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The Satanic Temple continues to lose SLAPP case against four former members

Federal court on Tuesday reaffirmed its 2021 decision dismissing TST’s accusations of cyberpiracy and defamation Order on Motion for Reconsideration — Document #30 We love a judge telling The Satanic Temple to get fucked, especially when it’s TST suing us. This is a piece of good news that we knew was coming for a while, […]

April 13, 2022

sad wojak "The world is a curel and unjust place. There is no harmony in the universe. The only constant is suffering". *Minutes later* happy, blushing wojak "OMG, a judge telling TST to get fucked"

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This invoice reveals the inner workings of The Satanic Temple’s finances

Two-thirds of donation money for Satanic veterans’ memorial in Belle Plaine remains largely unaccounted for, federal court documents reveal “If you gave $1,000 to The Satanic Temple, how would you know where it ended up?” As we’ve talked about before, that is a much more complicated question than most people realize, but we recently got […]

April 6, 2022

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What the hell is “The Satanic Temple”? — Ep. 4: Reason Alliance Ltd.

For more information, see The.Satanic.Wiki “If you gave $1,000 to The Satanic Temple, how would you know where it ended up?” That, as much as anything, is the sort of question that the Temple’s owners and supporters have no way of answering satisfactorily even as they continue to have the audacity to ask donors for six […]

April 3, 2022

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The costs of defending yourself from The Satanic Temple

If you’re already familiar with our situation, feel free to skip down to “By The Numbers“. The background Beyond being a vibe, “Queer Satanic” is a group of four people who have been sued by The Satanic Temple since April 2020 over criticism of the Temple and its owners failing to live up to their […]

March 25, 2022

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Dixieland of the Proletariat EP: 66 “Hail Satan” w/Queer Satanic Heretics

Our friends at Dixie Prole had us on to talk about how modern Satanism has been rife with fascism and reaction throughout its history, but how it didn’t and doesn’t have to be that way.

February 15, 2022

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The history of The Satanic Temple’s After School Satan clubs

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 […]

February 10, 2022

Tucker Carlson show screenshot: "Tucker takes on The Satanic Temple" with Carlson and Lucien Greaves (Doug Misicko)

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Anatomy of a News Cycle: From local paper to Fox News segment

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

January 21, 2022

Fox news screenshot with Franklin Graham talking. Chryon: Satanic Temple installs “Baby Baphomet” display next to nativity scene in Illinois state capitol

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The Devil is in the Details: Fact-Checking The Satanic Temple’s 2021 “Year-In-Review”

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

January 4, 2022

Two characters from film "Don't Look Up" staring up at sky at night

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Playing “a shell game”: Arkansas claims it needs federal court’s help to get to deepest circle of Satanic org’s finances

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

December 3, 2021

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The Devil Went Down to the South Pacific

New book confirms The Satanic Temple’s co-founder Cevin Soling was for years among the “crackpots” trying to be a cargo cult messiah on a small Pacific island

November 27, 2021

Tweet: ‘There was a prophecy I would come’: the western men who think they are South Pacific kings Travellers to tiny islands in Vanuatu claim to fulfil a local belief that a mysterious figure from afar will one day bring prosperity. What are they hoping for?

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