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Stephanie McCrummen

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Staff Writer, The Atlantic. Formerly, The Washington Post. Originally, Alabama. Now, NYC. www.theatlantic.com/author/stephani…

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Such a revealing, deeply-reported story on good intentions gone awry, via Michael Powell: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs
Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This deeply reported story from Jessica Contrera is worth your time: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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When A.I. Is a Member of the Family
A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NEW: The Texas State Board of Education just overhauled public school curricula to focus on Texas "exceptionalism," require Bible readings and whitewash racism. Its the culmination of a decadeslong push by Christian nationalists - an assertion of their grip on the highest echelons of education.
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The State Board of Education Just Overhauled Its Curricula. Christian Nationalists Are Cheering.
The board approved standards that insert a number of biblical readings and Christian themes into the state’s social studies requirements.
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Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There is a growing culture and politics focused on demons at the center of many people's lives. When you finally see it, you might not stop seeing it. It explains alot. Don't miss this important story by @mccrummen.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Demon Next Door
A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
More and more Americans are seeing politics as a spiritual battle against actual demonic forces. In Tennessee, a bookstore owner found out exactly what that could mean: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Demon Next Door
A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
More and more Americans are seeing politics as a spiritual battle against actual demonic forces. In Tennessee, a bookstore owner found out exactly what that could mean: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Demon Next Door
A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 01/07/2026
JUST POSTED: A large chunk of the $2 billion haul President Trump took in last year came as hundreds of thousands of his fans bet on a $TRUMP memecoin. Trump won big. His followers, financially at least, were big losers as Trump profited at their expense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is incredible reporting from Jon Swaine at WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
At the “Don’t Sharia My Texas” luncheon at the Texas GOP convention, two Muslim lawmakers are being accused of implementing Sharia by…using the legislative process…. to propose non-binding resolutions… that recognize Ramadan or combat Islamophobia.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The great @declanwalsh.bsky.social captures the Ebola disaster unfolding in a Congolese mining town: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...
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Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It
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Frederick Clarkson @fredclarkson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Washington Post, NYT and AP didn't get the story. But The Atlantic reports that the recent "Rededication" rally on the Mall was the work of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic movement that... is now the leading edge of the Christian right."
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Spiritual warfare, territorial demons, supernatural forces… Sunday’s prayer rally showed where much of American Christianity is heading: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Most Interesting Part of Trump’s Prayer Rally
It wasn’t the speakers onstage.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Revisiting this extremely evocative, deeply reported story on the measles outbreak, by Eli Saslow. ‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today The Washington Post has been gutted. The Washington Post Guild has started a GoFundMe to help laid off reporters: gofund.me/2b198c9f6 (gofund.me/2b198c9f6)
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today The Washington Post has been gutted. The Washington Post Guild has started a GoFundMe to help laid off reporters: gofund.me/2b198c9f6 (gofund.me/2b198c9f6)
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Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Such an important story on the “meticulous urban choreography” behind the Minneapolis protest movement, via Robert Worth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that "the public will correctly identify this" as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
An upcoming NAR rally in Brazil is “a benchmark in a wider trend in which much of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity is being courted by the leaders of right-wing, populist authoritarianism…” writes @fredclarkson.bsky.social religiondispatches.org/the-nar-vows...
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The NAR Vows to Stage the Largest-Ever Gathering of Christian Women
Last year on Yom Kippur, leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation staged an all-day rally in support of Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency called A Million Women. As was the case with the Million M...
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Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I have never heard of a reservation being "cancelled" (for no stated reason) after a person checks in a receives a boarding pass. Highly suspicious and disconcerting. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
To get a sense of where things stand: Here's an exchange from earlier this year, in which a Baptist minister was told by a Texas Senator that she didn't understand the Gospel because she cited Baptists' historic support for church-state separations as one reason to oppose the Ten Commandments bill.
Testifying this month against bills that would put more Christianity in Texas public schools, the Rev. Jody Harrison invoked the violent persecution of her Baptist forefathers by fellow Christians in colonial America.

Harrison hoped the history lesson would remind Texas senators of Baptists’ strong support for church-state separations, and that weakening those protections would hurt people of all faiths.

Instead, she was rebuked.

“The Baptist doctrine is Christ-centered,” Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, responded sharply. “Its purpose is not to go around trying to defend this or that. It is to be a disciple and a witness for Christ. That includes the Ten Commandments. That’s prayer in schools. It is not a fight for separation between church and state.”

Harrison was not allowed to reply, but in an interview said she was stunned that a lawmaker would question a core part of her faith. The exchange, she said, perfectly encapsulated why she has fought to preserve church-state separations — the same religious protections that Campbell said are a distraction from bills that might bring school kids to Christ.

“It was a wake up call,” she said. “I don’t think people — even many churches — realize that this is going on right now, and that is alarming.”
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
🧵🧵 Texas Republicans have been increasingly open and aggressive about Christianizing America via schools - to, in the words of the state education board chair, center classrooms around "GOD, GOP & USA." That fight just escalated, and you should pay attention - because your state could be next.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The first day of the 2025 legislative session also featured prominent pastors and lawmakers calling for spiritual warfare and, at one point, praying on the walls of the Capitol to ward off demonic spirits they believe control Austin.
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Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle”
Abraham George’s comments are the latest sign of the state GOP’s embrace of fundamentalist ideologies that seek to center public life around their faith.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Last month, two Republican State Board of Education members appointed David Barton, a Christian nationalist activist and widely debunked "amateur historian," as an expert advisor for the state's upcoming revision of curricula to focus on Texas and American history.
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He Calls Church-State Separation a Myth. He’s Now Weighing In on Public School Curricula.
David Barton, far-right Christian activist and founder of Wallbuilders, has been appointed by Texas's board of education to advise on social studies instruction.
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Will Berry opposed the execution of Geoffrey West, the man who took his mother's life. Alabama suffocated him anyway. Read the full story here.
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'We Pray He Gains Peace': Over Objection of Victim's Family, Alabama Executes Geoffrey Todd West
Will Berry opposed the execution of his mother's murderer. Alabama suffocated him anyway.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Such a good story here from @rubycramer.bsky.social about an overwhelmed immigration lawyer working in Louisiana’s “Detention Alley.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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A last lifeline in ‘detention alley’
Most of immigration lawyer Christopher Kinnison’s clients in rural Louisiana are detainees. Every week, more calls come in, and Kinnison hasn’t been able to process what his days at work are becoming.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Sudan is a portent of a certain kind of world…. via @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth
Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/08/2025
A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.
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‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions
One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Incredible story about Volkswagen, and modern day slavery in the Amazon via @terrencemccoy.bsky.social wapo.st/46sX08n
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Volkswagen kept a dark secret in the Amazon. Then a priest made a call.
Poor laborers were lured to the automaker’s cattle ranch in the Amazon and promised a better life. Brazilian prosecutors say many were enslaved.
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Teo Armus @teoarmus.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Julio González Jr. thought he was being deported back to Venezuela. Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador. “The horror movie started there,” he said. What the Venezuelans freed from CECOT experienced at the world’s largest prison, w/ Samantha Schmidt, Helena Carpio & @arelisrhdz.bsky.social
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U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’
Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/07/2025
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
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U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2025
NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador: • Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided • More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.
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He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Today we published our 2nd story in an investigation into the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to El Salvador. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum. www.propublica.org/article/vene...
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He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared.
Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New: How an adorable yellow lab got caught up in Trump's campaign of "Deep State" revenge. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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A Dog, a Spymaster, and Trump’s Thirst for ‘Deep State’ Revenge
The pettiness of the administration’s retribution campaign begins to bite.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
More and more, Trump is detaining children. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Message Is ‘We Can Take Your Children’
More systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Trump is detaining children. And $45 billion for new detention facilities includes room for more. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Message Is ‘We Can Take Your Children’
More systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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The Message Is ‘We Can Take Your Children’
More systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Such a good story via @gregjaffe.bsky.social -
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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The Minnesota Suspect’s Radical Spiritual World
Before Vance Boelter was accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker, he had an active, even grandiose, religious life.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The spiritual path of the Minnesota shooting suspect brought him in contact with the radical world of the New Apostolic Reformation, where leaders describe politicians as demon-infested, federal judges as opposing God, and the world as a spiritual battleground. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Minnesota Suspect’s Radical Spiritual World
Before Vance Boelter was accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker, he had an active, even grandiose, religious life.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This movement in Brazil, a huge force in politics, has ties and parallels to the charismatic/NAR movement in the US: newrepublic.com/article/1530...
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How a Demon-Slaying Pentecostal Billionaire Is Ushering in a Post-Catholic Brazil
Edir Macedo has a church, a bank, a TV channel, and a Moses complex. And with the election of Jair Bolsonaro, he has emerged as the country’s most controversial kingmaker.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit" is a phrase that makes me feel like maybe i've passed away and all the news i read is all just the final neurons in my brain racing around making haphazard connections in the moments before darkness
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... vía @teoarmus.bsky.social
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Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President Donald Trump’s suspension of refugee admissions.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
About 60 Afrikaners are set to be routed through Virginia next week, documents show, in a notable exception to President Donald Trump’s suspension of refugee admissions.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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What America Means to Latin Americans
In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.
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Stephanie McCrummen @mccrummen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is something: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/22/v...
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An El Paso mass shooter killed their loved ones. They hugged him
The judge wept and others in the courtroom sobbed as a woman who lost her brother in the 2019 El Paso Walmart mass shooting hugged the gunman after her emotional impact statement.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Over the past several months, I’ve spent many hours in conversations with people who have experienced firsthand a flip from democracy to dictatorship.🧵
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