At first glance, the small group assembled outside Pornhub’s L.A. office might have looked like employees. They surrounded the building in black T-shirts with white script, framed by the adult site’s signature orange box. Instead of the standard logo, however, the tees read “Traffickinghub.” The sparse and socially distant protest, which happens every week, had been organized by the West Coast arm of Knock Out Abuse, the domestic violence nonprofit whose annual gala, once called a “designer bachelorette party” by the Washington Post, attracts a roster of D.C. insiders and corporate executives—including Hillary Clinton, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, and Wolf Blitzer. The […]
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VT: Five hundred years ago, European Christians believed Talmudic Jews murdered Christian children to gather blood. This blood was used in making crackers (matzah). This is called “blood libel” and is a predominant belief among many Europeans, or was, and the basis of much of what is poorly named anti-Semitism. You see, very few European Jews are Semites, the most common race in the Middle East and much of North Africa. To catch your attention early on, we include this comment from a review of a banned book on Amazon. The book is banned but the comment remains: Nazism was a […]
During an interview last week with Scott Hennen and Todd Mitchell, hosts of ‘What’s On Your Mind?’ on a North Dakota radio station, Eric Trump listed a number of his father’s major accomplishments, including “saving Christianity”. US President Donald Trump’s third child Eric Trump, during a radio interview last week that resurfaced and went viral Tuesday, said his father has “literally saved Christianity” from Democrats who are attempting to “close churches all over the country” amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Eric slammed the Democratic Party as “the party of the atheist”, arguing that they wanted to “attack” Christianity by closing churches, […]
On Friday night, Bill Maher took a victory lap. For years, the Real Time host has predicted that Donald Trump would refuse to step down from the presidency should he lose re-election—and this past week, Trump publicly announced that he would not commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose. “This week, the president fuckin’ flat-out said it—what I’ve been saying he’s going to say forever: he’s not leaving,” explained Maher during his monologue. “The law-and-order president refused to commit to the peaceful transference of power should he lose. I mean, even banana republics are like, this is bananas. […]
On Friday night, after several months of filming in his luxuriant backyard, Bill Maher returned to the Real Time studio—sans guests, of course. In lieu of trolling Trump’s wacko QAnon followers, and before welcoming The Daily Beast’s Rick Wilson onto the program, the comedian took a few shots at Jerry Falwell Jr., the disgraced evangelical and former president of Liberty University who is alleged to have enjoyed watching his wife Becki have sex Giancarlo Granda, a young pool attendant at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami. Initially, Falwell Jr. blamed his wife for the affair before Granda elaborated on the alleged tryst. […]
Is there anything freakier or, frankly, sadder in American politics than the seemingly blind allegiance of so many Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians and conservative Catholics to a man as grotesquely immoral and dishonest as Donald J. Trump? It takes no Sherlock Holmes to see that Trump’s entire life is a litany of un-Christian, even anti-Christian behavior. It’s a long thread of lies and sins ranging from his three broken vows of marital fidelity, to his multiple assaults on women, to his tidal wave of lies, gross materialism, mocking of the handicapped, caging of helpless children, and cheating (via bankruptcy and fraud) […]
ROME—Father Jeremy Leatherby of Sacramento, California, surely knew what was coming when he continued to preach to the faithful that Pope Benedict XVI, who retired in 2013, is still the one true pope. Since the election upon Benedict’s retirement of Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, Leatherby has shunned the new pontiff and continued to only refer to Benedict as the church’s true leader in mass. Last week, after several warnings, he was charged with schism, defrocked and excommunicated from the Catholic Church. “I continue to regard Benedict as retaining the Office of Peter, as mysterious as that might be,” he wrote […]
The notion that the United States observes a separation of church and state is a lie, according to President Donald Trump’s senior campaign legal adviser. “The left is going to tell you there’s this separation of church and state, and that’s just nowhere in the Constitution, nowhere in American law,” Jenna Ellis declared Monday evening during a Zoom event hosted by Asian Pacific Americans for Trump. “That’s nothing that our founding principles ever, uh, derived whatsoever.” The concept of a firewall between church and state authorities, Ellis claimed, is a mere “twisting a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Church […]
Robert Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, comes from a line of white American Christians that stretches back before the Revolutionary War. His ancestors weren’t large plantation owners or Confederate generals, or ― as far as he knows ― active members of the Ku Klux Klan. For much of his life, Jones believed the “unremarkable” nature of his family’s background meant that white supremacy wasn’t a part of their history. But he’s recently started to tell a different kind of story ― one that acknowledges that white privilege shaped his family’s sojourn on American soil. His ancestors were wealthy enough to own slaves, Jones said. The […]
Defeated 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton criticized President Trump over his demonstration of support for a church torched by protesters earlier this month, saying he “has tried to hijack Christianity and the Bible.” Clinton also claimed Trump has never read the Bible. Clinton made her comments in an interview with Britain’s Sky News this week in which she defended the Black Lives Matter protests while minimizing the riots, looting, arson and attacks on police and journalists in major cities across the U.S. that were part of the protests. Clinton duly denounced the violence, but tried to gaslight observers of the […]
If you think back five years to the beginning of May, you may recall news reports heralding the arrival of a creature of seemingly apocalyptic importance to the US: the murder hornet. Reports of the hornets has been eclipsed both by the realization that they are less bothersome than realized and by nationwide protests about the systemic racism, contractual brokenness, and murder of black people in our country. As a moment of distraction from the nightmare of reality, allow me to introduce you to another strange and oddly religious creature: the sex weasel. The unusual sex life of weasels is an […]
When we connected with Yvonne Orji to talk about her role as Molly on HBO’s Insecure and her first hour-long stand-up special Momma, I Made It!, airing Saturday night on the cable network, it was two days after George Floyd had been killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. Interviews in recent weeks had already been starting with awkward pleasantries owed to the shutdown, and this added another layer. “I was doing OK, and then the events of the last couple of days came about,” she said. “Even in the middle of a global pandemic, somehow black men and women are […]
Seth Meyers called Donald Trump’s Rose Garden speech as police tear-gassed peaceful protesters outside the White House gates “one of the most menacing moments” of his presidency to date. As the Late Night host put it, Trump “only has two modes: menacing sociopath or limp french fry that’s been sitting at the bottom of the bag soaking up all of the oil.” Both were present in the president’s address, as he veered between “threatening” protesters with military force and “listlessly” reading “empty platitudes” off of his teleprompter that he had clearly never seen before. “I know our brains have all melted […]
Norma McCorvey never knew who to trust. She was declared a ward of the state at 10. Then her father walked out, leaving her in the hands of an alcoholic mother and first cousin once removed, who she said raped her numerous times. By 16, she was married to Woody McCorvey. When he allegedly began abusing her, she left, giving birth to their daughter a year later. Norma drank to numb the pain, but it got so bad that her mom tricked her into signing adoption papers. She got pregnant a third time at 21, and, with little money and nowhere […]