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 […]

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 […]

TST’s own court filings show it is not interested in any structural reform or protections for people in the org, only protecting the Temple’s owners The Satanic Temple has been suing Newsweek since February 2022 over a critical article the magazine published in October 2021 that focused on TST’s SLAPP action against the four of […]

Court filings reveal not only does TST pay to get positive news coverage to distract from the bad, it used the same PR guy the Church did — for exactly what you think Background: The Satanic Temple started suing four former members of its Washington State chapter in April 2020, accusing us of, among other […]

TST members and local groups begin another mass departure as Lucien Greaves clarifies once again that the “freedom to offend” does not include him as a target 5/31/24: Article updated from original publish date as more information became available and more TST groups and prominent figures publicly exited the org. Additional events after May 31 […]

This is excerpted from Spencer Sunshine’s book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. It documents how Siege—the “bible” of aspiring neo-Nazi terrorists like the Atomwaffen Division—was created and disseminated. In particular, the second half deals with the role played by four 1980s and ‘90s countercultural figures: Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, Michael Moynihan, and Nikolas Schreck, who in turn collected a group of collaborators which Sunshine calls the “Abraxas Circle.” The end of the book includes a section about the influence of the Abraxas Circle on TST—especially the infamous 2003 “Might is Right” show.

TST’s second lawsuit against four former members in Washington State rolls on in King County superior court. Now, as we were able to happily announce in January, The Satanic Temple is no longer suing us in federal court! Apparently TST decided that the Ninth Circuit requiring them to actually specify what and how they claimed […]

(Formerly dotprole) Southern working-class podcast from a leftist perspective. We talk about current issues affecting Southerners, Southern history, and we make fun of Yankees! Our friends at What’s Left of the South pod had us back on to talk about how The Satanic Temple is not actually able to help people get around state laws […]

UPDATE: AS OF FEB. 5, 2024, TST IS INDEED PURSUING THEIR STATE COURT CASE, BUT THEY HAVE DROPPED THE DEFAMATION CLAIM ENTIRELY, MAKING THEIR NEARLY FOUR-YEAR FEDERAL SLAPP CASE AGAINST US A COMPLETE LOSS

TST started two new lawsuits in 2023, but they lost eight existing cases and seem to have completely abandoned two others Yet again, the legal performance of The Satanic Temple was disappointing and incompetent at best, but just as likely the worse conclusion is true: it was a needless waste of much-needed resources by attention-seeking […]