz.bsky.social
DHS agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown.

A probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down because of the shift.

And efforts to combat human smuggling have languished.
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
Before you rush to congratulate her for ANYTHING…
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Marjorie Taylor Greene to Dana Bash: "You should have Nick Fuentes on your show"
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
econmarshall.bsky.social
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
jackjenkins.me
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 4) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward, grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was a clerical collar, but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground. After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois. “I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday afternoon after about seven hours in custody. Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to talk to you — shut the f–k up.” “It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
A deep dive on how Mr. Populism himself, Steve Bannon, was Epstein’s legal and media coach — “devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history.”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM