Steven Saus [he/him] @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

From 12 Jan: Sponsors of the Pre-Attack Rally Have Taken Down Their Websites. Don’t Forget Who They Were. - On January 6, thousands of pro-Trump protesters gathered at a rally near the White House to rail ag... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/sponsors-of-the-pre-attack-rally-have-taken-down-their-websites-dont-forget-who-they-were/ #2020-elections #disinformation #donald-trump #politics #the-right

From 12 Jan: Preparing For The Worst Case - Worried about how to prepare if things go bad? Here’s some tips. https://ideatrash.net/2021/01/preparing-for-the-worst-case.html #advice #politics #preparedness #uspol

From 09 Jan: Stand Up Or Be Complicit On Your Knees - You want peace? You want this kind of bigoted bullying to end? Then you must stand up now. Not tomorrow. Not when they attack again - because they will - but right now. https://ideatrash.net/2021/01/130604.html #bigot #politics #bigotry #trump

From 08 Jan: The Problems Of Fact Checking - Blunt-force fact-checking can obscure the truth as well as reveal it. https://ideatrash.net/2021/01/130589.html #politics #social-justice #social-media #facebook #fact-checking #news #truth

From 07 Jan: How to Have a Conversation With a Conspiracy Theorist Without Losing Your Mind - Photo: RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images)The moon landing was faked, #PizzaGate, Septemb... https://lifehacker.com/how-to-have-a-conversation-with-a-conspiracy-theorist-w-1829393744 #conspiracies #fear #media #politics #psychology

From 06 Jan: Stand Against Bullies – or You Stand With Them - The title says it all, really. https://ideatrash.net/2021/01/stand-against-bullies-or-you-stand-with-them.html #politics #bullies #gop

From 06 Jan: Trump Is Inciting Violence Over His Election Defeat - The day after Christmas, Donald Trump tweeted a familiar theme with an ominous new twist: He sugges... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/trump-inciting-violence-washington-stochastic-terrorism/ #politics

From 17 Nov: The Fascism Is the Point - Antony Starr as Homelander.Screenshot: Amazon StudiosThis weekend’s poorly attended Million M... https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-fascism-is-the-point-1845691473 #amazon-studios #antony-starr #darick-robertson #domestic-terrorism #donald-trump #eric-kripke #fascism #joe-biden #nazis #politics #racism #streaming #supervillains #the-boys

From 06 Nov: Your Excuses For Voting For Trump in 2020 Just Make You Look Worse - Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. https://ideatrash.net/2020/11/your-excuses-for-voting-for-trump-in-2020-just-make-you-look-worse.html #politics #religion #evil #greed #trump

From 04 Nov: An Open Letter To Anyone Who Voted For Trump In 2020 - I was at lunch today and couldn’t help seeing the news on the television – when the el... https://ideatrash.net/2020/11/an-open-letter-to-anyone-who-voted-for-trump-in-2020.html #politics #trump

From 02 Nov: Biden Got It Right: The 2020 Race Is About the Soul of the Nation - It always sounded hokey, but it was an accurate description of the 2020 election: a fight for the n... https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/biden-got-it-right-the-2020-race-is-about-the-soul-of-the-nation/ #2020-elections #donald-trump #joe-biden #politics

The problem with democracy is not that people will vote themselves "bread and circuses", but that people can be fooled into depriving themselves of both just to make sure nobody "different" gets them. #politics #quotes

From 22 Sep: And We’ll Look Down, And We’ll Whisper - The accumulated filth of all their greed and murder will foam up about their waists and all the CEOs and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!“... https://ideatrash.net/2020/09/and-well-look-down-and-well-whisper.html #politics #fair-use #watchmen

From 13 Sep: Black Lives Matter Leader Slams Pat Robertson for Calling Movement “Anti-God” - On Thursday, during an episode of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson echoed fear-mongering conservative rh... https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/09/13/black-lives-matter-leader-slams-pat-robertson-for-calling-movement-anti-god/ #channel---politics-blue #general #politics

From 10 Sep: Trump’s New SCOTUS Shortlist is a Death Blow to Church/State Separation - Yesterday, in a desperate attempt to draw attention away from all his other problems, Donald Trump ... https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/09/10/trumps-new-scotus-shortlist-is-a-death-blow-to-church-state-separation/ #general #law #politics

From 01 Sep: Empirical evidence that nice people don’t always finish last - Enlarge / Look at this jerk. Think your boss is a jerk? Wonder why the management of your or... https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/empirical-evidence-that-nice-people-dont-always-finish-last/ #behavioral-science #disagreeable #politics #power #science #success

From 31 Aug: Zombie Sightings In The Wild - Not the flesh eating kind. The ones that devour minds. https://ideatrash.net/2020/08/zombie-sightings-in-the-wild.html #politics #society #daily-show #gop #zombies

From 30 Aug: Zombies, Replicants, the GOP, and Mrs. French’s Cat - “So, what does it mean? Well... it means something’s going to happen. Something big. But then, something’s always about to happen.“ - Pontypool https://ideatrash.net/2020/08/zombies-replicants-the-gop-and-mrs-frenchs-cat.html #politics #society #sociology #zombies

From 28 Aug: Trump campaign forgot to buy ’Keep America Great’ domain, now Biden owns it - Keep America Great is one of Trump’s key slogans in the 2020 presidential race, appearing on i... https://boingboing.net/2020/08/28/trumps-campaign-forgot-to-bu.html #domain-names #politics

From 28 Aug: Trump’s campaign forgot to buy the domain for his “Keep America Great“ slogan. Now Biden owns it. - Keep America Great is one of Trump’s key slogans in the 2020 presidential race, appearing on i... https://boingboing.net/2020/08/28/trumps-campaign-forgot-to-bu.html #domain-names #politics