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A thread on my new investigation in collaboration with crackerjack team at Floodlight News - cannot say enough good things about Miranda Green Mario Ariza It's on the manipulation of news media on behalf of giant Florida & Alabama power cos: 🧵 npr.org/2022/12/19/114…

“All these retired church men are busy creating their own platforms and their own brands, and that’s what it looks like Gänswein is doing." CRC Director David Gibson in a Slate piece by Molly Olmstead about B16's private secretary unleashed: slate.com/human-interest…

When I heard DeSantis was trying to make New College into a new Hillsdale, my first thought was, "but NCF is what made Derek Black not a white nationalist!" So I called him up for his thoughts: slate.com/news-and-polit…

Recent claims about the FBI's anti-Catholic bias are based on a memo that's been a big topic in conservative media. But people like Josh Hawley are misreading that memo—and creating a whole new conspiracy theory from it. slate.com/news-and-polit…

.Molly Olmstead looked at how Ron DeSantis could be helped by Tom Ascol, a far-right Southern Baptist pastor (slate.com/news-and-polit…). I've reported on Ascol, including unusual SBC prez campaign strategy (publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/campaigning-…) & attacks on VP Harris (wordandway.org/2021/02/18/fou…)

"Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you’re on better drugs than me." slate.com/human-interest…

Had a delightful conversation with Dr Francis Young about a strange scandal over the coronation invitations and the "hint of the nature worshiper" in King Charles slate.com/news-and-polit…

The Pope's Exorcist is extremely silly (I enjoyed it!), but as I watched it I couldn't stop thinking... I can't believe the real-life exorcists are mad about this slate.com/human-interest…

"It’s just murder for murder. You're just killing one more person and creating this whole set of victims." --> I Watched My Brother’s Lethal Injection No one understands what this is like slate.com/news-and-polit… via @slate Molly Olmstead #deathpenalty #Arizona

On Uvalde: People in the state government who have seen all the evidence say “I can’t sleep at night because of what I saw.” Right. If we could all see it, *no one* could sleep until there was meaningful change. Thank you Molly Olmstead via Slate slate.com/news-and-polit… #TxLege

Read @mollyolmstead on #SoundofFreedom to understand both the reality of its subject and why the movie is so appealing to so many. slate.com/news-and-polit…

Pope Francis’ move announced today allowing priests to bless same-sex relationships comes a month after he finally did something about the right-wing revolt in the Catholic church that had been brewing against him for some time. Molly Olmstead explains: slate.com/news-and-polit…

Great reporting from Molly Olmstead talking to residents of Eagle Pass, Texas. The outsiders who’ve invaded their town and upended their lives are not the migrants. slate.com/news-and-polit…

There were a lot of fantastic journalists at The Messenger, who deserved so much better than this

Today Allison Meakem and I launched our monthly international fiction column at Foreign Policy! We review Hisham Matar's My Friends and Jo's The Hypocrite—and round up September releases: foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/20/int…

Before going to a NAR event, I didn't fully realize, emotionally, the implications of preaching Trump's enemies are controlled by demonic forces. It's almost empathetic—It's not their fault as *people*, they're possessed! But it's a wildly powerful idea: slate.com/news-and-polit…

What is Opus Dei? A new book is full of sinister allegations. A Q&A with ⁦Slate⁩ and ⁦Molly Olmstead⁩ about my new book OPUS slate.com/life/2024/10/w…

I spoke to Slate Molly Olmstead about why influencers who go to CECOT -El Salvador concentration camp where innocent immigrants are dropped- reflect Bukele’s obsession for international attention. slate.com/life/2025/04/c…