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Hell yes: Washington state court dismisses latest lawsuit by Satanic Temple targeting former members

King County judge determines TST “has no rights to or interest” to Facebook memes page the national for-profit Satanic corporation has been suing to get since 2020 Seattle, Wash. – After almost four and a half years, The Satanic Temple’s infernal litigation against four former members may finally be coming to end. On Tuesday, a […]

September 24, 2024

Satanic Antifascism logo and variants

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

More filings in Satanic Temple’s SLAPP action against its Queer Satanic heretics

Salem, Mass.-based religious org TST continues legal attack begun in 2020, utilizing for-profit corporation to target four former members now in Washington State court Well, the work/case continues. This state-level lawsuit in King County Superior Court was filed simultaneous to The Satanic Temple appealing the same claims rejected from federal district court in “United Federation […]

August 29, 2024

Etching of execution of Giles Corey with him being tortured by crushing but whose last words were "More weight!" It now says "Pressing QueerSatanic to death" with Corey's head replaced by a satanic antifascism logo and the main interrogator given a TST logo for a head. Stones/weights on top of the crushed person say "Federal district court", "second amended complaint", "Newsweek depositions", "Ninth circuit appeal", and "King County Court"

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Satanic Temple’s lawsuit against Chicago implodes after minister splits org

Continuing fallout from recent tantrum by TST owner “Lucien Greaves” wrecks another legal case, this time over invocations at Chicago City Council A day before a status hearing was set to go before a federal judge for a religious discrimination lawsuit by The Satanic Temple, the attorney representing the infernal religious organization notified the judge […]

July 30, 2024

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Is it dead-naming to refer to “Lucien Greaves” as “Doug Misicko”?

No, it is not. Sometimes well-meaning people ask this question sincerely, but in practice, it usually feels like people raise and deploy the specter of dead-naming as a way to distract from all of the other criticisms of The Satanic Temple and its owners that are completely indefensible. As even these people acknowledge, neither of […]

July 23, 2024

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The New Heretics Stream (6/28/24)

Watch Twitch.TV/QueerSatanic(8 p.m. Pacific Fridays / 0300 GMT Saturdays) The Satanic Panic is still alive in Idaho Sheriff’s office arrests man on child pornography charges, specifies he’s a TST member, then removes it [Back to top] TST takes credit for another unrelated case in Oklahoma Republican AG’s challenge of religious charter schools validated by state […]

June 28, 2024

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The Satanic Panic is still alive in Idaho

Satanism is opposed child abuse, but local cops in Idaho want people to think the exact opposite Earlier this week, an Idaho county sheriff’s office published a press release to Facebook about the conclusion of a criminal investigation and prosecution of a 22-year-old man. The man pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of […]

June 26, 2024

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The New Heretics Stream (6/21/24)

Watch Twitch.TV/QueerSatanic(8 p.m. Pacific Fridays / 0300 GMT Saturdays) Jump to Secular Student Alliance supports ASS clubs The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan Club Partners with Secular Student Alliance om Little Rock, Arkansas https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/news/the-satanic-temples-after-school-satan-club-partners-with-secular-student-alliance https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GQYZw4WXIAAPlaf?format=jpg&name=large [Back to top] Louisiana 10 Commandments school bill signed into law Republican governor says he welcomes lawsuits over new school […]

June 21, 2024

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Finding a better Lord of the Rings analogy for US politics

This sort of comparison goes back at least as far as 2016 (“Imagine if Frodo was all ‘Sauron’s bad, but Gandalf’s done some morally gray stuff, too, so I’ll stay home.’ Don’t get eaten by orcs. Vote.”), and to liberals who like to situate themselves as being the ultimate good and voting as the ultimate […]

June 20, 2024

But they're BOTH so OLD! Gandalf can barely remember his passwords and even forgot that people called him Gandalf (yikes), while Saruman betrayed the Free Peoples of middle-earth and led an insurrection that stormed Helm's Deep. You can see how they're equally bad choices. — JRR Jokien (@joshcarlosjosh) February 15, 2024

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The New Heretics Stream (6/14/24)

Watch Twitch.TV/QueerSatanic(8 p.m. Pacific Fridays / 0300 GMT Saturdays) [INFORMED DISSENT] Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Todd Rokita TST answers state in Indiana abortion-ban appeal In the Seventh Circuit, The Satanic Temple’s business lawyer W. James MacNaughton continues to try to find compelling arguments that can reverse TST’s loss at federal district court. Back to top […]

June 14, 2024

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