Andrew L. Seidel
@andrewlseidel.bsky.social
Attorney. Fighting Christian Nationalism. Defending the 1st Amendment. Author.
📖The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is un-American
📖American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
Life is too good to waste on bad ideas.
📖The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is un-American
📖American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
Life is too good to waste on bad ideas.
Pinned
Today is terrible.
I believe we can get through this together. So I've partnered up with @bradleyonishi.bsky.social over at Straight White American Jesus to bring you my new podcast, One Nation, Indivisible.
Subscribe for full content:https://axismundi.supercast.com/
Drops in Feb.
I believe we can get through this together. So I've partnered up with @bradleyonishi.bsky.social over at Straight White American Jesus to bring you my new podcast, One Nation, Indivisible.
Subscribe for full content:https://axismundi.supercast.com/
Drops in Feb.
Supreme Court denies the Christian Nationalist assault on marriage equality and tells Kim Davis (the Kentucky bigot) and her attorneys, the Christian Nationalist legal outfit Liberty Counsel, to pound sand.
Marriage equality is safe for now.
Marriage equality is safe for now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Supreme Court denies the Christian Nationalist assault on marriage equality and tells Kim Davis (the Kentucky bigot) and her attorneys, the Christian Nationalist legal outfit Liberty Counsel, to pound sand.
Marriage equality is safe for now.
Marriage equality is safe for now.
After getting into the details, this seems less like "a deal" and more like abject surrender.
Getting nothing but a Republican promise just days after doling out a massive electoral ass kicking is a total political and moral failure.
Getting nothing but a Republican promise just days after doling out a massive electoral ass kicking is a total political and moral failure.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
After getting into the details, this seems less like "a deal" and more like abject surrender.
Getting nothing but a Republican promise just days after doling out a massive electoral ass kicking is a total political and moral failure.
Getting nothing but a Republican promise just days after doling out a massive electoral ass kicking is a total political and moral failure.
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NEW on CNN: Inside the “absolute shitshow” at the Heritage Foundation. Where staff are in open revolt, a major donor bailing, and resurfaced deleted tweets from Kevin Roberts show him praising Pence and seemingly bashing Trump on Jan. 6th.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
How Nick Fuentes ignited a civil war within the Republican Party- and DC’s most prominent conservative think tank | CNN Politics
Nick Fuentes, the well-known White nationalist and Holocaust denier, has ignited a civil war within the Republican Party — and inside one of Washington’s most prominent conservative think tanks.
www.cnn.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
NEW on CNN: Inside the “absolute shitshow” at the Heritage Foundation. Where staff are in open revolt, a major donor bailing, and resurfaced deleted tweets from Kevin Roberts show him praising Pence and seemingly bashing Trump on Jan. 6th.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...
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My take on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court. Short version: LOL slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My take on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court. Short version: LOL slate.com/news-and-pol...
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A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…
www.thecrimson.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
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Folks talking about the next Dem president in 29 are still clinging to “can’t happen here.” Folks imagining that there’s any demographic inherently immune to fascism are holding on to a version of “it can’t happen here.” 3/
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Folks talking about the next Dem president in 29 are still clinging to “can’t happen here.” Folks imagining that there’s any demographic inherently immune to fascism are holding on to a version of “it can’t happen here.” 3/
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Attended panel on what’s up with US at Oxford featuring my pal @antheabutler.bsky.social, author of WHITE EVANGELICAL RACISM, & queer historian Colin Johnson. Kinda thing that might normally be sleepy, a few history nerds. So packed there was no standing room. People are alarmed.
October 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Attended panel on what’s up with US at Oxford featuring my pal @antheabutler.bsky.social, author of WHITE EVANGELICAL RACISM, & queer historian Colin Johnson. Kinda thing that might normally be sleepy, a few history nerds. So packed there was no standing room. People are alarmed.
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Trump is now going after Jack Smith.
You know who seems safe from his retribution: Merrick Garland. Because he did JACK SHIT. Trump not being pissed at him is, low key, an indictment of his entire tenure.
You know who seems safe from his retribution: Merrick Garland. Because he did JACK SHIT. Trump not being pissed at him is, low key, an indictment of his entire tenure.
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Trump is now going after Jack Smith.
You know who seems safe from his retribution: Merrick Garland. Because he did JACK SHIT. Trump not being pissed at him is, low key, an indictment of his entire tenure.
You know who seems safe from his retribution: Merrick Garland. Because he did JACK SHIT. Trump not being pissed at him is, low key, an indictment of his entire tenure.
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I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory
Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do
Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory
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Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.
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Left: Father Coughlin's anti-communist club, September 1935
Right: Donald Trump's anti-communist club, October 2025
Right: Donald Trump's anti-communist club, October 2025
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Left: Father Coughlin's anti-communist club, September 1935
Right: Donald Trump's anti-communist club, October 2025
Right: Donald Trump's anti-communist club, October 2025
This is so disgusting, tyrannical, and un-American. Let this radicalize you, folks.
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is so disgusting, tyrannical, and un-American. Let this radicalize you, folks.
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Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end
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Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
This is your annual reminder that Columbus never set foot on the mainland of North America. Never touched the soil of what is now the United States.
Columbus was an enslaver and a racist and a man who used his Christian faith to justify all manner of atrocities.
Columbus was an enslaver and a racist and a man who used his Christian faith to justify all manner of atrocities.
October 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is your annual reminder that Columbus never set foot on the mainland of North America. Never touched the soil of what is now the United States.
Columbus was an enslaver and a racist and a man who used his Christian faith to justify all manner of atrocities.
Columbus was an enslaver and a racist and a man who used his Christian faith to justify all manner of atrocities.
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ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.
Here's their story.
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I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.
The solution to your woes! Come cruise with me and @ffrf.org attorney Liz Cavell on the @cflfreethought.bsky.social 's Freethought Cruise this March. The perfect antidote. I'd love to see you there.
www.cflfreethought.org/cruise
www.cflfreethought.org/cruise
October 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The solution to your woes! Come cruise with me and @ffrf.org attorney Liz Cavell on the @cflfreethought.bsky.social 's Freethought Cruise this March. The perfect antidote. I'd love to see you there.
www.cflfreethought.org/cruise
www.cflfreethought.org/cruise
María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician, won the Nobel Peace prize. Trump lost to a Venezuelan woman. How do you think he's taking it?
October 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician, won the Nobel Peace prize. Trump lost to a Venezuelan woman. How do you think he's taking it?
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It's gonna be much harder for them to justify such a large portion of our budget going to "war". Just rhetorically having it be called defense made it easier for Congress to apportion so much
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Because nothing says "report fairly and fully" like adopting the regime's propaganda.
CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Because nothing says "report fairly and fully" like adopting the regime's propaganda.
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The problem is we think the Nazis were competent so we don't recognize murderous half-mad conspiracy dumbfuck as the fundamental building block of fascist regimes.
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The problem is we think the Nazis were competent so we don't recognize murderous half-mad conspiracy dumbfuck as the fundamental building block of fascist regimes.
Very excited to dive into @thelisagraves.bsky.social new book on John Roberts.
Get yours today!
bookshop.org/a/71739/9781...
Get yours today!
bookshop.org/a/71739/9781...
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Very excited to dive into @thelisagraves.bsky.social new book on John Roberts.
Get yours today!
bookshop.org/a/71739/9781...
Get yours today!
bookshop.org/a/71739/9781...
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Pretty sure my interview with Copeland revealed him for who he really is, but in case you haven’t seen it: youtu.be/9LtF34MrsfI
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Pretty sure my interview with Copeland revealed him for who he really is, but in case you haven’t seen it: youtu.be/9LtF34MrsfI