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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We need to make sure the Trump voters in our lives are aware that we are aware that they are doing this to the poor.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I'll have to retract my statement that the March for Life never helped anyone. It helped the Measles virus.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Maybe today’s MAGA Christians didn’t start out by gleefully defending murder. But at some point, each of them was shown a shabby, taunting little devil in the corner, and said “yes, I choose that.” rebeccabrattenweiss.substack.com/p/why-the-mo...

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Where, indeed? Once again: the right wingers have decided that if it's not a physical newspaper, it's not real journalism.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It's all about surface, all about vibe. They buy into right-wing propaganda because it pushes these "pretty" images of white heterosexual families in the home. (Actually these images are incredibly tacky but that's where all surface-level aesthetics end up, anyway).

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This niche group is critical of tech, and anti-AI. As am I. Yet their critique of tech, like their supposed concern for journalism is all about vibe and surface aesthetics. So they persist in voting for political movements that are enabled by and that enable powerful tech elites.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

There's a niche right wing cadre that pretends to care about journalism but says nothing about assaults on journalists globally or here. They think the difference between real and fake journalism is "physical newspapers." They love the image of themselves as "gentlemen" reading the paper.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Warnock on the arrest of Don Lemon: It’s chilling, and I think that is the intent. They intend to send chills down the backs of journalists. The authoritarian march is happening in real time, and it’s way past the time to wake up.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I miss when random clown sightings were the freakiest thing we had to worry about.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

So we must keep raising our voices and shaming every single MAGA we know.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I've been meaning to write for years about how anti-LGBTQ ideology predisposes people to become extremists. Historically, extremist movements have often been queerphobic. And the "moderates" I knew who got sucked into MAGA were the queerphobic ones. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccab...

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Thank you - this is so encouraging to hear!

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

MAGA is a refuge for people who hate institutions because institutions hold them to standards like “don’t be racist,” or "consult the building inspector so the church you’re building won’t collapse and kill people.” open.substack.com/pub/rebeccab...

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

If I would come up with some advice, it would be EXACTLY THIS. Far too many people say "oh, I don't think it will come to that," when I say Trump will cancel elections or sic ICE on all democrats. Like what do you think is going to stop him? We can't just sit here counting on the hamberders.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"Unfortunately, when a right-wing man tells a woman he finds her unattractive, that doesn’t mean he’s going to leave her alone." On why right wing men keep mocking the appearance of a murder victim. rebeccabrattenweiss.substack.com/p/why-right-...

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Why right-wing men insult the way women look

Sub-rational though this fixation on female beauty may be, it’s of vital political importance to them. And they intend to make it matter to us.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Whatever path they took to arrive at this moral low, whatever sophistries they invoke to justify themselves, these men believe they are entitled to murder women simply for not being “respectful” enough. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccab...

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The men defending murder are telling us who they are

Communally, we can deny violent, predatory men the support system they depend on to protect them when they do harm.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Millions in this nation have given themselves over to evil so completely, that they consider the pain and suffering of others reward enough. No need to give them health care or housing. rebeccabrattenweiss.substack.com/publish/post...

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

"Those of us who have spent years writing about sexual abuse in conservative Christian spaces are not shocked to see right wingers in the United States move the goalposts when it comes to defending Donald Trump. They’ve been practicing for this, for years."

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They have a template for this

We shouldn't be surprised to see conservative Christians defending Donald Trump. They've been practicing for this for years.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Thank you! I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts on Brideshead.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Kind of on the nose, this particular round of Ransom Notes:

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I've been remiss about engaging with all you good folks on this platform, for the past few weeks. But while I was away, my book came out: a journey of religious deconstruction through the problematic classics of modern Christian literature. orbisbooks.com/products/the...

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The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics

“Rebecca Bratten Weiss is brave, and her book is an earthquake that shakes the roots of what so many of us hold dear. With curiosity, wisdom, and dogged investigation, Bratten Weiss questions assumpti...

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

'The Books That Made Us' comes out in a week. If you are recovering from having been "educated" in a conservative academic subculture, you may find it relatable. Link to order below.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This regime is such a grotesque inversion of actual gospel values and multiple people I know who are pious churchgoers are cheering it on.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

But an awful lot of the folks who ten years ago I thought of as liberal because they were into organics, yoga, herbal tinctures, and howling at the moon have now tumbled straight into conspiracy theories, woowoo stuff, and of course MAGA. Good times. Anyway thanks for your great research and work.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It was so illuminating. Before I read your book my association between yoga and fascism was usually to do with conservative Christians being racist about nonwhite cultures ("if you do yoga you are worshiping Hindu deities who are actually demons and you will be possessed" sort of nonsense).

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This is what he's doing to everything. But it wouldn't have been possible without the millions of you who put him in power. Really great job folks.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

(I still do yoga stretches and poses though. They are super helpful for middle aged equestrians).

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I was grateful to have the chance to read this book as part of my ongoing informal project of understanding why people get sucked into fascism. Aside from the book offering several essential puzzle-pieces, it also illuminated aspects of arts cultures and subcultures of the 20th century.

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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

“Even for those without a stake in yoga, @stewarthome.bsky.social’s book is enlightening. Recognizing elements of fascism in yoga culture can help clarify how fascism finds a toehold in other communities, including Christian ones.” – review by @rbratten.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

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What does White Christian nationalism have to do with yoga?

In his new book, Stewart Home analyzes the wellness-to-fascism...

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Insomnia is back for the first time in years.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

'The Books That Made Us' is available for pre-order. Part memoir, part literary criticism, part theological analysis, it's a journey of religious deconstruction through the modern Christian classics: the writings of Chesterton, Eliot, Lewis, Tolkien, O'Connor, etc. Links to order below.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Another: the husband of a former friend who went on a weird rant in about the heroism of the Maccabees and how there should be a movie about it but also about how poor Mel Gibson was right about the Jews. This right in front of my proudly Ashkenazi self.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Another example: my former co-author with whom I want nothing to do, who wrote me a weird, inappropriate letter critiquing my opposition to MAGA and setting herself up as adjudicator of Jewish ethics and identity.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Example: the rich white lady quasi-academic who took issue with my depiction of a Jewish character. "Jews should be deeply spiritual like Edith Stein." Note that 1) I'm ethnically Jewish. My critic wasn't. 2) My critic chose an example of a Jew who converted to Catholicism as a "real Jew."

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I have issues with some things Mamdani has said but I have bigger issues with Cuomo's actual behavior. Either way this point stands. Among conservative catholics I encountered many people who fetishized the Ideal Jew while spreading hate about real live Jews in the world today.

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss @rbratten.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I'm afraid I just plant them with a whopping big serving of organic fertilizer. They always do great but I'm not sure if there's a balance that could make them do even better.

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