Peter Jauhiainen
@peterjauhiainen.bsky.social
Religion prof; Kirkwood Community College. Samuel Hopkins/New Divinity specialist. Interested in White Christian Nationalism, Religious Right/Public Education.
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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My latest for @religiondispatches.org on "neutral" coverage that falls for bad-faith claims by right-wing actors:
religiondispatches.org/sanitizing-f...
religiondispatches.org/sanitizing-f...
Sanitizing Fascists and White Supremacists isn't Objective or Neutral — It's Normalizing an Authoritarian Political Project
Formerly fringe figures of the Religious and Political Right met at the National Conservatism conference earlier this month in Washington, DC to bask in their success at mainstreaming their ideas with...
religiondispatches.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My latest for @religiondispatches.org on "neutral" coverage that falls for bad-faith claims by right-wing actors:
religiondispatches.org/sanitizing-f...
religiondispatches.org/sanitizing-f...
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I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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Here is Joni Ernst sharing the real Republican plan. "Well...we all are going to die."
We are cheaper when we are dead. What an awful person.
We are cheaper when we are dead. What an awful person.
May 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here is Joni Ernst sharing the real Republican plan. "Well...we all are going to die."
We are cheaper when we are dead. What an awful person.
We are cheaper when we are dead. What an awful person.
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The GSS just dropped new data this week. Here's an interesting shift over the past 10 years. Among Americans as a whole, fewer say that being a Christian is "very/fairly important" to being truly American. But Republicans actually *increased* in that view, reflecting the hard ethno-nationalist turn.
May 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The GSS just dropped new data this week. Here's an interesting shift over the past 10 years. Among Americans as a whole, fewer say that being a Christian is "very/fairly important" to being truly American. But Republicans actually *increased* in that view, reflecting the hard ethno-nationalist turn.
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"Unable to control their hypersensitivity, these fragile white folks respond to discomfiting knowledge with an ignorant and incoherent rage, lashing out in the hopes that bluster and aggression will be mistaken for the strength they lack." www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...
White Fragility Comes to the Naval Academy
Treating America’s soldiers and sailors like scared children, too delicate to read a history of lynching, shows the administration’s deep contempt for them.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Unable to control their hypersensitivity, these fragile white folks respond to discomfiting knowledge with an ignorant and incoherent rage, lashing out in the hopes that bluster and aggression will be mistaken for the strength they lack." www.liberalcurrents.com/white-fragil...
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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
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There’s no economic plan with tariffs, at least not one relating to national interest or the welfare of the American people. Everyone who goes looking for one, or tries to craft one onto what they see, fails.
As @jamellebouie.net argues, it’s a personal desire for domination, making others losers.
As @jamellebouie.net argues, it’s a personal desire for domination, making others losers.
Opinion | Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated
The tariff saga is just the latest example of the president’s urge to dominate.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
There’s no economic plan with tariffs, at least not one relating to national interest or the welfare of the American people. Everyone who goes looking for one, or tries to craft one onto what they see, fails.
As @jamellebouie.net argues, it’s a personal desire for domination, making others losers.
As @jamellebouie.net argues, it’s a personal desire for domination, making others losers.
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I wrote about Trump's executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," and how it's a bunch of fascist lies.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-...
Trump’s Big New Propaganda Push
Nothing says “restoring truth and sanity to American history” quite like lying about it.
www.thebulwark.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I wrote about Trump's executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," and how it's a bunch of fascist lies.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-...
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Thanks to @religiondispatches.bsky.social for republishing my essay on the fascist eroticization of power in Kristi Noem’s prison video. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
Don't Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism's Sadistic Eroticization of Power
The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which T...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Thanks to @religiondispatches.bsky.social for republishing my essay on the fascist eroticization of power in Kristi Noem’s prison video. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
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Musk doesn't seem worried that he and Trump threaten social and economic collapse. On the contrary, it appears that's his goal.
Musk swims in a tech-fascist ideology that believes democracy should be replaced by billionaire dictators — like himself.
www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...
Musk swims in a tech-fascist ideology that believes democracy should be replaced by billionaire dictators — like himself.
www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...
Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
www.salon.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Musk doesn't seem worried that he and Trump threaten social and economic collapse. On the contrary, it appears that's his goal.
Musk swims in a tech-fascist ideology that believes democracy should be replaced by billionaire dictators — like himself.
www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...
Musk swims in a tech-fascist ideology that believes democracy should be replaced by billionaire dictators — like himself.
www.salon.com/2025/03/17/t...
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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This is a very funny satire of the situation of universities under Trump.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations
“[T]he University of North Texas administration recently censored the content of more than two hundred academic courses, including by mandating the...
www.mcsweeneys.net
February 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is a very funny satire of the situation of universities under Trump.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...
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Christian nationalists claim to "venerate" wives and say it's a woman's "highest" calling.
But also, they think you should lose your right to vote if you pursue this "highest" calling.
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
But also, they think you should lose your right to vote if you pursue this "highest" calling.
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters
The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.
newrepublic.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Christian nationalists claim to "venerate" wives and say it's a woman's "highest" calling.
But also, they think you should lose your right to vote if you pursue this "highest" calling.
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
But also, they think you should lose your right to vote if you pursue this "highest" calling.
newrepublic.com/article/1914...
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More and more people pointing to distinctions between the Trump/Musk gov’t and a fascist regime—true, not fully there yet—as a way of avoiding plain evidence, long on the table, that this is a fascist movement. Not fully consolidated. I believe we need to name it to stop it from getting there.
February 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
More and more people pointing to distinctions between the Trump/Musk gov’t and a fascist regime—true, not fully there yet—as a way of avoiding plain evidence, long on the table, that this is a fascist movement. Not fully consolidated. I believe we need to name it to stop it from getting there.
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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
February 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
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A propos of Hegseth firing anyone who isn’t a White man. Our deep dive on his Crusaderism and White nationalism.
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Crusades, Christendom, and Pete Hegseth’s Tattoos - A Deep Dive
Podcast Episode · Straight White American Jesus · 12/16/2024 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
A propos of Hegseth firing anyone who isn’t a White man. Our deep dive on his Crusaderism and White nationalism.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war.
Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence.
Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful.
www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...
Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence.
Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful.
www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...
Republicans shouldn't be surprised Trump blames Ukraine — his sexual assault views predicted this
Trump's claim that Zelenskyy "started it" echoes his long history of excusing violence against women
www.salon.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war.
Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence.
Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful.
www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...
Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence.
Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful.
www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...
I just had my best discussion of the semester—all students fully engaged for two hours—using @kkdumez.bsky.social “For Our Daughters” and material from @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social “Biblical Womanhood” for my unit on Sex and Gender—American religion course. Thank you for your work.
February 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I just had my best discussion of the semester—all students fully engaged for two hours—using @kkdumez.bsky.social “For Our Daughters” and material from @bethallisonbarr.bsky.social “Biblical Womanhood” for my unit on Sex and Gender—American religion course. Thank you for your work.
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A great piece by my @penamerica.bsky.social colleague Clare Carter on how the Manhattan Institute is using "return on investment" as a smokescreen to ban academic programs they don't like and limit student educational choice.
pen.org/cuts-to-acad...
pen.org/cuts-to-acad...
Cuts to Academic Programs with ‘Low ROI’ Hide Political Censorship - PEN America
Targeting academic programs on the grounds of ROI revokes students’ ability to choose what subject to study.
pen.org
February 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A great piece by my @penamerica.bsky.social colleague Clare Carter on how the Manhattan Institute is using "return on investment" as a smokescreen to ban academic programs they don't like and limit student educational choice.
pen.org/cuts-to-acad...
pen.org/cuts-to-acad...
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sorry, this is the gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights (Gift Article)
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
sorry, this is the gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...
This piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social is spot on.
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social is spot on.
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Last week, IA Gov Reynolds (a Lutheran) refused to defend Iowa Lutheran Services from attack by Elon Musk. Today, she gave defense but tried to have it both ways. She said Musk's just doing a "review." He's not. He already declared Lutherans guilty: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/lutherans-...
February 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Last week, IA Gov Reynolds (a Lutheran) refused to defend Iowa Lutheran Services from attack by Elon Musk. Today, she gave defense but tried to have it both ways. She said Musk's just doing a "review." He's not. He already declared Lutherans guilty: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/lutherans-...
