Title comes from this Bloomberg writeup by Mary Anne Pazanowski that probably is paywalled, but as you can tell, their reporter’s read was pretty negative: A panel of Ninth Circuit judges on Wednesday appeared unlikely to give the Satanic Temple another shot at suing Idaho over measures that bar it from providing abortion care to […]

Frivolous libel lawsuit latest in a series for religious org that claims to support “free speech” Update April 7, 2025: True to form, The Satanic Temple has given notice it will appeal this loss and attempt to resume the litigation against the reporter as an individual again. See below. A federal district court judge in […]

There are people who look at every expression of truly populist, left-wing direct action, and reflexively say, “false flag”. Particularly when it’s illegal, liberals specifically but lots of kinds of people, will want to say, “Well, that’s exactly what the powerful people want to have happen, isn’t it?” This is a pessimism in everyday people […]

The problems you suffer from are too big for you to solve. The steps you can take to push back against these problems are too small and ineffective to actually solve them. You’ll suffer terribly even for trying to push back. Do it anyway. It’s coming regardless. You don’t have to die on every hill, […]

A huge hurdle for anybody trying to do radical work the United States is overcoming the deep-seated belief Americans of all stripes have that bad things only happen to those who did something to deserve it. This sort of “Calvinism persevering” even within secular contexts mainly is so that they (the ones believing it) don’t […]

Worry feels like doing something, as if the more you experience distress, the more you’ve done. But feeling changes nothing. A frenzy of sudden activity and quick, quitting exhaustion also feels like accomplishment. “I did everything I could!” But things are very bad, and we need more than that. You’re going to have to pick […]

GOS announces new local “Order” for Satanists in Southeast USA The Free Society of Satanists is the third local group to join “Global Order of Satan,” the Europe-centered Satanic organization founded in June 2018 as one of many splinter factions breaking away from The Satanic Temple in that year. The co-founder of the FSS, who […]