How The Satanic Temple controls the media — and your mind (Part 2: After School Satan) Last time, we looked in detail at how a press release from The Satanic Temple takes advantage first of weak local journalists and their editors by offering a compelling conflict narrative. This makes a story easy to cover “both sides” of […]

TST takes advantage of structural biases of journalists and anti-partisanship in social media to get a reaction without having to do anything more

Let’s take a look at how the Temple describes itself to its own supporters versus what actually happened in 2021.

(But try telling neurotypicals that.) Sometimes the explanation for “the rule” is that people like to be able to mutually share a fiction with one another without piercing the fiction with direct reference. A lot of debt among equals works this way. You may pay for someone’s dinner or do them some favor of labor, […]

Don’t misunderstand: the fundamental problem in your life may well be “Shit Life Syndrome” due to capitalism or a health condition you can’t get treated due to capitalism and medical ableism or something else. Even “just” depression is fucking real, and it’s not your fault. You also aren’t entirely helpless, and while “just do something” […]

Twitter Big Nawl @afroSHIRLDr wouldnt tie my tubes cuz i wasnt married and maybe someday my husband might want kids. Medically, my body belongs to a man I havent met [Jan. 2, 2017] Source Black women in particular have been targeted for forcible sterilization for generations (e.g. “Mississippi appendectomy”) but not allowed to self-sterilize, terminate […]

You may be inclined to say “haha me”, but if you are not the sort of person whom news would describe the death of with “pre-existing conditions” or “comorbidities”, you are probably not thinking about this tweet right. Overwhelmed, people have said, “I’m over this.” Out of sheer exhaustion, so many people have said “it’s […]

If they’ll betray the working class to help some capitalists break a strike, who knows what else they’re capable of? Now, if you’re the sort of person who feels sympathy for the scabs and who thinks their “economic anxiety” justifies them taking jobs that starve strikers and their families, the best thing for you to […]

Tumblr @testosteronebutchI get so frustrated when I see fellow sapphics saying that womanhood is necessarily constricting to us. Like, womanhood is so diverse and doesn’t have to be limited by the gender roles pushed on us by a heteronormative society. My butchness and masculinity don’t mean I can’t be a woman, even if I experience […]

ACLU and state agree it’s time to get on with long-delayed 10 Commandments case that TST pushed itself into.