BREAKING: Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. My first Pulitzer Center StoryReach article for Louisiana Illuminator lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/lou…

ICYMI this week on the pod Annika Brockschmidt joins Sam Goldman to discuss Christian Nationalism & the GOP, the peril of ignoring/minimizing the religious aspect of the threat we face , the violent resurgence of patriarchy, the rise of AfD & more 🎧 bit.ly/47dieFr

Read more about the Florida CSPOA Conference and their "Plan" for the next insurrection here. irehr.org/2024/08/21/the…

I made a list of what journalism ISN’T, including: “Journalism isn’t listening to a lie by a lifelong liar and pretending to your audience that he might be telling the truth this one time.” Read my Stop the Presses newsletter. stopthepresses.news/p/what-journal…

It's been a bit since I've done any public facing writing--but I have a piece up today Religion Dispatches on Trump's QAnon meme posting spree and why that open of an embrace of it, once again, is something we should pay serious attention to. religiondispatches.org/we-would-be-wi…

New: Texas' governor and attorney general are going to extreme lengths to intimidate and silence their political opponents, critics say. I spoke to a dozen people about what's happening, including several who remain nameless to avoid retaliation: huffpost.com/entry/ken-paxt…

There will be no consequences

God I hope some people are waking up to the fact that the same institutions that gave us this crisis are not interested in solving this crisis on their behalf. This institution worship has been wildly destructive.

Ron DeSantis is *sending cops* to the homes of people who signed a petition to get abortion on the Florida ballot. This comes the same week that the Florida department of state requested information on 36,000 voters who signed the Amendment 4 petition h/t Rep. Anna V. Eskamani, PhD 🔨

He's literally SCREAMING "Imma a fascist bout to do some serious fascist sh*t to re-seize power & once I do reign hell on my enemies & some of y'all are out there acting like this is going to get resolved through the elections.

Trump is now proposing two of the largest-ever federal arrests of people living in America, including U.S. citizens, if he's re-elected axios.com/newsletters/ax…

How are we ok with this? How are we sleepwalking into a presidency where the guy is openly promising to be a dictator, terminate the constitution, put the military on the streets, round up his political opponents, & violently deport undocumented immigrants? How media, how? WTF.

This week on the pod Sam Goldman chats with historian Paul Street about Trump & the GOP’s overt & already unfolding plan to suppress the vote, intimidate the opposition, & unleash violence at multiple levels should he lose. open.spotify.com/episode/5DNuL7…

Republicans, who want "mass deportation" of immigrants, are lying about them again. JD Vance lied about "reports ... that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country." Not true. Read more: huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance…

This week on the pod Sam Goldman chats w historian Paul Street about Trump & the GOP’s overt & already unfolding plan to suppress the vote, intimidate the opposition & unleash violence at multiple levels should he lose. refusefascism.org/2024/09/09/dis…

An attack on abortion rights & voting rights all in one swoop. Remember when Trump & his fascist stacked SCOTUS said they were giving abortion back to the states ? Well to the degree that it wasn’t 100% bullshit this is what they intended 👇

Give a listen to full episode before tonight’s presidential debate 👇 Why won’t the Democrats call it fascism? Why WE must 🎧 bit.ly/4glpGlU